Fifth Ward scandal verdict cited in wartime politics
A Chester County jury convicts six members of the Vare machine tied to the Fifth Ward scandal. The piece contrasts this with the Penrose machine, arguing ongoing corruption across Pennsylvania and urging unity behind Wilsonian aims and an international peace effort. It also notes draft exemption ideas, registration for the 21ers, and railroads’ wartime gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester County
Fifth Ward
Penrose
Ware
Penrose Machine
Penrose Wing
Ware Wing
Pennsylvania
Jim McNichol
Tenth Ward
Dauphin
Beidleman
Cumberland
Sadler Organization
Penrose Outfit
Baker
Views on Germans influence and wartime conduct
A compilation of editorials mocks German invasion attempts and Kultur while noting U S dye production, labor shifts in New York, and rising liquor use. The pieces reflect wartime sentiment and national superiority claims.
Allies aim for kind treatment of Germany says Michaelis
Ex-Chancellor Michaelis tells countrymen that the 1891 indemnity on France harmed Germany. He notes the Allies now intend to show leniency to the German people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michaelis
France
Springfield Republican
Germany Must Also Be Defeated in Russia
The German official mind, facing Foch's strategy, expects no decisive western victory this year. They shift to defense, hope for Russian gains, and dream of Asiatic empire while believing Allies must defeat Germany in the east and France to win the war. The Allied Russia expedition becomes pivotal to victory and lasting peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Marshal Foch
Paris
Amiens
Channel
Hindenburg
Ludendorff
France
Champagne
Picardy
Flanders
Foch
Belgium
Somme
England
Lens
Cambria
The
Verdun
Tisnanid
America
Germany
Rhine
Russia
Rumania
Ukraine
Persia
Caucasus
Berlin Chamber of Commerce
Herr von Kuehlmann
Free Seas
Elbe
Danube
Black Sea
Kaiser
East
Europe
Louis Klentz
Drang Nach
Osten
Nature's War On the Atlantic Seaboard War front
John Oliver LaGorce likens nature to a battlefield as the sea assaults the land along the Atlantic coast. He portrays coastlines from Campobello Island to Florida as fronts in a prolonged struggle between water and soil with air and ice as allies and describes rivers carrying vast amounts of material toward the shore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Oliver LaGorce
National
Atlantic Seaboard
Tip Society
Prussia
America
Izalnel CE
Eastport
Maine
Cards
Campobbello Island
Largo
Seaboard
Neptune
No Man's Land
United States
Mississippi
Panama Canal
de Lesseps
Thals
No Man’s Land
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Warren Evening Times
Warren County
TIMES
Pennsylvania Avenue
the Times Publishing CO. (Inc
E. Walker
E. C. Lowrey
E. W. Russell
T. B. Clawson
G. Lindenstein
Warren Borough
Alaska
Cuba
Porto Rico
Mexico
Panama Canal Zone
Hawaiian and
Philippine Islands
Canada
International Postal Union
Warren
Penn
Wilson
Organization of Peace
League of Nations
Frank H. Cimonds
Ludenforff
Berlin
March
Rochester Herald
Florida
New York
Indianapolis
Trotzky
Sartterted
Siberia
Everett True
Condo
Bulletin of the
Bureau of Geography
Information of the
National Geographic Society of Washington
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