Weather, storms, and happenings spread in small town notes
Southeast News reports unusual winter scenes with people in crowded Cory street scenes and a large plate glass made in the community sold for 2600 at a California fair. It notes stock losses from a storm in Acre's herd, Dunklin county cotton ginned in 1917, and funeral attendance in Poplar Bluff. It recounts a Paragould arrest for hot irons, river deaths of cattle, wartime letters from Camp Funston and a Missouri university summer program expansion for teachers led by Mr Williams, plus local letters describing snow, sleigh rides, and life in Ballinger county and Missouri towns.
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Ventce
California
Charles
Wiliams
Siri Servin
Daly
Counery
Williams
J.D Eli
Essiow
Elli
Vocaboral Educatin
Missouri
Jefferson City
Walliates
Hans
Willams
Univertys
A.bawit
Cornell
Timhe
Colorado
University
Marble Hill
Next Summer's Garden Seed Catalogs and Planting Plans
Seed catalogs arrive as gardeners plan a thrift garden for summer. Prepare beds for cabbage and tomatoes, using a manure rich mix and a sunny, southern slope. Early plantings yielded earlier harvests, with tomatoes and cabbage for neighbors. Topics include tomato varieties like Beefsteak and Early Jersey Wakefield, Chinese cabbage, and practical growing notes.
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Anl
Jersey Wakefield
War Time Council Plans Pledge Drive and Homefront Recipes
The Woman's National Council on Defense met at Mrs Evtinhne’s home in Littleville Village to discuss wartime pledges and thrift gardens. They plan to distribute pledge cards and encourage sugar and meat conservation while sharing war cookies and corn meal muffins recipes from committee chairs and readers.
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Liiles- Ville
Urwin
Woa Butler
Food Conservation Committee
Fragmentary postcard from a 123th Co diary outing last Sunday
The note describes eleven tiles by the Carriean sea and a day of meals, mountain climbs, shells, and other finds. It mentions censorship of outgoing mail and asks to tell everyone the news, signed by a member of the 123th Company, Mth Regiment, care of the New York Postmaster.
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Ewe Neil Savith
Mit
123Th Co
New York
Local star pupil and family ties noted in unclear text
Fragmentary entry mentions a pupil or public school role linked to a family with the surname Rhoades. The text references Will Mayfle Colles, a principal position at Starble THM public seter, and an unclear TORAH connection. Names and places are partially garbled, yielding uncertain details about a university path and local roles.
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Will Mayfle Colles
University
EE Rhoades
Sania
Congressmen And the Income Tax Law Remains a Point of Debate
The piece defends the income tax law arguing Congress exempted salaries was misleading. It notes prewar taxes on congressional pay and the postwar act raising the total tax to 375 dollars per member. It closes with a warning from the U S Food Administration about Russia’s collapse due to internal failures.
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Congress
Russia
Food Administration
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Wo Caldwell
Dunklin County
Kennett
Sod
Caldwell
Poplar Bluff
Peterson
Daniel Peterson
Illinois
Martin Mert
Cove
Paragould
Ark
Meniach
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St Francis
Whiten
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Tropics
United States
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New Jersey
Ballinger County
Camp Patston
Reandors
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Jefferson Barrecks
Jefferson Harricks
Fort Jancwk NJ
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Lathfield Baking Company
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Trenton
Philadelphia
Pal
Alain Lone
Camp Funston
FM Wells
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Red Cross
YMCA
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Will
Saint Louis
H. F. Johnson
Caruthersville
Pulto
Bermiscot
Carathiersville
Wayne County
Eturet
Holy Rollers Jr
Bolling
Pleasant Grove
Snake Bluff
Patel
Renee
the Woman's National Council On Defense
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