President Wilson declares open peace program in Congress
President Wilson restates war aims aligned with Britain and urges open covenants, self government, and a world league. He calls for evacuation of occupied territories, restoration of Belgium and Alsace Lorraine, independence for nations, and a just, lasting peace based on equal rights and free navigation.
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France
Alsace
Poland
Austria-Hungary
Belgium
Washington
Wilson
Congress
David Lloyd George
Brest-Litovsk
Russia
Roumania
Serbia
Montenegro
Balkan
Ottoman Empire
Dardanelles
General Association of Nations
Germany
Reichstag
German Cruelty in Belgium Highlighted in Whitlock Texts
The piece reprints Hans Gerard and Whitlock on Belgian deportations to Germany for forced labor and munitions work. It cites protests in the Reichstag, Allied dispatches, and Hoover’s 1917 conclusions on German policies in Belgium and northern France, noting widespread hardship and resistance.
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Belgium
France
Reichstag
Gerard
Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Germany
Haase
Dittmann
Holland
von Bissing
America
Cardinal Farley
Grew
Ludendorf
Berlin
James W. Gerard
Newszawa of
Budapest
K. G. Ossiannilsson
Poland
Havre
New York Evening Post
Roulers
Landsturm
Whitlock
Opportunities in Western Canada Farm Lands Promising
An adviser argues grain prices may stay low postwar, boosting farm growth. Wheat pay at $2.00 a bushel could yield profit with careful land and input costs. Western Canada offers vast, low price plots, with examples of high returns and even free homesteads, urging readers to contact government agents for literature.
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United States
Canada
Ady
Instinct of the Profession in a Four-Year-Old Doctor Phantasy
A mother recalls her son William aged four expressing a wish to become two doctors and to have two autobeds and a knife to cut into people to see if they are sick. The Indianapolis News notes the child's budding medical instinct.
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United States
Russia
William
Indianapolis News
Man and Woman Cause and Use in Effect
A terse proverb notes that with a man an effect must have its cause while with a woman it must have its been use implying linked responsibility and utility in actions.
Dr. Pierce Pellets Advertises Laxative Tests
An old advertisement promotes Dr. Pierce's Pellets as tests for liver bowels and stomach. It claims one Pellet for two laxatives and three for a cathartic, while warning against deceiving a woman with only a gift of gab.
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Bunko
Garfield Tea Offer Claims Cure for Constipation
An advertisement promotes Garfield Tea as a natural remedy for constipation, touting herbs as a drugless cure and featuring a role for mothers in shaping men's characteristics.
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Nature
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Turkey
Lloyd George
Great Britain
Miust
Prussia
al- Sace-Lorraine
Italy
Balkans
Hans
Huy
Mr. Hoover
Marine
Bette
Case
Chicago
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