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Washington Post

Location

Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America

Date

Aug 01, 1917

Page

11

Washington Post subscription notice 1917 details

The Washington Post advertises mail and carrier subscriptions with daily and Sunday options. It lists rates, payment methods, and renewal instructions, emphasizing address changes, advance payment, and keeping the paper current for subscribers before expiration dates shown on the address label.

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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.

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.

Senate Finance Committee McAdoo Congress 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.

National Army 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.

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.

San Francisco 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.

England Defence of the Realm Losses Commission Ught Claremont Palace Almeric Paget Pauline Whitney New York 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 Cal 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

Food Administration Department of Agriculture Specia Congress Russia Legion of Death Senate Senator Weeks Warren Keffyon Joint Committee Harding McCumber Peramissiém United States 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.

Harry H Tebbetts 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 Tex Southern Department Department John ¥. Curry San Francisco Cal Army Frederick Felix Meld Fifteenth Field Artillery Clinton W Howard Fort Gin Leslie MacDil Ole Porto Rico Luis F. Cianchini Victor E Domenech Antonio A. Vasquez Juan E Guzman Percy E van Nostrand Camp Kelly South San Antonio John Bigelow U. A Rutgers College New Brunswick N. J

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.

United States England P . Bowen Ottawa Canada C PD A. Baker Dominion War Department Col. Baker Washington France New York Col. Rowan Russia New York City London Paris Teb Totson Manhattan Army Navy Marines National Guard Chicago America J Hamilton Lewis Representative Wilson Gen Squier Signal Corps John C Clarke Lawrence Hetworth Walker Linea Clarke Willard Hicaen Matthew O'Brien San Franccisco Healil Pacific Canadian Northwest Vancouver Winipeg Mr O'Brien Americana Northwest Seaboard O'Brien

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.

The Houston Post Washington Congress

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