Kansas Wheat Yield Seen At 98 Million Bushels This Year
The Kansas board of agriculture reports a final winter wheat yield of 98,411,822 bushels, about 2.5 million more than the federal forecast and 137 percent above last year. Sumner county leads with 4,078,628 bushels. Lyon tops acreage output. Labor drives harvest plans as farm labor reserves are urged statewide.
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Kansas
State Board of Agriculture
Federal
Department of Agriculture
J. C. Mohler
Board of Agriculture
Sumner County
Barton
Reno
Pratt
Stafford
McPherson
Lyon County
Neighbors Assist Willets Van DeWater Farmers Name Loss
Neighbors north of Phillipsburg gathered at the Van DeWater home to help harvest the entire crop. One hundred horses worked the fields as the family coped with illness and death, including the burial of Mrs Van DeWater who had lived there nearly forty years.
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Willets van DeWater
Phillipsburg
Kinsley
Wheat Belt
Pioneer H J Watson Dies at Huron Home
H J Watson a longtime Atchison county settler died at his Huron residence. He homesteaded the land where Huron arose and later ran a lumber business for many years. His widow survives. Workmen drill at the oil well on the Kouba farm near Wayne as promoters push to complete a thorough test with community support.
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H. J. Watson
Atchison County
Huron
Atchison
Kouba
Wayne
Leavenworth Man Painted Yellow Over Red Cross Refusal
Frank Kelsh, alleged pro German from Leavenworth, was paged as yellow by Schalker Packing Co workers for not subscribing to the Red Cross. He reportedly blamed America for the war in remarks.
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John Collins
Salina
Collins
Red Cross Fund
Union Station
Frank Kelsh
Leavenworth
Schalker Packing Company
Red Cross
America
Death of Lyman Ulmer Found in Army City Basement
Lyman Ulmer a photographer and former farmer from near Abbeyville Reno county was found dead in the basement of an unused Army City house. He drowned when floodwaters rushed the basement door as he slept, before rescue could come. He left two sons in the 137th Infantry in France.
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Army City
Lyman Ulmer
Abbeyville
Reno County
137Th Infantry
France
Propaganda Offensive Exposed in US Mexico and South America
Federal officials report German propaganda funds run into hundreds of millions to spread discontent and discredit leaders like Wilson and Lloyd George. A freely distributed book in the Americas portrays the United States as a vampire nation, while whispers target illiterates and mountaineers in the Carolinas and Georgia. The Rainbow Division is cited as a focal point of these false war tales.
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Mexico
South America
United States
Washington
Spain
Central
del Continente
Continent
Wilson
Lloyd George
Germany
Mich
Berlin
England
America
Carolinas
Georgia
Raise More Sheep Steady Decline In US Industry
Washington report from the Chamber of Commerce committee on statistics and standards warns the United States must reform its sheep industry to halt long term decline. It advocates reviving grazing on cut over lands, expanding farm flocks, and fully using Western ranges, arguing domestic wool production can rise with education and effort.
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Washington
United States
Committee On Statistics and Standards
The
Chamber of Commerce of the
German Propaganda in South America Exposed
A historical document reveals German efforts to sow anti US sentiment in South America. Officials note a forged edition of Why America Went to War with a preface misrepresenting facts, plus widespread German influence through purchased newspapers. Counter measures are being implemented to neutralize the propaganda.
Father of Victim on the Cyclops Enlists
Birmingham Alabama draft board hears J. P. Bagges father of I. T. Bags, among Cyclops loss victims, express desire to serve. He describes himself as a skilled mechanic and says he was sent to a U S shipyard for wartime service.
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Nevin A. Smead
Olathe
National Army
Camp Funston
Smead
Draft Board
Johnson County
Victim
Cyclops
Birmingham
Ala
J. P. Bagges
I. T. Bags
United States
Italy Faces Daily War Cost and Food Hoarding Probed
Revelations in Rome show Italy spends about 5 million dollars daily on the war, with 149 million per month. Costs cover war offices and navy but exclude broader department spending. Food shortages and hoarding by middlemen push prices up, prompting calls for radical measures to prevent unrest amid an expected offensive on the Italian front.
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Rome
Italy
War Office
Admiralty
Navy
Muntions
Middlesyien
Liberty Child Born in Chicago Nine Pound Baby
Dr and Mrs W Moore Thompson of Chicago claim the first Liberty child born on Liberty Day April 26. The baby named Liberty weighed nine pounds and is described as healthy.
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Chicago
W. Moore. Thompson
Liberty
Memorial to Carrie Nation A fountain planned in Wichita
The Kansas Women's Christian Temperance Union will erect a drinking fountain at Union Station as a memorial to Carrie Nation. The State association voted $1,000 for the project and the city commissioners will accept and maintain the fountain in the city. Nation began her saloon smashing campaign in Wichita many years ago.
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Wichita
Kan
Kansas Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Union Station
Carrie Nation
Nitson
German Textbooks Destroyed At Wisconsin High School
Unknown persons entered Shell Lake High School and destroyed all German textbooks. The incident followed the school board’s resistance to abolish German instruction, leaving classes possibly suspended temporarily.
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Shell Lake
Wis
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Great Kansas
Mohler
Topeka
James Wise
Episcopal Church
Republic County
Junction City
Geary County
Kansas Board of Agriculture
H. E. Hrnzell
Kansas Industrial Welfare Commission
Pedro Yano
Dunkirk
Augusto Carno
Carno
Claude Wiltrout
A. Pechin
Somme
Rainbow Division
Rainbow
South American
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Scandia
John Shotzman
N. Hendrix
Adolph Nelson
Lebanon
E. C. Wires
W. M. L. C. Hohr
Clarence Albro
V. C
J. W. Plotner
John A. Freeburg
W. N- UD
Commun
Jim Jones
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