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The War Budget Nov 28 1914 Iron Cross for British officer who saved a wounded German soldier

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Nov 25 1914 #OTD The War Illustrated, a British war magazine published in London, prints this picture of a British officer helping a wounded German back to his lines

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South Carolina newspaper The Intelligencer #OTD Nov 28 1915 publishes photo of The Empress, The Kaiser and The Crown Prince. It was "taken this month in a town in France. It is the latest photograph of the German Royal family."
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The Seattle Star #OTD Nov 28 1915
Meet Bloody Billy, Who Betrays 500 Sheep A Day

Billy willingly leads his sheep sisters and brothers to their death at Seattle's James Henry Packing Co. Slaughterhouse
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The War Illustrated No.15 Nov 28 1914 - The Dutch prison camps

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The Seattle Star #OTD Nov 25 1915 People in war-torn Europe forced to eat cats as the food situation deteriorates. Whale steaks, artificial omelets, artificial butter, marmalade, and chemical honey are also found on the menu. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

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Nov 26 1919
Germanicure. Prussian military eagle:
"Not too short, please"

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HOME FRONT: Cover of monthly bulletin Nov 1918
La Lettura Nov 1918

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Nov 27 1918 "'In Honour of the British Navy. To Commemorate the Surrender of the German Fleet.'. This magazine print shows the triumphant figure of Britannia on a sea-horse emerging from the waves, with warships behind" collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/...

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Chicago Tribune Nov 26 1915 prints this Frank King cartoon

Britain gets the short end

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Chicago Tribune Nov 26 1915 prints this Frank King cartoon

Britain gets the short end

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1915/11/26/page/1

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Nov 27 1915 Illustrated London News - The Dastardly Work of the "U" Boat: Murder at Sea

Nov 27 1915 Sphere - Enemy aeroplanes attacking a British Steamer
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Nov 27 1915 Illustrated London News - The Dastardly Work of the "U" Boat: Murder at Sea https://archive.org/details/sim_illustrated-london-news_1915-11-27_147_3997/page/n6/mode/1up

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Rock Island Argus Nov 27 1915 prints this Edgar F. Schilder cartoon www.loc.gov/resource/sn9... bsky.app/profile/this...

Rock Island Argus Nov 27 1915 prints this Edgar F. Schilder cartoon https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn92053934/1915-11-27/ed-1/?sp=1

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Chicago Tribune Nov 27 1915

How a division of soldiers is provided with supplies
#logistics

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Chicago Tribune Nov 27 1915

How a division of soldiers is provided with supplies
#logistics

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1915/11/27/page/4/article/how-division-of-soldiers-is-provided-with-supplies

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The Daily Missoulian Nov 25 1914 prints this E. A. Bushnell cartoon predicting the Russian Revolution and some articles slamming Europe for not being civilized and Christian and not fighting with Christians. "Europe is soaked in blood because 'Church Christianity' is not 'Christ Christianity'"

The Daily Missoulian Nov 25 1914 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83025316/1914-11-25/ed-1/?sp=1&r=-0.901,0,2.802,1.276,0

The Daily Missoulian Nov 25 1914 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83025316/1914-11-25/ed-1/?sp=1&r=-0.901,0,2.802,1.276,0
"Europe is soaked in blood because 'Church Christianity' is not 'Christ Christianity'"

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Star-Independent Nov 25 1914 W.A Rogers cartoon about Uncle Sam welcoming Guest of Honour, Personification of Peace

Harrisburg Telegraph Nov 25 1914 US Gives Thanks it is not at war

Daily Missoulian Nov 26 1914 "With more than half the world at war, Uncle Sam gives thanks for Prosperity and Peace"

Harrisburg Telegraph Nov 25 1914
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85038411/1914-11-25/ed-1/?sp=1&r=-0.292,-0.041,1.743,0.794,0

Daily Missoulian Nov 26 1914 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83025316/1914-11-26/ed-1/?sp=1&r=-0.186,0.233,1.364,0.621,0

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Rock Island Argus on Nov 25 1914 Violinist Fritz Kreisler was honourably discharged from Austro-Hungarian Army after he was lanced by Cossack. American wife nursed him back to health, claims US nurses could do 20 times the work that European nurses could.
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Rock Island Argus., November 25, 1914
Violinist kills a foe after being wounded
New York, Nov. 25. Fritz Kreisler. Austrian violinist of note, who served as a lieutenant In the Third Kratz regiment, told today how he killed a Russian Cossack after being wounded by him In battle near Lemberg the night of Sept. 16
"While resisting a charge of Russian Cossacks," he said, "I was knocked down by a horse. As the rider passed over me he sank his lance into my right thigh. It caught in my coat, and before he could withdraw it I shot and killed him.
"I lay in a trench for hours until I was found. I was nursed back to health by my wife in Vienna."
Mrs. Kreisler, who arrived with her husband on the steamship Rotterdam, saw duty in German and Austrian Red Cross hospitals. American nurses, she said, could do twenty times the work that European nurses could.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92053934/1914-11-25/ed-1/seq-1/

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Omaha Daily Bee Nov 26 1914 In a West African port a German missionary tries to blow up HMS Dwarf "with an Infernal machine ... When questioned as to how such an action compatible with [him being a missionary] replied that he was a soldier first and a missionary afterwards." bsky.app/profile/this...

