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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-09

The young men Of the city are IN
vited to hear Mr.. Boswells special SER
mon. tonight at the Central Church Of
Christ. The subject win be, "A Lost
Parad fRos (nmmfttee ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-09

Beginning with Sunday, Nov. II, the
Sunday dinners at the Stoddart cafe
are to be 60 cents. The price will
enable us to keep our dinners up to the
Stoddart standard. Stoddart'S
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-09

Attend our candy sale-fig squares,
16 cents pound; cocoanut bon bons, 10
cents pound: chocolate bon bons. 10
| cents pound; chocolate nutovers. Is
cents pound. One Cent to 80 Cent
Variety Store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-09

We give green trading stamps. Why
not trade here and fill your book quick
ly? Sanitary. grocery.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-09

Mary Gardens chocolates, fresh each
week and kept on Ice. Old Reliable
Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-09

Rev. and Mrs. r. B. Davidson arrived
home Thursday evening from q two
weeks visit with relatives and friends
az Detroit, Mich. and Cleveland, o. AT
Detroit, Rev. Mr.. Davidson assisted
IN the dedicatory services Of the new
building Of the Warren avenue Baptist
church, Of which he was former pas
tor, and gave an address on the sub.
ject, "The Baptists and Democracy"
The Winslow mail., 1917-11-16

least ia on it's way to you. Each one
of our 1S cantonments, where the new
national army is being trained, is
using more than a million sheets OF
thiS paper every month. In the draft
army alone that means 100000 fila
ments of love every month reaching
oCst from the great encampment where
the men are being trained into the
greatest army this nation has ever
dreamed and binding them to the
hearts at home. Multiply that by
thinking of all the other places where
Uncle Sam has men with the f1ag-ir
navy yards, on the high seas, in arse
malls and officers training camps and
over There" in France. In all these
places men are writing home. Those
unasguming little sheets Of notepapel
gladden. millions of hearts a day
They transfer more love from one
The Winslow mail., 1917-11-16

out of money orders by which the men
lilies. In some of the big camps the
Y. NJ c. A. is providing banking facil-
tiles for the men as well.
Do Your Bit With a Tenner
This month (November) the Y. M.
C. A. must raise $35,0O0,000 to carry
on its work among our soldiers and
their allies until next July. Of this
$35,000,000 about $24,000,000 will be
spent on the work with our own troops
or about $40 for every man in Uncle
Sans uniform. If everybody who has
received letters from soldiers and sail
ors were to contribute $40 the task
would be easy. Are your boys health
and happiness and clean soul worth
SO to you?
Your town mayor, your pastor, your
school superintendent will know who
is the treasurer of the campaign COM
mittee in your county or town. Other
wise send a check or money order to
Cleveland H. Dodge, treasurer, 124
East Twenty-eighth street, New York
city.
Only sacrificial giving by millions Of
givers will make possible the contin-
uance of this vast work for American
soldiers and for those of our allies.
Sewing machines for rent or
sale. Babbitt Mercantile Co.
The Winslow mail., 1917-11-16

In each of these soldier was strum-
ming on a piano; others were reading
books and magazines; hundreds were
writing letters home. Behind the
raised counter at one end three or four
young men were busy passing out
notepaper and envelopes, selling
stamps and weighing parcels, which
the men were sending home. One OF
the soldiers said to me as | stood in
the tent used chiefly by men from
Iowa: 1--WE came all the way here
from Des Moines, and we were mighty
lonely. Then we found this Y. nj. c..
A. on the job, and it's been home
and more than a home to us. 1t gave
us what we wanted when we needed
1t most. Well never forget it. The
boys best friend is the Y. M. c. A"
Fine, cIean-Cut, Outstanding FeloW@s
How close those benches were pack
ed with men, bending over the long
tables absorbed in their writing!
What an appeal to the sympathies
those great groups of soldiers make!
Fine, clean-cut, outstanding fellows,
some of them mere boys, one thinks
Immediately of the sacrifice they have
made for the rest of us and how pre-
cfous they are to some one back home.
Somewhere, in far off farm or village
or city street, there are parents or
brothers or wives who would give all
they possess for one glimpse of those
sunburned faces as you and see
them on their last night before going
across And it was with throb OF
the heart that | watched them, bent
over their letter paper, in one after
another of those seven big tents.
These were the tents of the Y. M. c.
A. On that last night in America the
association was serving the soldiers
in the best of all ways-giying them
an opportunity to write home. On
previous nights they had enjoyed box
ing bouts, movies, concerts, dramatics
and score of healthy entertainments
as well as religious meetings. But on
this last night home ties were strong
est And perhaps that is the keynote
of the splendid work the Y. M c. A.
is doing among our men in uniform
keeping them in touch with home,
Magic Words, with the CoIors."
In these times there are some let.
ters that mean more to us than any
we have ever read before. They are
written on sheets of paper stamped
with the Stars and Stripes and the
red triangle of the Y NJ G. A, and
they bear the magic words, With the
Colors" There are many more than
q million such letters in the mails now
while you read this. Perhaps one at
The Winslow mail., 1917-11-16

