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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1918
Page
2
Government order enacted to mobilize workers for wartime efficiency. Registrants are moved out of deferred categories and urged to seek useful employment. Includes diversions for ball players, golfers, clerks, and others to support labor needs.
A fragmented report notes shop employers and operators at clubs and city hotels in Hy. The readable parts indicate concerns over job roles and labor conditions affecting workers in entertainment and hospitality districts.
Washington details of Crowder edict forcing all draft age men to work or join the army include occupations deemed idle such as waiters bartenders and theater staff. The plan expands to retailers clerks and other service workers with boards allowed to consider women’s employment and temporary absences. General Crowder emphasizes mobilizing industrial labor to match German war efficiency and safeguard national production.
Fragmentary text appears to describe a notice or notice-like item with unclear names and dates. Reading is insufficient to identify the event, party, or location. Interpretations are speculative due to garbled OCR.
Local report outlines a bold, risky move by Stowe amid a fraught family dispute involving Diggs and an elderly relation. Details describe tense moments and community reaction as questions of trust and duty surface.
McAdoo outlines a sweeping plan where government controls railroads, boards act advisory, and railroad presidents become optional. Salaries for federal managers may be capped around 20000, with stockholders retaining only possible leadership. Operations at Chicago lines appear unchanged per local executives.
A fragment notes a crash with one machine having two occupants who were injured while another vehicle is mentioned. Rich Wein of Potash Colorado is cited but details are incomplete.
The Calgary Herald notes a sharp rise in Western Canadian land values driven by higher prices for produce and improved farming efficiency. Wheat lands and mixed farms have jumped up to 40 percent in two years with some parcels selling for high per acre sums. The piece cites increased investment in land as farmers adapt to new tillage methods and favorable rainfall patterns boosting yields.
A Canadian advertisement argues land values will keep climbing as demand grows and government support expands. It cites favorable conditions for farmers, free import of certain agricultural implements, and patriotic motivation as factors lifting Alberta land prices.
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