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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1918
Page
8
A motivational wartime plea urges all citizens to support the Liberty loan. The speech emphasizes personal responsibility at home and in the armed forces, urging subscriptions and collective effort to back the war, even if one cannot enlist or travel to assist directly.
Brig. Gen. Robert N. Getty extols modern soldiers for Liberty Bond support, recounting how many forfeited parts of their pay to fund the war. He cites examples of allotments kept to a minimum and urges civilians to share in the sacrifice for victory.
Grover Cleveland Alexander, star pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, urges fans to fund the Third Liberty loan. He frames the effort as a patriotic drive to defeat Kaiserism, calling for collective support from players and supporters to back Uncle Sam with timely investment.
Troco is described as invaluable energy food of high nutritive value and easily assimilated. It is presented as not a substitute for butter but a successor that solves the butter problem for millions with wholesome vegetable fats and milk ingredients. A capsule of the same vegetable coloring used by butter makers comes with every carton from the grocer.
Citizens rally to send cigarettes to American soldiers in France with doctors nurses and officers endorsing the effort. Millions of Lucky Strike cigarettes go over daily praised for toasted flavor and Kentucky Burley tobacco giving satisfied smoking in trenches and billets.
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