Postmaster H. T. Fast leaves Fort Riley posting duties
The narrative details H. T. Fast of the county departing Fort Riley for military training. It notes his rapid closing of business, ongoing post office management, and efforts to register alien women amid preparations for his June draft call. The News office will operate from the post office building as his family assists.
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Posmeser
Fondon
Fort Riley
Pumber
Post Office
Ian
Mewell
H. T
Ok Post Office
Afternoon Sessions at Children's Chautauqua July 3 1918
The program runs daily except Sunday from July 3 to July 8 1918 with free admission for children. July 4 features Ye Old New England Choir and Puritan costumes. lectures and songs. July 5 presents Floyd Festheritand Company and John A. Gray lecture. admissions vary. July 6 offers an artists concert and Chickens Come Home to Roost lecture. July 7 includes Bohanan readings and Verdun lecture. July 8 showcases The Musical Marines with a Sailor uniform concert.
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Floyd Festheritand Company
Afimiasion Se
Evennne
L. B. Wickersham
New Overseas Cap Issued To Expeditionary Forces
A new over seas cap issued to American troops matches the uniform color with a very low crown and no brim. It folds to fit a case and can be worn with trenches and helmets, improving movement. Officers will wear rank insignia on the cap.
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France
Jansen Area Notes and Social Roundup
Local notes describe early wheat cutting after hot weather and community events. Baptism at Blue River near Endicott involved Lena Thiessen Elsie Mackelberger and Rosa 5. Visitors Anna Paul Hazel Cople Irene Ellsworth Emma Glebe and others returned from Excelsior Springs Missouri. Farewell party for Herman editor's son heading to training camp.
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H. H. Wall
John A Thiessen
Waldo
Henderson
M. B
Blue River
Endicott
Lena Thiessen
Elsie Mackelberger
Rosa 5
Ecallers
Anna Paul
Excelsior Springs
Hazel Cople
Ludio
Irene Ellsworth
Emma Glebe
Jansen Equity Exchange
Edgar Shoebottom
John Calloway
Scott Horner
T. L. Rohrbaugh
Amanda.Rohrbaugh
Fred
John Bettin
Camp Funston
Bettin
Herman
Instructions To County Federal Food Administrators
A wartime sugar shortage triggers new limits for county food administrators retailers and households. Families may receive at most two pounds of sugar per person for domestic use in six months, with a 25 pound cap for canning or preserving. Additional permits allow 25 more pounds for specific cases but total limits remain strict. Retailers may hold only two weeks of sugar and not exceed ten days during the shortage period.
Missing Week Notes Prompt Update
Brief note indicates no notes were written last week and plans to send the available items for this week. The fragment suggests an unfinished sentence about a period with no material submitted and upcoming submissions.
Wattles Enacts Stricter Food Rules in Nebraska
In Omaha on June 24 Federal Food Administrator Gordon W. Wattles announced new Nebraska rules affecting sugar and meat. Individuals are limited to 2 pounds of sugar per person per month for consumption and for canning. stockyards and dealers must obtain licenses from the Law Division in Washington D C by July 25. Retailers must also cap sugar sales at 2 pounds per person per family.
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Omaha
Nebr
Gordon W. Wattles
Nebraska
Nebraskans Shell
Law Division
Food Administration
Washington, D. C
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An unreadable OCR fragment contains scattered letters and punctuation with no clear names places dates or events. No actionable facts can be determined from the readable text.
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Old New England Choir
Paul Sunshine Dietrich
Floyd Featherstone Company
John A. Gray
Bohhanans
Lester Collier
Bohanans
Verdun
Lieut
Marines
America
Anna Thiessen
Milt Pottinger
J. H. Ginder
Devo. Hughes
Ogalalla, Nebraska
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Gertrude
Harbine
Jansen
Carrie Ackman
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