Washington Post Subscription Rates and Notices 1918
The notice lists daily and Sunday mail subscription rates with terms in advance for one month, six months, or one year. It specifies payment methods, foreign representatives, and urging subscribers to update addresses and renew before expiration. The date shown is Thursday August 8, 1918.
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Washington
Alexandria
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Washington Post CO
Washington, D. C
Edward B. McLean
D. C
Paul Block
Fifth Avenue
New York
Mallers Building
Chicago
Little Building
Boston
Kresge
Detroit
Post
Washington Post Company
Allies Must Dictate Peace After Marne Echo
The article argues for unconditional surrender and allied unity to end the war swiftly. It warns against pacifist pressure and bolshevik enemies, urging decisive action, coordinated front operations, and breaking the quadruple alliance to topple the Hapsburgs and Bulgaria’s stratagems. It stresses energy in the field and firm policy.
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Marne
Germany
United States
Russia
Hapsburg Empire
Italy
Austria
Bulgaria
Switzerland
Man the ice wagons in Washington heat wave
In extreme heat the ice companies fail to meet public demand. The Food Administration should press for reliable ice supplies, with overtime work and extra manpower to protect the vulnerable. Urges mobilizing all vehicles to serve homes first and curb nonessentials.
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Weather Bureau
Washington
Food Administration
Suffrage Militant and the President’s Change of Heart
A detailed critique of the suffrage movement and President Wilson shifting to national woman suffrage as a war measure. It notes previous state focus, recent open advocacy, letters to senators, and a Lafayette Square demonstration by the National Woman's Party. The piece argues lawful persuasion beats unlawful protests and urges wavering senators to act.
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United States
Princeton
New Jersey
National Woman's Party
Lafayette Square
Senate
White House
Storm Center
House
Spanish Press and Germany: Change in Tone After Marne Reverses
The Spanish press shows a shift in stance as German reverses on the Marne erode influence of pro German journals. Commercial papers like ABC, tied to advertisers, previously supported by German propaganda, now face truth about Germany’s disaster. Journals tied to politicians risk loss of public influence when owners die, risking a collapse of their voice.
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Marne
Spain
ABC
Senor Ruiz
Germany
Poralage
New British Food Chief a Popular Leader in England
A British political profile lauds Rt Hon John R. Clynes as a capable and popular successor to Lord Rhondda as controller general of food. It contrasts Clynes’s modest, hardworking origins with Rhondda’s rise, notes his long service in Manchester and his conciliatory nature, and lists other Labour cabinet figures and roles. The piece also touches on a separate naval inquiry involving Admiral Troubridge and a historical reference to Gen. Lee’s staff in the American Civil War.
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England
John R. Clynes
Lord Rhondda
Lord
Rhondda
Lord Devonport
Clynes
University of Cambridge
Manchester
John Hodge
George Henry Roberts
Norwich
George Barnes
Glasgow
Labor
Pemberton-Billing-Maud Allan
Spencer
Villiers Stuart
Ernest Charles Troubridge
Admiralty
Troubridge
Balkans
Admiral Troubridge
Serbia
Vienna
Balkan
Mediterranean
Portsmouth
Sir Hedworth Meux
Breslau
Goeben
Bay of Messina
Constantinople
Black Sea
Thomas Troubridge
Nelson
The
Nile
Cape St. Vincent
Sir Edward Troubridge
Copenhagen
Barlon
Scots Guards
Nashville
Marquise
Fontenoy
Oere
Army Nurse Corps Seeks Rapid Enrollment Increase
Surgeon General Gorgas warns the army nurse corps is expanding faster than supply and urges the Red Cross to enlist 2,000 nurses weekly for two months. Miss Jane A Delano vows to reach 50,000 unenrolled graduates, stressing no draft and targeting a 1,000 weekly rise. About 3,000 of 50,000 already enrolled with 1,000 monthly response.
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Army
Gorgas
Red Cross
Army Nurse Corps
American Red Cross
Jane A. Delano
The
May Seize Sulphur Stocks In War Material Push
War industries board signals possible commandeering of excess coal steel and other war material stocks held by industries beyond current needs as curtailment orders loom. Baruch says government may take steel and materials as needed and Fuel Administrator Garfield likely to be asked to seize surplus coal for mills.
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War Industries Board
Baruch
I T
Garfield
Women Directly Replacing Men in Britain Rise
August issue of the Monthly Labor Review cites April 1917 and January 1918 figures showing 1 442 000 women directly replacing men in Britain. Government work accounts for 36 percent, banking 24.6 percent, commercial occupations 16.9 percent, engineering firms 7.14 percent, six metal trades 6 percent, with many women partially or indirectly replacing withdrawn men.
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Great Britain
Monthly Labor Review
British Labor Gazette
Turks Restore Furniture at Tabriz Consulate
American Consulate at Tabriz reopens after Turkish soldiers remove and return furniture. Sweden reports Turkey cannot fully clear up the Tabriz incident due to communication gaps. Turkish foreign minister says details on the raid of the American hospital are insufficient to prepare a report.
