Council of Defence Meeting Urges Loyalty and Slacker Hunt
The Anita Branch of the Council of Defence met at the Victoria Hotel to hear speeches by Harold Ziegler Byron Forshay and others on war unity. Officials discussed reporting disloyal remarks, eliminating German language on streets, and appointing committees to confront slackers under wartime authority.
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Anita
Council of Defence
Victoria
L. Newton
Harold P. ‘Ziegler
Byron D. Forshay
Washington, D. C
Earl S. Holton
Germany
United States
L. Patrick Hadley
Victoria Hotel
Old Man Winter Returns With Bitter Below Zero Cold
A Tuesday night reminder of winter's grip brings subzero temperatures and cold air across the region as Old Man Winter resumes duty.
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Winter
Our Flag Hymn Celebrates the Red White and Blue
Poem extols the United States flag with its stripes and white stars. It praises patriotic fervor and national pride.
Sherm’s Health Regresses Amid War Talk
Sherm’s condition, which had improved for two weeks, worsened Monday as throat trouble returned and tonsils swelled causing discomfort. The piece notes a looming German drive and reports on a rumored new form of gas, with World War II era jingoistic commentary about morale and propaganda.
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Sherm
Consoling thought on seasonal turn and coal man
A reader offers a hopeful note that spring is near and Old Man Winter will fade, with a light remark about the coal man.
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Kaiser Bill
That Little Sub is Due in Our Town
A column mixes local humor and notices as residents rally to pay debts, note political ads and discuss the war era. E W Holmes travels for the Southwestern Iowa Lumbermen meeting in Red Oak, Iowa, and local residents face a move and property trades amid farm transfers and illness.
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Sherm
Office
E. W. Holmes
Red Oak
Iowa
Southwestern Iowa Retail Lumberman's Association
Geo. Aldrich
Peter Voorhees
Peter
Albert Miller
Face the Facts War Time Food Drive
A wartime appeal urges citizens to save wheat and substitute corn to feed France England and Italy. It argues hunger cripples the Allies and stresses that America can spare wheat without hardship by choosing corn and other foods, presenting abundant corn as providential surplus ready for distribution.
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France
England
Italy
America
Brong
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