Debts of nations and the Liberty Bond surge in history
The article traces national debts from Napoleonic wars through Franco Prussian conflict to modern liberty loans. It compares per capita debt across France, Britain, Russia, and Germany, notes U S Civil War debt levels, and urges Americans to buy liberty bonds as WWI funding.
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E. SR Poe
Napoleon
Benius
Bonaparte
Bismarck
Germany
Alsace
Lorraine
France
Wellington
England
Great Britain
Kingdom
Waterloo
Russia
Potter
Sedan
America
United States
Jackson
Sam
McKinley
Cuba
Wilmar
Philladelpha Ledger
Socialists propose terms for peace conference
Stockholm June 21 three American representatives D Davidovitch Boris Steinstein and Max Goldfarb arrive to discuss disarmament an international peace league and a policy of no annexations and no indemnities for nations at war aboard the liner Oscar I how Reinstein traveled is noted as a passport issue
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Stockholm
International
Beace League
United States
D. Davidovitch
Boris Steinstein
Max Goldfarb
Europe
Reinstein
Men to Have Ro Ghoige Escape on First
Washington June 21 An announcement by Provost Marshal General Crowder says draft assignments to branches will be at War department discretion. Most draftees enter infantry. navy assignments are not promised. Absentees bear exam and travel costs. exemptions may be permanent or conditional.
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Washington
Mares
Crowder
War Department
Infantry
Army
Navy
Wilson
Gen. Crowder
West Virginians M ust Work Under War Measure
West Virginians aged 18 to 60 must hold an occupation or profession under a state law. Failure to work 26 hours weekly risks a $100 fine and 60 days hard labor on the streets. The law, urged by the state defense council and backed by the national defense, applies to all regardless of wealth and even excludes unlisted occupations like Cripps coupons.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Cripps
State Defense Council
Two Officers Killed by Miner at Louisville Depot
At Nashville on June 21 Sheriff May and City Marshal Loker were shot and killed by coal miner H C Rice at the Louisville and Nashville depot. Rice wounded by the marshal in the stomach likely will die. He carried a double barreled shotgun seeking his daughter Stella 16 who he said eloped with John Evilsizer. Rice had been drinking and intended to kill Evilsizer on sight. The officers died almost instantly from head wounds.
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Nashville
August Loker
Louisville & Nashville
H.C. Rice
Rice
Stella
John Evilsizer
Evilaizer
U boat campaign grows sharper as losses mount
London wires report the British losses in torpedoed ships reach their highest weekly total in weeks with 32 vessels sunk. The Bay State from Boston to Liverpool is believed lost after being torpedoed, with crew fate unknown. The Eblo and Eemdijk are also reported sunk, and the German sixth war loan nears completion while public lending fuels the war effort.
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London
Boston
Mass
Warren Uner
Bay State
Liverpool
Alexander Fenton
Eblo
Leyland Line
Pierce
Alexandria
Eerpt
Eemdijk
Germany
Belgium
France
PLAN HUGE AIR REPRISALS
London reports the government is unprepared to announce a policy of air reprisals against Germany but anticipates action once the Allied air service achieves overwhelming superiority. American plans to build tens of thousands of airplanes are tied to allied aims to expand air warfare to a level surpassing all previous efforts.
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London
Germany
Drunken blackout tragedy rocks Neachitoches Louisiana
June 21 report from Neachitoches describes George Pikes, a Black man, running amuck under the influence striking, killing three people and injuring four seriously. He drove away his mother and wife, attacked a mower, burned a brother’s home, fatally wounded Leo Husca and Ernest Prudhomme, and left school official T. H. Hudon and two Black youths seriously hurt as a posse halted the spree.
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Neachitoches
George Pikes
Min Amiucke
Uqvor
Leo Husca
Ernest Prudehomme
T. H. Hudaon
Oman
Pikes
Pope to protest Belgian deportations by Vatican channels
June 21 Rone The Prussian and Bavarian legations to the Vatican announce that the Pope intends to protest continuously through diplomatic channels against a resumption of Belgian deportations.
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Vatican
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