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The WWI Home Front
The Home Front Branch: the County's Loans, and the Township's Silence
1917 – 1919 · War Purse of Indiana · a stated negative
No Lakeville honour roll, township loan quota, or township war-work record was found for this war — and the search is the finding. The township-level instruments were searched by name and form (an honor roll, a township quota…
All five loans: the First, Second and Fourth at county strength
1917–1919 · St. Joseph County in Greenough's tables and narrative
The banked fragment prints the Third and Victory Loans; the county subscribed to all five. First Loan (1917). County chairman: Rome C. Stephenson. Greenough's narrative follows the county week by week: by 7 June 1917 St. Joseph…
Thrift, counted — and the women's organisation of the loans
1917–1919 · War Savings and the women's tables
The county that coined "Baby Bonds" was, by the per-capita table, a thrift laggard. The name was local: the St. Joseph County Savings Bank of South Bend coined "Baby Bonds" for War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps ( Indiana…
The wartime clock, the peace that wasn't, and 11 November 1918
1918 · time, rumour, and the celebration
In 1918 the county kept two new things at once: a new time, and a war that ended twice. The wartime clock is national law before it is local custom: the Standard Time Act, approved 19 March 1918, created the standard time zones…