This brief notice from the Iowa Council of Defense encourages a (presumably once included) poster to be displayed clearly so as to facilitate the building of more silos and thereby increase necessary wartime production.
An act relating to offenses against the state of Iowa and providing for punishment for Violation thereof, preceded by a brief introduction announcing its implementation in Ida county as of December 1st, 1917, and summary of the act.
On pro-Germans in Floyd County. Author feels that "until some of these insulters of the American Cause stretch hemp, the boys in the trenches will not have the united support that they should have." Taking 'stretch hemp' to mean 'hang.'
