New Silhouette Themes in War Time Fashions Rise
American designers align with French and N Y shops to cut wool use for spring gowns. Slim Directoire silhouettes emerge with tussah silk crepe de chine and artificial jersey. Men’s wear trims yardage with thrift tactics while canteen coats and Red Cross frocks highlight military influence across New York fashion media.
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New York
M. Jusserand
Iay
Paris
Mme. Paquin
Association of Designers
America
Directoire
France
Blanders
Picardy
Jersey
Red Cross
Cottage cheese proves a nutritious meat substitute
United States Department of Agriculture specialists urge cottage cheese use for diet balance. A simple home method yields about one and a half pounds from a gallon of skim milk, with step by step instructions to clabber, heat, drain, and finish the curd for fresh consumption and storage guidance.
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Special Information Service
U. S. Department of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
Cottage Cheese as Meat Substitute in Protein Power
An article compares cottage cheese to meat for protein and energy, noting one pound of cottage cheese matches many meat portions in protein and energy. It lists approximate equivalences to sirloin, round steak, chuck rib beef, fowl, and various hams and pork and lamb cuts.
Methods for Producing Small Batches and Quality Control
The text discusses achieving uniform quality and market readiness for a product by following more elaborate production methods. It emphasizes the need for consistent processes even when making small amounts and outlines differing approaches used to ensure product quality and standardization.
Avoid Squab Chickens Three-Pound Fowls Best
Housewives can help the meat situation by buying three-pound broilers and friers and refusing to use squab chickens weighing a pound one-half or less. Dressed poultry specialists urge this as a conservation measure. Serving underdeveloped fowls in hotels, restaurants and homes is wasteful as such birds stay longer in crates. Under proper feeding a chicken yields more usable by products like buttermilk skim milk and low grade grains.
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United States Department of Hegriculture
Fire safe building codes urged to curb urban blazes
Architectural engineer R B Whiting analyzes over 200 building codes and argues for wider space between buildings to curb fires. He cites Atlanta’s 80 foot separations and recommends minimum lot widths of 40 to 50 feet in congested districts, isolating high hazard structures like garages and refineries from neighbors.
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Whiting
Atlanta
Feared New Quarter In Baltimore Triggers Curiosity
Rumors spread as a 1917 quarter variant arrived unannounced in Baltimore fueling concern of counterfeiters. Experts noted differences in stars around the eagle and the motto In God We Trust, while banks and the subtreasury faced inquiries about the coin’s validity and the city’s reaction.
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Sam
Baltimore
United Railways
Change of Life Relief Claims From Lydia Pinkham Ad
Urbana resident Mrs. Frank Henson says Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound eased her symptoms during the Change of Life. She gained strength and energy, could do housework again, and urges other women with nervousness heat flashes backache headaches and the blues to try the remedy.
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Urbana
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ED Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
Frank Henson
Orchade St
Lydia BE
Life of the Skyscraper Testing Its Lifetime
Builders and allied interests reexamine skyscraper durability as reports show protected steel remains sound after decades of use. The debate shifts from wide estimates to the notion that modern towers endure as long as builders desire, challenging earlier corrosion and vibration fears.
Master and Servant Duty in Work Safety
It is held to be the duty of a master to ensure that the number of servants on any work is sufficient for reasonable safety, and to furnish proper tools, appliances and a safe place, including requisite instrumentalities and mechanical aids. This is illustrated in Wallace v. Tremont & G. Co. where the same duty applies.
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ITD
Opens School of Commerce in Santo Domingo area
Consul Arthur McLean reports from Puerto Plate that a school of commerce has opened in Santo del los Caballeros by the Association of Commercial Employees. The school is open to men and women with day and evening classes in arithmetic commercial practice bookkeeping grammar and commercial correspondence.
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Arthur McLean
Puerto Plate
Dominican Republic
Santo del Los Caballeros
Association of Commercial Employees
World’s fragile frame flirts with steel shortage
Amid Rio de Janeiro’s steel shortage, old iron and steel fetch high prices as a cautionary note on national resilience. The Boston Transcript ponders public faith and personal failure while a disordered flyer promotes Garfield laxative, reflecting era skepticism and commercial quirks.
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Rio Janeiro
Brazil
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