Farmers and Pirates of the Sea War Aide
The article argues heavy snows favor farmers with higher future yields but strain Washington’s logistics. It urges Liberty Loans to fund the war, defends shipping from U boat threats, and promotes farm labor mobilization and a two million strong agricultural army. It also notes morale among troops and debates labor shortages for farm work while stressing national unity and sacrifice.
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Progressives gain in platform clash at St Louis
Iowa editors report the stand-out Republican wing ousted John T. Adams for chairman, replaced by Willis H. Hass of Indiana, signaling progressive leadership for 1918. Conservatives and progressives clashed over loyalty and policy as Adams remains national committee chair.
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Republican Party
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Indiana
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Republicans elect Indiana man as national committee chair
Press commentary discusses the St Louis selection of a new national committee chairman, focusing less on the individual and more on the implications for party unity, stance on the Wilson administration, and which forces shaped the choice. It notes Hayes faced as a second choice after Adams faced controversy over a pro German letter and reflects on the chair's influence in a reduced era of power.
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MclCombs
Wartime family diet and malaria Q&A guidance
The excerpt outlines a wartime daily food allowance for a manual worker with meatless and wheatless days, detailing breakfast lunch and dinner components and substitutes. It also includes a reader question about chronic malaria symptoms and a doctor's advised plan emphasizing blood tests, a drug-free month, climate change, and rest for the patient.
Vitality Extravagance in a Busy Life
A columnist warns against vitality extravagance the over extended use of strength. The piece cites a man who died at 61 after an overdrawing of energy and others who burn out at 45 or 50. It contrasts cramming pleasures and motherhood with borrowing strength from the future and from nature, noting finance and time as heavy interest generators. It also acknowledges times when extravagance may be worthwhile if the value justifies the cost.
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iMalaria
The Sunday Dinner Chase of Reddy and Fox
In a rustic fable style, Reddy Fox and Jack Rabbit tempt fate with a plump duck for Sunday dinner. The plan backfires as a farmer and a rival fox pursue the birds, revealing lessons about timing and hunting on Sunday. A second chase follows over a plump hen, ending with Fox escaping and vowing wiser conduct. The piece closes with a reflective note and an income tax table fragment.
Wartime Lexicon Lingo of No Man's Land
A compact glossary from 1918 defines artillery registration and terms used in trench warfare. It explains registered targets, observation posts, Blighty, Minnie shells, retaliation fire, cushy duties, waders, machine gun nests, and listening posts with concise wartime usage notes.
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NO Man's Land
Hecrulting Mission
Freon
England
Lick the Kaiser slogan stirs U S unity in Brook lyn
In a Brook lyn address Vice-President Marshall urged a single purpose among about 3000 listeners promising decisive action over peace talk. British officials praised American self sacrifice while citing Hoover’s figures of bacon and frozen meat from the conservation drive amid wartime shipping delays.
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Bache Review
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Canada
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Hoover
Hood's Sarsaparilla Peptiren Pills Ad Offered
An advertisement promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla and Peptiren with Nux iron and sarsaparilla, claiming they cooperate to improve blood, nerves, and digestion. The text suggests use before meals and after, notes benefits for scrofulous, rheumatic, anaemic, and nervous conditions, and mentions Hood's Pills as a laxative.
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Fifty Years Ago In The Courier
Fifty years ago in The Courier dated February 20 1808 reports a new law firm joining Clinton's Adjutant General Baker in the city with Mr O C Miller and welcomes the partnership. A Cedar Falls sleighing party visits, a new flouring mill near completion expected March 15, and temperature swings from 30 below to 40 above in a week. Street lamp demonstrations by W W Ferry draw interest. A marriage occurs February 11 at the bride’s mother's East Waterloo home between Joseph McIntire and Elizabeth Chapman. Burglars loot A Butterfield’s granary at Reymond. a mention notes the thiefs are known and likely headed to the penitentiary.
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James L. Husted
Fortieth Year Items And Local Anecdotes From 1878
Forty years ago on Wednesday February 20 1878 Andrew Hunt aged 67 died February 9 in his 13th year a native of New York state. Last Sunday night Sidney Toman was shot at near Independence as two men fired on the carriage he rode in. Toman fought back and drove to town though wounded in the head. A Marshalltown man bets $150 he can eat a quall y day for 30 days. A hoodlum damaged Grace M church window with a stone Saturday night. A. C. Brataber shipped cows to A. B. Chatfield at Lyle Illinois for $26 per head. A Barclay squire swapped horses with an old acquaintance and received a kick next day prompting another exchange and a vow to quit swaps.
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Twenty Years Ago Highlights February 1898 News Briefs
A compact roundup notes Major Groat organizing relief for Cuban sufferers, L L Williams buys a Chicago bakery, weddings include William Brandhorst and Miss Eu nice Dewitt in Slack Hawk township and De Walter M Heal with Miss Mary E Sweitzer in Lincoln township, a kindergarten group forms led by Mrs Newcomb, and Mendelesohr club taps new leadership. Also mentions a Waterloo physician petition to kill the osteopathic bill, Dr Hines's death in Jesup, a bookish concert by Distence Eddy with Daisy Hileman and Prof. Gerritsen, and Daniel Hoover planning a March 4 selling out before moving to Waterloo. plus wartime strains and a Kansas City Star note on letters affecting party leadership.
Simple Way to Take Off Fat Ad Ad Claims Easy Weight Loss
An advertisement promotes Marmola Prescription Tablets as a load free weight loss method. It promises four daily tablets with no dieting or exercise and claims effortless slimming while asserting the tablets are harmless. It instructs purchasing from a druggist or sending money to Marmola Co. in Detroit, Michigan.
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Woodward Ave
Detroit
Mich
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