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Newspaper
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1918
Page
4
Numbered item from the pews notes a May 17 1918 primary or election event with a paid advance advertisement urging support for a second term. The fragment mentions an electoral appeal tied to a candidate seeking re election and a paid public notice.
A court article notes the Circuit Judge in Department No 6 emphasizes efficiency and economy through harmony in proceedings. The piece highlights a focus on streamlined rulings, orderly dockets, and cost saving measures within the court.
An old advertisement touts toasted Burley tobacco as a superior flavor for pipes and Lucky Strike cigarettes. The copy claims toasted Burley offers a mellow, pipe-like taste and contrasts it with other tobaccos used for cigarettes.
Farmers urged to buy Liberty Bonds to support the war effort. The message warns that German victories abroad would depress prices, tax farmers, and worsen conditions at home, threatening twenty years of hardship. Citizens are told to visit banks to invest immediately.
A wartime appeal urging support for the Third Liberty Loan. The speaker argues national unity, responsible government funding, and devotion to the United States as essential, urging readers to become ready depositors in the Protection Bank of Home and keep the home fires burning.
Fragmentary OCR combines a wartime pledge about liberty with a garbled advertisement for house moving roofing cement work and contracting services. Names mentioned include George W. Wickersham and S.A. Gee, alongside scattered contact cues and dubious slogans.
A wartime broadside extols farmers and industry to sustain victory. It urges mortgage relief, farm production boosts, and national solidarity, praising farmer sacrifices while denouncing enemy threats. Strong emphasis on Liberty, duty, and national capacity to feed and arm the nation.
Surplus wheat is sent to famine threatened Europe as America hinges on corn to sustain the war effort. Officials tout corn as the nation’s best cereal, with high production supporting the food supply and strength for housewives using corn meal and oil in daily baking and cooking.
Canada disputes reports of German made goods hoarding and government seizures. The Canadian food controller says stories are baseless and crafted to provoke public indignation, spreading simultaneously across the country to undermine food control. He urges calm and cooperative efforts to support rationing and victories in food administration.
The United States Food Administration stresses there is no royal road to food conservation. It urges voluntary action by all citizens, each in proportion to their means, to save and substitute in the nation’s 20,000,000 kitchens and on 20,000,000 dinner tables across factories and stores.
The Portland Garbage Co offers rubbish removal for residences at 75 cents per month and for businesses at reasonable rates in St Johns. Calls made weekly on Saturdays. Leave orders at St Johns Hardware or call Woodlawn Hear Melba at Currins.
Stanfield writes that Oswald West seeks to block McNary and force a withdrawn field, denouncing West’s intervention as bossism. He promotes self-made, 100 percent American credentials, urging Republican voters to back him over West and McNary in Oregon’s Senate contest. Paid adv. by Stanfield Senatorial League, 208 NW Bank Bldg., Portland.
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