Five Oclock Club aims to aid harvest in Hamburg
Town debate over organizing a Five O clock Club to work on farms to ease labor shortages. Hamburg men and businessfolk volunteer to work evenings, with plans to donate earnings to the Red Cross. Local agent says similar efforts succeed elsewhere and calls for volunteers to shock wheat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburg
William Heseman
Hesseman
Draft Board
Legal Advisory Board
Mooseheart
Illinois
Sioux City
Iowa
Tremony County
Patriot's Pledge Day inspires war savings drive
The article urges citizens to pledge loyalty and support the war effort by buying Savings Stamps. It stresses that funds aid soldiers overseas, with emphasis on backing boys over there and keeping their cartridges full as the nation sends troops to France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fair
France
National War Savings
Soldiers Letters From Camp Grant To Camp Dix
A collection of informal letters from soldiers including Thurman Payne and Simon Miller. They describe training at Grant and Camp Dix, arrival of German prisoners, daily life, weather, hikes, park visits, and thanks for papers and care packages, with notes on promotions, gear, and future postings.
Simon Miller Moves As Last Week Indicated
A late received letter from Simon Miller notes he is alive and writing from a hot location. The writer mentions hot weather and that they are packing to move on short notice, with plans to be far away next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook Smith
Catfish” Smith
Fred
H. F
Fields
Simon Miller
Good Old
Lowa
James Dean leads charity show and Omaha trip
Letters from Hamburg report Lieut James W. Dean aiding rehearsals and serving as business manager for a minstrel show that raised over 1200 dollars with ten percent to the Red Cross. Other items note omaha editors trip, a Hamburg recruitment show, a failed liquor pursuit, and Susanna Devore Marker's death at 71.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Dean
Dean
Maine
Dimmie Alsom
Portland Express
Hamburg
Red Cross
Dedication Planned for New Farragut Methodist Church
A new Methodist church at Farragut will be dedicated next Sunday officiated by Bishop William Q. Shepherd of Wichita Kansas. Morning afternoon and evening services are scheduled with basket dinners to follow in the church basement inviting community members to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farragut
New Methodist
William Q. Shepherd
Wichita
Kansas
Death of Elzia Breazeale After Appendicitis Operation
Elzia Breazeale twenty year old son of Mr and Mrs Wm Breazeale died Wednesday afternoon after being taken to St Joy hospital Sunday evening for an appendicitis operation. He was one of several children. Funeral plans await word from a brother in Utah Atchison County Mail.
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Frank
Camp Dodge
Henry Grape
Everett Butler
This Place
Bert Buttler
Felming
Colo
J.J. Hobbins
Elzia Breazeale
Wm. Breazeale
St. Joy Hospital
Utah
Atchison County Mail
Townsend Brother Killed In Robbery Conflict
A former resident Elmer Townsend, long a black watchman in Omaha, was shot and killed by a robber on Sunday night while a burglary attempt targeted the Woolworth ten cent store safe. Townsend, brother of George Townsend of this city, detected the intruder and confronted the thief.
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Elmer Townsend
Omaha
Woolworth Ten Cent
Townsend
George Townsend
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