Home Council of Defense forms in Fontanelle
A Fontanelle Iowa group calling itself the Home Council of Defense organized to uphold loyalty and public safety during war conditions. They elected F O Welch as chairman W Welscher as secretary and C A Baker as treasurer and moved to push English as the language for church and school services starting January 1 1918. The Lutheran church trustees refused the request and reaffirmed services in German with some English for younger members.
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Fontanelle
Germany
Heck
Home Defence Council
Fontanellie
Home Council of Defense
F.O. Welch
W. Welscher
C. A. Baker
German Lutheran Evangelical Church
Adair County
Lowa
Lutheran Church
Fontanelle, Towa
Rv. Lutheran Immanuel
Fontenelle
Iowa
United States
Congress
Mercy
Red Cross
Henry T. Miller
J. ¥. Baulder
A. F. Schroeder
Wheatless and Meatless Diets urged for households
A public notice calls for one wheatless day weekly on Wednesday and one wheatless meal daily, plus one meatless day weekly on Tuesday and one meatless meal daily. It adds a porkless day on Saturday and limits sugar by limiting candy and sweet drinks while ensuring a three pound per person monthly sugar supply.
Three Principles of Human Foodstuffs and Hoarding
The text outlines protein fats and carbohydrates as main dietary elements with guidance to reduce meat fats and waste. It warns against hoarding in wartime, linking excessive home stockpiling to higher prices and disrupted food distribution, urging conservation and support for government food programs.
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United States
The
Food Administration
Dear Father Letter From Charleston 1917 Soldier Memoir
Howard Millhollin describes a long Southern march from Chicago to Charleston with notes on mountains cotton fields and swamps. He mentions cold weather German prisoners at Hot Springs and illnesses among troops while asking his father not to send packages. The letter also references fellow townspeople visiting the RECORD office and local land transactions.
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Carolina
Hot Springs
North Carolina
South Carolina
Howard Bell
Camp Ross
Ruby
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