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William Hanford "Big Bill" Edwards (February 23, 1877 – January 4, 1943), American football player "In 1910, he thwarted an attempt on the life of New York mayor William Gaynor by tackling the assailant and sustaining a flesh wound in the arm in the process. For his heroism, Edwards was awarded the Carnegie Medal for Heroism. Later that decade, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson appointed Edwards as Collector of Internal Revenue for New York's Second District." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bill_Edwards

A photo of the same event is in The sun., November 24, 1918, Section 3 Pictorial Magazine, Image 29 with the caption: "Football in Wall street. ... Collector Big Bill Edwards talks for the United War Drive." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1918-11-24/ed-...

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Clarence Eugene Whitehill (November 5, 1871 - December 19, 1932), American bass-baritone en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Whitehill He was involved in a Liberty Loan concert, s. New-York tribune., October 10, 1918, Page 6, col. 5, "Schedule of Events For Liberian Day" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1918-10-10/ed-... This was an event of the fourth Liberty Loan campaign. See also www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/22980560379/

The Sailor in the photograph is armed with an M1917 rifle. M1917 rifles were produced by Eddystone, Remington, and Winchester to supplement the M1903 rifles which were in short supply when the United States entered into World War II.

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"The Four Minute Men were a nation wide organization of public speakers under Government control during the period of America's participation in the World War Although the idea and early plans for the Four Minute Men originated in Chicago in the early part of April 1917 the work officially became a division of the Committee on Public Information on June 16 1917 when the national headquarters were removed to Washington The national organization and all its branches ended official existence on December 241 1918 Between these dates the Four Minute Men of America numbering about 75,000 speakers throughout 37 speaking campaigns delivered over 750,000 speeches to audiences totalling 315,000,000 persons The speeches were delivered almost exclusively in the motion picture theatres of the country during four minute intermissions The work was organized in 7,448 cities and towns including every State in the Union." books.google.com/books?id=SvQ-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA43&lp...