Notes From the County Agent Discusses War Work and Agriculture
County Agent Gould urges boys old enough to work for the war effort and explains exchange bulletins, sugar factory starch plans, and vaccination against blackleg. Lincoln conference on using sugar facilities fails. government to test starch producers in Western Nebraska Colorado. Kimball meeting in April for potato growers with specialists from Washington. Emphasizes meat conservation, vaccination aid, and shipbuilding calls urging Third Liberty Town subscriptions.
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Sidney
Lincoln
Hiltner
Department of Agriculture
Nebraska
Colorado
Kimball
Washington
Liberty
H D Gould
Nebraska Governor Urges Strong Liberty Loan Effort
Keith Neville calls Nebraskans to exceed prior War Bond efforts as the nation prepares for the Third Liberty Loan. He cites Nebraska’s top per capita Red Cross, thrift stamps, and liberty bond records and urges a supreme statewide campaign to set a national example.
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Keith Neville
Supreme
State
Nebraska
Army
Navy
Red Cross
Grade All Market Produce Message from University Farm
Leroy Cady of the University of Minnesota urges thorough grading of market produce to improve prices. He notes potatoes and other items fetch better prices when neatly graded and sorted by size and color, and stresses that cleanliness boosts marketing appeal.
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Y Leroy Cady
University Farm
St. Paul
Minn
The Third Loan: Buy Bonds to Aid Allies in War
A 1918 poem urging American citizens to support the April loan drive. It extols buying bonds to fund the war in France Belgium and beyond, emphasizing patriotism sacrifice and stubborn resolve. It uses vivid imagery of thrift hunger and wartime duty to exhort readers to invest despite hardship.
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France
Belgium
Sam
George Matthew Adams
The World and You Victory Message Amid War Rhetoric
German leaders declare victory as a focus, while global voices urge safety and freedom for democracy, women, children, and all people. The piece contrasts autocratic aims with appeals for universal protection and human rights in wartime.
Captured Farmers and Liberty Bonds Call to Support War Effort
The piece denounces Prussian aggression in France Belgium Italy and Montenegro and urges American farmers to aid the war by lending surplus through Liberty Bonds. It portrays German spies in the U S and frames bond purchases as defense of the American homestead and national safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Belgium
Italy
Montenegro
America
A Soldier's Plea For The Loan War Poem
A soldier in trench mud questions stay at home priorities and urges buying US Bonds to fund the war effort. He challenges slackers who avoid loan participation, calling treachery in the eyes of the U S soldier and stressing the need to support crops shops and army supply.
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America
U. S
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Elmer Bowman
Sidney, Neb
McKibbin
Sidney Merc. Ce
Walt Mason
Make Red Cross Pharmacy
Kolm
Colorite
Dopce Brothers
Dodge Brothers
Detroit
Odge Bros
Osborn Garage
M. W. Osborn
Prop
MR. Farmer
Sidney: Lumber Company
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