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Tabriz
Turkey
United States
Sweden
Labor on priorities board appointment signals labor follow material order
Felix Frankfurter named to the priorities board of the War Industries Board as official representative of the Department of Labor. The move indicates labor priorities for war and essential industries will closely track the existing material, fuel and transportation priorities.
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Felix Frankfurter
National War Labor Policies Board
The
War Industries Board
Department of Labor
Frankfurter
American Officers in England Praise British Hospitality
In London May, spokesman for many American officers asserts ample hospitality has been extended. He notes clubs, golf and country clubs, and invitations to country houses across London. The American Officers' Club in Leconfield House, Mayfair, has housed them for about nine months, underscoring deep gratitude for open-handed British hospitality.
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England
London
Leconfield House
Mayfair
London Daily Mail
Graft Scandal in Turkey Involves Cabinet Officials
Zurich reports expose a major Turkish graft scandal with current and former cabinet members including the commerce minister accused of embezzling about 1.5 million dollars in sugar purchases. The unfolding case implicates high officials and suggests widespread irregularities in government procurement.
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Zurich
Army Orders Move Officers to Various Posts and Discharges
The Army announces officers proceeding to assignments in cities including Cambridge Philadelphia Rockwell Field San Diego Edgewood Maryland and New York with several first lieutenants listed. The president directs First Lieutenant J E Flacson to be honorably discharged and Captain F C Mills Jr granted a fourteen day leave. Colonel A J Miller resignation accepted by the President.
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R. H. Lake
the City
W. EK. Nash
Cambridge
Mass
J. EE. Lee
Philadelphia
H. R. Lawrence
Rockwell Field
San Diego
Cal
N. M. Templeton
Edgewood
C. B. Mellen
New York
G. G. Garland
San Francisco
A. Bobey
Tucson
Ariz
J. M. Jones
This City
M. D. Phippa
S. W. Wallace
Jeffersonville
Ind
BE. D. Hill
J. E. Flacson
United States
R. B. van Arsdel
F. C. Mills, Jr
Coil
A. J. Miller
War Council Flight Arrives in London with Summers
L L Summers of the War Industries Board arrives in London with ten experts to confer with allied nations on interallied councils. Discussions cover conserving shipping space, shortening ship haulage, distributing materials, and inflation control as Summers acts as spokesman for Chairman Baruch on the munitions council.
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London
L. L. Summers
War Industries Board
Summers
Baruch
Munitions Council
Europe
Hoover
War Council
Shipping Council
Food Council
Commission On Finance
Commissions Open for 500 Men in Training Camp
The United States invited 500 men over 31 to apply for army commissions. Applications close August 20 for a Jacksonville Florida training camp to start August 15 for the first 100 and September 1 for the rest. A three month program aims to qualify them for conservation and reclamation division roles including shop operations, laundries, waste reclamation, and gardens. Each trainee will receive 33 dollars monthly plus clothes and subsistence.
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United States
Jacksonville
Fla
Conservation and Reclamation
Cold Storage Men Meet In Heat On August Day
On August 6 the hottest August day on record in the District the advisory committee for cold storage met in Washington with the United States Food Administration to discuss maximum rate bases for key stored products. The aim is to limit profits of cold storage warehousemen. Representatives from subsistence division the army quartermaster corps the Bureau of Markets and other commodity heads attended.
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United States Food Administration
Washington
The
Food Administration
Subsistence Division
Quartermaster Corps
Army
Bureau of Markets
Department of Agriculture
Wheat substitute may go under food administration plan
The national food administration seeks to ease wheatless pledges after Hoover’s England conference with Allied food directors. If approved, wheat substitute purchases with flour could end. Wealthy buyers have doubled flour limits and donated substitutes, but the administration views such philanthropy as disloyal.
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National Food Administration
Hoover
England
Allies
Food Administration
The
Red Cross Men Honored By Italian War Cross
Twenty two American Red Cross ambulance men received the Italian war cross of merit for service during fighting on the Piave. The award ceremony was attended by the Duke of Aosta and Maj. Gen. Charles G. Treat. Recipients included J. Campbell, S. H. Brunson, W. Frothingham, G. Steward, B. Richmond, F. Cady, W. Lothrop, H. H. Feld, and others. Thirty nine Red Cross volunteers were later cited for a telomatal BELO LO Pty on.
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Red Cross Ambulance
Piave
Rome
Duke of
B. Griffin
W. H. Walda
Z. G. Simmons
A. Meyer
T. H. Fast
A. V. Green, Jr
F. W. Spicer
R. W. Lindsey
L. K. Pourt
S Russell
H. Kahn
J. G. Greggie, Jr
S. May
H. Greeland
Red Cross
Loyalty to government defines Ohio campaign in war era
In Washington visitors argue loyalty to wartime policy determines congressional fate. Crosser and Gordon face stiff primary clash in Cleveland as Emerson secures Democratic renomination. Critics cite votes against conscription and army funding, while organizers back Republican candidates. Debate includes tax ideas for war revenue and urban transit strain amid a growing capital.
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Ohio
Joseph G. Johnson
Washington
Cleveland
Wiliam Gordon
Robert Crouser
Henry L. Emerson
Repub
Crosser
Yaien
France
Gordon
Kle
Agamara
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