Washington Post subscription notice 1917 details
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Why Americans Must Fight in Europe Now
The piece argues that sending U S troops to Europe defends the United States sovereignty and rights, not merely Europe. It claims Germany threatens American ships and lives, justifying a forward war to defeat Germany, with the United States allied to nations already fighting and ready to advance until victory.
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France
America
Germany
United States
Europe
New York
High Seas
Washington
Berlin
Atlantic Ocean
Asia Minor
Austria-Hungary
Balkans
Turkey
Popularizing Tax Burdens and War Revenue Plans
A senate finance push seeks hundreds of millions or a possible billion in new revenue to fund wartime needs. Proposals include higher war income and excess profits taxes, new tax objects, or more bonds, with education charity and religion deductions and estate tax exemptions debated to ease the burden while funding public institutions. Generosity and fair tax distribution are urged to sustain support for government spending during the war.
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McAdoo
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Lindaay
Labor Concessions for War Industry Mobilization
A call for large organized labor concessions to maximize U S wartime production. Unions must cooperate fully in replacing skilled workers with trained unskilled labor and training foremen to mentor newcomers. Emphasis on no exemptions, mobilizing miners shipyards and munitions plants, with loyalty and patriotism as the goal.
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Organized Labor
American Federation of Labor
America
England
France
Lawless Chester Riots Prompt State Intervention Call
Residents and officials debate whether Chester Pennsylvania rioters hold more power than state authorities as race disturbances escalate. Calls grow for immediate deployment of the full state constabulary after 200 guardsmen and 30 State police prove insufficient. Guards facing arrests and threats of quitting amid renewed violence. saloons reopen and bloodlust persists. Federal action hinted if state impotence continues.
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Chester
Pennsylvania
The Canning Campaign Now Is The Time To Preserve
Editorial argues practical action beats talk on canning perishables. It compares to prior resumption debates and stresses that saving produce requires effort at home. It envisions American women preserving foods to support a democratic cause and feeds the home front with urgency.
Naked Ten Years As Soldier Survives By Cave Life
A San Francisco dispatch reports Christian I. Bayer, 33, native of Denmark, who lived naked on a Santa Barbara isle for ten years using stone hatchet hunting. Despite tuberculosis diagnosed in Burlington, Iowa a decade ago, Bayer enlisted and passed a perfect physical, claiming his cave life cured him. He is 162 pounds and appears tanned and fit.
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Milwaukee Free Press
Santa Barbara
Christian I. Bayer
United States
Bayer
Burlington
Iowa
Denmark
German Prince Not To Get Claremont Palace
A royal property dispute reveals Claremont Palace in Surrey was bought by Queen Victoria in 1881 for Prince Leopold and entailed to his line. With war era fears, Parliament may bar German heirs from inheriting after Duchess Leopold dies, while British sentiment turns against Germans holding property. The Inchiquin lineage and Dromoland Castle note historic Irish roles, battles, and a Brian Boru effigy amid royal connections.
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Claremont Palace
Almeric Paget
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Claremont
King George
Surrey
Crown
Lord Clive
Charlotte
Princess of Wales
George IV
Queen Victoria
Prince Leopold
Duke of Albany
Windsor Castle
Duchess of Albany
Leopold
Duke
Saxe-Coburg- Gotha
Victoria
Great Britain
Atéps
Order of the Garter
Inchiquin
Donough O’brien
Rifle Brigade
War Department
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Murrough O’brien
Washington
Mme. Marconi
Brian Boru
Clontarf
Murrough O'Brien
Thomond
Ireland
Henry VIII
Earldom of
Treland
Lord Inchiquin
William Smith O'Brien
Limerick
John Purtoy Mitchel
A& Aa
Tasmania
Dromoland Castle
County Clara
Exst
Inchiqguin
Glentarf
Clentarf
Ainge DE
Proceedings in Brief From Congress and Committees
Recessed at 6 20 p m until 11 this morning conferees on the administration bill adjourned until this afternoon Senate leaders consider a joint committee on war expenditures and action in the Senate on Weeks weeks resolution weeks for a joint committee and possible recede on the food bill A constitutional prohibition amendment will be voted this afternoon Finance committee increases war tax totals to about 2 6 billion mainly from liquor and income levies McCumber resolution discussed for two hours but no action Cape May aviation base bill favored Air Board measure introduced to coordinate aircraft industry Coastwise navigation suspension sought for Great Lakes traffic Adjourned to noon House conference on rivers and harbors bill Foreign vessels to coastwise trade allowed during war Government takeover of general carriers proposed Representative Campbell bill to require President cabinet from House Staff reform bill to reorganize Army general staff 91 officers Interstate Commerce Commission staffing bill deadlocked Postmaster Murray denies mail-opening charges
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Legion of Death
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Keffyon
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McCumber
Peramissiém
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Naval Committee
Aire
Cape May
N. J
Sheppard
Great Lakes
House
Alexander
Committee On Merchant Marine
Dill
Washington
Committee On Forelend
Rogers
Secretary of State
United States Army
Campbell
Kansas
House of Representatives
Dent
Military Committee
Army
Dallinger
Massachusetts
Treasury monthly cash and asset totals July 1917 report
United States Treasury tallies revenue receipts and ordinary disbursements for this day and month. It lists general fund assets and liabilities including available gold and silver, treasury notes, Federal reserve notes, bank notes, and coin, with totals for assets, liabilities, and net balance in the general fund for the period ending July 1917.
