Showing posts with label war-effort. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war-effort. Show all posts
Sunday, April 20, 2008

How Falkenhayn 'Got In Bad'

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1916 Advice to Kaiser Said to Have Led to His Dismissal. LONDON, England. — According to reports from Germany received here, says a dispatch...
Friday, July 27, 2007

New Methods of Fighting

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1917 Modern Warfare Is Carried On Under Water, Under Ground and in the Clouds "Digging in" has a new and important significance an...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Shields For Modern Warriors

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1900 Recent experiments at Sheffield, England, suggest the possibility that in the twentieth century shields may once more form an important...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

The Philippine-American War

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1899 Recruiting for the new volunteer army has been successful. The Secretary of War feels justified in saying that before the end of the ra...
Tuesday, June 5, 2007

London Women Rolling Cigarettes for Soldiers

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1915 They Abandon Knitting for a New Fad for Relief of Men London. — Rolling cigarettes for relatives, sweethearts, and friends in the fight...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Modern Bullets More Humane Than Those of Past

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1915 Wounds Quicker to Heal — Soldiers Not Long Absent from the Front The bullet covered with hard nickel now in use make the surgeon's ...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Two Women Stopped Selling Books, Feared Pro-German

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Ohio, 1918 GIRL STUDENTS WERE CANVASSING FOR A PRO-GERMAN BOOK Sheriff Charles Swank was called to Hanover last Friday to make an investigat...
Monday, May 14, 2007

Socialist Learns Not To Discuss Politics During War

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Indiana, 1917 THIS IS NO TIME TO DISCUSS POLITICS Thomas McGuire, Socialist, Learned a "Bit" on Friday When a common purpose wells...
Saturday, April 28, 2007

Sages' Words on War

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Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. — Cicero. In war the olive branch of peace...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Mother Goose Rhymes for War Purposes

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1918 Columbia, Mo., April 9. — Mother Goose is going to "do her bit" to help win the war. Several of the most renowned nursery rhy...
Friday, April 13, 2007

Forgotten "Good-by, Dolly Gray" Composer All But Forgotten

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1922 Meteoric Careers Who today remembers the name of Paul Barnes? It took the tragic news of his death, blind, insane and destitute, to rec...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Little Girl Pays 1000 Nickels For Bond

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Just after the doors of the First National Bank swung open this morning a pretty, little girl walked up to the window and said she wanted to...

Socialist Agitator Tarred and Feathered

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Elk City, Okla., April 9. - William Madison Hicks, erstwhile minister and socialist lecturer, whose most recent bid for notoriety, the promo...

Look Out for the Wobblers!

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There are wobblers among us. Everybody knows that. Look out for them. Don't let them fall over. What's a wobbler? A wobbler is a per...