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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1918
Page
4
War hardships test housewives skill and spur product ideas. The article notes experiments with substitutes like sweet potato flour and cabbage leaves for staple foods, claiming local counties report varied adoption and cautious enthusiasm amid ongoing shortages and advisories.
Administrator Feden calls on all retailers to switch to cash and carry immediately to curb rising grocery costs. The notice, issued from Houston Texas January 15, instructs delivery charges be covered by sellers in the new pricing and to heat two types separately for delivery free from surcharges. Chambers of Commerce are to be consulted late tonight to coordinate the move and inform the public of substitutes affecting food prices.
The article urges citizens to buy War Savings Stamps and thrift stamps to fund the war effort. It explains affordable bundles like stamps plus goods, highlights four percent interest compounded quarterly, and stresses lending money at low cost to support soldiers. It underscores patriotism, saving at home, and sending aid to servicemen abroad.
The National War Savings Committee coordinates a program at a Texas plant to issue thrift stamps to 91,009 workers. Workers are urged to buy war bonds and stamps weekly, with management facilitating stamp sales at each plant location.
For sale a Star drilling rig No 28 with 20 hp country boiler steam engine four drill bits 80 ft drill stem jars and sand buckets plus all tools. For information write H Gerneth Box 1074 Douglas Arizona Se
Texas patriots drive thrift stamps and War Savings Certificates amid a statewide push led by Ligaite State Director of the Naval War Savings Communities. The effort highlights thousands of stamps valued at $1,000 each and broad local buy-in from rural carriers, bankers, and merchants as a patriotic investment to support the war and boost household savings.
Sherman people embrace war bonds and savings stamps, pledging support for the treasury. The community reports a revenue of over $40,009 from Liberty bonds and stamps, reflecting strong wartime sacrifice and patriotic effort.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction WF Doughty announces a thrift and war savings campaign to reach 1,000,000 of Texas school children. He outlines a three week school program designed as a foundation for future study and civic economy to support the war effort, with materials distributed to about 19,000 teachers and schools across the state. The effort promotes War Savings and thrift as a wartime responsibility.
City Commissioner Rev F Berkeley and Mayor FF Gillett attend alongside Geo W Baines Jr and Flora L Daugherty as clerk. The City Commission meets the Monday in each month at the peers bowse.
A short verse notes a day without meat where the speaker eats spinach and kale and bran, feeling like a brindle cow in the evening shadows, and glad to reach the day’s end. The tone is playful and reflective in a Washington Star feature.
A reader offers to join the Patriotic Garden League of Texas and donate a garden as part of wartime effort. The piece lists names, local lodge notices, and court calendar data for Brewster County, Alpine and surrounding groups, with mentions of Woodmen of the World and Masonic and Rebekah lodges along with local civic notices.
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