Red Cross Notes and War Wheat Campaign Updates
No Red Cross meeting held at the Red Cross room this week due to an epidemic. Receipts from a Saturday sale totaled 46.50 with 25.50 from the call. donors are thanked. Report shows 7 pillows and 65 shreds of cotton cloth sent to Camp Dodge Base Hospital. Arrangements with War Department to ship Christmas parcels to men abroad are being finalized. Also notes on wood use and winter coal scarcity urging wood cutting and grove improvement to aid the war effort.
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Red Cross
Camp Dodge Base Hospital
Fred Henrich
Dora Wohlfarth
Paul Stang
Pauline Weimers
Marie Lottman
W J Long
Oscar Amos
Isabel] Raymond
Jennie Line
War Department
Harbine News Notes and Campaign Visit Amid Flu Fears
A carload of stock was shipped by the Farmers Equity. Hebron visitors included Miss Pauline McKenzie and others at Frank Shipman’s home. The Harbine area reports relatives visiting, travels to Beatrice and St Joe, and a campaign stop by McLaughlin with York quartette. Spanish influenza concerns dampen local enthusiasm as several families report illness with the “tu.”
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Farmers’ Equity
Pauline McKenzie
Maud Bethscheider
Grace Dewald
Oscar McKenzie
Leo Wiedel
Hebron
Frank Shipmans
Belva Kinnamon
Fairbury
J H Boyes
Hebron Hospital
Frank Shipman
T L Ewing
Claire
Hurbine
Ralph Sandman
Stratton
Nebr
Clarence Richards
Camp Dix
New Jersey
Chas Sandman
Flora Wharton
Beatrice
Illinois
Otto Schmuelle
St. Joe
P A_ Buller
Kansas City
Camp Funston
Mclannon
York
Harbine
Quartett
Mclaughin
Congress
Tom Dyer
Will Jansen
Chester Zeigenheim
Gus Kroetsching
George Arnold
District Agent Praises Straw Mulch For Winter Wheat
In notes from field observations straw mulch on winter wheat shows strong use in conserving moisture by directing rain into soil and reducing evaporation. Plowing stubble with partial mulch makes tillage easier and yields better results.
Letters From Overseas From Diller Soldiers In France
Misses Cherry and the Miller from Diller write from aboard in Sept 1918 describing crossing the Atlantic, landing in Europe, the voyage experiences, sea sickness, and the warm welcome from English and French locals as they begin their duties with the American Expeditionary Forces.
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Bessie Cherry
Scott Miller
Diller
France
Letter from Scott in France on Sept 8 1918
In a World War I correspondence from Somewhere in France Scott writes to his mother and Clark about six miles from the front, hauling patients as an orderly ambulance crewman. He describes eating, masks for fear of attack, air raids, local women washing, and a home-front celebration, with hope of victory and return.
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Clark
Camp Funston
Fairbury
France
Oscar Mathias
Carmony
Home Guards
Kaiser
Scott
Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect Faces Obsolescence in America
The article traces the Pennsylvania Dutch speech evolving since colonial times, noting its blend of German and English elements and its decline as a literatureless, homegrown dialect. It highlights its mixed vocabulary including German, English, Welsh, French, and Gaelic words and its roots among Mennonite settlers seeking religious liberty and political refuge.
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Pennsylvania
Ohio
Peter Menno
Ameri
Mennonites urged to drop Pennsylvania Dutch in favor of English
A Detroit Free Press excerpt notes Mennonites, largely an agricultural, war-averse group with roots in Ohio Canada and Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, are urged to abandon their language. It cites 8,000 young men serving overseas and frames language shift as a patriotic lesson for Americans.
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Betty
Ohio
Canada
Detroit Free Press
Tajiri Viscount Tajiri Yale Graduate Named Tokyo Mayor
Viscount Inajiro Tajiri, newly elected mayor of Tokyo, is a Yale class of 1879 graduate in economics and politics. A former secretary in finance, Tokyo Imperial University chair, and director of the national debt bureau, he rose to house of peers and served as vice minister of finance.
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Viscount Inajiro Tajiri
Tokyo
Japan
Yale University
Christian Science Monitor
Department of Finance
Imperial University
House of Peers
Board of Audit
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