Leafdale items note recoveries and visits
Mrs. A W Olson has recovered from influenza and will return home this week. Anna Struble and her son Pam visit Joe Johnsons. Nl M Bowean family and C I Darnell family visit Be Li Hougen. Leafdale has a Kissel Truck. Mer and Mrs Chas Dedicare hosted Crete Neb cousins. Much grain hauled locally this week. Mrs A W Olson of Potter sick with flu. Perfect attendance certificates go to Heen Johnson Arthur Leafdale Evelyn Johnson. L H Bowen and Cecil Jame visit. Carl Carlson family ill with flu, Alfred Strandberg also ill.
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A. W. Oisoh
Potter
C. J. Leafdale
Heen Johnson
Arthur Leafdale
Evelyn Johnson
L. Hf. Bowen
Cecil Jame
Carl Carlson
Plu
Alfred Strandberg
Food Will Win the World War Diplomacy
A bold wartime appeal asserts food sharing earned American gratitude from Allied nations and that peacetime savings can extend goodwill globally through voluntary aid and shared provisions. The essay frames hunger relief as a cornerstone of lasting peace and international friendship.
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America
Time Table of New Potter Train Schedule
The following is the new schedule of trains that stop at Potter. The timetable lists arrival and departure times, train numbers, and corresponding routes, reflecting updated service patterns for daily operations.
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Potter
Cattle and Hogs Prices at Union Stock Yards Omaha Neb Dec 4 1918
Beef steers active and strong up to 10 cents higher. cows and heifers firm to higher. feeders mixed. Sheep and lambs steady. hogs weak with over 17,000 hogs handled, prices near $17.60 for top hogs and spread to $17.25–17.50 for others. Quotations include choices from $17.20 to $18.50 for prime beeves and lambs from $11.00 to $15.00 for various grades.
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Union Stock Yards
South Omaha
Neb
Bologna
Good Boys
What Red Cross Means
Mrs Lars Anderson in her recent book on conditions over there says it is the poor homeless motherless kiddies that somehow make all the other horrors of war fade away. These frightened crying dying innocent children wring your heart dry throughout the narrative.
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Great American Red Cross
Lars Anderson
Red Cross Christmas Roll Call Seeks Members
A wartime appeal explains the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call inviting readers to answer present and join. It highlights aiding soldiers abroad and providing food clothing shelter and love to children, promising a "love button" as a token of Christmas good cheer for new members.
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Red Cross
Make Roll Call Unanimous The Red Cross Christ ies Roll Call
The document urges transforming the Christmas Red Call into a nationwide act of active participation through Red Cross membership. It states the goal is to extend membership to the utmost limit, not fund raising or material campaigns, stressing the roll call’s unity and proper purpose.
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American Red Cross
Red Cross
New Faces for Old by Red Cross Mask Makers
The American Red Cross undertakes diverse tasks from darning soldiers socks to creating lifelike facial masks for disfigured war victims. Mrs Ladd, wife of Dr Ladd, in Paris, crafts copper or silver masks to resemble before injuries, held with ear bows, allowing visibility and breathing and aiding reintegration among people.
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American Red Cross
Liadd
Ladd
Sted Cross
Paris
What Home Service Means by the Red Cross
The Home Service Section helps families at home connect with men in the field. It assists with financial tangles child training mortgage rights mail delays allotment errors and other issues at no charge, answering over 300000 calls about letters and welfare inquiries, acting as father brother or husband to those left behind.
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Home Service Section
The
Red Cross
Lnd
French Officials Laud American Red Cross War Effort
Dr Chassaigne of the French Military Sanitary Service and M Govon praised the American Red Cross in recent addresses. M Autrand prefect of the Seine urged continued support with the line Our task is immense help us and pledged to organize in victory.
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Dr. Chassaigne
M. Govon
Red Cross
M. Autrand
Department of the Seine
M. Autraud
American Wheat Effort Helps Allies Avoid Bread Famine
The article recalls American wheat production and shipping during wartime, noting that between July 1 and October 10 nearly 66 million bushels were sent overseas. It credits conservation at home and a rising postwar supply, with 141 million bushels shipped Jan 1 to July 1, ensuring Allied bread rations and pledges fulfilled.
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Europe
United States
Australia
Auhost
Lord Rhondda
America
Democracy’s self sacrifice to solve wartime food needs
Experts cite a Food Administration statement praising individual initiative and national service as the basis for addressing food shortages. It argues democracy can endure discipline, aiding both citizens and Allies, and asserts the country’s resolve not to be Prussianized.
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Food Administration
American food army ships 141 million bushels to Europe
In the war year described, the American food army achieved its hallmark feat by exporting 141 million bushels of wheat to Europe from a surplus, signaling a major wartime supply effort and resilience in grain distribution.
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Europe
Greatest Opportunity Women Ever Had
A proclamation extols women's role in wartime service through feeding soldiers and war sufferers. It lauds peace era virtues and the nationwide womanhood's contribution to humanity during the struggle for peace and freedom.
First Call to Food Army by Hoover in 1917
A historical quotation cites Herbert Hoover on August 10 1917 urging national cooperation and food relief to support the flag and freedom. The line frames a call to public service amid wartime mobilization.
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America
Herbert Hoover
Democracy Proves Food Control Worth During Year
A year into voluntary food control, what began as a bold democratic experiment has evolved into an established proof of democratic efficiency, reflecting continuity and maturation in policy practice.
Dix Community Hears of Annual Ninas Free Event
Dix items note J EB Gabdlogly, cashier, visiting relatives in South Kansas for a week. H I Reyal returns from UC duty to North Platte. Lisby CU. P. aids in Kimball. Dix to host its first annual Ninas Free on December X at 6 o'clock with Santa. Boyle offers a new line of Ninas goods to meet demand.
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J. EB. Gabdlogly
Dix
Hank
Kans
H. I. Reyal
North Platte
Harry
Lisby
CU. P
Kimball
Farl
Mrr. Linshy
Carl
Meeting Called For Good Roads and Transport in Sixth District
An Alliance meeting on Tuesday December 10 seeks to organize support for permanent roads. Potter receives four delegates, twelve eastern counties on the list, and prominent speakers will present at 10:00 A M at the Court House with headquarters at the Alliance Hotel. Western Nebraska towns urged to bring strong delegations.
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Sixth
Alliance
Potter
Omaha
Nebraska
Alliance Community Club
Court House
Alliance Hotel
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