Missouri Happenings Inconsistent Local Updates and Edicts
A fragmented Missouri item list notes Parma to gain a four mill, Cape Girardeau Normal to start a military course next term, and Brookfield to set a 100 dollar fine for speaking German in streets. An employee in a Cape Girardeau shoe factory was forced to quit after refusing a Red Cross donation, with coworkers threatening a walkout.
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Cape Girardeau
Theed Cross
Red Cross
United States
Home
Ion Fuitomobile
Mrs Elmer Wilbanks Sends Son Marine Letters Home
Mrs Elmer Wilbanks and her little child left Sunday for an extended stay with her husband, a member of the Marines stationed at Paris Island, South Carolina. The Hayt Herald, their home newspaper, will be appreciated by the youth serving far from home.
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Elmer Wilbanks
Httlechild
Paris Island
South Carolina
eLetter
Hayt! Herald
Dodson's Liver Tone Replaces Calomel in Town Drugstores
Town druggists report calomel sales decline as Dodson's Liver Tone gains popularity. Prominent pharmacists tout it as safe and effective and guarantee refunds if not satisfactory. A pleasant vegetable remedy, one spoonful at night is said to relieve biliousness headaches acid stomach and constipation without daytime griping.
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Dodson
Dolton
Dolson
Folly to Send More Abroad If Allies Lacked Food
Herbert Hoover warned that Europe is starving under German occupation, stressing dairy losses hit Europe hardest. He described how millions in Poland, Serbia, Armenia, and Russia suffer hunger, while German requisitions deplete cattle. He urged sustaining Allied civilians with food to keep morale and the war effort.
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France
Herbert Hoover
F. B. Mumford
Misssouri
Mr. Hoover
Germany
Poland
Finland
Serbia
Armenia
Russia
Iam
Cvorld
Europe
Relief Commission
Belgium
Save the Wheat War Cry from Missouri Board of Agriculture
Missouri State Board of Agriculture urges extreme care and assistance for farmers to harvest wheat. Bulletin explains stacking wheat due to large acreage, notes traction needs, hogging twine from state penitentiary, and growing wheat crops with 1918 figures. Buckwheat urged as emergency crop. new War Thrift Garden bulletin released. Mrs J L LeSieur visited Caruthersville. Huy W is mentioned.
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Missouri State Board of Agriculture
Honril
Jefferson City
Missouri
United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Going Without Wheat A Wartime Food Message
A wartime guidance piece from the U S Food Administration Missouri Division urges reducing bread use to save resources. It highlights alternatives like breadless meals with milk breadless breakfasts and non wheat options such as potatoes and gravy. It frames habit change as essential to winning the war.
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U. S. Food Administration
Missouri Division
A War Measure The Food Administration’s War Role
The Food Administration is a war institution focused on feeding Americans and Allies to keep our forces strong. It prioritizes supplying civilians here and abroad, ensuring the sustained strength of soldiers and the nation.
Four youths join Merchant Marine training program
Four young men gathered at L. L. Leder Rexall drug store as U.S. Shipping Board recruitment agents. J. W Gibbs, S. G. Richmond, Forster Wheeler and Hragenadocio seek fireman, sailor and cook roles on a Merchant Marine vessel. If accepted they gain draft exemption. Joseph Kolin returns home for vacation from school. Blytheville visitors Mrs. J. T. Buchanan and Mrs. R. N. Brasher are noted. All roads of service lead to France.
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Merchant Marine
L. L. Leder
Rexall
U. S. Shipping Board
J. W Gibbs
Hragenadocio
S. G. Richmond
Hraggadocio
Forster Wheeler
Faust
U.S. Shipping Board
Merchant Marine Training Service
Stand Behind the Boys at the Front Instructs Note
A fragmentary item mentions standing behind the boys at the front and notes about hippen knowledge and a phone price of four dollars, reflecting unclear wartime or local news language.
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Holland
W. A. Oates
the Wat
Parma
Cordwell
Brookfield
Calomel
Lefler
Hayti, MO
Hayti, Missouri
J. H. Bields, Prop
Farmnews
Eam
J. L. LeSieur
Caruthersville
Anheuser-Busch
St. Louis
J. H. Elder
Caruthersville, MO
Merchant
Uy W. SS. S
Joseph Kolin
J.T. Buchanan
Blytheville, Ark
R. N. Brasher
Ltrug W
Hippen
Wardell
R. H. Pate Wardell
Cardui
Card-You-Eye
Cardus
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