Celebrating History: News of the Great War

By Emily Mayer

The Havre Plaindealer’s Feb. 23, 1918 edition was full of news related to the Great War. Dr. H. C. Culbertson of the United States Food Administration was scheduled to speak before interested community members on March 5 regarding the world food shortage and what Americans could do to help alleviate the shortage. Two letters from local men were published among the national war news.

BOYS ABROAD WANT LETTERS FROM HOME

The Plaindealer is in receipt of a letter from Private Wm. J. Lorimer, who went with the first draft from Hill county, describing his trip across the briny a...