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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1918
Page
5
Members in Meriden area organize the Pure Hereford Calf Club with backing from the Iowa and National Hereford Breeders Association. The club enlists youths to purchase heifers, sign notes, and participate in a May sale and fall show aimed at making Meriden a Hereford Center.
An appeal urges Americans to boost potato consumption to improve health and aid wartime effort. It cites potatoes as rich in alkaline salts that bolster blood and tissues, compares U S and German potato production, and links potato intake with wartime ammunition and soldier longevity.
The piece describes Italy facing famine due to war disruption. It notes rising prices, scarce bread, rationing, and failed harvests as troops, refugees, and damaged infrastructure strain supplies. It calls for urgent grain shipments from the United States to avert catastrophe.
Hoover declares the food administration does not fix agricultural prices except for wheat and sugar. It acts as intermediary between producers and consumers in some cases such as city milk. The administration urges wider cheese use to substitute for meat amid abundant supply.
The United States Food Administration reports quarter four 1917 retail food prices. Of 20 items, nine declined, 18 rose, and two stayed level. Notable drops include wheat flour bread tomatoes corn and pork chops, while bacon hanard butter cheese and eggs rose. The largest decrease was ten cents per eight barrel bag of flour.
The statement from the United States feal administration cites factors boosting meat supplies, including transportation takeover of roads and weather in January and February. It notes heavier hog weights from feeding and larger market arrivals for the next two to three months, signaling higher domestic consumption and export capacity.
A Sioux City businessman and former State Senator from Buena Vista County runs for Congress in Iowa’s Eleventh District. He emphasizes wartime unity, practical work, and action over rhetoric, urging voters to contact him and promising further statements through the press.
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