Patriotism Day At M E Church With Flag Dedication
At the M E Church a patriotic gathering is planned for Sunday July 21 including a service flag dedication honoring Frank Hoover Ed Westbrook Glenn Craig Cecil Hoover and Harry Mooney. Dr R M Rogers will give the presentation address followed by a dedication sermon by Rev G W Holmes. A second service at night features a lecture by the pastor on The Need of the Sunday School in the War Cr ss. Everyone is welcome to attend both services.
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M.E
Frank Hoover
Ed Westbrook
Glenn Craig
Cecil Hoover
Harry Mooney
R. M. Rogers
G W Holmes
Residence for Sale Near School House in Mansfield
The Harvey property near the Mansfield school house advertised for sale at a bargain. N. J Craig of Mansfield, Missouri handles the listing.
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Harvey
N. J Craig
Mansfield
Adv
Celebration in Mansfield praised as best in years
A Mansfield celebration drew large crowds with speakers from Council of Defense A J Clark M A Freeman and M B Alcorn leading the organizing committee. G G Lydy of Springfield delivered a strong address, with additional talks by A J Clark Joan Dennis and Rev T B Kitzinger. The Declaration of Independence and a Wilson message were read. The Mansfield Concert Band with Hartville talent performed while J W Brazeal led singing and a popular quartet impressed attendees.
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Mansfield
Council of Defense
A.j.clark
M. A. Freeman
M. B. Alcorn
G.G. Lydy
Springfield
A. J. Clark
Joan Dennis
T B. Kitzinger
Wilson
United States
Hartville
J. W. Brazeal
Mr Brazeal
Ezra Dennis
R. K Wright
8.L. Hensley
Bryant Christian Endeavor at Mt Everett church
Bryant Christian Endeavor meetings occur each Sunday night at Mt Everett church. Wesley King has arrived home from Farragut Iowa and plans to leave for camp soon. Crops look splendid after recent rains. Sunday School at Flint Point is held each Sunday at 0 o'clock. Mrs Ira Sullivan visited her mother Mrs Sarah Crain in Mansfield on Monday.
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Wesley King
Farragut
Iowa
Flint Point
Ira Sullivan
Sarah Crain
Mansfield
Sand ad claims relief for backache and urinary organs
When you have backache the liver or kidneys are out of gear. Try Sand it does wonders for the liver kidneys and bladder. A trial 50c bottle will convince you. Get it at the drug store.
Flat Rock Meeting Ends After Disorder Closes Session
The Flat Rock meeting closed Sunday night due to excessive disorder. Mrs. Fred Hurst reported the loss of a horse after it fell into an old cistern. The Flat Rock Sunday school is thriving, starting at 10:00 a.m. Sheridan.
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Brush Arbor
Fred Hurst
Flat Rock
Sheridan
Claxton District Tops War Savings Quota Subscribed
Cal Claxton and his family subscribed the entire War Savings Stamps quota for the Claxton district, and then other patrons boosted the total by an additional one percent.
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Cal Claxton and Family
Claxton
Wheat Saving Drive Urges Americans to Cut Wheat Use
Missouri Food Administration warns wheat supplies must last until next harvest for Allies. Hoover urges reduced consumption to one third of normal. campaign promotes wheatless meals and recipes without wheat flour.
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Mumford
Missouri
Missouri Division
Unite States Food Administration
United States
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Mr. Hoover
Bunwin
Mr. Mumford
Eating Without Wheat and Milk A wartime guidance note
A Food Administration Missouri division note urges limited bread use to win the war. It recommends avoiding bread when convenient and replacing with cereals, potatoes, fruit, and quick breads. The text emphasizes nourishment over habit and gentle change in eating patterns.
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Food Administration
A War Measure Food Administration War Focus
The Food Administration is a war institution dedicated to feeding Americans and Allied forces to sustain the strength of civilians and soldiers and support the war effort.
A Call to Defense in Food Strain Message
The Missouri division of the Food Administration urges Americans to endure wartime rationing. The message links emaciated women and children in Belgium and Europe to domestic supply limits, calling for simpler living as a national defense measure.
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Belgium
America
England
France
Italy
Ford Administration
Jean Waste
Food Administration
Missouri
Wheatless W breakfast or dinner substitutes from corn
A historical note suggests corn based alternatives for meals as substitutes for wheat. It lists corn hominy bread, corn meal dishes, fried corn meal mush, and corn puddings as nourishing options. It also notes wheat, rice, rye, oats, corn and potatoes are interchangeable as starch sources.
