Prison Inmates Buy Liberty Bonds Amid Tight Budgets
In California prisons inmates subscribed $1,700 to the Fourth Liberty Loan with total prior Liberty loan subscriptions reaching $4,041. Among the buyers were two Chinese and two women as well as life terrors. Tom Mooney invested $50 from his last funds. Warden James J. Johnson led the county drive aided by prisoner-trusties. Charles Williams, ex-navy, sent a story to a naval magazine and bought a bond with the $50 earnings.
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San Quentin Priven
California
Life Terrers
Tom Mooney
San Francisco
Mooney
James J. Johnson
County Liberty Loan Committee
Charles Williams
Navy
U S Lifts Ban on Industries
The War Industries Board eases wartime restrictions as peace production resumes. Auto industry at 50 percent basic output with 25 percent growth possible this month. Several sectors cut restrictions by half and building projects and lumber cement brick production resume fully. Farm machinery and consumer goods curtailments ease. housing under 10000 dollars allowed without nonwar construction review. Materials expedited, shipbuilding prioritized.
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Washington
War Industries Board
Workers Aid Made Victory Possible
Washington reports American success in World War I owed much to home front workers. Labor organized manpower to produce food munitions clothing for both the U S and allies, enabling maximum output for the war effort.
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Washington
America
France
German bombs ruin baseball diamond behind lines
Paris dispatch reports a night raid left a baseball diamond damaged beyond use. A Hun bomb struck home plate creating a five foot deep, fifteen foot wide hole while another opened first base, a third destroyed second, and a fourth trench cut across third.
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N. FE. A
Paris
Price of cafe meals in Paris cut to $4
Paris dispatch notes the French food minister ordering restaurants to offer a $4 luncheon. Owners hold meetings and discuss compliance while the minister warns closures if prices do not drop. The shift aims to provide soup, meat, vegetables, dessert, wine, and coffee at fixed low prices, avoiding a surge of American diners.
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Paris
ad@amant-hearted
Kaiser Loses His Lucky Shamrock
Special to The Star from London reports that Kaiser Wilhelm II has lost the shamrock given to Emperor William I by a peasant girl. The flower symbol, worn in a sachet since the war began, was tied to his hope of victory at Sedan, according to neutral-border observers.
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London
William I
Sedan
American Joke Told In French Setting At The Front
A British officer narrates a WWI tale of American doughboys behind the lines with a French sergeant who points to a roadside house as his home. One doughboy jokes that the Frenchman would not endure the war, remarking this guy comes home nightly to see his family.
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Washington
Gamblers make wild attempt at Liberty
Twenty six men were jailed on gambling charges after a police raid on the American Hotel at 675 King Street. The raid disrupted card tables and gambling gear torn apart with axes while lottery tickets and playing cards were seized as evidence.
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Liberty
King St
Ban Speculation in Cotton Futures Proclaimed by WIB
Washington November 13 Chairman Charles J. Brand of the cotton distribution committee of the war industries board telegraphed New Orleans and New York cotton exchanges prohibiting speculative short selling in cotton futures.
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Washington
Charles J. Brand
Cotton Distribution Committee
The
War Industries Board
New Orleans
New York
Dr Williams Pink Pills Help Mrs Havey in Ohio Case
Mrs George B Havey of Youngstown Ohio describes severe anemia and exhaustion. She credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring strength and appetite after a few boxes and urges others to try the tonic sold by local druggists. The company offers a free blood booklet from Schenectady New York.
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George B. Havey
Parkwood Avenue
Youngstown
Ohio
Dr. Wiliams
Dr. Williams
Bead Bags With Silk Backing Offered At $65
Bead bags described as durable feature strong silk backing and a design mainly black with deep red and green plus light blue. Lower model priced at 65 dollars.
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MacDougall-Southwick
Floer
Baby wear and blankets from Sweater Coats to Afghans
Sweater coats of white pliable yarn with high turnover collars trimmed in pink or blue at 2.50. Wool bootees in pink or blue and white 75 to 95 cents. Wool Afghans for carriage knitted or crocheted with pink or blue trim 5.95 to 9.95. Baby bunting in pink or blue with satin binding and pearl buttons 3.95. Cotton blankets to match bunting 1.95 and 2.95.
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