Propaganda War Claims German Tactics In America
The article warns of German propaganda aimed at weakening U S morale and support for Allied loans. It cites rumors of Rainbow Division losses, anti war pamphlets in South America, and a forged preface in a misrepresented book. It notes Germany buying South American newspapers to spread hostile material.
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America
Carolinas
Georgia
Rainbow Division
South America
United States
Propaganda Drive Blamed for U S War-Period Rumors
Washington reports German propaganda operations spread false tales to discredit the United States and stir unrest in Mexico and South America. Officials say the drive uses a book circulated abroad and targets illiterate populations and African Americans to inflame support for antiwar aims and undermine President Wilson and Allied leaders.
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Mexico
South America
United States
Washington
United
Spain
Canal
Counry
Presient Wilson
Lloyd George
Allie
el Ment
D ‘Avida
Germany
Atin
Italy Battles Mounting War Costs and Food Shortages
Italy spends about 5 million dollars daily on war costs, totaling around 149 million dollars per month at times, with expenditures rising from 97.4 million per month in mid 1915 to about 282.6 million per month by late 1917. Food disarray, hoarding, and middleman profiteering push prices up. authorities have taken limited action and warn of possible unrest as the front approaches.
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Rome
Italy
War Office
Admiralty
Navy
Mantions
Foch
Ville sur-Ancre
Poilus
Lucre
Kemmel
Scherpenberg
Mont Rouge
Mont Noir
Toul
Gerechamp Wood
McAdoo
Pullman Company
Raise More Sheep Steady Decline In United States Industry
Washington reports a Chamber of Commerce committee says the U S sheep industry must adapt to economic changes or continue a long decline. Remedies include using cut over timber lands for grazing, expanding farm flocks, and fully using western ranges. Per capita wool and sheep numbers have fallen since 1900, with imports at 50 percent of consumption. production can rise with education and effort.
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Washington
United States
Committee On Statistics and Standards
Chamber of Commerce of the
Memorial Fountain Planned For Carrie Nation in Wichita
Kansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union will erect a drinking fountain at Union Station as a memorial to Carrie Nation. The State association votes $1,000 for the project and Wichita city officials agree to accept and maintain the fountain. Nation began her national campaign of saloon smashing in this city.
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Wichita
Kan
Kansas Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Union Station
Carrie Nation
German Textbooks Destroyed in Wisconsin School
Unknown intruders entered Shell Lake High School and burned or destroyed all German textbooks. The school board had refused to end German instruction, but the loss threatens discontinuation of the course pending replacement.
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Shell Lake
Wis
Hat Auction Raises 65 Dollars At Rogers School
In Macon Missouri Frank Long a farmer offered his hat at a Red Cross sale at Rogers schoolhouse. He asked for bids and the hat sold for 250. The sale totaled 65 dollars with the crowd laughing at the modest bid before the hat went to the highest bidder.
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Macon
Frank Long
Red Cross
Rogers Schoolhouse
Here
Lawrence county sends care boxes to troops in France
A two pound box of chocolate bars and chewing gum is sent to each Lawrence county soldier and nurse in France by the Lawrence County W C Y T U. Funds for the gift come from a tobacco less day drive.
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New Castle
Lawrence County
France
Rubber shortage feared as war demands boots for front
New York reports a rubber footwear crisis as manufacturers agree to supply the entire output to the war department. Civilian production is halted, with rush orders to deliver millions of rubber boots and arctics for soldiers.
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United States
New York
War Department
Father of victim on the Cyclops seeks service
Birmingham, Alabama, J. P. Baggs, father of H. T. Baggs who perished on the Cyclops, tells a draft board he wants to serve his country. An investigation shows he is a skilled mechanic and he is sent to a U S shipyard as a result.
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Birmingham
Ala
J. P. Baggs
H. T. Baggs
United States
Line on Bootleggers at Memphis State Line Survey
A survey near Memphis aims to determine whether suspected bootleggers were in Tennessee or Mississippi when caught selling whisky. If in Tennessee they face local-prosecution. if in Mississippi they may evade it.
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Memphis
Tenn
Tennessee
Mississippi
War Department plans compel all draft age to work or fight
The May report to the house notes 90,000 American troops landed in France in ten days with a projection of 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 in the coming year. Crowder issues a drastic Selective Service amendment forcing every draft age man to choose fight or a useful occupation. The measure targets idlers, gamblers, professionals, waiters, clerks, domestics, and others, disregarding dependents, to boost labor for farms and munition plants as war needs grow.
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France
Atlantic
War Department
House of Representatives
Caldwell
House
America
Great Britain
Wilson
Crowder
Selective Service
Washington
Gregory
Germany
Austria
Berliner Tageblatt
Saxony
Petrograd
Ukraine
Prevent Breeding of Flies Carcass Disposal Key to Control
The Agriculture Department outlines measures to stop carcass and garbage maggot outbreaks by burning or burying carcasses, managing wool and lambing practices, and using tar and grease repellents. Preventive steps include early lambing, hornless breeding, timely shearing, and careful clipping of maggot-infested wool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Australia
Socialist Leader Rose Pastor Stokes Found Guilty
Mrs Rose Pastor Stokes, a noted socialist, was found guilty by a federal court jury in Kansas City of violating the espionage act. She condemned the government as allied with profiteers.
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Rose Pastor Stokes
Kansas City
Monroe Doctrine Strengthened by War in Europe
Pan American union reports show South American republics rally to the United States stance as Secretary Lansing opens the Guatemala Honduras mediation conference. He pledges continued US support and a closer hemispheric union grounded in justice and respect for others. The conference runs for several weeks.
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Europe
Lansing
Guatemala-Honduras
United States
Pan-American Union
Dusty beds and louse infestation linked to hog pneumonia
The article notes coughing and pneumonia in hogs from dusty beds and louse-infested bedding. It suggests oiling beds to prevent dust inhalation and reduce pneumonia risk. It also warns that breath of dust weakens hogs against cholera.
Foint Overlooked With Sheep
Farmers often neglect to rotate sheep between pastures. Moving flocks to new range every few years helps prevent overgrazing and improves flock condition.
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England
Victim
Cyclops
Kearney
N. J
Edward W. Pickard
Rutgers College
Daniels
Belgium
Holland
Netherlands
Norway
Raoul Lufbery
London
Paris
Gothas
Vienna
Abo
Finland
Bjerko
Gulf of Finland
Kiev
Skoropadsky
Rada
Baku
Caspian
Russia
Moscow
Copenhagen
Mannerheim
White Guard
Karelia
Ireland
Sinn Fein
de Valera
Sinn
Jeremiah O’leary
Western Hemisphere
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