Mt Olive community notes and events
Mt Olive news covers local updates on B H Dukes and Allen Neville building this week and a store repapering project. It notes visitors, employment changes, a large Children's Day program with a lively crowd and a strong Red Cross dressings drive. Hudson Maxim comments on Chinese immigration and farm labor.
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B. H. Dukes
Allen Neville
Rose Lane Freburn
Mt. Olive
Ray Carter
Ed Jamison
Bill Porter
Watertown
South Dakota
War rhetoric fuels public fear over a divided nation
A clipped tirade claims the country is entering war against the will of the people and that Americans desire national destruction and the flag lowered. The opinion mocks the idea of widespread consensus and highlights polarized sentiment.
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Leney M. Shaw
Des Moines
Art Repartee Sparks Divorce Jibe Over Marriage to Art
In a witty exchange, Miss Dau ber is teased as married to her art, while a second quip jokes that she may seek divorce on grounds of non support, reflecting playful gallery banter.
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Art Critte
French Wheat Shortage Deepens as Allied Food Rationing Tightens
M. Tardieu reports France still fights on with bread cards, while consumption falls and imports lag. French civilians face reduced wheat, sugar, and fat, meat from stock reductions, and bans on pastries. He urges Americans to share the burden and cut wheat use.
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United States
France
M. Tardieu
Tardieu
Cranial Distinction Captions Jests on Wives and Woes
A London Punch quip contrasts crown and laurel with gray matter, then jokes about marital fortune. It plays on gendered lines with a cartoon about a husband missing his wife who is busy in sugar and he in the beer cue.
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London
Office over Farmers National Bank in Aurelia Iowa
A newspaper brief notes a local office located over Farmers National Bank in Aurelia Iowa with a listed phone number 171. The item records a small business or service address without further context.
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Farmers National Bank
Aurelia
Iowa
Notice to Bid On Joint Drainage District Improvements
The Joint Board of Supervisors of Buena Vista and Cherokee Counties Iowa will meet June 20 1918 at Storm Lake to award contracts for Joint Drainage District 117. Bids invited for tile supply catch basins and for construction materials and work per engineer plans. Bid deposits required 10 percent. bonds 25 percent. two contract completion dates August 1 1918 and July 1 1919 with schedule figures provided.
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Joint Board of Supervisors
Buena Vista
Cherokee Counties
Iowa
Storm Lake
Canada to Eat Less Bread Amid Scarcity Warnings
The Canada food controller urges Canadians to eat less bread due to shortages of barley rye and oats. He says by spring end Europe’s needs will be met and there will be no excess wheat or flour beyond home consumption.
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Dominion
Canada
Food Controller of
Europe
Garden Planning Guidance for Food Security
Quote from Herbert Hoover urges a dual approach to gardening with modest perishable vegetables for immediate use and larger focus on potatoes and beans to build resilience. The instruction emphasizes practical home cultivation over ornamental emphasis.
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Herbert Hoover
Can't Bake at Home Voices of French Peasantry
A fragment notes peasants in French villages rely on local stores and bakeshops rather than home baking, contrasting rural subsistence with farm life.
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France
Price Increases Compare United States and Canada
A historical note finds the United States slightly better off than Canada on food price changes. During a period, one third of nine or more food items in the U S fell in price, while only two of twenty two Canadian food commodities showed price declines.
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United States
Canada
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Iowa State Department of Agriculture
Iowa Department of Agriculture
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A. R. Corey
Iowa State Department of ‘Agricultural
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T. W. Teelin
A. B. Daniels
E. Knettle
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