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The World War I Home Front
The founding section carries Mishawaka's service record and, for the home front, the Fourth Liberty Loan at city size. This addendum carries the rest of the home front at the size the record keeps it: the spring 1917 mobilization machinery, the other four loan drives, the wartime clock, and the homecoming. The loan record survives whole at county strength and not at city strength; each drive below prints both facts — the county figures dug, and the Mishawaka separation named as a gap in its own paragraph — rather than borrowing the county's numbers and calling them the city's.
The city answers: council of defense, registration days, and the draft boards
SPRING–SUMMER 1917 · THE MACHINERY AS IT REACHED MISHAWAKA
The frame: Indiana's State Council of Defense was organized May 19, 1917, by Governor J. P. Goodrich at the request of the Council of National Defense, and the system ran downward — state council, county councils, and beneath…
The loans, drive by drive: First, Second, Third and Victory
1917–1919 · COUNTY FIGURES DUG WHOLE · MISHAWAKA SEPARATION NAMED AS GAP
How to read this article: the official state record of the loans — Walter S. Greenough's The War Purse of Indiana (Indiana Historical Commission, 1922) — tabulates by county, not by city. St. Joseph County's quota and result are…
The wartime clock and the homecoming
1917–1919 · DAYLIGHT SAVING AS A WAR MEASURE · THE WELCOME HOME
The clock before the war measure: Mishawaka's time fight began as a local one, a year before daylight saving existed in law. The South Bend News-Times of July 14, 1917 reports the South Bend Ministerial Association, meeting at…