Kaiser's Talk to Hell: A Wartime Devil's Tale
A poem from The Mountain States Monitor recounts the Kaiser’s imagined call to Satan in hell. The Kaiser boasts of brutal World War I campaigns in Belgium and France while warning of American foes, ending with a threat that the Yanks will drag him into hell.
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Bill
Kaiser Bill
Auey
Satan
Kaiser William
Hell
Boys In Blue
The
Mountain States Monitor
Red Cross Calls for Sacrifice as Veterans Return
The Red Cross urges Americans to reflect on sacrifice as veterans come home from World War I. It warns of a harsh reckoning for those who stayed behind, urging care for families and restraint in spending while the fighting men are away. The message emphasizes moral duty and supporting the war effort until victory is achieved.
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Pershing
Sims
France
Flanders
Italian
Hon
Great American Red Cross
America
Charles Lee Bryson
War speech urges decisive action to end German threat
Charles Lee Bryson argues that victory hinges on decisive heavy fighting to defeat Germany and enforce deportation of war prisoners and internees after the war. He asserts American soldiers will judge civilian leaders by actions and vows they will return home to face scrutiny.
Harbine News Items Highlight Local Visits and Activity
Mrs. John Bishop visits Beatrice with daughter Mrs. Bowman while Fred Rea returns home. A carload of stock ships out by Farmers Equity. Local dances and visits include Beatrice and Fairbury guests, plus Arnold and Kroetsching families. The Harbine Red Cross elects Russel Campbell as president as WWI era notes Roosevelt’s NY governor bid decline.
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John Bishop
Beatrice
Bowman
Fred Rea
Jansen
Paul Sandman
Lillian
Wesley Ireland
Fairbury
Farmer’s Equity
Will Jansen
Otto Schmuele
Bill Bishop
Martin Arnold
Camp Funston
Bill Kroetsching
Harbiner Automobile Co
Wm. Carpenter
Russel Carpenter
Russel
Gage County
Arnold
Elise Koenig
War- Savings Society
State Council urges farmers to build more silos
The council advises silos to conserve feed, noting corn in silos yields one third more feed value than shucking and pasturing stalks, and far more than cutting up corn and stover. It highlights benefits for dairymen and beef feeders with many cattle and cites hay costs of 12 to 16 dollars per ton. Pit silos in central and western areas are cost effective and serviceable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Council of Defense
Receipt for Making Good Husbands Excerpt
A reader offers a humorous six step guide to keeping a good husband. Advice covers being a good wife, kind words and meals, tidy room, gentle behavior, affection, and mending clothes. The tone is light and satirical.
No-price walnut and wheat threshing reports plan
Government notes no fixed walnut price while firms pay 80 to 90 dollars per thousand feet for logs and urges survey of sweet clover pastures. It describes a nationwide plan under Public No. 40 to collect monthly threshing reports from threshers and farmers to map wheat and other cereals, stressing prompt, complete returns for federal agencies.
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E. E. . Butler
Hebron
Secretary of Agriculture
Bureau of Markets
Bureau of Crop Estimates
States Relation Service
Food, Administration and Federal Trade Commission
Food Administration
Are You Snatching the Bread Out of a Soldier's Mouth
A wartime appeal urges readers to stop using wheat and wheat products until the next harvest. Hoover and Wattles call for strict economy in wheat sugar and meat, noting soldiers sacrifice for the public.
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Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
United States
Gordon W. Wattles
Nebraska
County Food Reports to Be Telegraphed to Washington
Reports collected by the County Food Administrator on the first of each month will be forwarded to the district Agricultural Agent who will summarize returns and telegraph the county totals for the month to the Bureau of Markets in Washington D C not later than the fifth of the following month. S. E. Samuelson.
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Mitted
Bureau of Markets
Washinon
S. E. Samuelson
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the Kaiser
W. E. Curry
Central Florened
Kaiser
Old Man Satan
Pepa
Ify
Belgium
Paris
Woodrow Wilson
William
Red
Harbine
Marie Thiesen
P. A. Buller
Grace Brubaker
Ivy . Kroetsching
Wilma Kroetsching
Geo. Arnold, Jr
Chas. Sandman
Theo. Roosevelt
New York
Thresher’s
Denver
Wyo
Burlington
Big Horn Basin
Powell
SRT R
S. B. Howard
C. B
Farnam Street
Omaha, Nebraska
F. W. Lowe
Or. E. 0. Cassell
Steele City, Nebr
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