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  • World War. Y. M. C. A. 1917-05-09
  • Northwest history; World War 1; YMCA; Young Men's Christian Association; organizations; fundraising; United States army; United States navy; Baker, Oregon ;
  • To raise $1000 in this vicinity to assist the Y. M. C. A. in its Army and Navy work, a campaign has been launched here.
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  • World War. Wilson (personal). 1919-08-29
  • Northwest history; World War 1; President Woodrow Wilson; United States; post-war; speeches; tours; Spokane, Washington States; Coeur d'Alene, Idaho ;
  • President Wilson will visit 30 cities during his tour of the country in the interest of the peace treaty and will be absent from Washington until September 30. He will leave here next Wednesday night and will make his first address Thursday at...
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  • World War. Wilson (personal). 1919-02-15
  • Northwest history; World War 1; President Woodrow Wilson; United States; USS George Washington; visits; tours; visitors; Brest, France; Boston, Massachusetts; speeches ;
  • President Wilson left Brest on his return to the United States on board the United States ship George Washington shortly after 11 o'clock this morning. The George Washington weighed anchor at 11:15 o'clock
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  • World War. Wilson (personal). 1919-01-28
  • Northwest history; World War 1; President Woodrow Wilson; United States; battlefields; visitors; visits; post-war; Belleau Wood, France; Chateau Thierry, France; Rheims, France ;
  • President Wilson today made his first trip to the battle front and devastated regions, visiting Chateau Thierry and Rheims. At the close of a tour that took him through a dozen razed villages ending in the ruins of the historic cathedral at Rheims,...
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  • World War. Wilson (personal). 1919-01-04
  • Northwest history; World War 1; President Woodrow Wilson; United States; parades; celebrations; Paris, France; French people; post-war ;
  • Everybody and his sister, it must be, saw President Wilson as a fine pair of coal blacks drew him at brisk trot through the streets of Paris today. I have always greatly admired President Wilson, but he was not enough of an attraction to make him...
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  • World War. Wilson (personal). 1918-09-02
  • Northwest history; World War 1; President Woodrow Wilson; United States; popularity; London, England, Great Britain ;
  • "If the popularity of a public man may be gauged by the number of portraits of him displayed in shops and public buildings and, indeed in private houses, President Wilson is easily first at the present moment in England," writes John Lane, The...
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  • World War. Wilson (personal). 1917-01-11
  • Northwest history; World War 1; President Woodrow Wilson; United States; legislation; United States army; government workers; employees; transportation ;
  • Notice of the signing by President Wilson in France of the first bill sent to the White House by congress after the president sailed last month was cabled today to Secretary Tumulty. It was the measure authorizing the payment of transportation home...
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  • World War. War debt. 1918-03-22
  • Northwest history; World War 1; war debts; cost of war; war expenses; war credits; Germany; German government; Secretary of the Treasury Siegfried von Roedern of Germany; President Woodrow Wilson; militarism ;
  • A war credit of 15,000,000,000 marks was brought before the Reichstag today for first reading. Count von Roedern, secretary of the imperial treasury, said Germany's monthly war costs had increased from 2,000,000,000 marks in the winter of 1915-16...
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  • World War. Vocational training. 1918-01-24
  • Northwest history; World War 1; vocational training; disabled veterans; war veterans; disabilities; education; women; nurses; physical therapy; rehabilitation; United States; American sailors; American soldiers ;
  • As part of the government's plans to establish rehabilitation and vocational training schools for disabled soldiers and sailors, Surgeon-General Gorgas announced today the creation of a corps to be known as "reconstruction aides," whose work will...
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  • World War. Visitors. 1919-01-25
  • Northwest history; World War 1; visitors; President Woodrow Wilson; Mayor Edwin Farley of Dover, England, Great Britain; photographs; portraits ;
  • A striking photograph of President Wilson exchanging greetings with the mayor of Dover (England) upon his arrival at that port from France en route to London for his visit with King George. Note the serious expression of the chief executive of the...
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  • World War. Veterans. 1920-05-06
  • Northwest history; World War 1; post-war; war veterans; Dr. W. C. Rucker; United States. bureau of war risk insurance; United States army; American soldiers; statistics; diseases; illness; disabilities; organizations ;
  • There are 541,900 veterans of the world war dependent on the bounty of the United States for future existence at annual cost of $325,000,000, according to Dr. W. C. Rucker, chief medical advisor of the bureau of war risk insurance, who reports this...
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  • World War. Veterans. 1919-08-29
  • Northwest history; World War 1; post-war; war veterans; demobilization of troops; United States army; American soldiers; Russia; Russian revolution; Spokane, Washington States; transports ;
  • A detachment of the first veterans to return to America from the North Russian front passed through Spokane at 2:30 Thursday afternoon on a special Northern Pacific troop train carrying 185 overseas men.
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-12-31
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; Berlin, Germany; France; French government; execution of treaty ;
  • A measure authorizing purchase of a building in Berlin to house the staffs engaged in supervising execution of the peace treaty was adopted by the chamber of deputies today. As the first installment the sum of 1,000,000 francs was appropriated.
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-11-21
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; United States. Congress; Republican party; legislation; 66th congress; President Woodrow Wilson; General John J. Pershing; oil;...
  • While consideration of the peace treaty was the outstanding event of the first session of the sixty-sixth congress -- the first in six years in which republicans have controlled both branches -- considerable important legislation was completed and...
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-07-11
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; France; French government; United States. Congress. Senate; American government; ratification; Germany; debates ;
  • Debate in the chamber of deputies on the bill to ratify the peace treaty probably will begin August 1. It is expected that the debate will consume 10 or 12 sessions so that the deputies may ratify the treaty about August 15. The senate will debate...
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-06-27
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France; President Woodrow Wilson; United States; Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great...
  • The order of precedence in signing the peace documents appears now to be established as follows:
    Premier Clemenceau first, as president of the peace conference, then President Wilson and next Premier Lloyd George.
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-03-24
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; France; French delegation; political borders; Treaty of Paris 1814 ;
  • In laying her claims before the council of four today, France asked, first of all, that her boundaries, as fixed by the treaty of Paris May 30, 1814, be restored to her, together with the Saar basin.
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-01-28
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; Foreign Secretary Arthur J. Balfour of Great Britain; United States; British-American relations ;
  • Arthur J. Balfour, foreign secretary, contributes a foreword to the first number of a magazine issued by the English-Speaking union, in which he touches upon the relations between Great Britain and the United States. That these two countries will...
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1918-12-18
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; President Woodrow Wilson; United States; American delegation; Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain; British delegation;...
  • Premier Lloyd George and Foreign Secretary Balfour have changed their plan to go to Paris on Friday to meet President Wilson, as it is possible that the President will come to London directly after Christmas. President Wilson is expected in England...
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  • World War. Taxes. 1917-12-05
  • Northwest history; World War 1; taxes; legislation; Senator Reed Smoot of Utah; Senator William Musgrave Calder of New York; post cards; postal service; Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio; income taxes ;
  • Amendments to the war tax law began piling in today with the first active work of congress. Repeal of the postal rate increases was proposed by Senator Smoot. Senator Calder introduced an amendment for one cent postcards.
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