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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1918
Page
7
Local items report visits and gatherings across Ottumwa Oskaloosa and nearby towns. Notes mention dog poisoning, baby care, Y M C A service, and March through May egg production records. Readers learn about farmers markets, sugar restrictions, library reopening, storms and lightning, stolen bicycles, and a string of visits to relatives and friends in Des Moines Monroe and Prairie City.
Help wanted advertisement seeking a hardware clerk with some experience. Applicants must be over draft age, state salary requirements, provide references, and address responses to the paper at K.
An account of how soldiers are fed at sea shows the mess officer must provide 180 varieties of food for thousands. The ship bakes 7,290 loaves daily and stores huge quantities: 60,000 pounds beef and 132,000 eggs, plus tens of thousands of pounds of potatoes ham bacon butter sugar flour sausage sauerkraut fruit and beans.
The Children's Bureau notes that five million babies have been weighed and measured without coercion. Parents volunteered, aiming to improve child health during wartime. Communities should sustain permanent children’s protection programs to save lives and boost health, education, and happiness.
A wartime poem and War Department notice warn of loan sharks in National Guard and Army camps. Reported lenders in camps charge high interest on Liberty bonds and short-term loans. The piece links sacrifice with vigilance against imperial wrong and predatory debt practices.
WABASH and ROCK ISLAND train service notices list eastbound and westbound passenger numbers for freight and local freights. Freight shipments must arrive at the station by 5:00 p.m. the preceding evening. Some trains require signals and operate daily and on Sundays.
A critical editorial argues Germany's ancient militaristic plan failed by not reckoning with human nature. It decries complacent U S readers, urges support for Liberty Loan and Red Cross efforts, and warns that German victory would threaten America and Belgium. The author calls for immediate national resolve and action against German propaganda.
Mrs. Howard C. McCrady of Pittsburgh a society favorite works ten hours forty five minutes daily at Union Switch and Signal company. She travels by green car each morning to the garage near the plant, dons khaki uniform and overalls, and helps make cylinders for Liberty motors until one thirty. Her wages are given to a poor family while her husband serves in the army.
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