Food Will Win The War Eliminate Wheat From Diet
The March 1 stock tally shows 176 411 500 bushels of wheat and flour. United States must feed itself and aid Allies by sending 75 million bushels between March 1 and harvest. Domestic consumption would reach 200 million. wartime needs drive sacrifice as a military necessity.
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United States
United States Food Administration
FIX PRICE ON BINDER TWINE IN MISSOURI
The Missouri Division of the United States Food Administration announces a ceiling on binder twine prices. Standard and Sisal twine may not exceed 26 1/2 cents per pound retail, with factory pricing at 23 cents for 10,000 pounds or more and 23.5 cents for smaller lots. Freight adds about 0.5 cent, totaling around 26 1/2 cents delivered. Retailers may add up to 2 cents cash margin or 2 4 cents on credit, capping the final price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Division
United States Food Administration
Missouri Polots
Mountain Grove prosecutor candidate seeks GOP nomination
Prosecuting Attorney hk. Ho Marnsworth of Mountain Grove announces in the Mirror this week as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Prosecuting Attorney, subject to the August primary. He is a veteran county lawyer with a long record in South Missouri and Douglas County. He co ran Mainsworth & Lamar with Robert Lamar of Houston. He served two terms as Prosecuting Attorney and twelve years as City Attorney. His platform supports a strong national wartime effort, an honest economical administration, and vigorous prosecution of law violators.
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Hk. HO Marnsworth
Mountain Grove
Missouri
Robert Lamar
Houston
Mainsworth & Lamar
Douglas County
Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy Praised
A reader from Delmeny Sask named John I Jantzen endorses Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy for personal and family use calling it an exceptionally fine preparation.
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Chamberlain
John I
Jantzen
Delmeny
Sask
Harvests Near End in Clear Valley Notes
Miss Ruby Finchey visits Miss Leona Chadwell in Norwood this week. Harvesting is nearly finished in the area. Miss Gladys Hire spent Sunday with Miss Lillie Plail at the Mooney Hotel. J. J. Rabey’s were dinner guests at J. B. Stout’s Sunday. Elsie Wheat, from summer school at Avi, returned home Sunday with Retta Mathis. Gordon Whitmore of Cheney came to Manafield Tuesday to help run the J. M. Stout threshing machine. Miss Gertin Stout went to Norword Monday returning that evening. Robert Buckles is very sick with measles but improving. Route No. 1 gains a new mail marker since July 1. Geo. Ayers GC. ds Turner, longtime carrier, will be missed after 14 years.
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Gladys Hire
Lillie Plail
Mooney Hotel
J. J. Rabey
J.B Stout
Elsie Wheat
Avi
Retta Mathis
Gordon Whitmore
Cheney
Manafield
J. M. Stout
Gertin Stout
Norword
Geo. Ayers
Ds Turner
Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy Ad
Now is the time to buy a bottle of Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy for use during summer months. The ad claims it is worth a hundred times its cost when needed for family colic or diarrhoea attacks.
Soldier Letter From Ralph R Dale In WWI Era
Private Ralph R Dale writes to his parents from Co 10 Engineers of the American Expeditionary Forces. He describes hearing aircraft and seeing a German plane fall, mentions ongoing air battles, and notes a money issue and missing letters and photos. He urges weekly communication and signs off from the front via New York.
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Son
Private Ralph R. Dale
BALLADS SNOW LINIMENT advertised for insect bites
An old advertisement promotes Ballads Snow Liniment as a antiseptic healing remedy for stings or bites from insects and insels, noting prompt treatment due to poison. It lists prices 25, 50 cents and 1.00 per bottle and claims availability from all medicine dealers.
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Medicine
Ady
Cardui credited for health boost in Wyandotte case
Mrs Florence Rogers, once frail and thin with nerve and pain problems, reports rapid recovery after taking Cardul the woman’s tonic. She credits the remedy with restoring health enough to resume all duties including washing, noting Cardul’s long history of helping women.