NT was evening on the broad
u Hampstead Plain, Long 1aland'
where the Rainbow division was
spending it's last night before EMBARK
ing for France. 1t had been raining
hard in the afternoon-a cold, steady
autumn downpour-and there was
nothing to suggest the rainbow in the
outward aspect of the camp. Lines
and lines of sodden canvas housed
$1,000 men, gathered from 27 differeRG
states. The ground was dotted with
pools and quagmires. Under the wet
canvas it was damp and cold, with @
penetrating chill Lit by Pickering
candles, the tents were far from cheer
full shelter for a mans last night in
his native land.
But there were seven big tents
where electric lights, numbers and
friendliness made the night pleasant.
The Winslow mail., 1917-11-16

forego coveted possessions or even ne
cessities. The work must go on, be-
cause there is no ons thing that con-
tributes 30 much to the spirit and eT-
ficiency Of the troops. The Y. M. g.
A. Is working night and day to help
the government win this war. And
every penny that Is given to aid the
work is q direct assistance to the
health, happiness and strength OF your
boy and mine
Snapshots of kaleidoscope Work.
In all the big cities in France where
our men pass through in large num-
bers, the Y. NJ G. A. is operating
hostels, where they can get beds and
meals at minimum cost. In London
the American Y. NJ. C. A. mas erected
a large building for our soldiers and
clubhouse for American officers.
There are Y. M. C. A. dugouts right
behind the front line trenches, where
the soldiers can get hot drinks, crack
ers and other comforts at all hours.
Over 1000 men who had been reject
ed on account Of physical disability
have been able to get into the British
army by reason of the physical work
of the British Y. M. G. A.
A feet of motor cars leaves the big
Y. M G. A. headquarters in London at
midnight every night to pick up SOL
diers who are wandering about the
streets without any wholesome lodging
in which to spend the night. These
cars are operated by Englishwomen
of position and refinement, who report
that they never meet any discourtesy
at the hands of the soldiers. The i'm
portance of this service can be esti'
mated by the fact that at least $4,000
soldiers are on leave in London every
week Over half of these sleep in Y.
NJ C. A. beds every night.
Entertainment on Vast Scale.
The Y. M. c. A. has erected a big
auditorium, seating 5000, in each of
the big draft camps, and huge chautau-
qua tents, seating $500 in the otner
encampments The association is run
ming a % week entertainment circuit
among the camps and is paying 16
companies of entertainers, who are
travelling to 80 camps performing be-
fore the men.
In each of the draft camps the Y.
NJ. G. A. has ten secretaries engaged
in educational work. The association
is seeing to it that every man who
cannot speak English is Taught to do
so. In many of the camps the asso-
citation has singing director, who is
teaching the men to sing the popular
and martial airs that do so much to
keep up their spirits.
Of GA Y. M. G. A. men at Camp
Dix only three are being paid full sal
aries In all the camps the majority
Of the Y. M. G. A. men have left 1ucra-
tive positions to do this work simply
because it's appeal is irresistible to
any red blooded man. Harry Lauder,
the famous Scotch singer and come
dian, now on his farewell concert tour
in the United States, is giving all his
spare time to the service Of the asso.
citation and is singing to the soldiers
at all the camps he can reach.
In one of the draft camps the Y. M.
C. A. is supervising athletics on 120
playing fields, providing full athletic
equipment. The winners of the inter
regimental games will play the cham
pions of the other camps.
One of the greatest services render
ed by the association is the making
The Winslow mail., 1917-11-16

