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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1918
Page
8
The column laments loafing farm boys and praises conscription or work, reports store hours cut to curb idleness, applauds equal education for girls, praises dogs and local figures, and highlights Iowa’s active support for war relief, Indians’ stories, and national figures with a satirical tone.
The piece extols Judge M J Wade of the Federal court for his wartime efforts to promote loyalty and fair rulings. It lauds his dignified bench and chivalry, noting his high esteem with President Wilson and among Iowa readers.
The Extension Department of Iowa State College offers a farm business record book at cost for farm management and tax returns. The price rose from nine to ten cents after the income tax supplement, with orders prepaid from Ames. One farmer praised the book as exceedingly valuable to farmers.
A list of home beverage recipes including Oatmeal Lever age drink with lemon juice sugar and boiling water, Apple Water with apples lemon rind sugar and hot water, a ginger sugar infusion, Boston Cream with eggs and tartaric acid, and Chocolate Syrup with cocoa vanilla and sugar. Each entry describes ingredients, preparation steps, chilling or serving notes, and storage.
The article offers economical preparations using corn and squash plus simple additions. Fried corn with bacon fat, corn and tomato mix, an economical cake, steamed corn, peanut butter on fried potatoes, and a puree of summer squash are outlined with basic ingredient notes and cooking steps.
In 1917 twenty eight Iowa county agents logged 295 months visiting 12 330 farms averaging 493 farmers per agent and reaching about 183 000 people through 4 378 meetings. They produced 2 226 local articles 65 000 letters and 240 000 circulars with farm bureau ties.
About eleven thousand Iowa boys seek productive war effort tasks beyond after school drills. They can make items for the Red Cross such as trench candles and checkers to stay busy and contribute.
A garbled inventory mentions items such as checker boards knitting needles hospital trays stretchers crutches and joke books. It reads as a miscellaneous jumble likely from a wartime or hospital column with several unrelated phrases.
Household guidance on conserving food fuel and resources. Advice covers baby conservation whey in dough moistening bones and meat for soup wartime gardens planning surplus for canning oysters in cookbooks meatless day menus rye flour for ple dough and using gravy to flavor next day soup.
In Pocahontas County district court Iowa the date is February 9 1918 an instrument dated March 4 1916 claiming to be the last will and testament of John Q Hersom has been produced opened read and the time for proving set for April 4 1918 at 2 pm. The notice will be published in The Rolfe Arrow as required by law. W E Bollard Clerk of the District Court Pocahontas Iowa confirms.
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