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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1917
Page
4
President Marsden G. Scott argues in a letter that food supply is vital to national defense. The plan calls city and suburban residents to join a Plant-an-Acre Army to grow crops, safeguard the U S food stock, and aid Europe by boosting production.
The article reviews European reactions to President Wilson's address, highlighting praise from Le Temps and others for its moral impact. It notes supportive editorials comparing the speech to Lincoln and calling for unity, while German papers acknowledge its civilizational significance. The piece argues the message is an emancipation proclamation for autocratic societies.
Wilson urges all Americans to unite in a total war effort to defend democracy. He emphasizes food, ships, labor, and industrial support, calling farmers, workers, merchants, and editors to sacrifice for national and international security. He asks advertisers and publishers to spread the appeal widely as the supreme test of the nation.
Charles Bailey, night man at the Warren Water Company's filter plant in Gladerun, has been sworn as a deputy sheriff by Sheriff De Forest.
Scout Master W. E. Yeager orders led Boy Scouts to appear in full uniforms in Warren city schools starting Monday marking a new presence in the classroom setting.
A New Jersey man used arms as life saving nets to catch his eight children when they leaped from a second story burning house. all eight escaped unharmed.
The Boston Transcript editorial applauds Russia’s ousting of the imperial entourage and German influence, praising the Douma led movement, Rasputin’s fall, and the new government’s promise to unify Russia, continue the war against Germany and Turkey, and win global support. It predicts a free, creative Russia with broad American goodwill.
Seventy two year old man wins woman’s hand after fifty years of courtship in Scranton. Cartoonist bridegroom joins bride as steamer sails for South America. Kansas congressman returns home with wife and newborn in a basket. A Danville boy highwayman gets spanked after an attempted hold up. An Oklahoma mother of thirty three, eight years married, has twelve children, six twins. An apprentice in Bethlehem pulls through a gun trial. Blushing Brim, sixteen, marries youth of twenty one. he 275 pounds, 6 ft 7 in, she under five feet, 90 pounds. Ben Allen Kansas has three names and three rail stations for a 200 population town. New York House of Detention social season hosts a luncheon with spaghetti and sausages. A 100-year old Indian signs his wife will with inked thumb. two acres valued at $1,000 bequeathed.
The address urges studying wartime blunders to improve now not then. It highlights naval, military, and finance mistakes by all nations, praising Entente access to advisers and officials for guidance, and urges sending airmen to front for experience while noting aircraft gaps. Charleston remark adds amendment assertion with blunt wording.
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