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Wyandotte
Mich
Florence Rogers
Florida
Cardul
Lead Hill Sees Cooler Weather and Harvest Notes
Lead Hill reports cool weather after generous rains. Wheat and oats harvest nearly finished with mowing and corn preparations underway. A new 4 pound baby boy was born to Mrs. Frank Carr in Bismarck, N D. Local preachers Spane and Chadwell scheduled to preach the 8th Sunday at 11 o'clock. Oak Ridge and Lead Hill singers swap monthly performances. Gaskill leads a thriving singing scene with a large crowd and abundant dinner. Sunday school held each Sunday at 2:30 pm.
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M. V. Spane
Cedarnap
G. Chadwell
Norwood
Lead Hill
Oak Ridge
W.S. Gaskill
Pursuit of Stolen Elgin Six Leads to Arrest in Missouri
Two men linked to a Sioux Falls Elgin Six theft escaped with a Ford and cash, traveled via Cabool Willow Springs Mountain Grove and Mansfield, then were traced to Patterson Missouri. Ford agent W G Reynolds and Sheriff deputies intercepted them at Stephens Cafe, confirmed the car, and the Wayne County party arrived to identify and arrest the duo after authorities paid local officers for their capture. One suspect carried $50 in his necktie.
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Ford
Frisco
Wayne County
Sioux Falls
Patterson
Troy
Elgin
Chicago
Ozark Highway
Willow Springs
Mountain Grove
Mansfield
W.G. Reynolds
J W. Floyd
Floyd
S.O. 8
Stephens
Fuson Drug Co
W. G. Reynolds
J. D
O. L. Robinett
W. G
Pat Atterson
Joe
Dennis
J. Walker
Reynolds
Walker
South Dakota
Cause of Despondency and Digestive Tablets Claim
An article suggests despondency is often caused by indigestion and constipation and that it quickly disappears when Chamberlain's Tablets are taken. The tablets are said to strengthen digestion and move the bowels, offering relief.
Weather Forecast for Upper Mississippi and Missouri Valleys
Showers possible early in the week with generally fair weather afterward. Temperature expected to run somewhat above normal across Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and eastern Kansas and Oklahoma, extending to adjacent states and parts of North Dakota and Nebraska.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Charles F. Marvin
Mississippi
Lower
Missouri
Mllinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Arkansas
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Hall's Catarrh Medicine ad witness oath 1886 Toledo
Frank J Cheney sworn as senior partner of I J Cheney & Co. in Toledo Ohio pledges one hundred dollars for each incurable catarrh case. Notary A W Gleason attests December 6 1886. Company claims internal action through blood on mucous surfaces. Advertisement notes tests and selling halls pills for constipation.
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State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
I. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
Frank J.cheney
A. D
A. W. Gleason
I J. Cheney & CO
Tennessee Leaf Chewing Tobacco Ad Offers Prices
An old advertisement promotes Tennessee Leaf Chewing or Smoking Tobacco in strong or mild varieties. Limited offers list prepaid parcel post prices: 1 lb to 1 40, 10 lbs for 3.25, 25 lbs for 7.75. References a local Weakley county bank and provides a mailing address placeholder.
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Tennessee
Weakley County
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M. E. Church
Bryant
Christian Endeavor
Mt Everett
Castoria
Kood
Ae Missouri Food Administration
Nan
Clear Valley
Ruby Finchey
Leona Chadwell
Robert Buckles
Ralph Dake
Cardus
Lh. Matney
Frank Carr
Bismarck
N. D
Liza Jane
Norwood, Mo
Thomas R. Dean
R. EK. Williams
Watchmaker and Jeweler
North Side
Knotwell
F. M. Huffman
Bouldin-Ryan Furniture Co
T.b.bouldin
Morgan's Cafe
F. M. Morgan Mansfield, Missouri
N.A. Goulden
Hazelwood Tobacco Farm
McConnell, Tenn
IHC
J.C. Carter
Mansfield, Missouri
J. S. Bell Real Estate
A. T. Friend Mining Company
Mack Davis
Kansas City Veterinary College
T.f.lenhart Undertaker
Ward B. Hitchcock
Alex Salisbury
Wright
Mansfield Mirror
A. Stephens
J. D. Avery
Mansfield, Mo
L.o.nieder
Lodge Directory
MNO
I. O. O. F. Hall Vieking Brothers
Eleva A. Mack
Pera
Dennia
R. A. M. Mansfield
Royal Arch Chapter
M. E. Gorman
J. E. Craig
Modern
Woodmen of America
Mansfield Camp
W.A. Black
Henry Dennis
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