Government to centralize labor recruiting for war industries
Beginning today the Department of Labor will assume control of recruiting for common labor in war industries and employment of that class by manufacturers with more than 100 workers. Working with state directors and local boards, this move aims to stabilize labor markets, reduce waste, and improve production efficiency for wartime needs.
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Arte
Department of Labor
Department
Washington
Fragmentary Public Notice Offers Limited Details
A damaged OCR fragment shows an advertisement directive about publication timing and stopping an action unless an earlier exception is noted. The readable text hints at a legal or official notice with incomplete phrasing and missing names or dates.
Mt Higby Weather and War Time Notes
Weather at Mt Higby for 24 hours to noon reports high 79 and low 60 with a 70 degree mean and clear conditions. War news and home front developments touch on cotton crops, coal supply, suffragists, tariffs, canning season, and changing travel rules amid nationwide mobilization.
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Mt. Higby
Freight payments theory meets rail history report
The article argues that common belief in freight payment practices is challenged by a past railroad report. It contends that the traditional idea of accumulating losses as freight costs rise remains debatable and uncertain.
Saine Presidents Proc Lamation Demonstration
A fragment notes a demonstration near a home connected to alleged pro German sentiment. It discusses mob action versus orderly legal processes and cautions about the dangers of excitement, urging adherence to due process and the sanctity of the home.
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SAINE
Wilson
Fed
Awakening about German views on America over time
The Detroit News notes a 1906 critique by Harry Thurston Peck of German attitudes toward the United States at the Spanish American War’s onset. It cites German officials doubting U S military power, and recalls the Kaiser’s shift after Dewey’s victory praising Yankee fighting spirit, reflecting evolving perceptions a generation later amid U boats and wartime change.
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Detroit
Harry Thurston Peck
Germany
America
United States
Berlin
von Moltke
Dewey
Manila
Kaiser
Cavite
Ocean
Fireworks in the trenches greet new black troops
A Boston Globe note describes colored troops entering a sector and discovering a box of fireworks. They fire rockets and other signals in the trench, causing puzzled artillery observers to misread the signals as conflicting front news.
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Boston Globe
War Risk Act Changes Standardize Military Allotments
Notice from the Red Cross outlines a new war risks act ruling effective July 1 that standardizes allotments to $15 monthly for wives and children, with possible higher voluntary amounts. Government will add allowances up to $50, and dependents may receive fixed $5 or $15 enhancements. administration shifts to speed payments and reduce monthly changes.
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Changdatpat
Home Service
Red Cross
War Department
William G. McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
War and Navy Department
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Atlantic Division of the Red Cross
War and Navy Departments
Unreasonable lodger and the car trouble tease
A landlady frets over a new lodger at breakfast. He complains the car noise kept him awake. She jokes about killing the car, but he asks instead for it to be fixed. The mild man responds with calm politeness, turning the exchange into a comic domestic scene.
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People’s Home Journal
Ancient water drawing method shown for army in France
Photo shows Americans drawing water from an old well in France illustrating an ancient method adapted for troops. Readers may request a photographic copy by sending ten cents to the Division of Pictures, Committee on Public Information in Washington, D. C. Enclose clipping.
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France
Division of Pictures
Committee On Public Information
Washington, D. C
Middlefield Notices and Weather Amid Vermont Trip and Storm
Durkee heads to Vermont for extended visit with Miss Scranton. Mrs. Lyman hosts a Middletown whist club. Many residents travel to Portland for huckleberries. storm disrupts one bus’s picking. Goodrichs return to Hartford after a week with relatives. A barn opposite Huse’s home toppled in Tuesday’s heavy storm. Auto tour to Vermont by Terrill family and others. Congregational services planned Sunday. U P S C E to be omitted in August. A quip on women ends the item.
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Middlefield
Durkee
Vermont
May Scranton
Henry Lyman
Middletown
Portland
Joseph Goodrich
Hartford
John Watrous
C. L. Huse
H. C. Terrill
Lucy Andrews
Fred Fowler
Irving Fowler
Henry Peterson
Congregational Church
Speed not stops the motorist idea
American motorists ignore stopping as they race to go faster says John J Younger an auto engineer in the War Department. He backs a national brake inspection drive to remind drivers to service brakes regularly and cites subway stopping precision and a test showing a hydraulic brake could stop a car quickly under pressure.
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John J. Younger
War Department
Motor Transport Division
Younger
New York
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