Local Notes From Port land Area
Portland items report Herman Pitts returning from court in county seat Henry Nelson home from Algona two days business Willie Rike back from Newark South Carolina after two months work and sightseeing Mrs Fitch visited James Lewick family Mrs E Sigsbeek at H J Putz home sewing Will Kregar a Titonia business visitor W F Rike home quarantined for diphtheria two ill children Dr Clepsaddle attending physician Mr and Mrs T Jandl mourn loss of eight month old baby family and community sympathy James Lewick home Sunday Sigsbee family at Lewick home Sunday Al Graham and son George guests of Fitch family Ed Huber sold hogs in Burt Mrs Henry Pramer and daughter visiting from St Paul J T Graham and sons and A A Graham guests of Schwick family last week Stormy week slowed farming Sunday sunshine brought farmers planting and tractors Ed Lindsay butchered a hog and lost a work horse hoping to buy a good team Mrs ines A A Graham transacted business in Algona Mae Christenson spent weekend at Middlecroft Farm Herman Putz horse fell ill but recovered wh ith loss of work horse would affect spring work
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Portland
Herman Pitts
Henry Nelson
Algona
Willie Rike
Newark
S. C
Fitch
James Lewick
E. Sigsbeek
H. J. Putz
Will Kregar
W F. Rike
Dr. Clepsaddle
T. Jandl
Angel of Death
Robert
Harvey
A. A. Graham
James Schwick
Ed Lindsay
Mae Christenson
Middlecroft Farm
Herman Putz
O. K
Whith
Mr. Puiz
Burt News Notes Highlights and Local Movements
W H M S to meet next Saturday with Mrs J H Graham on The Treasury topic. Della Darling visits from Algona for an indefinite stay at Dr Peters home. Oliver Graham returns from overseas after two years, with service in Coast Artillery and Anti Aircraft units, reaching New York March 26. Easter dinner planned by M F E Ladies on April 18. Winans buys 240 acre farm near Des Moines. Mrs Moore returns from Melvin, Russel Dexter visits, and a baby girl arrives for Chas Strayley in Halsey Oregon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Graham
the Treasury
Oliver
Camp Dodge
Jischarge
Des Moines
San Francisco
Coast Artillery
4Th Bat
Camp Merritt
New Jersey
France
St. Nazaire
Paris
Toul
Brest
New York
Monitor
M. FE
Winans
Minois
Moore
Melvin
Iowa
Will Anderson
Russel Dexter
Russel
Bella Plaine
Chas. Strayley
Halsey
Oregon
Stayley
Misa Louise Rilke
Local Notes Highlight Ills Events and Visits Across Burt
The weekly Burt column lists sick lists including Victor Mansmith and Steve Sharp as well as health updates for Mrs. Hawcott and Miss Alice Mike. It notes speaking events by R S Sherwood in Algona and Miss Della Darling's war nurse talk, plus a lecture misstep involving Dr Preston Bradley. Local socials include a card party, a basket social, and a dance with community attendance.
Organize to Pare Down Living Cost in Iowa Kitchens
Women in towns and colleges join a practical effort to reduce food costs by sharing notes and testing basic cooking techniques. They plan to measure grease drops and frying pan rust to determine what drives high grocery bills and aim to battle financial strain in Iowa kitchens.
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Adenti
Colleges
Ans
Iowa
Food divisions and a plan to track household spending
The Iowa War Savings committee outlines six food classes led by milk and a system to compare nutritive value with meat. It aims to produce monthly expense records by locality to guide economical daily purchases. Also listed are local farm ads for Duroc sows, a White Chester boar, hatching eggs, and twine and tankage for sale at the Farmers' Elevator.
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Iowa War Savings
Des Moines
For Sale Items From Iowa Farmers
Local classified notes advertise barbed wire at good prices from E L Hansen and J Hays retailing gear. Abbe Doden lists 400 bushels seed potatoes and a purebred two year old Black Angus bull. W F Hadler and Adolph Missell offer cattle and barley seed from Titonka and Wesley Iowa. Six fall steers offered by J B Panhkuk.
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Adolph Missell
Wesley
Iowa
Guaranteed Nursery Stock Sales Ad in Fort Atkinson
If you want bare wire see E L Hansen. To salesmen: stencil job, good pay. To buyers: send for free colored circular. The Coe Conversa & Edwards Co. Wisconsin's largest nursery Fort Atkinson Wisconsin.
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E. L. Hansen
Stencjob
Coe, Conversa & Edwards Co
Wisconsin
Fort Atkinson
Wie
Pershing Establishes Army University in Beaune France
General Pershing signed an order creating an American army university in Beaune France to educate 15 000 to 20 000 soldier students. The Army Educational Commission office moves from Paris to Beaune and offers courses in engineering liberal arts science and music. An agricultural exhibit will remain at Beaune, with costs of the educational program running to 700 000 dollars a month and books totaling 1 300 000 dollars sent overseas and paid for by the army.
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Paris
General Pershing
France
Beaune
MM. G. A. Army Educational Commission
Department of Agriculture
Y. BM
A. M. C. A. Wir Work Council
A. E
Army
Y M C A Offers Education Programs for Troops Abroad
At base camps ports and occupation zones education courses are supervised by the Y M C A to fill idle time. Short courses will aid those who are soon moved while a variety of classes will interest all personnel.
