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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1918
Page
7
lore notes that London fans enjoy baseball as players from many nations join in. Rich ard Hatteras reports a game where East Indians prayed for strength to hit, followed by an Irish batter who taunted the pitcher and hit a home run at the Majestic.
Fragmentary OCR text shows Toledo Ohio business letterhead for J Cheney & Co and notary public Wy Gleason with testimonials and product claims. The readable fragments discuss coal price uncertainty and a humorous dialogue about strikes or supply issues, with references to army service and everyday commerce.
The text describes harvest timing based on market prices, use of an elevator digger drawn by horses, and field sorting. It explains potato graders with two screens of varying openings, worker roles, and efficiency of three to four acres per day per digger crew.
The address urges gratitude to allies and resolve for sacrifice. It extols France Britain Italy Belgium and calls for strength of body mind and heart to endure harsh times and pursue victory as a holy day of redemption. It emphasizes humility before allies and washing away blood after the conflict ends.
The war emergency boosted county agent work reaching 803,728 Southern farmers in 1917 with crop demonstrations totaling 2,857,485 acres. An estimated 1,650,000 farms were directly touched, about 60 percent of Southern farms, as agents advised on crops livestock marketing and conservation.
A U S D A report shows over 2.4 million youths participated in club work last year. About 850,000 submitted reports with products and savings totaling 10 million dollars. Northern and Western states enrolled 840,606 youths, 160,625 reported producing 3.7 million dollars in value. South had 115,745 boys and 78,806 girls with values of 4.5 and 1.5 million dollars respectively. Emergency south work reached 400,000 boys and 1,000,000 girls producing over 4 million dollars in value.
County agents and home demonstration workers in the United States join in farm food production and conservation efforts and aid several federal departments. They conduct food and seed surveys, assist in seed distribution, obtain credit for farmers, help market farm products, arrange priority rail shipments, and disseminate war information from agencies including the War Department and Council of National Defense.
A practical guideline notes plowing after harvest to destroy weeds and improve grain crop yields. It argues this method reduces weed growth and prepares soil for the next planting cycle, emphasizing thorough tillage for better crop performance.
An advertisement touts Freezone as a painless corn remover. It claims the product dissolves hard and soft corns and calluses between the toes with no soreness. The copy credits a Cincinnati genius as the inventor.
A soldier at war pulls on a gas mask during a false alarm and can barely breathe until a postcard stuck in the respirator slot reveals the mask works after removal. The anecdote contrasts wartime danger with a comic relief about mail in a mask bag and a reminder that praise and love follow later.
An old advertisement warns of urinary and kidney trouble and promotes Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as fast relief. It claims immediate benefits, urges timely use, and guarantees refund if not effective, urging purchase at drugstores in a confident, period tone.
In a deserted French schoolroom Americans used it as a field headquarters for a hospital unit. A bulletin board displayed a lesson about freedom and conscience. The date 29 Mai 1918 appeared with a composition prompt reading Un jour de grand vent.
Aimed at mothers, the note urges careful bottle checks for Castoria with the signature, touting it as in use for over 30 years. The ad voice blends child health claims with light quips and generic social commentary about appearances and friendship.
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