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Food Administration Urges Moderation to Aid War Effort
The article argues that in the first year of war Germany’s ra tions reduced malnutrition but lack of fats later caused harm. In the United States a well managed program under Hoover aims to feed allies, curb waste, and prevent price rises. One meatless and one wheatless day weekly, plus moderation, will improve health and efficiency while supporting the war effort. If successful, rationing may be unnecessary.
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Germany
England
France
New Food Administration
Mr. Hoover
Food Administration
Cooperative Food Administration
Taxing Charity For Red Cross War Relief Fund
A revenue bill provision could undermine Red Cross fundraising by taxing donations from corporate dividends. The piece argues donations should be shielded from both corporate and excess profits taxes, noting a 1 percent extra dividend from U S Steel and urging protection of charitable gifts. It frames ambulances and base hospitals as vital to war efficiency and argues public generosity should not be penalized.
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Our First Duty Is to Win the War Deep in War Councils and War If Needed
A wartime editorial argues the United States must fight to defeat Germany as the chief national purpose. It criticizes Congress for treating war as a side issue, urges creation of a true executive council with munitions food and shipping chiefs, and recommends studying Europe’s wartime governance to win the conflict.
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State Department
England
Government Tax on Red Cross Donations Debate
Agencies discuss funding for the Red Cross arguing that contributions should not be taxed to avoid discouraging generosity. They warn that taxing every dollar given resembles an extra tax on tax payments to the government.
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Red Cross
Unsolved Murders and police persistence in Ruth Cruger case
The piece argues that thousands vanish yearly in New York and beyond, many hiding under new names. It credits Mrs. Hamiston for forcing a deeper probe that uncovered Ruth Cruger’s buried body, criticizing initial police neglect and urging thorough follow up on all disappearances.
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Dorothy Arnold
Ruth Cruger
Police
New York
Hamiston
Washington Reconsiders Role After Adopting French Town
The piece notes Washington's reluctance to act as a stepmother to a newly adopted French town. It laments the wartime draft under Aton Lang, suggesting it could yield further casualties. It also mentions Nick Romanoff gaining voting rights and the expectation of his use of the secret ballot for personal reasons.
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Nick Romanoff
Treasury report shows surplus and asset totals for June 16 1917
United States Treasury summary lists net balance in general fund 335,920,133 receipts 41,301,264 and payments 5,778,964 with a fiscal year surplus of 33,185,942 versus last year’s deficit. It details assets including gold, silver, notes, and bullion, and notes total cash assets of 420,604,681.03 and net general fund balance 900,499,509.95.
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Philippines
Pope to Confer Golden Rose Upon Queen of the Belgians
Benedict XV announces restoring the Golden Rose to the Queen of the Belgians for her devotion and wartime suffering. The piece traces the ceremony, history of recipients, and its meaning, noting the rose’s origin and the papal rites surrounding presentation. It then shifts to a separate item about English nobility selling treasures, including Pembroke artifacts and works by Rembrandt and Mantegna, via Sotheby’s.
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Papacy
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France
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Angers
Tours
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Martin V
Republic of Venice
Gregory XVI
Eugenius IV
Henry VI
England
James III
Scotland
Innocent
Sigismund
Charles VI
Charles VII
Philip II
Spain
Joanna
Naples
Isabella
Catherine Medic
Mary Tudor
Urban VIII
Henrietta
Great Britain
Charles I
Whitehall
Pius IX
Maria Pia
Portugal
Humbert
Italy
Eugenie
Marie
Two Sicilies
Gaeta
Leo XIII
Elizabeth of
Austria
Christina
Maria Amelia
Earl
Lord Ellasmere
Duke of Bridgewater
Henry E. Huntington
New York
Sotheby
Bond Street
Earl of Pembroke
Montgomery
Duke of Montpensier
St. Quentin
Duc d’Aumale
Prince of Chantilly
Duke of
Analysis of Voter Turnout in Equal Suffrage States
From a Houston Daily Post dispatch, the item notes lower military voting participation in the equal suffrage states and raises questions about the future of imperial and republican Russian ballet influences.
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Houston Daily Post
Army
Imperial Russian Ballet
Army Orders Reserve Officers Promotions and Assignments
Official orders detail acting quartermaster appointments, corps transfers, and numerous cavalry officer promotions from first lieutenant to captain across multiple regiments. Also notes retirements and lighthouse district duties, with amendments to travel certifications in the general staff corps.