Omaha Daily Bee Nov 26 1914

"Soldier First Missionary Next London, Nov 25- A German tried to blow up the British gunboat Dwarf with an Infernal machine In a West African harbor recently, according to a report to the colonial office. It was discovered that he was a missionary. "When questioned as to how such an action compatible with his profession, says the report. " no replied that he was a soldier first and a missionary afterwards." https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021999/1914-11-26/ed-1/seq-1/

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El Paso Herald Nov 26 1914 Germans claim Britain and Belgium conspired to trap them via "an Anglo-Belgian military convention ... Belgian general staff, Gen. Ducarme, made in 1906 [a secret treaty] with Col. Barnardiston, the British military attache." Planed collaboration of the allied armies

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Bryan Daily Eagle and Pilot Nov 27 1914 "Holly War Proclamation is Issued - Moslem world to fight England, Russia, France." Signed by Sultan and 28 "Moslem Priests"

Seattle Star Dec 28 1914 Sheik, reading declaration of war

Washington Times Nov 27 1914 Sheik Ul Islam Upon head of the Mohammedans

Bryan Daily Eagle and Pilot Nov 27 1914 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86088651/1914-11-27/ed-1/?sp=1&r=-1.262,0,3.518,1.602,0
Holly War Proclamation is Issued - Moslem world to fight England, Russia, France." Signed by Sultan and 28 "Moslem Priests"

The Seattle Star Dec 28 1914
This photograph has just been received from Constantinople. It shows the high priest of the Mussulmans, Sheik-Ul-Islam. proclaiming the holy war in front of the Mosque of Faith. The sheik, reading the declaration of war, is surrounded by Turkish dignitaries.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1914-12-28/ed-1/seq-1/#

Colourized by Julius Backman Jääskeläinen
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The Washington Times Nov 27 1914 Sheik Ul Islam Upon whose word, as head of the Mohammedan faith, depends the safety and lives of Christians in Turkey. Refugees fleeing from Turkey report grave danger even now to the Christians, and say that brigandage, murder, and atrocities are being committed against the Armenian Christians. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026749/1914-11-27/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.102,0.476,0.352,0.16,0

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The Daily Missoulian Nov 27 1914 prints this E. A. Bushnell cartoon:

Pray the neutral dykes will hold -- Bushnell

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The Daily Missoulian Nov 27 1914 prints this E. A. Bushnell cartoon:

Pray the neutral dykes will hold -- Bushnell

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Daily Telegraph Nov 27 1914 reports on German spy Horst von der Goltz being arrested for taking the identity Bridgeman Taylor. In 1918, he published autobiography, "My Adventures as a German Secret Service Agent" bsky.app/profile/this...

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Daily Telegraph #OTD Nov 27 1914 prints this story that 58.4% of the German merchants marine has been captured, detained, & c compared to 2.9% of British Merchant Marine.
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Kentucky newspaper, The Public Ledger #OTD Nov 27 1915 publishes this photo with the caption: "Gathering up the victims of war - French and German dead soldiers gathered up on the field of battle and placed on a wagon to be carried to the place of burial" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038...

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Seattle Star on Nov 27 1914 publishes picture of German soldiers maneuvering a huge “Caterpillar” 21 cm Mörser 10 siege gun into position during Siege of Antwerp. Partly due to these weapons battle lasted from #OTD Sep 28 – Oct 10 1914 (1 week and 5 days) chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093...

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Corpus Christi caller and Daily Herald #OTD Nov 27 1914 photo of "ancient fort and battlement, which is crumbling with age, is one of the fortifications about Constantinople depended on by the Turk to keep out the allies. Beyond the tower is" Constantinople
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Corpus Christi caller and Daily Herald #OTD Nov 27 1914 publishes this photo of "This ancient fort and battlement, which is crumbling with age, is one of the fortifications about Constantinople depended on by the Turk to keep out the allies. Beyond the tower is the residential district of Constantinople."

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86088527/1914-11-27/ed-1/seq-1/

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Nov 27 1915 British and French Soldiers Wearing their poison-gas masks (PH helmets) - cover of Sphere mag illustratedfirstworldwar.com/item/brother...

Nov 27 1915 British and French Soldiers Wearing their poison-gas masks (PH helmets) - cover of Sphere mag http://illustratedfirstworldwar.com/item/brothers-in-arms-british-and-french-soldiers-wearing-their-poison-gas-bpc000006_19151127_01_0007/

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