Wyoming National Defense Notes and Local Commerce Roundup
National Defense Chairman H G Knight resigns to become dean of an agricultural college in Oklahoma effective after the next council meeting. Wyoming merchants in Buffalo agree to one daily delivery at ten cents per delivery and restrict 30 day credit. Kansas and Iowa lead the national food enrollment with 94 and 91 percent respectively. Augustus Kendall reportedly perfects Wyoming fuel organization to prevent shortages. A winter garden plan aids next year’s food supply. John McCormack pledges to sing to raise 100000 for Red Cross. he bears all expenses. German mine-laying submarines and 4600 mines swept in British waters last year are noted.
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H. G. Knight
Wyoming Council At National Defense
Oklahoma
Agricultural College
State Council
Buffalo
Johnson County
Wyoming
Food Administration
Kansas
Mr. Hoover
H. J. Waters
United States
Iowa
Rock Springs
Augustus Kendall
Rawlins
Union Pacific
John McCormack
Red Cross
MecCormack
British merchantmen sunk by mines and submarines rise in week
London reports eighteen British merchant ships of 1600 tons or more sunk by mines or submarines in the past week, with three smaller vessels also lost. December losses are described as acceptable, while submarine sinkings set a record for the month, signaling a potential shrinking of the German submarine fleet as Allied methods improve. Naval observers note submarines moving closer to shore due to severe weather and warn that German crews' quality has declined compared to earlier in the war.
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London
Admiralty
Ike
Red Cross Relief Efforts Across War-Torn Europe
The Red Cross coordinates relief for refugees in France Belgium Russia Romania Serbia and Italy. Warehouses behind lines distribute food clothing tools and household goods. Funds total millions with budgets for military and civilian relief and rapid deployment of commissions and aid units to affected countries.
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Red Cross
France
Department of Administration
Paris
Planning Department
Russia
Roumania
Serbia
Italy
United States
Petrograd
Ambassador Page
England
Belgium
Switzerland
The Hesitating Man in a Waistcoat Tale
A writer recalls a hamlet like man named Grimes who frets over a dirty white waistcoat. Lawson quips finance warns the cautious. Grimes grapples with a trivial dilemma that mocks indecision and doubt.
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Mr. Lawson
Everybody's
Grimes
Bride Requests No Kiss Then Clergyman Charges Half Fee
In a Jersey church a clergyman customarily kisses the bride after a ceremony. A bride told her fiancé not to inform the minister she wished to avoid a kiss. The minister responded that if she refused the kiss he would charge only half the usual fee.
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Jersey
Harry
Wonkin
War Talks by Uncle Dan urges military training
Uncle Dan persuades Billie and Jimmie to pursue compulsory military training, sharing Howard’s success story after a year at a military academy. He argues training strengthens citizens and defends the country, urging government funded programs while a plan to finance Jimmie’s attendance emerges via family loans and bonds.
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Howard
Military Academy
Dan
Uncle Sam
Billie
Jimmie
Uncle Dan
Mrs. Graham
Jiimie
Return from East for Paria Daugherty family
Mrs Paria Daugherty and her Bir family returned last week from Indiana where they were called by the death of her mother. They were away about three weeks and report that Big Horn Basin weather seems very good to them.
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Bir
Mra
Paria Daugherty
Indiana
Big Horn Basin
Germania Farmers Progressive Club forms in Germania East End
On December 28 farmers of Germania east end organized a club electing Mr Small as president Mr Kellersman as vice president and Ruben Olsen as secretary treasurer Committees were appointed and prospects for a strong organization look good
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East End of Germania
Small
Kellersman
Ruben Olsen
Suggestions for Saving Coal and Local Notes
Advice on efficient coal use includes closing off spare rooms and keeping fires strong but not overfed. Daily ash removal and regular flue cleaning reduce heat loss. The section notes local visits, a Christmas gathering, and a health improvement after appendicitis surgery, with changes in county activity and farming work.
Make Bread With Cornmeal For War Effort
A call to housewives to substitute cornmeal for some wheat flour to preserve supplies for the army in France. The message argues cornmeal and other cereals can replace white wheat flour without altering dough stiffness and cites Farmers Bulletins for guidance.
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France
United States
War Bread Recipe From County Demonstration
Tedman notes more war bread to bake in county kitchens. He shares a historic oatmeal muffin formula using scalded milk sugar salt yeast dissolved in lukewarm milk plus ed oatmeal and flour. The dough rises overnight then bakes in gem irons in a moderate oven.
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Tedman
Rice Muffins and Oatmeal Muffins from Old Cookbook
A described recipe passage outlines Rice Muffins using hot rice flour sugar salt baking powder milk egg melted butter and method of mixing and baking in buttered pans and a parallel Oatmeal Muffins recipe using cooked oatmeal flour sugar baking powder salt milk egg and melted butter with similar steps.
Rice Griddle Cakes Recipe Card
Readable recipe instructs making rice griddle cakes with cold cooked rice flour baking powder salt sugar milk egg and butter. Mix dry ingredients sift then work in rice fold in egg milk and melted butter cook like regular griddle cakes.
Hominy Gems
A vintage recipe for Hominy Gems lists ingredients and steps. Mix hominy with salt in boiling water then stand until absorbed. Combine scalded milk with cornmeal, add sugar and butter, then fold into the hominy mix. Beat egg yolks and stiffly beaten whites, add baking powder, mix, and bake in buttered gem pans.
Liberty Gems Recipe Card
Liberty Gems. Mr Tedman. Mix dry ingredients including cornmeal oatmeal bran flour baking powder sugar salt. Add milk or water to form a medium stiff mixture. Bake in buttered gem irons or small loaf pan until done.
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National Defense Notes
Ruggia
Wille
Germania Farmers Progressive Club
Ernest Moore
Basin
H. M. Bethune
Eméry Allison
F.H. Smith
Billingson
Nea
Onter
N. A. Paddock
Lula Shular
Maimle
Gladys Sidney
Nora Walker
Ruth Paddock
F. H. Smith
Jobe Zeffers
Rochester
Minn
Helen B. Tedman
Liberty Gems
the Basin Republican
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