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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1918
Page
6
In a spring mountain cabin a stranger meets a mountaineer and his family. The man reveals he has just become rich, asking what each would choose. John wants a horse, Molly a new dress, Susie books, and the wife chooses a new ax to replace her dull one. The tale appears in Harpers Magazine.
The National Security League with 105000 members in 280 branches launches a vast patriotic educational campaign across 24 states aiming to explain war causes, US duties, and democracy’s fate in victory over Germany. Dr. Robert M McElroy mentors a panel of scholars and leaders guiding “Loyalty Weeks” with multiple city tours and lectures, expanding through defense councils and state education departments across many states.
Lloyd Taylor of the National Security League proposes using selective draft principles to relieve farm labor. He suggests leveraging Farm Bureaus in states to train men drafted for food production, warning the spring labor situation will worsen. Taylor helped organize the Preparedness Parade in New York City and aided the Universal Military Training petition drive.
The New York State Council of Defense partners in a statewide drive with a week's whirlwind campaign of patriotic oratory. Educational Director Prof. Robert McNutt McElroy of Princeton University takes a year’s leave to lead the effort. A Chautauqua training camp sparked a twenty four state organization aimed at spreading the war message and fostering American unity, readiness for service, and sacrifice.
Gordon W. Wattles Nebraska Federal Food Administrator urges all Nebraskans to consecrate time energy and money to win the war in 1918 warning the fate of nations democracy and the divine right of kings hang in the balance. He calls for sacrifice service and unity across politics and personal affairs to preserve a free and independent government.
Nebraska counties organize food groups with voluntary citizen help stabilizing prices and conserving foodstuffs. The Food Administration is praised for reducing confusion, standardizing businesses, and benefiting residents, though some question its impact.
Nebraska retailers selling foodstuffs will be asked to sign a government pledge promising fair prices and to display a poster in their stores. The pledge, distributed by wholesalers and traveling salesmen, labels cooperation with the United States in the war effort and aims to reinforce public awareness of wartime requirements.
Federal Food Administrator Gordon W Wattles announces strict rules for Nebraska growers. Wheat exchange limits prevent trading wheat for more flour than market can supply, and sugar must be sold to city buyers.
The notice states town customers may buy flour in two to fifty pound lots and rural customers in five to ten pounds. flour for cities in one-eighth to one-quarter barrel lots and rural buyers in one-quarter to one-half barrel lots. Advertising to boost consumption is against public policy. Traveling salesmen selling directly to consumers must be licensed as brokers.
Chicago high schools offer a two year salesmanship course for girls. Two hundred students enroll and gain practical experience by working behind department store counters one day weekly. They are paid for Saturday work, equipping them with selling skills beyond clerking.
A Sterling Colorado man, H. T. Richmond, reports kidney pain from local bad water eased after using Doan's Kidney Pills. He describes frequent back pain, improved once the remedy was taken, and advises others to seek Doan's at 60 cents from dealers, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
An offer invites all adults with coughs colds or bronchitis to visit Red Cross Pharmacy for a free sample bottle of Boschee's German Syrup a remedy with a fifty year history. The ad promises a good night's rest free coughing and easy morning expectoration with regular sizes priced at 25 and 75 cents and notes availability in civilized countries.
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