Special Election Notice on Gas Works Bonds for Estherville Iowa
The city of Estherville Iowa announces a special election on October 18 1918 from 8 PM to 7 PM to decide on extending the municipal gas works system and issuing bonds up to 30000 dollars. Voting places include First Ward 622 East Howard Street Second Ward Court Room Court House Third Ward City Hall 222 South Sixth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estherville
Iowa
East Howard St
Court Room
Court House
City Hall
Cial
Exstherville
Town
Son
Weil
Mack J. Groves
Cootie Garments Sent to France by War Dept
War Department orders shipment of anti vermin garments to the Rain bow Division. Several thousand boys in the division will receive cootie garments from Iowa via an order from the surgeon general. A request from the office of the surgeon general reached Mrs East.
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War Department
Rainbow Division
Towa
Surgeon General
Mrs. East
Cootie garment shipment planned amid war effort
A large shipment of roughly five thousand garments, treated in summer and newly arriving from state workers, will be sent overseas via army freight. Mrs Eastman seeks parcel post but government orders push by rail. Eastman discusses Iowa anti vermin coat clothes with officials in Washington as past funding interruptions ease. The October 1918 ownership statement lists publishers, editors, and stockholders of the Estherville Vindicator and Republican, with Geo A Nichols as editor and manager.
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Iversity Laboratories
Vindicator and Republican Co
Estherville
Iowa
Geo. A. Nichols
Fville
E Vindicator and Republican Co
8 Corporation
G. A. Nichols
H. T. Nichols
W. E. Deming
M. K. Whelan
J. P.kirby
E J. Breen
Fort Dodge
Frank P. Woods
Washington, D. C
Co. B. Graham
Tea Party and the Kaiser in a Grand War Verse
A verse narrative contrasts colonial tea protests with World War I themes. It references Mohawk Boston men, Hessians, Bunker Hill, and Warren, then shifts to a call to support war bonds to defeat Germany. The piece blends historical and contemporary war rhetoric with patriotic urging to buy Fighting Loans.
Farmers at start of two vital campaigns
The United States farmer enters two crucial drives as 1919 wheat harvest and the Fourth Liberty Loan, the Fighting Loan, begin. Producers expected to sow 47,500,000+ acres of winter wheat to avert next year’s crop shortfalls, uniting for food defense and wartime financing. The drives will bolster morale, support allied efforts, and empower Uncle Sam to press the war thus toward victory and peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Sam
Armiea
What Liberty Bonds Can Do For War Effort
A reading on Liberty Bonds shows their value in supporting the war. One five hundred dollar bond funds weapons, equipment, medical supplies, and food, enabling soldiers and sailors to be clothed, fed, and equipped for overseas service, while supporting the medical and logistical needs of the department. The piece outlines multiple concrete uses from ammunition to vaccines and bandages.
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Meileat Department
War Savings pledge urged by patriotism and duty
Thrift Bits states that all 100 percent Americans should fulfill their War Savings pledges. It calls readers a better American for keeping the pledge and urges more to do so in the name of patriotism and duty.
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E. W. Bachman
Onberg & Kilgate Block
North Seventh St
A. Anderson
Ice
Rhodes
R. G. Ross
Sixth and
Howard Streets
M. E. Wilson
Kilgore & Klocow
Holwe
B. Soper
Alexander Soper
Alexander
Emmet County
R. D. Heydenburk
J. I. Clinite
D. D
Iowa Savings Bank
Washington D. C
Mississippi
Fuel Administration
France
Dolliver
Frank Wertz
Foshier & Erb
THOS
Louis Albert
Lamb
Ayerandstre
Fea
George
Boston
Port King George
Cap. Barker
Bunker
Warren
Old Berlin
Bill
Kaiser
Germany
Berlin
Liberty Loan
The
Estherville State Bank
Emmet County Land and Abstract Company
Fithervicle
Arnnamoney Angus
Abertrand
Emmat
Eagle Clothing
Howard Espeset
World News
Col
William Boyce Thompson
New York
Home Paper Service of America
Red Cross Committee
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