Community Notes and Local Movements Near Wesley
Wesley area social life updates include Mrs. Frank Wolff hosting Mothers Society, Miss Myrtle Emmons visiting from Emmons, and the Kunz Grain Co installing a new scale. People travel for work and visits, with J. H. Rieber leaving for Rutland Iowa and the Thompsons moving to Peru Illinois.
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Frank Wolff
Mothers’ Society
G. M. Butts
Odd Fellows Convention
Mason City
Myrtle Emmons
Emmons
Town
Braley
Miss Emmons
California
Mike Matern
J. H. Rieber
Kunz Grain Cs
Rutland
Iowa
Will Sherman
Sutherland
J. D. Thompson
Peru
Illinois
Thompon
Kunz Grain Co
Homer Lawson
A H. Braley
Britt
West
Walter Elwell
Minnesota
J. W. Hopkins
George Hall
George
France
Kunz
Rockford
Hog sale notice from Bulgo Hgars at Titonka Iowa
A fragmentary sale notice lists five pure Duroc Jersey hogs weighing pounds for sale. Reader references include Al Worsley of Titonka Iowa and E T Hansen. The incomplete text mentions hog water and NK Hog Waterer.
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AL Worsley
Titonka Lowa
Iowa Folks Get More Sugar Now
The Food Administration announces an increased monthly sugar allotment for Iowa residents from two to three pounds per capita effective November 1. It emphasizes sugar conservation remains crucial and urges continued public sacrifice as exports must rise by half to meet wartime needs.
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J. P.deems
United Skates
la Feny
United States
Food Administration
Fragmentary note on color symbolism and imagery
A fragmented text discusses color use as symbols of happiness and death. It notes that literature offers no clear statements about color superiority and hints that brightness and redness may carry stronger associations.
Food relief and farming duty amid postwar famine threats
The message urges continuing food saving to feed allies and reach 17,54,000 tons of food to Europe, warning of global shortages and high prices after peace. It emphasizes American farmers bear historic responsibility and opportunity to feed starving populations in Roumania Russia Poland Finland and allied nations.
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America
Roumania
Russian
Poland
Fineland
Europe
English horseflesh order issued to curb consumption
The English food control department issues a horseflesh sales order effective October 21, 1915 to regulate slaughter and sale for human consumption. It requires full registration of all retail dealers, designates licensed slaughterhouses, and restricts slaughter to approved facilities except in humane or public interest cases.
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England
J. F. Deens
Arington
Caxes
Britain takes control of wholesale milk trade
The British ministry of food assumes control of wholesale milk distribution across Great Britain to ensure fair supply amid shortage. Two orders empower the food controller to regulate districts and to take over premises in wholesaling and manufacturing of milk and related products. A representative committee will advise the controller on upcoming steps. W. C. Harper of Ottumwa, Iowa, requests conferences with Iowa milk producers to discuss state business, with meetings planned in counties.
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Great Britain
Gut
Hilg
W. C. Harper
Ottumwa
U. S. Food Administration
Iowa
Green Stacks Signal Thresher Trouble In Iowa
The United States Food Administrator J I Deems asks Iowa farmers to report green straw stacks indicating grain left by threshers. He urges repairs and extra machinery readiness for next season to prevent waste and delays during busy harvest periods.
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United States
J. I. Deems
Burlington
Nature
Sood
United States Food Administration
Iowa
Foe
J. Deems
Towa
Communal Kitchen Plan Expands in Iowa Towns
United States Food Administrator announces next year plans to establish communal kitchens in every town of any size in Iowa. Ot Tumwe hosts the first permanent educational kitchen under the council of national defense, US food administration, with Mrs. J B McCarroll and others guiding demonstrations at the Bissell potato store and county homes.
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United States
Dees
Ottumwe 1
Women's Committee
Council of National Defense
United States Food Administration
J. B. McCarroll
SK. VW. Pollock
Homer Y. Harris
Martel Trepkins
Bissell
Hotel Ofdumwa
Wapelio County
Wopkins
The Program for Food Conservation in 1918-19
The United States pledges to send 50 percent more food to allies and vastly increase supplies. The plan targets 67 percent more meat and fat 52 percent more breadstuffs and 21 percent more sugar than last year, with 6 million more tons needed. Citizens urged to save food buy less cook less eat less and waste nothing.
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United States
Moere
Jess
Food shortages hit France and Britain with wartime limits
Reports show France facing a grave potato crop drop from 12 million to 7.5 million long tons and widespread rationing in Great Britain including sugar jam and molasses. England tightens controls on horse use, hay records, straw, and feeding stuffs while Russia reports soaring prices for bread butter and milk. France sees hog numbers fall 48 percent year to year as feeding stuffs dwindle.
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France
England
Army
Navy
M. Boret
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Food Administration Chief Sets Des Moines Conference
United States Food Administrator Fr Deems plans a staff conference in Des Moines on November 26 at Chamberlain Hall. County food administrators and assistants, women’s committee chairs and staff will discuss the December 1 to week long conservation plan and future county meetings. Mrs Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale will attend and address the staff.
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United States
Deems
Washington
Ale. Tonver
The
Food Administration
Des Moines
Chamberlain Hole
Women's
Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale
Substitutes Lifted in Iawa Bread Making
Administrator J. B. Decins issues order cancelling substitute requirements for bread in lawa. Householders bakers no longer restricted to substitute flour and white bread may not return to prewar consumption. Public note suggests substitutes will remain in use though consumption may vary.
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Fond
J. B. Decins
Lawa
Food Administration
After the War What of Food Control
Herbert Hoover discusses continuing food control after World War I. He warns that abandoning export regulation could trigger famine in the United States and Europe and stresses rebuilding European animal herds, expanding hog production, and maintaining conservation to prevent future shortages. He notes challenges from droughts and the need to move cattle by train and replenish animal reserves for milk, fat, and meat.
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Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
Willian
Abney Wollt
Callier
Russia
Poland
Koumania
Serbia
Europe
Wolff
Willion
National Food Program Obligations and Individual Duty
A fragment discusses the 1018-18 food program as both national and personal obligation. It asserts the nation has never failed to meet its duties and states the individual must not fail in theirs. The text emphasizes collective responsibility and civic duty.
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Itrite
Bey Re
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E.T. Hansen
Bes Moines
Iawa
Eter
the Hawk
Gerret DeBruyn
Woden
DeBruyn & Son’s
Farmers Elevator Company
Anton Holcomb
Farmers’ Co-operative Society of Wesley
Wm. Spangler
D. FE
Reil
Tonka
Henry Meyer Real Estate and Insurance
Meyer's Reanl Estate
Titonka
B. G. Bruns
Roy C. Bale
N. BD. Ray
Woden, Towa
Harrington & Dickinson Attorneys
Tata
First National Bank
Algona
M. BP. Haggard
National Bank
Quarton
Quarton An Law
Kossuth
County State Bank
WSIL
Chester
Germania
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