National War Savings Day Proclaimed by President June 28
War Savings Day is set for Friday June 28 1918 across communities to secure subscriptions for War Savings Stamps. Meetings will be held in schoolhouses at 2 PM with records of subscribers and nonparticipants reported. Stamps cost $4.17 in June rising one cent monthly. redemption at $5.00 in 1923. War Savings are a government loan bearing 4 percent interest and exempt from state and local taxes.
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United States
War Savings Director
New Mexico
United States Treasury Department
War Savings
Saller
It Takes a Real Man to Prove a Hard Task
A terse reflection on ambition and action. The speaker asserts that saying is easy but proving capability requires commitment and concrete effort through disciplined, careful analysis.
Avoid Bad Temper and Live Long
The text argues that yielding to anger harms health and shortens life while kind actions extend life and happiness for others, asserting nature selects the right ones.
In a Year by Amelia Burr Vigilantes
Poem reflects on twelve months of sacrifice and resilience. It speaks to homeland, Calvary, women and men who labored, and the sustaining strength of faith and communal resolve through hardship toward a hopeful future.
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Amelia Josephine Burr
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Hell
Marines Lose Leatherneck Nickname to German Moniker
Reports from France say German troops now call U S Marines leafel bunden meaning devil dogs. A Marine sergeant recalls the long cherished leatherneck title and notes the shift in nicknames reflects wartime rhetoric and pride.
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United States
France
Tentons
Hell
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