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Tuckerton Trees Gladden New York City
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Dec 13There are times when the facts of a real event can read like a low-budget Hollywood tearjerker; that's the way the 1917 Christmas story begins. As ...
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Celebrating Thanksgiving in Wartime
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Nov 29Holidays in peacetime can sometimes be taken for granted as we become wrapped up in ourselves, but in wartime things are different. The celebration...
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Wilson Tries to Work a Deal
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Nov 15What had started as a protest to get Woodrow Wilson to support a constitutional amendment to give all women the vote had by November 1917 become a ...
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Jailed Suffragists Continue Resistance
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Nov 01Word that Moorestown Quaker Alice Paul was on a hunger strike trying to receive treatment as a “political prisoner” at the District of Columbia ...
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Force Feeding Inflicted on Prisoners
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Oct 18As October 1917 was coming to an end, many Ocean County men were at Camp Dix preparing to become part of the great army being sent to France to ...
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Actions Against Suffragettes Escalate
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Oct 04In 1917, as a wartime president, Woodrow Wilson was arguably the most powerful man to ever sit in the Oval Office. He commanded a million-man ...
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Camp Dix Battles Liquor, Prostitution
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Sep 20While the declaration of war on Germany in April 1917 forewarned of battles to be fought in far-off France, there would be some skirmishes closer ...
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Draftees Report to Camp Dix
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Sep 06By September 1917, for many Americans the idea that the United States was at war was finally becoming a reality. Since the declaration of war in ...
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First Draft Heading to Camp Dix
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Aug 23As the summer of 1917 was beginning to wind down, American preparations for war were gearing up. Camp Dix in Wrightstown, N.J., was preparing to ...
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Espionage Act Affects Free Press, Suffragists
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Aug 09The summer of 1917 can be remembered as one of the darkest pages in the history of American civil liberties. It began when President Woodrow ...
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Soldiers Celebrate Thanksgiving on Leave
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Dec 06Wartime holidays seem to hold a stronger place in our collective memories than those in peace. 1917 was the first time since the Civil War that ...
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Was Hunger Strike a Victory?
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Nov 22After months of picketing the White House by Alice Paul of the National Woman's Party and her supporters, who were attempting to convince President...
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Are Prisoners Telling the Truth?
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Nov 08During mid-November 1917, newspapers across the country began carrying stories of the government's mistreatment of suffragist Alice Paul and her ...
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Horrors in Virginia Workhouse
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Oct 25As October 1917 was coming to an end, a true American horror story was playing out. Alice Paul, a Moorestown, N.J., Quaker and president of the ...
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Defiant Picketers Hold Their Course
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Oct 11In October 1917, two New Jersey titans were about to square off in a face-to-face battle of wills that would change the course of American ...
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Suffrage Fight Continues in Washington
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Sep 27As the summer of 1917 was ending, President Woodrow Wilson faced a nemesis in the form of Alice Paul, a 32-year-old Quaker woman from Moorestown, ...
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Draftees Get Down to Business
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Sep 13In September 1917, the 20,000 New Jersey civilians drafted into President Wilson’s national Army began reporting to Camp Dix. On the fifth, the ...
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Ocean County Men Under Scrutiny
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Aug 30In August 1917, two Ocean County men were being carefully watched – one secretly by U.S. government agents, Frederick Ostendorff, the other by the ...
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Camp Dix Rises in Wrightstown
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Aug 16In August 1917, like a giant bear awakening from hibernation, the United States began its transformation from the freedom of peace to the regimenta...
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First Numbers Drawn for Military Draft
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Aug 02The United States had gone to war in April 1917, with patriotic speeches and slogans. Four months later, the reality of war was beginning to sink ...
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