Broadside of wartime notices in a French card
A page item covers Red Cross benefit at Henry Opera House, local personal notes, war food rules urging wheatless days and meatless meals, and community updates from Marshall County in early 1918. It notes marriages, travels, letters from home, weather, and a call for German registration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Red Cross
Henry Opera House
Anna Culter Hall
Lizette
Rosalind Hall
Hannah Dewey
Enid Case
Sarah Jane Dewey
May Young Jennie
Marian Bickerman
Bob Taylor
Ieee
Alvin Hofer
Mary Dale
Grace Hartley
Montaine
Adams
Compton Sisters of
Chillicothe
Bess Fischer
Henry Orchestra
Soldier Boys
Henry Red Cross
E. L. Kane, Truck Co
No. 10
Laurel, Md
Ladies of the Red Cross
Rail River routes favored as government plans waterway boost
Government backs a comprehensive plan to operate barges on the Mississippi and Illinois rivers to move freight for the war effort. Key figures including President Wilson and Secretary Baker endorse using rivers and canals, with Congress needed to authorize funds and craft builds.
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U. 5
Illinois River
Wilson
Baker
Black
Army Engineers
Hurley
The
Shipping Board
McAdoo
Mississippi
Illinois
William Black
Congress
Gulf Ports
Eastern
New England
New Orleans
News of a Week in Illinois and War Efforts
A condensed local note mentions Mrs. Chamberlain and children occupying the William Green property on Edward Street. It reports a proposed petition to President Wilson to change a weekly workless day from washday, corrected salaries at LaPrairie Mutual Insurance, and explanations of Soviets in Russia. It covers Lincoln birthday observances, walnut logs for gun stocks, snow measurements in Vigo County, wartime business closures, and a railroad payroll curtailment order by McAdoo affecting political influence and passes.
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St. Joseph’s Church
Lacan Journal
Albert Ehringer
Illinois
Lincoln
Hugh S. Magill, Jr
Illinois Centennial Committee
Marshall County
Walter Woodrow
Indiana State Normal School
Vigo County
Terre Haute
Walter
Martin Cook
Toledo
Ohio
Edward Cook
Ann Arbor
Martin
Overland Automobile Factory
Putnam
Railways
McAdoo
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Meey
Sarah
Grandma) Leech
Mary Deck
Orrin Fulks
Charles Anderson
Chicago
Lizzie Evans Zenor
Greenfield
Iowa
J. Lloyd Jones
Stella Hansom
Biloxi
Miss
Peoria
Harold Whitmer
T. Whitmer
Flossie Hubbell
Charles Hubbell
R. C. Moodey
Lenora
Bowie
Arizona
R. C. Moodey & Son
Fourth Street
Santa Rosa
Cal
Florence Church
Coggshall
Mary Pickford
Scotland
Mary
Bonnie Lass
William Wheeler
P Peoria
Champaign
Vesta Belle
State University
Frank T. Brown
Henry
Florida
Southland
Ryan
Metamora Herald
Curtis
el Paso Journal
Patterson
Washburn Leader
Billy
Kaiser
Sol
U. S. Food Administration
America
Europe
Jesse Sleater
Gladys Sivell
Mr.May
Henry Aukland
Paxton
Marie
Speer
Col. McVicker
Thomas Clark
LaSalle
Mississippi Valley Waterways Associatio
Manufacturers’ Club of LaSalle
Fulter
Lewis and Sherman
House
Senate
C. B. & Q. Railroad
O. F. Scudder
A. L. Hoyt
St. Paul
la Salle
Public Utilities Commission
LaSalle Shippers
Ottawa Free Trader Journal
Oy Pee Fay
Pia Play
Pty Pond
Malcolm Lathe
Solomon
Lathe
St. Francis Hospital
Frank Pearce
Varna
George
Frank
Pekin
George Pearce
Peoria Star
Illinois Centennial Commission
Edgar Nichols
Chicago Tribune
War Savings
Lawrence D. Gregory
Lacon
James Hartley
Rose Stadel—Quinn
Miss Lang
Marian Wabel—Merritt
Carrie Carpenter
Margaret Riddell
Presbyterian Sunday School
George Daniels
St. Mary’s Church
St. Joseph's Church
Grace Cromwell
St. John’s
Albert Stickel
Christian Sunday School
Congressional
Secretary of the Treasury
Ee _ Methodist Episcopal Church
Epworth League
Roger Rowe
Glenn E. Tilton
J. Brennan
St. Mary's Church
Father Andrew Schauer
Methodist Episcopal Sabbath School
Bradford M. E. Sabbath School
Home Department
M. C. Doyle
Allan Hillabrand
Bradford
United States Army
United States
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