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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1918
Page
3
In spring 1917 Eastern patriots in New York and Boston worried about Western apathy. They held luncheons and meetings and sent an orator named Rudiger to rally the middle West. The West was meeting enlistment quotas while Rudiger’s own state lagged.
The piece extols national unity during World War I, noting a turn fromYOU rhetoric to WE US OUR pronouns, the end of German American division, and a mass march in Indianapolis symbolizing broad citizen mobilization. It cites leaders like Washington Lincoln and Grant as guiding figures and calls for continued collective resolve.
Report notes a gasoline engine driven dynamo working automatically in England attracting attention. The piece cites sanitary benefits of frequent light rain and discusses wartime production, with figures on labor, wages, coffee imports, and U S sawdust use reflecting broad domestic material activity.
The article urges every home to form a canning club with multi generation participation to boost wartime food supply. It highlights roles for mothers as directors and children and elders as helpers, noting simple equipment and guidance from the U S Department of Agriculture. It frames canning as patriotic service to strengthen national food security during hunger risk.
Step one gather jars and tops clean them and ready for use. Step two have new rubber rings ready to seal canned products. Step three arrange a canning outfit and equipment. A push to save food and aid the country with fresh produce, managed by safe methods, can yield satisfying results. Free bulletins on canning preserving jelly making drying and other conserving methods available from the U S department of agriculture Washington.
Practical guidance on home canning methods and equipment. Encourages sterilizing sealing rubber rings and using a wooden false bottom. Promotes indoor canning in small spaces and stresses saving summer harvests for winter use.
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