Wilson War Act Sets Foe Apart Under New Law
President Wilson issues a proclamation placing vast powers in two new bodies the War Trade Board and the War Trade Council to regulate exports and imports with enemies or allies, grant licenses, and oversee actions under the Trading with the Enemy and Espionage acts with broad administrative authority across federal agencies.
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War Trade Board
War Trade Council
Washington
Wilson
Congress
United States
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce
Food Administrator
United States Shipping Board
Exports ”Administrative Board
Exports Administrative Board
Export Administrative Board
Said Exports Administrative Board
Shipping Board
Executive Administration
Federal Trade, Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Treasury Officials Warn Bond Shrinkage Could Harm Markets
Washington Treasury officials urge restraint as bond prices fall. The controller of the currency instructed national bank examiners not to force down high grade bonds to abnormal figures but to judge prices conservatively. The aim is to avoid undue money market tightening and investor losses that could affect securities-backed properties. Similar steps were taken at the outbreak of the European war.
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Washington Treasury
Indiana Plans Week Long Conservation Campaign
Representative Harry K Barnard announces Indiana Conservation Week October 21 28 to mobilize a million women in the Hoover Food organization. Thirteen district committees will lead pledge card stations distribute literature and educate housewives on food conservation as a wartime duty backed by the state council of defense and food commissioner Barnard.
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Indiana
Indiana Hoover
Harry K. Barnard
Hoover Food Organization
Doctor Barnard
Hoover Organization
Germany
Barnard
F. F. Erstbacher
Evansville
Charles
Olaf N. Guidin
Ft. Wayne
Isabella P. Bowman
Elkhart
Indiana State Council of Defense
Food Organization
Hoover
France
Red Cross
Tilberty
Indiana employment bureaus aid 2965 in September
Five free bureaus under the Indiana bureau of statistics aided 2,965 job seekers in September. Employers sought help to fill 3,113 positions across the state, per Henry A. Roberts, chief of the bureau.
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Indiana Bureau of Statistics
Henry A. Roberts
Women Lead Indiana Liberty Bond Drive Start
Women bond salesmen will be expected to sell as many Liberty bonds in Indiana as men. The campaign opened with the firing of bombs, after which State Chairman Will H. Wade and assistants began work.
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Indiana
Will H. Wade
Committees Appointed to Aid Patriotic Movements
A welfare committee, a home news committee, a correspondence committee and a publicity committee were appointed to support patriotic movements and assist former post office men. The home news committee will see that every soldier receives a weekly letter full of home news. Capt. Janes, a Civil War veteran, is noted in the report.
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Home News
Home News Committee
Janes
al Ca
Indiana Conservation Week Activities Outline
The notice lists statewide events in Indiana from October 21 to 28. Churches, merchants, schools, and town meetings join in conservation efforts under County Councils of Defense and local commercial clubs. It highlights meatless and wheatless diet days and a mass petition drive for Hoover enrollment, plus a day of prayer for soldiers.
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Indiana
Servati
Rush Campaign Aims for $20,000 for Soldiers Books
Indianapolis library war council director Charles E. Rush says the campaign to raise books for soldiers will continue as long as people show willingness to aid the cause, targeting a $20,000 city-wide total.
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Charles E. Rush
Indianapolis
Library War Council
Set Loafers to Work in Wartime Labor Move
John J. Walsh urges Indiana to mobilize loafers from poolrooms and saloons to work sites to keep women and girls out of dangerous, undesirable jobs. He notes no labor shortage justifies risky employment and calls for local committees of labor, employers, and welfare advocates to oversee the issue.
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Industrial Board of Indiana
Indiana State Council of Defense
John J. Walsh
Walsh
State Council of Defense
Indiana Teachers Write Essays for War Contests
The Indiana Department of Public Instruction announces a $300 prize contest for essays by Indiana teachers on Why the United States Is at War. Two series for high school and elementary teachers offer five prizes each, top prize $75, entries due in Washington by January 1, and judges will favor essays clear to students.
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State Department of Public Instruction
Indiana
United States
National Board For Historical Service
American Historical Association
State Department
Washington
Samuel B. Harding
Indiana ~ University
Bloomington
Oscar H. Williams
State
Indianapolis
Sweet
de Pauw University
Greencastle
C.B. Coleman
Butler College
Wabash’ College
Crawfords
F. S. Bogardus
State Normal
Terre Haute
Indiana State Council of Defense Campaign Cornerstone Planned
The Indiana State Council of Defense launches a statewide campaign to lay a cornerstone of a major patriotic effort. Officials say success requires every county in the state achieving high effectiveness and readiness to respond to requests.
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Indiana
Council of Defense
Gettysburg Battle Recalled as Civil War Turning Point
A detailed recounting of the July 1863 Gettysburg fight in Pennsylvania chronicles Lee's invasion, Meade's defense, the Pickett charge, and the high casualties that marked the Union victory as a decisive shift in the Civil War, ending with Confederate losses of about 30,000 and Union losses near 23,000.
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Gettysburg
United States of America
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Lee
A.P. Hill
Buford
Reynolds
Cemetery Hill
Jubal Early
Ewell
Meade
Longstreet
Napoleon
Waterloo
G. K. Warren
Warren
Maine
Hill
Pickett
Virginia
Longreet
Forest
Altaoet
Gate & Its
Whit Counter
Alexander
Balaklava
Kemper
Gibbon
Hancock
Cushing
Webb
Garnett
Modern Babylon satire in Cartoons Magazine
Ralph Barton sketches Babylon forty miles from New York behind Wire Island lighthouse as a witty взithering of coastal life and social foibles. He notes a vanished old world, clam villages, and the elusive Babylonian women who vanish to seek better husbands forty miles west.
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Babylon
New York
Berlin
Wire Island
United States
Rue de la Paix
Ralph Barton
Cartoons Magazine
Long Island
Aerial myth orished bird guardian from Venezuela tale
London Tit-Bits reports a remarkable yak-a-milk trained to tend flocks and guard homes in Venezuela. The bird supposedly replaces a sheep dog, obeys its master, and can perform slow sedate walks or eccentric pirouettes. It is said to defend livestock from wild animals.
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Republic of
Venezuela
London
Test of Endurance Among Postal Messengers Between Peking and Lhassa
The piece notes extreme endurance required of Chinese postal messengers between Peking and Lhassa. Trained riders cover about 4,500 miles on horseback in 36 days, averaging 125 miles daily. Messengers’ tatters are enclosed in cloth.
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Peking
Lhassa
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