Seek Control of World Failure Aimed at German Domination
An editorial warns that Germanys 40 year plan for global control failed due to ignoring human nature and urges Americans to back Liberty Loans Red Cross drives and food and fuel campaigns. It argues the war relies on recognizing German espionage and resisting propaganda while supporting national unity and sacrifice.
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Germany
America
Red Cross
Washington
Hell
Earth
Brother
Belgium
France
Liberty Loan
Society Favorite Works Long Hours for Union Switch
Mrs. Howard C. McCrady of Pittsburgh toils ten hours forty five minutes daily at the Union Switch and Signal plant turning cylinders for Liberty motors. She dons khaki work attire and drives to the garage each morning at 6:45, then returns home after 5:30. Her wages are given to a poor family while her husband serves in the army.
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Pittsburgh
Howard C. McCrady
Union Switch and Signal Company
Mr. McCrady
Girls Help France in Chicago Addresses High Hopes
Miss Gladys M. Spencer of Highland Park told 150 girls of her Red Cross service in France. She described close front lines and ambulance duty, praising French soldiers for poise and cheer while predicting an imminent Allied victory.
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Chicago
Gladys M. Spencer
Highland Park
Ill
Red Cross
France
Haugen Sets Wood Chopping Record Near Clinton Wisconsin
L J Haugen fifty years old resident near Clinton Wisconsin claims a new wood chopping record. He has chopped 6 207 cords up to the start of the lumber season and averages two cords daily since he was twenty. If the cords were lined end to end they would stretch about nine and a half miles and piled, over four miles high. At current prices the wood is valued at forty thousand dollars.
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Clinton
Wis
L. J. Haugen
She Sews Hospital Shirts For War Effort
Mrs William Hale of a Polk County farm near Osceola Wisconsin has made 25 hospital shirts from Red Cross materials. She plans to sew 25 pairs of pajamas next as spring farming increases and notes the value of women keeping busy beyond talk of achievements.
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Osceola
Wis
William Hale
Polk County Woman's Committee
State Council of Defense
Tortures Meted Out to German War Prisoners Revealed
Belgian legation in Washington releases a statement from a Belgian prisoner named D- who was captured at Namur in 1914 and interned in Münsterlager Hanover and Soltau. It describes brutal camp overseers, post punishments, forced labor up to sixteen hours daily, and severe conditions in mines and marshes with deaths and mutilations.
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Germany
Washington, D. C
Legation
Namur
Munsterlager
Hanover
Soltau
Maj
von Valentine
William II
III
Berlin
Teufelmoor
Hameln
Stolen Coal Settlements Prompt Mail Stamps
Tiffin citizens who confiscated coal from the Pennsylvania railroad faced affidavits and settlements after police gathered evidence. One man chose jail over settling, while a Big Four agent received a letter with 25 cents in stamps for coal stolen during the cold snap, signed by a remorseful Christian gentleman. Stamps are now used to forward Big Four mail from Tiffin.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
Big Four
American Coal and Mining Sets New Record in Hoisting
The American Coal and Mining Company of Bicknell Indiana hoisted 5 916 tons of coal in eight hours to set a new world record. The prior mark of 5 550 tons was held by the Superior Coal Company of Gillespie Illinois.
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American Coal and Mining Company
Bicknell
Ind
Superior Coal Company
Gillespie, Ill
Made in Germany war poem by Alice Williams Brotherton
The poem condemns Germany in World War I calling it a hellish brand of war. It lists arson murder spies typhoid plots U boats Krupp guns and Zeppelin menace and laments lost domestic joys. It urges cast off Prussian yoke press freedom and world expiation before peace can come.
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Alice Williams Brotherton
The
Vigilantes
Germany
Earth
Mars
U-boat
Red Cross Aids Air Raid Victims Amid War Effort
Air raids on London Paris and other cities spur Red Cross ambulance crews and nurses to expanded work. A Paris raid prompts gratitude for American relief efforts and a call to Americans to wake up to the need to fight the war now or face harsher methods later.
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Red Cross
London
Paris
United States
Carrier pigeon aids seaplane crews in war effort
Britain’s navy supplies all seaplanes submarines and small trawlers with carrier pigeons to carry messages when wireless fails. One bird already saved four airmen by delivering a message through a gale to summon aid.
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Ald
Wild Bronchos Arrive in Europe 31000 Canadian Horses
Clyde Dunlap, a veteran horse wrangler, reports 31 000 wild Canadian horses have reached Europe from the Canadian northwest. He has spent 21 months roping the animals before returning to Virginia Mion.
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Europe
Clyde Dunlap
Horse Wrangler
Virginia
Mion
Canadian Northwest
War Forces Carnegie Tech To Abandon Tennis Team
Carnegie Tech cancels its tennis program for the year as military training camps and khaki clad youths occupy the tennis courts for war related training, replacing recreation with national service.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie Tech
Tech
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