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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1917
Page
7
A World War era appeal notes that every twenty five cents buys forty five cents worth of tobacco for soldiers in trenches. Donors include A A Dingman George McClain WH Prescott Henry Glawe and others. total to date seven dollars and twenty five cents.
A New York letter vouched by the Zionist committee describes starvation in Warsaw under German rule, claiming mothers mourn as infants die and families suffer extreme privation. The piece also discusses the use of royal names in Russian and British contexts, questioning the existence of surnames for monarchs and tracing surname ideas through history.
England funds experiments using overhead electric light to grow cereals and field crops to avert food shortages. Led by W. H. Blackman at South Kensington, the Huntington Court farm near Hereford hosts large scale trials modeled after 1916 results near Durofries showing grain gains and increased straw yield from oats.
Mrs W L Harding and daughter Barbara appear in a photo as they prepare a five by eight foot flag to present to the county that enrolls the highest percentage of residents in the American Red Cross before December 1917. The article praises Mrs Harding and urges every man woman and child in Cherokee county to enroll and renew memberships by December 25 with a one dollar donation and to wear the Red Cross button.
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