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Army Officers Mobilize in Wide Range of Dispatches
Army orders list Maj Tebbetts headed to Fort Sill as assistant to the commandant at the school of musketry. Many second lieutenants receive transfers, nurse promotions, and new duties across infantry, engineers, quartermaster, and general staff. Names of officers, camps, regiments, and postings span Washington DC, New York, Camp Dodge, Camp Kelly, Fort Sill, and Porto Rico, with retiree John Bigelow placed on active duty as Rutgers professor.
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Thirty-eighth Infantry
Fort Sill
Oklo
School of Musketry
Kenneth § Jones
Howard G Borden
Harold W Sibert
Sorps of Engineers
Washington Barracks
Franklin C. Kearne
New York
Cavalry
Seventeenth Infantry
William B Wallace
Quartermaster Corps
Harry A Smith
General Staff Corps
George C Saffarrans
Palmer EB Pierce
Etas
Charles G French
Fourth Infantry
Seventh Infantry
Lute Wahl
Fifty-eignth Infantry
William P Jackson
Twentieth Infantry
John L. Hines
Matthias Crowley
Fifty-fourth Infantry
Fiftyfourth
John J . Bradley
Twentyninth Infantry
Forty-eighth Infantry
Douglas Settle
Forty-first
John 8. Switzer
Herbert O. Williams
George D. Guyer
William F. Grote
Issac C Jenks
Thirteenth Infantry
Hanson BE el
Lewis 5S Botley
William M Morrow
Benjamin F .Hardaway
Albert C. Dalton
Joseph C. Castner
Edward Sigerfoos
Fifteenth
Edward A. Bhuttleworth
John Howard
Ralph H van Deman
Peter E Marquart
Angtermaster Corps
William Brooke
Harvisgn A
William Wallace
Sixty-first
Ferdinand W. Kobbe
Eighteenth Infantry
Eigteenth
John McA. Palmer
General Star Corps
John K. Miller
William Newman
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Twentyfourth
Frank A. Wilcox
Sixteenth
Hansford L Threlkeld
Peter W Davison
Marcus B Stokes
John H Parker
John E Woodward
William I Davia
George McC Weeks
Isaac Erwin
Thirtyninth
Samuel V. Ham
George H. McMaster
Robert W Mearns
Henry L Kvinson
Guy G. Palmer
Orrin R Wolfe
Howard L Laubach
Elmer W Clark
Howard R Perry
George E. Houls
Mast
Lincoln F Kilbourne
William C. Rogers
George H Samerson
Edward C Carey
Hamilton A Smith
Hunter B Nelaon
Mathew B. Saville
Fourteenth Infantry
Fourteenth
Frank E Bamford
Fredrik Lo Knudsen
Clarence C Culver
Signal Corps
Edgar D. Craft
National Army
Camp Dodge
Iowa
Southern Laboratory
Clarence Lee Cole
Fort Barn Houston
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San Francisco
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Frederick Felix
Meld
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Clinton W Howard
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Ole
Porto Rico
Luis F. Cianchini
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Antonio A. Vasquez
Juan E Guzman
Percy E van Nostrand
Camp Kelly
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John Bigelow
U. A
Rutgers College
New Brunswick
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Hotels in Washington Hear War News from Front Lines
In Washington, Lieut Col. P Bowen of Ottawa and Capt C P D A Baker spoke with War Department officials about Allied morale and U S entry. They praised England France and the United States, noted US troops, food, and strawberries in trenches, and described new hotel staffing shifts with women running elevators to meet labor needs. Chicago offered to build an aviation field and host an exposition to promote aircraft technologies. A San Francisco architect Matthew O'Brien reported closer Canada U S ties and a booming Northwest wheat harvest with troops arriving in Vancouver.
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Washington churches pray for soldiers in earnest plea
The Houston Post notes Washington churches prayed for soldiers last Sunday and urges focus in prayers toward Congress. Mothers of the country are highlighted as joining in the national concern for the service members.
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