Wilson Accepts German Challenge in Liberty Loan Speech
President Wilson opened the third Liberty Loan drive in Baltimore reviewing 12,000 troops at Camp Meade and declaring that the United States must answer Germany with force to its world dominion aims. He urged a just peace and warned that German military masters seek domination, not justice, and warned of dire consequences for liberty if America shrinks from total commitment.
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Germany
Baltimore
Union News Service
Wilson
National Army
Camp Meade
America
Russia
Brest-Litovsk
Finland
Ukraine
Roumania
Belgium
France
Italy
Baltic
Turkey
Americas
Europe
Persia
India
Far East
Paris Press Hails Wilson Speech Across Papers
Paris editors applaud President Wilsons Baltimore address with fulsome praise. Le Matin notes wartime resolution, while Figaro and Gaulois praise Wilsons evolution and call for Allied support. Temps and Debats laud his aim for peace and alignment with Foch, Pershing, and American forces.
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Paris
Wilson
Baltimore
le Matin
Alfred Capus
The
Figaro
Germany
Excelsior
Petit Parisien
Czernin
Temps
Far East
Asia
Japan
Siberia
Journal Des Debats
Pershing
Foch
Missouri man kills three then commits suicide
Adkins, 23, shot and killed his father in law Nolan McGoolan, his mother in law Mrs. Ruby McGoolan, and his wife Gladys Adkins, 17, on a farm ten miles from Mexico. He then shot himself and died instantly after a family quarrel.
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Mexico
Derbey
Adkins
Inlaw
Nolan McGoolan
Ruby McGoolan
Gladys Adkins
Ohio grocers closed for wheat flour rule breach
Punishment inflicted in Columbus for failure to comply with the Food Administration fifty fifty rule requiring sale of equal amounts of other cereals with every bound of wheat flour. Temporary closing of two retail grocery stores in Ohio this week.
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Columbus
The
Food Administration
Ohio
Honor Flag of Third Liberty Loan Promises Community Recognition
A WWI era notice describes an Honor Flag program for the Third Liberty Loan. It explains communities hitting quotas will receive a specially designed flag, with local and state honor rolls, a home display poster for subscribers, and flags flown at capitals as states go over the top. The white flag with red border and blue stripes represents the drive to fund the war.
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Ohio
Washington
Spencer
Ironton
Treasury Department
Department
Uncle Sam
Navy
Com
Old Squire Divvne’s With Uncle Sam
Squire Bob Hill of Muhlenberg township Pickaway county Ohio sold wheat at 2.25 a bushel last winter and gave 100 to the YMCA. He bought a Liberty Bond and auctioned a hog for the Sammies Christmas fund. Wealthier neighbors matched his gift to keep pace with the modest squire.
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Squire
Bob Hill
Muhlenberg Township
Pickaway County
Ohio
Y.M. CA
Squire Bob
Sam
Circleville
Darbyville
Consider the Poilu Then Buy a Bond
A translated letter from a French artillery soldier celebrates a promotion to 14 cents daily pay and pride in independence. The note contrasts danger with past poverty and frames continued fighting as a shared effort in the war.
Lieutenant Sousa Sheds Beard For Navy Band Tour
Lieutenant John Philip Sousa has lost his beard after joining the Great Lakes Naval Training Station band at Great Lakes Illinois as a lieutenant. The famed conductor says the beard will be gone but the Sousa fire remains and the band will tour the Third Liberty Loan district during weeks of the drive.
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John Phillip Sousa
Jackies
Naval Training Station
Federal Reserve District
Great Lakes Naval Band Drives Third Liberty Loan Push
The Great Lakes Naval Training School band tours Seventh District cities to oversubscribe the Fourth Federal Reserve loan. Under Lt Sousa and manager Lee Clark Vinson, the group uses music to stir patriotic support for the drive.
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Jobo Phillip Sousa
Lieutenant Sousa
Lee Clark Vinson
Cleveland Organization
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Menerica
Liberty Loan
OLD Squire
Divvne
Squire Bob Hill
United State
Federal Reserve
Bank OF Cleveland
Liberty Loan Committee
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Sousaminus
Lieut
Great Lakes
Great Lakes Naval Training School
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