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Army of Occupation
YY Operates London Hotels Under American Control
London hotels including the Phlace Cosmo and Grafton have been taken over by the Americans M. C. A for full operation. The move expands the wartime occupation program in the United Kingdom as part of the broader effort to support the war plant of the YY.
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London
Phlace
Cosmo
Grafton
United Kingdom
Y. MG. AL
American Tables and the Soldier’s Restful Waiting
A satirical note on American billiard tables contrasted with British Marine England. The piece likens U S soldiers awaiting orders home to a grateful oasis and pokes fun at the perpetual hustle for space in the Y My O. Av hut and British Isle venues.
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England
Last Thoughts of Roosevelt Memo Revealed by North American Review
Colonel Harvey publishes a facsimile of a penciled memorandum by Theodore Roosevelt left hours before his death. The note urges unity in the Republican Party to address domestic policies and avoid splits, signaling a clear party program and call to action for Washington.
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Harvey
North American Review
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
United Republican Party
George Harvey
Republican Party
Hays Sea Lim
Washington
Senate
House
Roosevelt's Departing Words to His Countrymen
Col Roosevelt died about four o'clock on January 6. A New York Hippodrome rally featured a message read from him written for the occasion. The key line states we have room for but one flag and one loyalty, the American people.
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Col. Roosevelt
New York Hippodrome
Oronze Hero Van Epps Recalls Y M C A Frontline Years
Chicago Y M C A worker Van Epps told of his WWI service with the American Expeditionary Force. He survived torpedoing near Wales, served as stretcher bearer in Alsace and Argonne, slept in a barn under fire, and conducted a makeshift service while lying on a stretcher.
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Chicago
Y. M. GA
Hnes
Frank M. Yau Epps
Argonne
Y. M. C.A. College
France
Oronze
van Epps
Alsace
Wales
Hollyheag
Soldiers to Study Paris Hueg Education Plan Progress
General Rees arrives from Washington to oversee army education work. Textbooks are racing overseas to meet soldiers demands for instruction. Post schools grow at 40 to 50 divisions with officers and men joining French and British universities to expand capacity.
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Paris
Rees
Washington
War Department
Army
M. G. A. Army Educational Commission
John Erskine
Columbia University
General Praises Y. M. C. A. in Paris
Brig. Gen. J P O'Neil of the Ninetieth division lauds the Y M C A in Paris calling it exemplary and notes a few employees, including one who joked he earned a Distinguished Service Cross after getting tangled with Bowie shells. He urges continued work and says the deeds will leave a lasting impression on his division.
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Paris
J P. O'Neil
Ninetieth
Recognition Proposed for NY YMCA Worker in Russia
A cable message to the YMCA national war work council reports that the commander of the American and Allied expedition in northern Russia has recommended Howard B. Merrill of New York for a suitable honor after his calm conduct during a surprise attack on the forces he was serving.
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Russia
Howard B. Merrill
New York
Ion
Serting
Y. M. C. A. National War Work Council
Plan Educational Courses for American Officers at English Universities
English universities prepare to welcome American officers and men for collegiate, special, or post graduate courses under the army educational commission scheme set by the United States Army and the American.
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Army Educational Commission
United States Army
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City Drag Line
Willie Ricklefs
Prop
AL Falkenhainer
U.S. Employment Service
T.S. Dept. of Labor
the Hawk
Gerret DeBruyn
Woden
DeBrayn & Son's
Iona
J. E. Kei
Titouka, Iowa
Farmers Elevator Company
Anton Holcomb
the Farmers’ Cooperative Society
Wm. Spangler
Chas
C. Colgan
Bancroft
J. P. Haggard
First National Bank
W. B. Quarton & TD
Quarton Law
Kossuth County State Bank
Henry Meyer
Sgrance Meyer
Titonka
E. G. Bruns
ACTO
Roy C. Ball
Calla
Pierre Sartor
Titonka, Iowa
J. Clapsaddle
HP. Calla
Tople Building
N. D. Ray
Marmington & Dickinson
First National ‘Bank
Lowa
Pepe Lee
Burt News
Victor Mansmith
B. V. Daniels
B W Brooke
Geo Patterson Sr
R. S. Sherwood
Presbyterian Church
Birs
J. P. Cunningham
Preston Bradley
Britt
Burl
Wess Householder
Ft. Logan
Steve Sharp
Thompson
Card Club
McLeod
Royal
W. A. McArthur
Ed Longley
Langley
R. F. Hawcott
Kansas City
Alma Williamson
Alice Mike
Zada Grover
Bancroft High School
Della Darling
Algonas
Dr. Peters
Miss Darling
Verna Ringsdorf
Miss Ringsdorf
Sibley
J. B. Cunningham
L. A. Dani Fels Farm
Ernest Polhemus
Burt Boys
August Bollinger
Cylinder
Farrow
Nelson Bros
White Chester
Pete Schwartz
Towa
S. C. Rhode Island
Bernari Phelps
Titanka
J Hays
W. PF
Hadler
J. B
Panhkuk
Middle Alsace
St. Mihiel
Madedelne Farm
Thomas F. Andley
Secon
Hadley
Yar Epps
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