President Urges Farmers to Aid With Big Crops
President calls for supreme effort and sacrifice from farmers, highlighting federal support for credit, nitrates, seed supply, and labor adjustment. He cites record wartime crop yields, urges continued high productivity, and promises government help to curb profiteering while expanding farm incentives.
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Department of Agriculture
Federal Reserve
Joan Banks
Ahamec
Deepartment
Congress
Ars
Sng
Solv
RECST
Involyet
Tabor
Anerica
American Newspapers Unite the Nation in War Effort
Talcott Williams argues that American newspapers have unified the nation during wartime, detailing how the press educated and mobilized public opinion, supported by Columbia University’s School of Journalism, and noting the professionalization and increased demands on editors and reporters amid rising newsprint costs and advertising shifts.
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Talcott Williams
Oh L. HL
Pulizer School of Journalism
Columbia University
Theodorn Roosevelt
Belgium
Republic
School of Journalism
Mau
Country
America
United States
Wilson
Associated Press
Thia
Ian
New York
Philadelphia
Ihis
Federal Trade
Farmers Aid in Freedom War Across America
A call to support men seeking freedom, recalling Lexington farmers who sparked the revolution. The speaker urges America’s farmers to stand by in this war, praising their toil, intelligence, energy, foresight, and sacrifice to end arbitrary government and class control, and to affirm American identity.
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Lexington
America
Farmers of
Teachers Institute Opens at East High
The Teachers Institute for all county educators began at 9 a.m. at East High School with 275 attendees. Dean William F. Stussell of the Iowa University education department spoke on The War and Education and later on A Trip Through a School. Tomorrow C. Y P. Colegrove of Upper Iowa University will headline sessions, replacing Dr. Ernest Tiern. The triangular declamatory contest among Cedar Falls East and West high schools was the highlight of the evening program.
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Black Hawk County
East High School
William F. Stussell
Department of Education
Iowa University
Pr. C. Y P. Colegrove
Upper Iowa. University
Housemaids Scarce as Result of War
New York January 31 shortage of house servants nationwide with no relief in sight and no surpluses to draw from. The United States Employment Service says no region has a surplus of domestics and cites Indianapolis Omaha Mobile and Portland Oregon as hardest hit. War conditions raise female employment opportunities and decline immigration as reasons.
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New York
United States Employment Service
Department of Labor
Indianapolis
Omaha
Mobile
Portland
Ore
Pershing Attends High War Council Meeting
Versailles January 30 Gen Pershing commander of the American forces and Gen Tasker Bliss chief of staff attended a supreme war council session. The crowd on Boulev ard de la Reine was thick and police reinforced guards at the Trianon palace where the meeting ran from 3 p.m. to about 6 p.m.
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Versailles
Gen. Pershing
Supreme War Council
Tasker H. Bliss
Boulevard de la Reine
Trianon Palace
Eniaist School Boys for Agricultural Work
A campaign to enlist town boys aged 16 to 20 for agricultural work runs Feb 25 to March 2. J T Houser, MCA secretary, says Waterloo will supervise via public school superintendents with the MCA as recruiting headquarters. A meeting at the MCA office will finalize details tomorrow night.
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J. T. Houser
MCA
Waterloo
MLO. A
Allied ATR attack on a Zeppelin base hinted
A distant explosion and fire near Friedrichshafen likely mark an Allied aerial strike against the Zeppelin works noted in a Rosenberg telegram. Three navy recruits from the local area, James H. Laird Carol T. Acuff and Edward C. Larson, enlist as apprentice seamen. Aurora, Illinois, claims the first city to have electric street lighting installed in 1881.
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ATR
Friedrichshafen
St. Gall
Rosenberg
NAVY
James H. Laird
Carol T. Acuff
Jesup
Edward C. Larson
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Testimony Promotes Fruitola Traxo For Stomach Trouble Relief
W C Dillehay of Nashville testifies after his wife’s gallstone crisis failed by doctors the Fruitola and Traxo remedies eased suffering without surgery. Sold by Wangler Bros and C J Miller in Monticello Illinois. Fruitola lubricates intestines and Traxo acts as a tonic alterative to rebuild weakened systems. A booklet from Pinus Laboratories Monticello Illinois is available.
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W. C. Dillehar
Morton St
Nashville
Tenn
Fpjnus Laboratories
Dillehay
Rfter
Edsali
The
Virus Laboratories
Monticello
Ils
Wangler Bros. Co
East Fourth St
C. J. Miller
West Fourth St
Pinus Laboratories
Tlinois
Letters From Waterloo Boys in the Service
First Sergeant Loren J. Berry, in England with hospital corps, writes from a transport to Evacuation Hospital No. 1 A E F describing voyage, sea sickness, and sights, praising England, the war effort, and hope for peace. He asks relatives to keep mail coming and notes renewed mail service and a new mess hall for Waterloo troops.
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Loren J. Berry
England
Waterloo
America
Central States
United States
New York Subway
France
Loren
Frank L. Nauman
Robert
Blanket Room Supervisor Seeks Training Over Schooling
Robert, in charge of the blanket room in the quartermaster department, writes he feels he is receiving solid business training in place of the schooling he left to exist. He emphasizes practical experience and duties shaping his professional growth.
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Robert
Quartermaster Department
Free Employment Bureau to Open in Waterloo
A state free employment bureau will be established in Waterloo within two weeks if a location is found. The Waterloo Commercial club will provide rooms and host the board meeting to appoint officials. The club will keep rooms open until 10 p.m. daily except Saturday as per fuel administrator’s request.
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Waterloo
Waterloo Commercial Club
Commercial Club
Explosion at Newport torpedo station ruled not enemy work
Washington January 21 naval officials conclude the Newport Rhode Island torpedo station explosion was not the work of an enemy after careful investigation and technical review. The inquiry points to internal causes rather than hostile action.
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NAVAL
Washington, D. C
Naval Torpedo Station
Newport
R. 1
Careful investigation into ordnance damage in bomb proof site
A careful investigation repaired the ordnance bureau and reported pounds of illuminate of merc destroyed by the explosion. The blast occurred in the dry house situated in a former bomb proof, prompting a detailed inquiry into the incident.
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Tadbott Williams
Teachers Institute
East High
Pershing
High War Council
Eniaist School
Aurora
Dellehay
Black Hawk Bank
Mets Cascara BP
Free Employment Bureau
Bridge Street
Pyramid Drug Company
Pyramid Bidg
Marshall, Mich
Weseesenes
Smart Shop
East Fourth Street
Vaceenen
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