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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1918
Page
8
The Jasper News is entered at the Jasper Missouri post office as second class matter on September 21, 1898, marking its official mailing status for local readers.
Advertising rates published: space rate for last page and inside pages ten cents per inch per issue if available on front page contracted. local notices charged by line at cents per issue. copy due Tuesday evening. resolutions of respect cards of thanks and obituary poetry billed by line.
County agent H H Mote urges city citizens and professionals to back a patriotic harvest effort. He compares the wheat frontier to a front line and calls for two weeks of leave for lawyers and broad support from merchants bankers and miners to reinforce the harvest in the next sixty days.
A letter extols proper wheat shocking as essential for harvest, arguing it must stand two to four weeks in shocks to ventilate and turn water, with longer times needed due to labor shortages. It frames the work as patriotic sacrifice for new recruits under farmer leadership, urging patience and obedience.
Cracka in ceiling uses Whiting mixed with glue water or calcined plaster and water to form a putty for filling cracks in plastered ceilings.
Carrie Jenks Lowry and G Roe Lowry executors are notified by Jasper County Probate Court Missouri that letters testamentary were granted on May 1 1915 for the estate of George B Lowry deceased. Creditors must file claims within six months for allowance or one year to avoid bar. Published May 9 1915.
The piece notes wheat rationing in the Allies and United States as ships and space dwindle. It cites Argentina exporting 11 million bushels left, Australia holding about 180 million, India 70 million, and a new crop adding 135 million to stocks. Shipping delays force the United States to share grain with Allies.
United States food administration reports massive allied relief via July 1 1914 to January 1 1918 shipments. Estimates cover calories for millions, extra protein for millions more, wheat exports to three main allies totaling millions of bushels, beef and other provisions distributed to wartime fronts.
Sir Joseph Maclay, British Shipping Controller, appeals to American aid with a stark appeal for men, food, and materials. He warns of a critical Allied position until the next harvest and urges the United States to mobilize its resources to relieve war-weary crews and strained nerves after more than three years of conflict.
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