Washington Post Subscription Rates and Policies 1917
Notice to subscribers outlines mail subscription options and prices for The Washington Post in 1917, including daily and Sunday combinations, payment methods, and renewal advice. It specifies advance payment, change of address instructions, and expiration dates on address labels as of July 30 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post CO
Washington, D. C
Edward B McLean
Washington, DC
Paul
Fifth Avenue
New York
Masters Building
Chicago
Devonshire Street
Boston
Kresge
Detroit
Washington Post Company
War industries board criticized for lacking legal authority
A critical editorial argues the Council of National Defense creates a makeshift war industries board lacking statutory power. It warns of failed coordination, price setting gaps, and insufficient safeguards as Congress and the public debate accountability while war demands grow. The piece urges a proper munition department or strong legal framework to organize industry and ensure reliable supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Council
War Industries Board
Purchasing Commission
War and Navy Departments
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Congress
Council of National Defense
Department of Munitions
Democracy in the German crisis sparks a new foe
An analysis argues that democracy threatens Prussian autocracy and predicts Germany may plan future wars at home. It cites Berliner Neueste Nachrichten declaring democracy Germanys most dangerous enemy and warns of continued conflict until democracy is crushed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Berliner Neueste Nachrichten
Air Reprisals and the Case for Bombing Germany
A wartime opinion argues that Germany’s brute force method demands equal retaliation. It suggests England and France should escalate air raids to break German resolve, asserting bombs shape German intellect and will curb atrocities against civilians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Franca
Germany
France
Hague Prisoner Exchange Promises Humane Treaty Terms
The Hague agreement between Britain and Germany on civil and military prisoner exchange aims at direct repatriation and lenient medical grounds for repatriation or neutral-country internment. Holland agrees to take 7,500 prisoners and 6,000 officers, with 2,000 civilians prioritized for invalids. The pact also cancels reprisals against individuals, though German camp cruelties persist per independent reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hague
Switzerland
Holland
Germany
United States
Yarrowdale
Gerard
Books for the Army and Overseas Reading Appeal
The national war work council of the Y M C A appeals for books and magazines for Pershing's soldiers in France. Donors should mark packages American Overseas Force and sign books. Fiction, adventure, sea stories, detective stories, histories, humor, and foreign language study books are especially wanted, along with magazines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National War Work Council
Gen. Pershing
France
New York
India Revolt Fears Rise Under Lord Hardinge 1915
The parliamentary commission on Mesopotamia exposes grave India conditions in 1915 as Lord Hardinge warns of conspiracies in Delhi and Lahore and the return of 7600 revolutionaries from Canada and the United States. He cites seven frontier tribal revolts in 1916 and notes failures by subordinates while mourning his wife and son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Hardings
Mesopotamia
India
Atlantic
London
Lord Hardinge
House of Lords
Delhi
Lahore
Canada
United States
Bengal
Bay of Bengal
Hardinge
Ameer
Afghanistan
Great Britain
Bealies
Atake
Order of the Garter
George
Europe
England
Indian War Départment
France
Lord Kitchener
Kitchener
Lord Nicholson
Lord Haldane
John Nixon
Howdah
Marquise
DH Fontenoy
Boston Transcript Wit on Luncheon Rain Delay
Dialog from the Boston Transcript recalls a luncheon skipped due to rain. The exchange jokes that rain stopped an hour early, yet the speaker had already decided not to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Transcript
Enniskillen Battle Fought In 1689 Clash on Ulster bog
The Battle of Enniskillen, also called Newton Butler, pitted 1600 Enniskilleners against 6000 Irish forces under Macarthy and Hamilton. advance or retreat prompted a brave surge as the defenders drove the attackers to a hill bog then routed them. Five hundred vanquished and drownings marked the enemy toll, while Enniskillen losses were two dozen killed and about fifty wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enniskillen
Newton Butler
William III
James II
James I
Ulster
William of Orange
England
Londonderry
the Boyne
James
Berry
Crum
Fermanagh
Macarthy
Hamilton
Hamskillen
Hnnskillen
Enniskillenersa
Wolseley
Enniskilleners
Lough Erne
Ita Tn
Catvipani
Trieste
Italy
Budapest
Vienna
America
Europe
France
Belgium
Rhine
Maj. Cattapani
Maj Cattapani
Saloniki
Balkans
Pollard
IDEAL HUSBAND and the jail swap in a Chicago garden
A Chicago tale portrays John Skwarek trading places with his wife in a garden dispute. Mrs Skwarek fined $2 plus costs for her geese, jailed after refusing to pay, then Skwarek offers to take her place and is jailed. The couple reunite with a lunch in jail. The column weaves in miscellaneous moral observations about tobacco waste and a Liverpool anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Dispatch
John Skwarek
Chicago
Walter Raleigh
Belakyea
Skwarek
Liverpool
Cabbages and Creased Trousers Dominate Odd News
A New York exchange scene ends with cabbages spilled as truck drivers mock female workers leading to a cabbage pile and strike. A Philadelphia Ledger piece lampoons creased trousers as democracy’s emblem, noting their decline amid wartime fashion shifts and trench lines from Verdun to the Chemin des Dames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Desbrosses Street
Agnes Sheehan
Mayors Committee of Women
Joe Millers
Hye
Philadelphia Ledger
Herbart Kelcey
Bayport
S. 1
London
Herbert Kelcey
Lyceum Theater
France
Verdun
Chemin Des Dames
England
Uncle Sam
Fragmented verse and wedding rites in old columns
A scattered verse piece mocks rushed writing and a columnists’ indifference. The piece shifts to excerpts about marriage rituals from People’s Home Journal, describing Bombay weddings with red powder, lavish temp le ceremonies, and a child bride in Hindu rites, with priests reciting mantras.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
People's Home Journal
Bombay
India
Far
Views of World Travelers Meet in Capital Hotel Lobbies
A literary mosaic from capital hotel conversations features Maj Cattapani calling for rapid American air campaigns and Italian army logistics. Mixed with humorous remarks on Scottish wartime attire and trench flies, the piece blends wartime strategy with light field anecdotes from officers and American soldiers.
Russian Dancers and American Ideas Stir Public Interest
In Raleigh Frank T. Kint zing notes that several hundred educated Russian pantomimes and dancers are in the United States after tours across major cities. He cites their exposure to American manners and the prestige of Imperial ballet training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
United States
Frank T. Kintzing
Los Angeles
Raleigh
New York
America
Pacific Coast
Imperial Ballet
Also Mentioned on This Page
Great Bismarck
District of Columbia
Stoke
The
Wall Street Journal
Tobacco
Wall Street
Little Rock Gazette
Preas
Colyum
W. BE. Emery
Willard
Russian Dancers Friends of America
Philadelphia
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!