part Of the world TO another than sta.
ttsttcs can express. Statistics are
pretty poor anyway when it comes to
reckoning in terms Of love and human
tenderness. Let's put it this way:
That the Y M. c. A. is Che biggest ex-
press company the world has ever
seen, and the parcels it Is handling
are the loves and devotions OF human
beings.
Worlds Best Loved Trademark
This war has made US think hard
ana fast. Your boy or your neigh
boris boy or some boy you know and
love has been called to do his share
in the big job of policing the world for
democracy and human liberty. Is it
any comfort to you to know that wher-
ever his duty may call him your boy
will nave friend that will serve him
in body, mind and soul? Are you
glad to know that this frienG will place
books and magazines at his disposal,
organize classes to teach him what
ever he wants to learn, give him a
pocket testament and invite him to
join religious meetings of the faith
that he was brought up in? Did you
realize that the association provides
athletic equipment for has favorite
games, teaches him games If he knows
none and holds concerts, lectures
movies, Bible classes, dramatic enter
tainments and every kind of whole
some amusement to keep him interest
ed? Are you glad to know that this
friend will go with him overseas, help
to shield him from a score of difficult
and dangerous temptations and follow
him right up to the front line trench
and beyond it? The last contact the
soldier has with this life he loves SC
we'll is cup of tea given him by the
Y. NJ G. A. free just before he goes
'over the top" to hand to hand strug.
gle with the enemy. And as he comes
tottering back from No Mans Land
wounded, but strong enough and
plucky enough to keep on his feet
even before his wounds are dressed
the Y. M. G. A. is waiting for MIN with
tea and sweet chocolate, the great com
forts OF the man in the trenches. Do
you wonder that the Res Triangle is
called "the best loved trademark in
the world?" One soldier in France has
called it the last evidence that amy.
body car9s."
If every thinking citizen could see
with his or her own eyes something
of the actual work being done for our
men by the association there would be
no question of the 7. NJ. C. A having
to appeal to the public for money
Rather than let this essential work
falter for an instant rich men would
sell their mOGorcars. poor men would
The Winslow mail., 1917-11-16
STAMPED With STARS and STRIPES and RED TRIANGLE

Mufarious Ways Which the Association Appeals to Your Boy
Your Neighbor's Boy Some Boy You Know and Love
Creates Helpful Environment n Cntonmen Way Overseas
Line Trench Beyond-Frst Aid He Comes
Totterng BackGve Your Share of the Required to
Accomplish This Evidence That Somebody Cares.
The Winslow mail., 1917-11-16
Million Letters In The Mails Today
Bearing Magic Words with the COIOrs"

Keynote of the Splendid Work the YM ca Does Among
Our Men In Uniform Is Keeping Them In
Touch With the Folks at Home.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-11-01

L. Mosb@k, who is one of the
members of the Pine County
Marketing Committee, appointed
by the Public Safety Commits
sion, is busy trying to do some
good for the farmers. Mr.. Mos
back has been able to secure low
prices on straw from the south
ern part of the state and will,
we understand, order some in
the near future. He has appli-
cations from farmers all along
the line in the towns of Hinck-
ley, Sandstone, here at Askov
and up rs far rs Duquette for
straw and it will require several
carloads to accommodate them.
Mr.. Mosbek's work along this
line is to be commended as he
will receive no compensation.
Watch the American for other
activities Of his along the line of
saving the farmer money.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-11-01

A letter to any of our soldier
boys is always sure to be appre-
Grated. In your spare moments
sit down and send them a note
from home. Their addresses are
published from time to time in
the American. In this weeks
issue you will find the address of
two of our boys. A letter from
home folks will show that our
thoughts are with them, and
this will aid and encourage them.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-11-01

Ieentury. nails were made entire
~ by hand. and constituted a
household industry IN various
countries, married women and
children being employed in their
production. under severe condi-
lions.
In England. Birmingham was
the center of the industry. at
one time giving employment to
over $4,000 people. and requir-
ing weekly supply of 200 tons
of nail rods from the iron-works
of that district.
In the United States. New Eng
land held a corresponding posi-
ton, and is even today center
of the industry in America, with
Taunton, Mass, as the greatest
Matchmaking city in the world.
Almost all of the nail output
of England was consumed at
home, and the United States,
France and Germany had little
export trade.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-11-01
HISTORY AND MANUFAC-
TURE OF NAILS

Nails and spikes vary in size
from little larger than ordinary
pins to Is inches long and from
1-2O to 3-8 of an inch in diane
ter.
Up to the beginning of the 19
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-11-01

