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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1918
Page
4
Local brief mentions visits and calls at the RECORD office include W H Eagan and Mrs Maggie McDermott. Sen J C Voorhees conducted Omaha business and Mrs Carry Rasmussen and Eda Carey made inquiries about Sherm's health. Property leases and moves involve QO C Todhunter, Fred Whoolber, and Mrs Klemish with planned March 1 possessions.
Mutchy McIntire reports on Christmas on a battleship in December 1917. Art and L arrive, compartments decorated, crews busy, and Red Cross packages from Minnesota and Iowa lift spirits. Burkey and I found a magazine poem we think worth reprinting.
Eleanor Patterson reports Berea Iowa pupils held a Christmas program with parents and friends. A penny march raised 6.00 to aid The Happy Tribe of the Des Moines Capital for orphans, reflecting enduring local spirit.
Poem wishing readers a Merry Christmas from a local page, with lines about the West starting where contrasts are brighter and kinder. Includes a lost fur overcoat notice asking finder to return it to Howard D. Allanson for a liberal reward.
A combination sale will be held at Wilsons Livery Barn Anita Iowa January 12 1918. Livestock seed corn and other articles will be offered at auction. If you have anything to sell bring it in. Auctioneers Barber Clark Clerks Newton Parker. Also notes on horses machinery and local notices about weather and war demand for horses. Wedding notice: Willard Perkins and Miss Mary McAfee married December 19 1917 at Atlantic Iowa with Lloyd McAfee best man and Zeta Scott bridesmaid. Obituaries and local chatter included.
A 1918 church invitation urges regular services to support the church’s role in education morality and democracy. It stresses absenteeism harms society and calls all ages to join church activities next Sunday at Anita area congregations with signatories from multiple local pastors. The note appears in a local collection of notices with other items about lawyers and recent visits.
The notice prescribes one wheatless day weekly on Wednesday and one wheatless meal daily, one meatless day weekly on Tuesday with one meatless meal daily, and one porkless day weekly on Saturday. It defines wheat and pork exclusions and urges sugar reduction with a monthly three pounds per person limit, urging restraint and compliance.
The fragment outlines protein fats and carbohydrates as the three main elements of human foods. It notes proteins come from meat beans fish poultry milk and some grains while fats include butter cream lard bacon margarine cooking fats and various oils and carbohydrates cover grains sugar potatoes and vegetables. It adds a claim that the nation eats and wastes 80 percent more protein than needed and suggests reducing meat intake without harm.
Sale notice lists two high-grade Hereford bulls and a span of matched black horses aged three and four years. Contact P. R. Nichols by phone at 1 on 11 for details.
Michael C. Farrell, writing from an island forty miles north of Seattle, reports he and his Battery C 63rd Field Artillery are mounted with six inch guns. He notes Fort Casey, Washington as his present address and says they expect to leave soon.
The message informs patrons that all accounts owed to the writer should be balanced and closed by January 1st, 1018, and that prompt payment and satisfactory settlement are expected. It mentions a sale and an orphanage context, indicating settlements are organized through this notice.
The snippet asks about later weather and urges phoning for gasoline and kerosene to STANDARD OIL COMPANY. It records John Steinmetz greeting G. M. Aldrich, and L. Lindbloom visiting the RECORD office Saturday leaving $1.50 for the old-home paper renewal.
Miss Lucie Galiher was a welcome caller at this office Saturday, greeting staff and engaging with visitors during the afternoon. Her visit marked a friendly note of courtesy and community spirit observed by attendees.
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