Show novel history of the world war assembled history of the world war in volumes of newspaper clippings has been acquired by the new york historical society with funds provided by john D rockefeller jr the clippings were assembled by otto spongier of a new york press clipping office says a writer in the evening standard the collection includes cuttings from newspapers published in at all parts of the united states and a considerable number of foreign newspapers completeness in such an undertaking could never be obtained but it Is believed that the collection the largest of its ita kind known to be in existence willbe invaluable to students in studying the history of the war as reflected in the minds of the people arranging this collection of clippings in chronological order was a stupendous task |