Hitchcock Urges War Cabinet To Coordinate Action
Senator Hitchcock attacked Secretary Baker’s shipping claims as exaggerated and called for a centralized war cabinet and a munitions director. He criticized the lack of a master plan, the breakdown of transportation, and faults in war department operations, urging formal authority for a unified purchasing system.
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War Cabinet
Washington
Baker
Senate Military Committee
United States
France
Hitchcock
Senate
Nebraska
War Department
New York
Fuel Administration
Military Committee
War Secretary
Shipping Board
Shipping Authorities
Edward Stettinius
Bridges and Culverts Report Shows County Year’s Work
County engineer Frank W. Arneson details 106 permanent bridges and culverts built or installed costing 52 332 80 across townships Bloomfield Frankville Military Springfield Washington Calmar Jackson Sumner Lincoln Orleans Ree Fremont Burr Oak Bluffton Canoe Pleasant Glenwood Highland Hesper Decorah Madison and at large. The Rescue Hose Co No 1 masquerade netted 363 25 with 86 expenses leaving 138 63 split between Red Cross and the YMCA with a 15 gift from George Higgins aiding both charities.
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State Highway Commission
Frank W. Arneson
Bloomfield Township
Frankville
Military Township
Springfield Township
Washington Township
Calmar
Jackson Township
Sumner
Lincoln Township
Orleans Township
Fremont Township
Burr Oak Township
Bluffton
Glenwood Township
Highland An Vomene
Hesper Township
Decorah Township
Madison Ony Csatesee
Rescue Hose Co. No. 1
Red Cross
George Higgins
Rescue No. 1
Winter fishing at Lake Okoboji nets 75 anglers
About 75 men and women fish at Lake Okoboji with four inch nets as required by law. The catch pays roughly $7,500 to fishers, bought by the fish and game department and sold to the public at eight cents a pound f o b Spirit Lake.
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Lake
Okoboji
Fish and Game Department
State
Iowa
Spirit Lake
Brause Sells Five Hogs at Record Average
Gus Brause sold five hogs to Fennell and O'Tralloran for 455.50, an average of 91.10 dollars per hog. The bunch weighed 2,920 pounds with two nearing the 1,400 pound mark, signaling Brause’s skill at profitable hog raising and marketing.
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West Union Argo-Gazette
Gus Brause
Fennell & O'Tralloran
Brause
Manly Signal Worker Struck by Falling Coal Chunk
Kidridge Kidd, a colored worker at the coal shores railroad shops, was seriously injured when a fifty to sixty pound coal chunk struck him on the head. He was down on the grate breaking chunks when others unloading a car threw heavy pieces, burying him under coal until found unconscious.
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Manly
Kidridge Kidd
Kidd
Old World and Local News Snippets on Coal Shortage Era
The notice compiles brief items: coal shortages force theatre matinees to end, parochial Ossian school closes, West Union banks close at 4 p m, Red Cross buys a sock-knitting machine, attorney Bernard Stenzel jailed for seditious utterances, Guy Gregg joins engineers corps, Osage clergy consolidate worship, West Union schools shift to six-day weeks, Paul Heald found dead in Peru, two smallpox cases at Marshalltown soldiers home, Cyril French burned in gas tank explosion, new Elks home in Waterloo dedicated, banquet draws 600, Floyd Spangenberg rejected for enlistment, Clayton County Anti-Horse Thief meets, silverware stolen then found in Des Moines, G B Hoch dies on Milwaukee train, Osage workman contracts smallpox, Decorah letters, Red Cross auction in Manson, bantam rooster sells for 6099.50, Chauncey Smith dies. Civil War survivor.
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Waterloo
Ossian
West Union
Red Cross
Clear Lake
Bernard Stenzel
Waverly
Guy Gregg
Postville
Engineers’ Corps
Osage
Paul Heald
Cedar Rapids
Peru
Marshalltown
Cyril French
Northwood
Elks
Floyd F. Spangenberg
Independence
Clayton County Anti-Horse Thief Association
Strawberry Point
Des Moines
G. B. Hoch
Milwaukee
Dedham
Coon Rapids
Uilding
Decorah
Andrew Anderson
Henry Kerr
Marie Manelle
A. B. Peterson
Manson
Calhoun County
Woodrow Wilson
Chauncey Smith
Lima
Fayette County
Vermont
Worship at Delaware County Court House
Seven days a week unusual activity surrounds the Delaware county courthouse with judges permitting a clerical arrangement. Sundays see a bench transformed into an altar for all denominations each with a fixed service time from Catholic 9 a m through Lutherans. Father Rooney offered a timely gospel application during mass last Sunday.