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Earl McParland
Char Corps
Fifteenth Feild Artillery
Truby C. Martin
Eighth Field Artillery
John G. Workizer
George A. Zinn
Corps of Engineers
Clarke
Smith
War Department
General Staff Corps
Seth W. Scofield
Fourth Cavalry
James L. Collins
Twenty-second Cavalry
William C. McChord
William R. Henry
George F. Patten
Thirteenth Cavalry
Robert M. Cheney
Fifth Cavalry
Lawrence W. McIntosh
Fifteenth Cavalry
Harley C. Dag- 1Ey
Leutenant
Charles L. Clfford
Gaston Ly Holmes
Fifteenth
George W. Wersebe
Twenty
Harry B. Flounders
Seventh Cavalry
John G. Garrett
Eighth Cavalry
Grover R. Carl
Eighth Cavair
Highth Cavalry
Hugh D. Blanchard
Fourteenth Cavalry
John P. Kaye
Cleo D. Mayhugh
Sixteenth Cavalry
James W. Barnett
John C. Mullenix
Tenth Cavalry
Twenty-third Cavalry
Ross McCoy
Seventeenth Cavalry
Howard Tobin
John A. Weeks
Walter B. Buchly
Harold C. Mandail
Lester A. Sprinkle
Robert W.W. Grow
Terrill BE. Price
William H. Kaaten
Fourteenth
Edwin Reilmann
Adolphus W. Roffe
Horace K. Havlicek
Robert C. Candee
Joseph L. Philips
Kenneth McCarty
Nineteenth Cavalry
Joseph W. Geer
Edwin D. Morgan, Jr
Leake B.C. Jones
Kramer Thomas
Proceedings of Congress and Committees In Brief
A lengthy Senate session covered funding measures, including $210 000 for an officer reserve and public health officer pensions, plus hearings on an aeronautics department bill. Debate centered on a food census, war tax revenue, and the Glass Owens amendment to the Federal Reserve Act. President Wilson weighed in on the food bill, while other items included a cabinet access bill and expatriation draft legislation.
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Navy
Coast Guard
Mclean
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House
Military Affairs
Department of Aeronautics
Peary
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Boston
Lawrence Rumsey
Buffalo
Lafayette Escadrille
France
Finance Committee
Glass-Owen
Judiciary Committee
Fred Robertson
Kansas
United States
District of Kan Sar
Owen
Simmons
Ella Travis
North Carolina Corporation Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Vardaman
King Sugmested
Lever Sais
Lever
Representative Young
Texas
Wilson
Borland
Taylor
Colorado
Clark
Washington Memorial Arch
Valley Forge
Military Sffaffa
Secretary of War
Missouri
Herbert Hoover
Osborne
California
All Returns Not In. A Memphis Negro Seeks Care
The Spokane Spokesman-Review recalls an old Memphis man who fell ill and first sought a black physician. After his condition worsened a white doctor was summoned who checked the pulse and tongue and asked about temperature. The patient, weak, replied he had not missed anything but his watch.
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Memphis
Cause and Effect. From Life. Ladies, if you love a man
Life advice styled piece urges women to marry a man they know and understand. It counsels studying, humor, and flattering him as steps to harmony, warning that lack of knowledge could lead to divorce. The text alternates between instruction and conditional outcomes, reflecting era attitudes.
World travelers meet in Capitol Hotel lobby talks
In Washington at a Capitol Hotel gathering, observers discuss farm labor shortages in Maryland and the impact on the strawberry crop, noting low wages and migration to road work, while oil magnate Edward L. Doheny addresses petroleum supply fears and German intrigue abroad. George Brown warns of German propaganda hindering army recruitment in Boston as Italian enlistments rise.
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Army
Navy
George Rothwell Brown
Powhatan
Mr. Brown
Washington
Geremany
Boston Common
In His Keeping. A Poem Fragment from Pittsburrd Telegraph
A fragmentary poem sequence from the Pittsburgh Telegraph with lines invoking divine guidance. Repeated refrains plead for God to lead keep and bless a dear one through day and night. The piece blends sunrise and sunset imagery with hopeful supplication.
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Pittshburrd
Lemire
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