07 Dec 1917
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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1917
Page
1
Washington reports the Food Administration will begin standardizing bread on December 10 under federal license for 35,000 bakers. One pound loaves will sell for 7 cents home delivery 8 cents, with strict ingredient limits and weighing, plus skim milk only and limited sugar and oil shortening.
Montgomery Dec 7 Special B M Slaughter of Pt Stephens appointed registrar of Washington county by the state board of registration to succeed T L Gordy who entered the selective service army.
A housewife tested baking powders reveals that merit, not cost, determines value. Experts confirm a single superior brand offers greatest purity and reliable results, widely favored by millions of American households for baking success.
Harry Ewright went to France with the Fleet Base Hospital Unit last May for work under fire. He was promoted to corporal and later to first sergeant for bravery in rescuing a machine gun squad overcome by a bursting gas filled bomb. Both of Ewright's parents are dead. His home is New York City.
Duncan Carmichael of Dothan was elected junior grand warden of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Alabama at the close of the annual communication. Robert R. Teague of Montgomery became grand master, succeeding Walter Smith of Tuscaloosa. Other officers elected include Percy Dixon deputy grand master Julian Spearman senior grand deacon Dancen Carmichael junior grand deacon John Terry grand treasurer George Beauchamp grand secretary and Charlie Walker grand tiler.
The column lists numerous visits and social calls in Hollingsworth Alabama and nearby towns. Families such as Love, Jennings, Brown, and Mercer are noted visiting relatives in Merrells Piedmont Jacksonville Anniston Cedar Grove and Rabbit Town with church and singing gatherings mentioned. Many entries recount Sunday visits and Thanksgiving observances with friends and kin.
Governor Henderson received a telegram from Mrs Rhett Goode announcing that the Alabama Society Daughters of the American Revolution at their Birmingham convention have appropriated one hundred dollars to aid ill and suffering Alabama brigade members at Camp Wheeler. The message expresses sympathy and likens the patriots of 1917 to those of 1776.
Dr William Drady criticizes calomel as crude and ineffective for bile or liver issues. He promotes purely vegetable laxatives as safer substitutes. The ad touts Martins Liver Medicine as a mild, guaranteed remedy for constipation headaches and stomach problems with a 50 cent trial offer.
Washington December 7 general revision of freight rates proposed by southern carriers in an Interstate Commerce Commission filing covers food stuffs iron and steel products petroleum cotton products and other commodities with planned general increases and some decreases.
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