War profits taxed to fund the war effort plan
A political editorial argues a new policy will force munitions contractors to share war profits with the treasury. It claims profits will be cut to about six percent and a five billion dollar annual transfer back to the treasury. The piece notes bipartisan support, calls for stronger enforcement, and criticizes profiteering as a national issue.
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Amercan
Treasury
Treasury Department
Washingto
Washington
England
France
Italy
Congress
Camp Greene to keep aviation concentrators and hospital
The Camp Greene site in Charlotte will be abandoned as a divisional camp but retained for aviation concentrators and a 252 bed hospital. Officials say fifteen to twenty five thousand men will be stationed there, easing local concern over the camp’s fate as Charlotte residents hoped for preferred use.
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Camp Greene
Charlotte
Aviation Concentratoas
Bage Hospital
Fhis
War Savings Campaign Urges Unity and Thrift
After the Red Cross drive, Wilmington and North Carolina push the war stamp effort with renewed vigor. The piece cites Theodore Roosevelt on national unity through thrift and government securities, urging all ages to join thrift clubs, buy war savings stamps, and pledge by June 28 to back the troops.
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Wilmington
North Carolina
Theodore Roosevelt
Kansas City Star
Treasury Department
People’s Army
Uncle Sam
Food Administration
Red Cross
Time for Woch to Revoke Passes to the Germans
Editorial notes it is time for authorities to revoke all passes issued to German nationals. Calls for swift action and stricter controls amid rising tensions.
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Woch
ANOTHER BROKEN PLEDGE IN PARIS CHURCH ATTACK
German guns killed and wounded eighteen people during Corpus Christi church services in Paris last Thursday after promised restraint during Allied air operations. The stance triggered condemnation as another act of brutal aggression and German Kultur.
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Germany
Paris
Cologne
Rhine
Dortch Wins Democratic Nomination in Third District
Early returns indicate W. T. Dortch leads in the third district Democratic nomination for Congress with C. L. Abernethy contesting. Dortch carried more counties though Abernethy had larger individual majorities. Wayne County favored Dortch by about 1,600. In the eighth district Coughton defeated Murphy by about 5,000, carrying all counties except Murphy’s home Rowan.
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W. T. Dortch
Congress
C. L. Abernethy
Abernethy
Dortch
Wayne
Coughton
Murphy
Rowan
Greeks Prove Loyal Allies In Balkan War Effort
Greece, after shedding a German dominated king, aligns with democratic powers and fields an army under French and British tutelage. In the Struma front attack they captured 1500 German and Bulgarian prisoners, including 33 officers, signaling strong military contribution. Also mentions cotton weather and press critiques of Kitchin and Creel with advice to ignore nagging voices.
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Greece
Constantine
Balkan
Struma
Vesuvius Struggles With Stomach Troubles Again
The report notes Vesuvius is once more suffering stomach trouble. The world remains too busy to heed the old trouble-maker, and it must endure its pains with little attention for now.
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Vesuvius
Heroic Rescue Earns Navy Commendation For Seyhert
Linford H. Seyhert boatswain's mate first class U S N receives a Navy Department commendation for gallantry in rescuing an enlisted man from drowning after a dock fall. The rescued man panicked and would have drowned without Seyhert's prompt action. Seyhert enlisted April 18 1915 at Norfolk Virginia and named his mother Mrs Minnie Seybert East Brady Pennsylvania as next of kin.
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Navy Department
Linford H. Seyhert
Seybert
Navy Yard
Norfolk
Minnie Seybert
East Brady
Names In the News Strafe a German word in use
The phrase strafe is explained as a German verb meaning to punish and appears in the familiar expression Gott strafe England meaning may God punish England. The note discusses its usage in German sentiment and its spread in references.
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Germany
England
Holiday in New Orleans Cotton Market
Holiday in New Orleans cotton market reported with details of trading activity and price movements. Market participants and venues referenced but fragmented text limits full context.
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New Orleans
Wartime demand boosts black walnut locust and hickory
Washington reports urgent global demand for three American woods. The forest service and volunteers seek black walnut for gun stocks and aircraft components, with kiln drying speeding supply. hickory and black locust also in demand for wagon parts and other war needs.
Tree nails needed for ships farmers urged to supply locust wood
Tk. Tk. OVS of the Emergency Fleet Corporation asks American farmers with black locust trees to contact its purchasing division in Washington. Tree nails or ship nails two to four feet long require dense hard wood and locust is essential. 20,000 to 50,000 nails per wooden ship. Forest Service urges planting five walnut trees for every locust tree to prevent extinction.
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Washington, D. C
United States Forest Service
Boy Scouts
Europe
Forest Products
Forest Service
United States
Washington
Florida
Connecticut
Kansas
Germany
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Dan Ee
Trinity Church Marked By Its Skyline Fight And History
The Trinity church spire long a New York landmark is now largely hidden by towering offices near Wall Street with the subway and elevated trains nearby. The church dates to 1197 with 1681 and 1691 tomb dates, a 1709 Queen Anne communion, and a baptismal basin dated 1684 bearing William and Mary’s arms. The pulpit is said to be carved from wood from the frigate Constitution.
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Trinity Church
Trinity
Wall
Trinity Church Corporation
New York
William and Mary
Miss Matthews Seeks Higher Pay and Office Work
In a 1918 diary excerpt, Mary Matthews recounts meeting lawyers Baker and Filene who praise her work and offer fifteen dollars weekly. She notes Miss Greer earning forty dollars, defends herself against advances, and shares Betty’s new job at seven fifty weekly. The friends plan spelling drills, library reads, and a shared shift toward better speed and accuracy.
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Baker & Filene
Mr. Filene
Betty
Mary
Carrie
Miss Matthews
Miss Greer
Matthews
Iire
Miss Green
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