President Wilson Charts Peace Path and Tax Plan
President Wilson outlines aims for an international peace based on justice, pledging close contact with Congress by cable and wireless. He says no reconstruction program is fixed, supports a $6 billion 1919 tax plan, and urges women’s federal suffrage. he also calls for aid to Belgium and northern France and notes continued forces abroad after armistice.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
America
War Trade Board
France
The
Union
Europe
Secretary of the Treasury
Belgium
New Zealand Prison Labor Shows Benefits of Useful Employment
The minister of justice notes prisoners work in bricks, tiles, bootmaking, farming, and more. Wages run at $1.21 daily. a 1,200 acre prison farm has boosted value to about $82 per acre. Health and behavior improved. reformatories near Christchurch rise. potential adoption here urged.
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Dominion
Department of the Dominion
Christchurch
Words of Wise Men Reflections on Virtue and Duty
A Chicago Evening Post collection of maxims on trust, work, courtesy, friendship, education, and national character. It urges diligence in small duties, faithful personal commitments, and maintaining hope amid moral challenges, noting no royal road to reconstruction.
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Chicago Evening Post
Portable coal screening and loading machine announced
World’s Progress notes portable electric machinery to screen coal and load wagons. A pulley with depressed surface contends belts will not slip. Pennsylvania reports mineral output near two billion dollars last year. A motion camera for portrait books delivers motion as pages turn rapidly.
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Pennsylvania
Confectionery Retailers and War Debts in 1917 Notes
United States reports 60 000 confectionery retailers while Britain had 100 000 retail candy dealers before the war. Germany's war debt is projected above fifty billion marks without indemnities. Cleveland reportedly wasted 2 000 000 tons of coal in 1917 through varied use. American Presbyterians plan to raise 75 million dollars in five years for reconstruction and social service.
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Nashville
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New Albany
Germany
H.H. Friedley
Indiana
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Georgia
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Purdue
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Cincinnati, Lawrenceburg and Aurora Electric Street Railway Company
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Marion
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Pia
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Department of Labor
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Will Jones
Prairie Creek
Washington
Jones
Grant County
William Ice
Eugene Peal
Peal
Ice
Ohio
South Bend
F. R. Carson
Britain
Far Better to Eye Than to Be Married
A fragment reflecting a proverb about relationships and social judgment. It contrasts a cautious approach to courtship with a woman's pursuit of a man, noting the potential consequences of both paths and urging discretion in romantic choices.
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Hou
NOT YET DISCOVERED One man who knew all about farming
A collection of riddles and clever descriptions about farming life. The lines pose questions about a turkey that hides nothing, a living room needing no ventilation, teeth that never need checking, a boy who resisted swimming, a worm free lamb, a low maintenance rail fence, and a farmer who thrives without reading agricultural books while aiding a hotel keeper.
Henry White among them for world peace conference delegation
President Wilson revealed the American delegation to the world peace conference: the President, Secretary of State Lansing, Henry White former ambassador to France Edward M. House and Gen Tasker H Bliss. The selection of Bliss was a surprise. White was expected to head the Republican element. White has long diplomatic service including posts in Vienna London Rome and Paris.
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Lansing
Henry White
Edward M. House
Tasker H. Bliss
White House
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Roosevelt
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London
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Rome
Algeciras
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Italy
Allied leaders to discuss armistice in Berlin meeting
Berlin reports say Britain France and the United States will send representatives to Berlin for armistice talks. A London meeting of allied leaders is planned as a prelude to the peace conference with Colonel House and Italy's Orlando joining British and French statesmen. Paris notes a call from agricultural deputies opposing special socialist representation at the peace conference and urging peasant interests be included. Munich socialist leaders demand the dismissal of Solf Scheidemann and Erzberger as preliminary to peace talks.
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United States
Cologne Gazette
Daily Express
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Orlando
Italy
Paris
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Clemenceau
Pathe
Bavaria
Socialist Council of
Munich
Berlin Socialist Council
W. S. Solf
Philipp Scheidemann
Mathias Erzberger
Italy to Support Wilson At Peace Conference
Washington reports a discussion of the president's role at the peace conference and the allied lineup. Italy aligns with Wilson on moral law and human rights, pledging to back the United States on fundamental questions.
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Wilson
Washington
United States
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