Excess Flour and Sugar Returns Surge Nationwide
Federal food control forces selling excess flour and sugar back to dealers with penalties for noncompliance. Local agents report many residents admitting hoarding and surrendering surplus stock while administrators vow strict enforcement and new levies aimed at rapid compliance.
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Announcement of
Food Administration
Federal Food Control Administration
Lang
J. F. Deems
Towa
Draft date likely in April in Washington report
Washington dispatch reports the next draft date is imminent with official word expected soon from the provost marshal, signaling preparatory steps for conscription.
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Washington
Mar
Dr Pierce Healing Tonic Promises Herbal Cure
A vintage testimonial ad extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as alcohol free and non habit forming. It quotes a woman who claims it cured her chronic cough and abdominal abscess after doctors said consumption, detailing she regained health and regained strength to work.
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Pieter Luca Alia
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
T. Pierce
Maze
Court Street
Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound Ad
The period between forty five and fifty five is a crisis for a woman and tests her fitness to continue in life. It describes heat flashes nervousness headaches and dread of evil as symptoms. The ad promotes Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound as the standard remedy after forty years of use for women's ailments.
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Lydia E. Pinkaam
Vege table garden proposed on Des Moines rail corridor
R I R patriotic note: when C R I P trains run through East Des Moines next summer passengers may be regaled with a continuous garden scenic route. W Sargent, general attorney for the Rock Island lines, offers the East Des Moines right of way to the Des Moines garden commission for garden purposes.
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East Des Moines
Des Moines
Rock Island
Des Moines Garden Commission
Muscatine Commerce Group Plans City Improvements
The Muscatine Association of Commerce with over 400 members moves to boost town development and attract new industries. Formed in a rapid two day drive by local business leaders, the group will push urban enhancements and economic growth, aided by merchants offering various shades and doors from Henshaw & Martin and Green Bay Lumber Co.
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United Press
Muscatine
March
Elk Horn News Briefs Move To Elk Horn
March 6 Elk Horn items note many local moves and events. Peter and family arrive from Luck Wis to farm near Elk Horn. Rev Mathiesen becomes Elk Horn Orphan Home manager. A daughter is born to Mr and Mrs Peter Petersen. Danish Lutheran church funeral for Elsie Pietersen on Feb 24. Secret ary W S Allen seeks Republican Secretary of State. Shoat sale listed for Mar 8 with free lunch.
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Elk Horn
John Carlsen
Des Moines
Beta Club
Christine Esbeck
Fritz Clemmensen
Omaha
Camp Gody
N. M
Mayme Andersen
Sarah
Carl Petersen
Einar Rasmussen
Blair, Neb
Carl Jensen
Nels Nelsen
Audubon
Peter Jensen
Peter K. Petersen
Mary Rattenborg
Atlantic
Folmer Hansen
Andrew Henningsen
Jens Christensen
Ladies Aid Society
J. P. Nelsen
Edward Nelson
Peter Nelsen
Frnday
George Rasmussen
Rasmus Johnsen
Hans Christensen
Nels Clemmensen
Mads Petersen
Rev
Matthiesen
Elk Horn College
Hans Fredricksen
C. J. Carlsen
Hans
Mary Petersen
Hanns Petersen
Rev. Kloth
Sorn Akrakiel
Gua
Rasmussen
Washington St
Ed Marquesen
Hans J. Christen
Hamlin
Hans Mathiesen
Herman Hansen
L. Pietersen
Eva
Priscilla
Anna
Dorthea Jensen
George Madsen
Kimbalton Band
Kimballton Opera Hall
Army Y. M.C. A
Peter Larsen
Henry Petersen
Extra
Pietersen
Liseilla
Anton
Peter and
Pieter
Oregon
Annie
Vermont
Jens
Washington
Box spelling contest planned for yesterday notices
A local notice indicates a box spelling event scheduled for yesterday. Details are unclear due to damaged text but the item references a spelling activity and a community box structure. Local organizers are unnamed.
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Cut Price Shoe Store
Chestnut Street
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Muscantine
Henshaw & Martin
People’s
Green Bay Lumber Co
ELK Horn News
Wis
Henry Aggard
W. S. Allen
Fairfield
Bill Allen
Adv
Marinus Christensen
Michael Weber
A-St
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Missouri
F. Ojniklason
Marquesen & Kerwin
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Chicago
Airadora
E. J. Young
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Master. Trucks, Inc
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