Meat Packers Explain Their War Effort and Statements
C S Churchill of Swift & Co argues packers supply materials for munitions and military needs. He cites government fixed prices, increased labor pay, new facilities, and strict quality control as wartime contributions and pride in feeding soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. S. Churchill
Swift & Co
Mr. Churchill
Swift & Company
Food Administration
Churchill
Bureau of Animal Industry
Army
Leavenworth News Briefs From Local and Regional Life
Local residents attend to business in Wenatchhee and Seattle while family visits continue. A quarantine ends Sunday services for Leavenworth churches. A seven pound baby girl arrived October 11 at Dr. Briggs’ Hanford home. Trout eggs shipped for hatchery propagation. Washington University cadets join military program. Ticonderoga gun crew member’s son recalls convoy heritage and wartime duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenworth
B. Holcomb
Frank Holcomb
Blewett
Auto
Seattle
John Byron
Cascade
John
Ticonderoga
New York
Atlantic
Mrs. L. W. Woodrow Moves With Three Children to Everett
Mrs. L. W. Woodrow and her three children boarded No. 1 Tuesday bound for Everett to begin a new home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crystal Clinton
Seattle
C. B. Sterett
George Fraser
Peshastin
Miss Gage
J. B. Woodcock
H. G. Applegate
Everett
Do the Boys Like to Get Home Papers
Extracts from soldiers letters show frequent requests for home papers as a morale booster. Readers from camps in Wisconsin to France express gratitude for Milan Illinois Independent Washington County News Utah and other titles noting the papers bring home news, ads, and a sense of connection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milan
Ebert R. Peterson
Bat
Camp Robinson
Wis
Washington County
Utah
William D. Levi
National
Washington
Rockland
Mass
Frisco
Brockton
Leo Downey
Home Papers Bring Comfort to Soldiers in Camp Meigs
Quotes from James E. Donovan and A S Lindness describe the joy of reading home news amid war. Soldiers craving hometown updates endure shellfire and danger as mail and home-town gossip pass through trenches and holes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hig
William F. Lally
Europe
James E. Donovan
6Th Co
Camp Meigs
Washington, D. C
Hole
A. S. Lindness
305Th Inf
Hda. Co
The Test of Patriotism and Public Duty
The piece warns that leaders of movements or organizations must be tested to prove they are true patriots rather than loud demagogues or red flags. It condemns cheap politicians, undercover Bolsheviks, and agitators as the enemy within demanding vigilance to protect democracy and liberty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hart Schaffner & Marx
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Tion
Rutherford
Armour’s Helmet Brand
U. S. Food Administration
C. J. Brown
City News
F. W. Taylor
Wenatchhee
W. W. Cahill
Wenatchee
J. C. Penny Co
Mrs. S. Elder
Kalispel, Mont
Will
Chester Dawson
Gordon Helmick
Mrs. M. Helmick
Hal Featherstone
Leavenworth Box Company
Mrs. M. Atterbury
Spokane
D. Applegate
Mackinaw Coats
FE. Crocker
Concord
Jake Bettiger
Snoqualmie Pass
Proutty
Lake Wenatchee
Donald McIntosh
Lonzo Hartman
Joe Smith
Washington University Military School
Merritt Hegler
F. E. van Brocklin
Iowa
Jay Adams
Baloon
C. W. Dickinson
Columbia County
Ira Dickinson
Dickinson
Mer
Blo
WNA
Bill Schneider
Marietta (Ohio
Kelley
Bayliss
Harold Peddinghaus
Holy. Co
Washington County News
Dixie
Grant S. Button
Camp C. 1
Hoquiam
Wash
Progressive
Port Clinton
Ohio
Corp
Edgar Carstensen
Grover Stubbs
A. C
San Train
Gazette
Frankford, Phila
John H. Gossling
Instr. Co. No. 1
Camp Greenleaf
Chickamauga Park
Yonkers N. Y
Pvt. J. Karpinski
68Th Field Artillery
West Point, Ky
Karl F. Kinldring
Office Service Co. 1
Camp Johnson
Fla
France
Howard Verkey
Holy. Med. Dept
Inf. A. E. F
Geo. B. Field
56Th Art. Regt
E. F
J. Stanley Webster
Congress
Stephenson, Lewis
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