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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1918
Page
7
A persuasive note extols potatoes as splendid food offering starch for energy and endurance. It claims one medium potato supplies as much starch as two slices of bread, reducing bread use and saving wheat while providing salts to renew and sustain the body.
A Midway farmer donated a hen at a Red Cross Sale near No 9 school house and Odin. The auctioneer sold a golden egg from the hen for 372 dollars. Several locals attended the sale while others worked on crops and chores around Jericho and Antioch amid community notes. The piece ends with a song about single life and a humorous jab at hen pecked husbands.
A Harvey property near the school house is offered at a bargain by N. J. Craig of Mansfield Missouri. Ady.
Neighborhood clubs across villages unite churches and temperance groups to advance food conservation and patriotic initiatives. Pastors note sermons aligning with club goals, boosting community spirit. One war kitchen club signals rising involvement in wartime enterprise and overall neighborhood vigor.
News brief reports a barn struck by lightning during a storm, destroying the barn and killing two cows. The ad then shifts to a patent medicine claim about Sand for liver and kidneys, offering a trial bottle for 50 cents at the drug store.
The May Missouri crop report, compiled by RE A Logan and Jewell Mayes, notes wheat prospects at their best, with 2,840,000 acres yielding about 45,693,000 bushels. Rye also up, hay acreage down due to corn, and spring plowing at 80 percent. Conditions improving with rains, livestock thriving, and farmers aiming for record crops despite late cotton planting.
A Baptist enlistment meeting at the local church Friday drew good interest under Rev. G. Chadwell of Norwood with assistance from Revs. C. L. Wood and G. W. Graham and Mrs. Kate Hill Elliott. A large basket dinner followed at noon. A similar gathering occurred at Cedar Gap on Saturday.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh in all stages by acting through the blood on mucous surfaces. The ad offers $100 to any case it fails to cure and invites testimonials, listing Toledo based F. Sichney & Co. as distributors.
A stark appeal evokes battlefield horrors and shattered cities. The speaker asks if readers can endure the desolation, thirst, and destruction, urging relentless giving until the heart cannot. The language stresses sacrifice amid ruin and the moral duty to contribute.
The notice highlights new spring goods at Alcorn Hardware Co including oil stoves ice cream freezers refrigerators water coolers screen doors and wire china glassware lamps soda glasses tumblers and aluminum ware with 20 year guarantee. It also mentions plows cultivators twine grain cradle and market shortages. Local social notes reference Mrs. Brake's Springfield trip and a Red Cross sale at Norwood with visitors Frye and Youell at John Frye's.
R A Alcorn Hardware Co notes, J Lon Dennis spoke at Lead Hill schoolhouse for Red Cross collection. Odd Fellows initiated three members, M J Hodge, A F Short, H C Shelton, J G Hight. Robert Morton singing drew a crowd. G E Shores Jr helps John Frye plant corn. Ollie Frye visiting John Anderson. Shores and wife joined supper at H Moberly, all attended Macomb Christian Endeavor. Glenn Moberley and Paris France enlist in army. Rev F J Light preaches at Liberty Schoolhouse, plans every fourth Sunday, Sunday school organized. Shores and wife visit John Frye, then Liberty church.
Advertises Herbine as a powerful liver stimulant to cure dizziness vertigo and bilious symptoms. Claims a dose or two will restore health as the liver becomes active. Priced at 60 cents and sold by all dealers in medicine.
A Wisconsin journalism head urges readers to mail home town papers to soldiers overseas. He says copies lift morale and keep troops informed, advising sending local columns or locals tucked in letters. Soldiers in camps seek hometown news as much as troops abroad.
EOOD WILLWIN Victory Buns marketed with praise from Secretary Baker. The recipe uses raisins as sugar substitute and lists quantities for water salt flours yeast oil and cinnamon to yield 60 buns. An advertisement notes clothing sales at Floyd's G A R building.
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