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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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Wilson Falters on Women’s Suffrage
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Jul 19While American troops were being sent to France “to make the world safe for democracy,” closer to home in Washington, D.C., a battle in that ...
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The Inglorious Fourth of 1917
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Jul 05The Fourth of July is always celebrated with fireworks, but in 1917 when President Woodrow Wilson decided to crack down on dissent, the fireworks ...
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War Abroad, Trouble at Home
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Jun 21In June 1917, the United States was raising, training and equipping an army to go to Europe “to make the world safe for democracy.” At the same ...
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Two Women Against the President
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Jun 07Two women, Emma Goldman and Alice Paul, were causing President Woodrow Wilson and the United States government major headaches, and in June 1917 ...
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Registration Fighters Go to Jail
By THOMAS P. FARNER - May 24For almost a month the U.S. government-run Committee on Public Information had issued dozens of stories preparing American men for the great ...
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Draft Day Meets Some Resistance
By THOMAS P. FARNER - May 10Mid-May 1917 saw preparations for America’s participation in World War I rapidly progressing. June 5 had been set aside by President Woodrow ...
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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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Suffragettes Sentenced to Workhouse
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Jul 26Alice Paul, a Quaker suffragette from Moorestown, N.J., had organized the picketing of the White House beginning in January 1917. Its purpose was ...
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Wrightstown’s Farmland Transformed for War
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Jul 12In July 1917, the landscape of New Jersey and the nation was undergoing major changes both physically and politically. In order to train the 1 ...
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Women, the Press and U.S. Government
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Jun 27As July 4, 1917 approached, American troops were preparing to take part in the bloody slaughter on the Western Front in Europe, while back home ...
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Quaker Acres Turned Toward War
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Jun 12In June 1917, the United States had officially been at war for just over two months. President Woodrow Wilson had called for a 1-million-man army, ...
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Response to Dissent Gets Vigorous
By THOMAS P. FARNER - May 31When progressive Democratic President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war “to make the world safe for democracy” in April 1917, ...
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NJ Fights for Military Training Camp
By THOMAS P. FARNER - May 17As May 1917 was coming to an end, the biggest questions raised by the declaration of war on Germany were about to be answered. Would Americans ...
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Making World ‘Safe for Democracy’
By THOMAS P. FARNER - May 03Fighting a modern war with the slogan “Make the world safe for democracy” would prove to be a double-edged sword for President Woodrow Wilson and ...