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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1918
Page
6
War time guidance urges housewives to save wheat by using buckwheat cornmeal rye and potato components. Recipes include Buckwheat Breakfast Cake Cornmeal Rye Muffins Potato Biscuits Cornmeal Cookies Buckwheat Spice Cake and Gingerbread with no white flour recommended to stretch supplies.
War guidance urges replacing wheat with potatoes to conserve wheat for American and Allied forces. With flour priced high, potatoes at 1.20 per bushel offer economy and aid. USDA guidance outlines recipes to use potatoes in place of flour, especially bread, to stretch supplies during the war.
In New York the article discusses potato bread recipe adaptions using mashed potatoes and variations with liquid yeast or cake yeast. It also surveys the era’s fashion shifts, noting home sewing, changing silhouettes, narrow skirts, short sleeves, and surplice bodices influenced by French styles amid wartime economic considerations.
Snow blanketed Rome for three days in 1917 halting tram traffic and business, as Americans in Foggia aviation camp watched. The Pincian Hill Panorama Saint Peter's dome Pantheon and Forum wore white, Garibaldi’s Janiculum glowed, and streets emptied as workers cleared the uncommon fall.
Yellow is a popular color this season in the blouse One line notes the style is distinctive and favored among shoppers, highlighting its appeal and trend status.
Alexander Graham Bell notes a science of odor begins by measuring smells. A chemist detected selenium by its tellture-like odor in waste sulfuric acid residues, though all chemical tests showed no tellurium. The odor led to recognizing a new element with high electrical resistance in its crystalline form.
Plans nearly complete for the Lidinga bridge, spanning Ropsten and Werserud in Stockholm. Claimed to be the world’s largest concrete bridge, it measures 84% meters (2,772 feet) long with 52 arches. Massive hollow columns 56 meters (188 feet) tall support the structure, some with concrete rings three meters high and expansions of about one meter.
In barren towns with biblical names a Sinai team struggles at season's end while crowds shout well played and offsides. The piece imagines Jebusites, Perez, Hivites, and others amid a desert football scene echoing old biblical geography and modern play.
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