Iowa Farm Woman Clinck Tops Midwestern Experimental Farming
Mrs. Klinck of Clarksville Iowa earned top honors at state and national fairs for her exceptional collection of farm products. Her exhibits, including corn wheat oats and vegetables, set records across years 1915 1917 and 1918 while she taught agriculture in institutes and promoted handicraft as part of farm life She is associate editor of The Farmers Wife and vice president of the Women Farm Managers association She describes her path from schooling to farm life and her belief that farm work blends science craft and education to build homes and communities.
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ORN
Amrts
Fannie Kinck
Clarksville
Middlewest
Iowa
Hlinek
Peoria, Jr
United States
Italy
Mexico
Russia
China
Panama
Belgium
Klinck
Klinek
Teneriffe
Farmer's Wife
Women Farm Managers’ Association of
Jone
Mother
Mme
Oklahoma Grain Company
Thoroby
Farry
Des Moines
Farmers’ Institute
Pole County
Wichita
Kansas
Heavenly Father
A Message From a Worker on Farm Progress and Equality
A worker urges each county to have a model farm home for the county agent and promotes farm women’s clubs joining the National Congress of Farm Women. She links national success to women’s efforts in poultry, gardens, and wheatless meals, asking lawmakers to reserve grains for nourishing use and to advance world peace and equal rights.
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National Congress of Farm Women
Soldiers to be taught how to avoid sickness
New educational effort begins in U S Army training camps within ten days. A poster exhibit on tuberculosis health prepared by the National Association for Study and Prevention of TB will be used by the Y M C A War Work Council educational bureau. Artist James Daugherty created the panels showing diseases spread by close contact, coughing and sneezing hazards, and outbreaks of measles, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and venereal disease. Twenty sets are prepared. one per camp in the United States and in France, with a stock health lecture and a health advice folder titled Red Blood.
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York
United States Army
National Association For the
Educational Bureau
War Work Council
James Daugherty
France
Fearful Lest Jr Keeps Hole Out of Army
An anxious Waterloo registrant from Oklahoma jail writes local authorities about a 30 day county jail term and asks if he is in the National Army service call to be examined. He requests exam papers be sent to him and asks not to be transferred.
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Waterloo
National Army Service
Oklahoma
Rapid mental calculation feats spurred by memory training
The article notes a Korean record for rapidity at Geures with a person who, mentally, added a column of 25 four‑digit numbers in seven seconds. It implies interest in serial order and call numbers while highlighting astonishing quickness.
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Geures
Township Buys Heavily of War Savings Stamps
Cedar Falls reports Lester township pledges and sales totaling 11045 in war savings stamps from nine districts. With part of Black Hawk’s district six canvassed, committeemen Walter Glaus and Charles E. Thierman cite stamps sold at 1575. An advertised letters list from Waterloo includes numerous names and local offices. Postmaster M. L. Kelly signs.
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Cedar Falls
Lester Township
Leo H. Paulger
Floyd P. Davis
Jtownship Waector
Black Haw Township
Walter Glaus
Charles E. Thierman
Food Souring Causes Indigestion Diapepsin Promoted
An old advertisement touts Pope's Diapepsin as a quick harmless antacid to stop food souring and relieve indigestion. It claims it neutralizes acids in five minutes and lets the stomach digest meals, noting the product costs fifty cents and is sold in drug stores.
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Pape
Mothers Promote VapoRub For Colds In Children
A long vintage advertisement extols Vicks VapoRub as a safe external remedy for children with colds bronchitis and related illnesses. It urges outdoor exercise fresh air and nightly vapors with a 25 cent trial offer refundable if unsatisfied, claiming quick relief for croup and nocturnal attacks.
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Jrainie M. Wlinek
Courier and Reporter
Fannie M
Mrs. Pannie M. Klinck
Lester
Imn
R. P. Band
R. EF. Bates
Mabel W Halleschmidt
John Borrmosier
Mae Hlume
W. S. Brown
Bettle Butterworth
Metta Burge
A. Channan
Agnes Dombroske
Lou Douglas
Agnes Dunbrousky
Glade Butterfield
William Carroll
J. Cool
Gifford Croskrey
M. H. Danner
John Dawson
M. D. Efde
A. Franchere
Frank Grensky
Harvey Graydon
E. P. Guyer
Jesse Harper
Andy Hardeson
Grover Housh
Fred S. Kerslake
R. C. King
King
Klein
Joseph Knoutler
Saibador Segarki
T. J. Lockard
Granson Loving
M. J. McCaffrey
Herford McKinney
John McCoy
John Marsden
John
Maxfield
H. W. Nauman
John Shambocq
Simons
Harry Smith
Johna
Jeson
Millgan Washington
John Walders
Walter Witty
F. D. Winters
James B.woolson
Sullivan
Waterloo Dairy Co
West Bros. Coppers Stock Co
M.il Kelly
Bell-Ans
Ally
Scott’s
Scott & Bowne
Bloomfield
North Carolina
Vick
South
Toca
Davidson Bidg
Ing Cuscha
Athe Ver Ver
Atri Lea Pe
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