The retail terms fourpenny
sixrenny. tenpenny. etc. were
not only indetinite.in themselves
hut varied in different countries
and even in different localities
Iof the same country.
/ The term penny. with relation
To nails. originated in England
and was used to check up the
nails forged to see that they
were not too long or too thick.
lin other words it was an averag-
ing process.
Instead of measuring the
length or guaging the thickness;
100 nails had to weigh as much
as so many English pennies.
| For instance, 100 GOD nails
equaled 20 English pennies or
100 nails of the Sd size weighed
the same as 3 pennies, etc.
Today the length of the nail
indicates the penny; the origi-
nal method no longer holds good,
on account of the different
guages of nails for different pur-
poses.
A I'd nail now measures / in.
long, and we gradually increase
IA in. in length for each penny,
up to and including 10D which
is 8 inches long, and then by IA
and 1-2 inches to GOD which is
6 inches long.
A I'D Common and Fine Nail
are different from a I'D Box
Nail, although the length in each
case is l in. The gauge of the
Common Nail is No. Is with 876
per pound; the Box Nail is No.
15a gauge and runs 1910 per h.;
and I'd Fine, 163 gauge, are 1851
per pound.
America, the Mother Of
Inventors.
The credit of inventing nail
making machinery appears to be-
long to the United States, which
in 1885 granted a patent to
Ezekiel Reed, of Bridgewater,
Mass, for a cut-nail machine.
About the beginning Of the
next century, nail-making ma
chimes had been generally intro
duced in England. The first Eng
lish patent was granted to John
Clifford in 100.
In making cut-nails, strips of
metal IL inches long, of a
breadth and thickness CORE
spending to the required nail,
are heated to a black heat and
fed into the machine, end first.
A slicer cuts off the nail-blank
which. in falling, is clutched at
the neck and held until moving
die strikes it's upper end and
forms the head; it is then liber-
ated and passed out into the
trough.
In small nails. the taper of
shanks and points is obtained by
cutting the nail-blanks alterna-
lively. the metal strip (of uni
form thickness) being turned
over, after each cut, so that the
points and heads are taken from
the opposite sides of the blank.
In the large nails, the metal
strip is rolled so that it's cross
section corresponds to the re-
quired taper.
Jean Goes Us One Better.
Wire nails were first made in
France, hence sometimes called
French nails They were used
in the woodworking trades; and
up to 1850. were made by hand.
The wire was cut into the re-
quired lengths: a wire-blank
was pinched in a wise, with a
small portion projecting. which
was flattened into a head by a
few blows Of the hammer.
Subsequently machines were
invented. into which the wire
| wac fea and Tho cuffipv haadinu
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-11-01

were produced.
MODERN WIRE NAIL
MACHINES
close Pride in Our Profession"
A nail machine is very disap-
pointing in it's appearance. A
match factory has tremendous
looking structures, 20 feet high,
60 feet long and q feet wide,
costing about $4,000, but a nail
machine does not occupy the
space of a kitchen table and is
no higher.
1t draws the wire in very rap
idly; with a short movement of
the jaws; smashes the end
against the anvil to upset it's
head; the cutting knives shape
the point and the finished nail
drops into a large sized pan.
The noise is like the rattle of
a boiler makers pneumatic rivet-
er,-so rapid that it's almost a
chatter"
The Process.
The wire in bundle form is
placed upon a reel, and one end
Of the wire is run between
Strengthening rolls, which take
out the curve. "A grip feeding
device feeds enough wire for the
length of the nail being made,
plus the head. The head is made
first and then the feeding device
recedes. After being fed thru
the required length, the nail is
cut off, the knives shaping the
point and leaving enough of wire
from the incoming nail project
ing to form the next head. These
machines run from $50 revolu-
tions or nails per minute, for
those Is in. long and 3-8 in. in
diameter, weighing 100 pounds
per IT'S nails or nearly a key of
nails per machine per minute,
down to the smaller sizes of brads
and cigar box nails, which are
made at the rate of 900 to 700
nails per minute per machine.
These latter run $4,000 to $4,000
nails to the pound if IA in. or
3-16 in. long, and No. % wire.
Why Barbed Nails Cost Extra.
Barbed nails are made the
same as a smooth nail, except
that the wire is run through a
separate machine before going to
the nail maker.
This barking machine marks
the wire with the barbs. and
coils it into a bundle again, ready
to be placed on the reel of the
nail machine.
After the nails are made. they
are put into tumbling barrels
with sawdust or some such ma
terial and revolved until
polished.
These tumbling barrels are of
different sizes ranging from one
key capacity for very small nails
and one key orders of special
nails, up to 100 key capacity for
larger nails. and those most COM
monty ordered.
After being polished. and the
sawdust removed by vacuum or
screens. the nails are put into
kegs and weighed; then the
heads are put on and nailed by
machinery, after which the filled
kegs are conveyed to the stock
room or shipped.
From S5 Cents to S4.OO.-Plus.
Before the war. nail prices
ranged from low of IS cents
per key in 1894 and 1895. up to
$500 in 1900.
Galvanized. Coated and Blued
nails. are separate mechanical
and chemical operations that car
not be properly explained with,
4
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-11-01
Handmade Nails.

