Optimism Amid Frontline Struggles for Allied Victory
A wartime column urges unwavering faith in Allied success on the Western Front. It praises American troops in heavy combat at Cantigny and Leicheprey, notes fresh German divisions, and stresses homefront resolve to support victory through prayer, effort, and steadfast morale.
Slaves Who Learned to Fly Defy Chains in War Era Tale
A fragmented essay links four Berliners escaping in albatross planes with slave flight legends. It recalls Bob Smalls, the Planter raid, and his Union service, arguing that knowledge empowers slaves to defy captors and pursue leadership in history and politics.
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Berlin University
Copenhagen
Berlin
Bob Smalls
Charleston Harbor
Snake
Confederacy
South Carolina
Florida
Georgia
Lincoln
Nichols
Newark
Union
Germany
Congress
Penrose attack on sugar prices and militia mobilization
The column rails at Penrose for a vulgar Senate outburst attacking plutocracy and sugar price regulation as a tool of class privilege. It argues high sugar would hurt the poor, then shifts to Mt. Gretna militia units training in France and the home service role of the National Guard.
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Penrose
Senate
Plutocrat
Pennsylvania Reserve Militia
MT. Gretna
National Guards
France
July Over Half Gone and Fair Time Near
July advances with seven weeks to the fair as rain is welcomed. A deranged man believes himself Kaiser. Roosevelts family sympathy pledged. Yankee pilot defeats Germans in air combat. Germany curtails meat rations. Indiana bans curtains music and games in soft drink shops. Grand Duke Michael seen in Kiev. France reports 647 American deaths last week.
From Other Viewpoints
Opinion lines note Bolsheviks strike in Petrograd and prospects for dues for honest folk. A quip suggests Austria should adopt macaroni as war food for pep. A remark claims gray eyed men are better marksmen while black eyes signal the opponent's skill.
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Petrograd
New York World
Cleveland Plain Dealer
German Promises to People Fail Under Pressure of Necessity
The Prussian Minister of War laments far reaching promises made to Germans that were never kept as Allied strength grows. U-boat campaigns falter while US troops in France exceed a million, Ukraine grain disappoints, and German offensives collapse under French British and American counterblows.
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Reichstag
Red Cross
Berlin
von Tirpitz
England
United States
France
Lord Beresford
von Capele
Ger
Atlantic
Landtag
Ukraine
Bremen
Germany
Russia
Channel
Paris
von Hindenburg
Freshness Gone and Other Humorous Snippets
A collection of light anecdotes and quips about domestic life and finance. Blueprints of minor misfortunes appear as Frances seeks a fresh pin for her doll and a bent pin prompts remarks on wilted belongings. A joke on borrowing from Peter to pay Paul closes with a wry pun.
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Frances
Harper’s Magazine
Peter
Paul
Mr. Dubwaite
Birmingham Age-Herald
Indiana Democrats Set Principles
Indiana Democrats present a wartime platform affirming victory over autocracy, support for Woodrow Wilson, postwar reconstruction, expanded vocational training, labor rights, coordinated capital and labor policy, liberal industrial development, railway and water transport coordination, a federal budget system, and a universal public policy test of justice. The document contrasts wartime aims with plans for peacetime prosperity and social fairness.
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Democratic Party
Germany
Woodrow Wilson
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