Harvest Labor Cards Offer Emergency Work and Wages
The notice describes emergency farm labor in Bureau County with wages from two to three dollars per day for general labor and three fifty for harvest work. Retired farmers and workers sign cards to be assigned to farms, with shifts from five o'clock to dusk. It highlights a planned harvest of the largest acreage and urges community cooperation under the County Farm Labor Act, citing Old Eleanor Wirgis among noted locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau
J. Mann
Far
County Farm Labor Act
Eleanor farms bold at Bureau county fair
Eleanor helps her father with planting and cultivation while active in the Boys and Girls club work. She prepares her team for field work and farms ten acres daily, averaging 80 rows 90 rods, among the first girls to join the feeding club with work to be judged at the Bureau County fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nor
Eleanor
Bureau County Fair
Bureau County
Doan's Kidney Pills Cited By Local Resident
In a Spring Valley style notice, Mrs. Fred H. Courdt of Peru New York endorses Doan's Kidney Pills for relief from rheumatic foot pains and bladder weakness. The ad notes kidney health as the source of misery and urges readers to buy the 60 cent remedy from dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring Valley
Dean
Fred H. Courdt
Main St
Peru
Doan
Germany's Global Expansion Plan Fueled by Prussianism
The piece argues Germany seeks world domination through conquest and colonization. It cites Prussian expansion since Frederick the Great, German racial theories, and plans for Belgium, Holland, and South America. It warns America must oppose Germany to prevent subjugation by a German empire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thor
Felix Dahn
Europe
Frederick the Great
Prussia
Rome
Germany
Mid-Europe
Klaus Wagner
South America
Africa
United States
Holland
Rhine
Alps
Belgium
Posen
Alsace
Poland
Deutschland
America
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Tris
Anil
Nct
Ndt
Hants Association of
Eleanor Wirgis
J. A. Brigham
Elea
Castoria
Oys Palm Beach
Palm Beach
Cal
Norfolk
Childrens Wash
Yee
Poys
Ifitstadt
Union League Club of
Chicago
England
Baron von Bissing
The
National Parks
Scenic
Colorado
West America
G. W. Jackson
Brown Bros
FORD
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