Handmade mails were known
as wrought or forged nails, and
were made from metal plates
rolled to the required thickness,
cut by slitting-rollers into rail
rods or split-rods of various sizes
and sold to the nail makers in
bundles.
The hand-nailer's outfit con-
sisted of a forge for heating the
nail-rod, an anvil "a small cube
of steeD, a hammer resembling
that of file-cutter (the face be-
ing sloped toward the handle),
and a few "swages" Stamps or
dies for producing ornamental or
stamped heads).
To make a nail, a nail-rod was
heated in the forge and ham,
mered on the anvil. The length
of the required nail was then
cut off on chisel attached to
the anvil. The head was shaped
by the bore" a piece Of iron 10
or IL inches long, having a steel
knob at each end perforated with
a hole the size Of the shank of
the nail, and countersunk for the
head.
Various forms of heads were
produced, by different kinds of
bores. These forged or wrought
nails included at least 300 diff
ferent types, with at least IL
sizes in each type. representing
a total of over 5000 different
names. all of which were per
fectly understood by those who
manufactured or used them.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-11-01

The psoiuc,ian 1T wire nails
i'm the United States in issS Was
.sos,, 900 kegs of 100 pounds.
which gradually grew until 1912
when l4,659. 700 kegs Of 100
pounds were produced. Last
year tlal6) over 100000 kegs
were filed.
The use Of cut nails has been
decreasing each year. since the
advent of the wire nails in this
country.
In 1883 the United States cut
6.493, 59l kegs of 100 pounds each
and in 1915 only 1882 kegs.
1t would not be surprising to
see, at the end of this year 1917.
that no more than 100000 kegs
were produced.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-02-18

parties who are not interested in the
banks and an amendment by Peter
son provided in general terms that no
stock in any new bank should be sold
or offered for sale at price above the
par value.
Mr.. Murty quoted Governor Neville
and Attorney General Reed as saying
that unless some measure like his own
were enacted there was danger of the
state guaranty fund going on the
rocks" Mr.. Peterson pointed out
that the bill does not prohibit the
sale of stock in new banks. but only
its sale at price above par in ad-
vance of their organization. Mr..
Trumble denied that the purpose was
to stihe legitimate banking competi-
ton, insisting that it was intended
only to head off the operations of
professional promoters.
Mr.. Oils amendment made the
same rule and the same penalties ap-
ply to the selling OF stock in all kinds
of corporations.
Supporters of the Murty measure
were visibly worried over this devel-
opment, but at noon had not decided
whether to attempt a reconsideration.
They fear that the bill in its present
all-inclusive form will arouse so much
opposition from insurance interests
and other sources as to make its
passage impossible.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-02-18
Fairbury Merchants Consider
Adopting New Credit Plan

Fairbury. Neb, Feb. H.--{Special
Telegram. 1.-The Fairbury CONNER
cial club held a meeting in its club
rooms last night to consider the ad-
vidability OF adopting a new credit
system. c. L. Russ OF Hot Springs
talked to large delegation of Fair
bury merchants. explaining his credit
rating system. Cliff Crooks, who was
elected president of the Federation OF
Nebraska Retailers in Lincoln this
week, introduced Mr.. Russ.
While Fairbury has secret credit
system, the merchants favor adoption
Of the new public method. President
]. w. Mcdonnell OF the Commercial
club presided over the meeting and
decided to postpone the discussion Of
the proposed federal road aid