Bohemia and Czechs Shown as Liberty Fighters
The article defends Bohemian and Czech resistance to German rule, noting their long struggle for autonomy and hope to join global affairs. It praises their national character, cites a National Geographic piece, and urges Americans to understand other peoples as the world moves toward democracy and expansion. It highlights Ira Nichols’s blunt legislative critique and warns of rising arson and fuel depot threats, urging guards for food and oil stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bohemia and
Moravia
Silesia
Wilson
Germany
Austria-Hungary
National Geographic Magazine
Bohemia
Ales Irdlicika
D. S. National Museum
Vis
Niger
Manhattan
Diaoces
Direct Food Army Aims Local Help To Hire County Agents
The Iowa war emergency food commission appeals through Iowa State College extension to mobilize county volunteers in 27 counties with agents. The plan urges county supervisors to fund agent hires, expand agricultural information bureaus, and boost farm labor. It promotes women in stores to free men for farming and asks bankers and businesses to encourage workers with farm training to work summers on farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Food Army
Governor’s War Emergency Food Commission
Iowa State College
Iowa
County Agricultural Society
Ste Treasury
Agricultural Information Bureaus
Ohia
War Emergency Food Committee
Ames
Students Enlist From Ames College For War Service
One hundred thirty six students at Iowa State College have left their studies to enlist or contribute to military or food production efforts. The action reflects wartime mobilization among students in Ames and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atate College
Women vote narrowly approve bond issue in Oskaloosa
In Oskaloosa a close election saw 77 women in favor and 69 against issuing 45 000 in bonds to finish the new high school while 138 men opposed the proposal 218 to defeat it. Harrison County forms a company with Speaker M B Pitt confirming enlistment drives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oskaloosa
Harrison County
Logan
M. B. Pitt
Iowa
Burckhalter
Democrat
Adrian Lynch
Laurens
Waterloo
Laurens High School
William Crowder
U. S. Navy
Farmers’ Trading Co
Laureng
G. W. Ferguson
Laurens Sun
John Kramer
Bellville Township
Oo Malcolm
P. Malcolm
Pocahontas
Ames
Frank Hronek
Ed Kreul
Frank Limnan
John Flaherty
United States Navy
Alphonsus Bell
Glenn Sargeant
Aviation Corps
Young Bell
Fonda High
Pooahottag
Local Notables Enter Regular Army and Community News
Neighborhood notes list residents enlisting in the regular army from Havelock and surrounding towns. Highlights include G W Smeltzer named mayor of Holly Colorado and F J Branaka purchasing the Gilmore City bakery. Additional items cover building booms in Rolfe and Laurens, carpenters’ wages, new homes, a $160000 projected district improvements, and local marriages and civic changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Eno
Claude Garner
Carl] Stiller
Havelock
G. W. Smeltzer
Holly
Colorado
F. J. Branaka
Gilmore City Enterprise
Rolfe
Posakony-Shimon Auto Co
Palmer
Martin A. Hansen
Hansen
Mary Zeman
Chas. D. Atkinson
Pocahontas
New Mexico
Bis
Ra Quinn
Milt
Burckhaiter
Bank of Pocahontas
Tag County
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Mr. Blackton
Theodore Roosevelt
J. Stuart Blackton, Esq
Oyster Bay, N. Y
Craddock
Des Moines
Ira Nichols
Hardin County
Nichols
Direct Food Army
Emergency Food Commission
Commission
Signal Corps
Coast Artillery
Red Crosse
Ft. Snelling
Middle West
Fort Des Moines
Keokuk
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Ottumwa
Irvin Selte
Charles Seward
He ¥ Whooph
Tittie
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