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Delaware County Court House
Father Rooney
Ice Harvest Nears End as Tavener Bros Store 500 Tons
Tavener Bros finished filling customers houses last week marking an early end to the season. Ice measured twenty six inches thick and heavy to move with a large store of 500 tons in their houses for next summer. Sugar Bowl factory holds 3 tons for ice cream production while creamery houses are full for butter production and all customers are served.
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Tavener Bros
Taveners
Strawberry Point buys timber to ease fuel shortage
The Strawberry Point school board bought an acre of standing timber about two and a half miles southeast to relieve a fuel shortage. Senior class boys, led by Superintendent Harding, marched to the woods with dinner pails and began cutting the trees to beat King Coal.
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Strawberry Point
Supt. Harding
Old King Coal
Garden club leaders by county in state production
Black Hawk County lead all. County junior gardeners produced state's top garden output with an average 395.50 per plot. Clinton County and Buena Vista followed with 84.50 and 80.30. Across 12,227 members, 4.4 square reds per plot yielded 14.68 in produce and 12.23 profit.
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Black Hawk County
Clinton County
Buena Vista
Corn Will Win Democracy's War and Save the Nation
The United States relies on its 8,000,000,000 bushel corn crop to feed the world during wartime. Surplus wheat is sent to Europe while corn products expand, with corn meal and corn oil gaining use in baking and frying as households and bakers adapt to the war economy.
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America
United States Food Administration
Valley Forge
Europe
Corp
Girl narrowly escapes death in Linn County buzz saw accident
Miss Edith Affolter daughter of W H Affolter Linn County was badly injured when her clothes tangled in a buzz saw while she helped cut wood for supper. She was taken to St Luke's hospital Cedar Rapids after the abdomen was cut open but no intestines were injured and she has a good chance of recovery.
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Edith Affolter
W H. Affolter
Linn County
Miss Affolter
Cedar Rapids
St. Luke’s Hospital
Made in Germany Lies Circulate in Canada
Canadian food controller condemns Made in Germany rumors as baseless tactics aimed at undermining food conservation. The official statement warns stories are deliberate and widespread, eroding public trust in food control, urging individuals to refrain from spreading such vagrant rumors.
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Canada
Lfe
No Royal Road to Food Conservation Says U S Food Administration
The United States Food Administration urges voluntary action by all citizens to conserve food. It stresses shared burden and small savings across 20 million kitchens, 20 million tables, and 2 million food establishments nationwide.
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THE
United States Food Administration
For Sale Second Hand Piano and Organs
For sale: second hand piano and organs. Rud Bros. 4ti.
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Rud Bros
Constant Sufferer Finds Relief
A Elmira New York man C F Reynolds 412 Herrick St says kidney trouble kept him bedridden until Foley Kidney Pills lifted him in a few days. Advertises relief for rheumatic pains backache biliousness stiff joints and fatigue from Engbertson's Pharmacy.
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C. F. Reynolds
Herrick St
Elmira
N. Y
Engbertson’s
Adv
Doris Wooker Wins Polk County Pig Club Honor
Doris Wooker of Mitchellville a 15 year old champion pig raiser attended Ames college short course and beat the boys in the Polk county Pig club by fattening a spotted pig to hundreds of pounds of pork She is the sole girl among 14 winners in the county corn pig and baby beef raising contest.
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Doris Wooker
Mitchellville
Polk County
Ames College
Hoover
Doris
Red Letter Days in February Almanac List
The almanac notes seven red letter days in February this year. February 2 marks Groundhog Day, February 12 Lincoln's Birthday, February 13 Ash Wednesday and Lent begins, February 14 St. Valentine’s Day, February 20 and 23 ember days, and February 22 Washington's Birthday. Ember days originate from the council of Piacenza in 1095, observed mainly in calendars.
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Lincoln
Washington
Placenza
Municipal Kitchens in London Aid War Time Foodstuffs
Verett Colby of the U S Food Administration's Commission to France visits London to inspect wartime community kitchens. The kitchens, serving thousands daily at low cost, are praised for food conservation with the Queen and Princess often assisting. Colby and six other commissioners plan lectures for American audiences on shortages affecting England and France.
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Verett Colby
UU. S Food Administration
France
London
Kithen
England
Colby
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