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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1918
Page
11
A U.S. Department of Agriculture dairy expert argues for a nationwide education drive to boost daily milk and dairy product consumption. The piece cites 1917 production data, highlights cottage cheese from skim milk, and stresses dairy to support meat exports and postwar demand.
The department of agriculture urges dairymen to maintain top quality to attract repeat buyers, price fairly with quality and profits, and promote the value of milk and milk products. It stresses dairy’s role in a balanced diet and argues milk cannot be replaced by substitutes.
A public health style message urges giving children plenty of milk daily. It promotes a quart per child, suggests substituting tea and coffee, and incorporating milk into cereals, toast, puddings, custards, soups, and other meals to aid growth and health. It cautions against economizing on milk while economizing elsewhere.
Hog grazing in permanent pastures improves worn land by returning most of the vegetation’s fertilizing content as manure. Grazing with hogs helps restore humus, reduces weeds through controlled feeding, and can offset soil loss from trampling when pastures are well managed.
Pork commands strong demand in the United States with many marketable forms and long keeping quality. About half of meat value in U S packing houses comes from hogs and the nation leads in meat product production. The war boosts U S pork trade as three quarters of global pork trade originates here. Farmers urged to raise more hogs to feed domestic and foreign markets.
The Western Mining and Oil News Service notes price marks for metals including bar silver at 1.0114 and copper at 26.624 percent, reports new machinery at Mowry and Cripple Creek properties, reopening Etta mines at Kingman, and August copper production at Inspiration totaling 9 million pounds. It also mentions crosscuts near Gadsden shaft, shifts toward future contact work, and new oil leases west of Pueblo with night drilling plans. Cresson Consolidated Mining pays a $122,000 monthly dividend as ore reserves grow and Cripple Creek operations face labor scarcity.
Geological survey advices show 54 oil companies operate in shale districts mainly in Colorado and Utah. A bureau of mines bulletin notes oil sands have five to ten times more capacity than currently extracted. Porphyry copper firms Utah Chino Ray Nevada pay similar dividends to last quarter: Utah 2.50, Chino 1, Ray 0.75, Nevada 0.75, payable Sept. 30 to holders of record Sept. 16.
The Great Eagle mine near Lordsburg ships about four cars weekly of high grade spar to San Francisco, with one car to Chicago, grading 87.97 percent calc fluoride. Mogollon area production includes eight bullion cars from Mogollon Mines and a new Socorro Mining Company will near-supply Mogollon as crews rebuild after a shutdown caused by mill burnings. Regular production across Oaks Company shafts, Maud S, Eberle and Clifton mines is expected to start within weeks as central shaft sinking finishes and development begins in two directions.
In Rock Creek Wyoming field the forecast suggests eventual output of 2000 barrels per day. In three weeks the Ohio company drilling for the Merritt, in which both firms are interested, has brought in two wells on Section 10 of the Big Muddy field. Each well now yields 500 barrels daily and indications point to continued steady production with no subsidence noted.
The piece portrays Washington women in F Street parades during and after wartime, highlighting fashionable flappers, uniforms, and ambulance drivers. It notes the ladies’ effort in supporting war work, their styling, and the scene of salutes as color and motion mark the daily street life.
A narrator recalls a memorial U S Meridian marker near the White House ellipse as he muses on fate and a fallen tank named Britannia. A flirtatious lieutenant's joke about distance spoils a budding romance and the moment passes.
OPPORTUNITY invites newcomers to explore the capital’s northwest park and its Zoological garden. It highlights four familiar entrances Adams Mill Road Connecticut Avenue and a bridge path to the creek and bear enclosures, urging a scenic hike with picturesque park entrances and animal viewing.
A columnist notes humor in draft registration as registrars nationwide face oddities in age related questions. Citizens avoiding disclosure and the possibility that many local board members will register are discussed, with uncertainty about who will reveal age on the day.
A vintage ad pitches lemon juice mixed with three ounces of Orchard White as a cheap freckle sunburn and tan lotion. It claims quick fading of freckles and windburn, resulting in clear white skin. Grocers sell lemons and drug stores provide Orchard White for a few cents.
A brief humor item notes a father asking his son about savings for a rain day. The son replies he saved money and bought an umbrella. The exchange into a tidy, period tone comic moment reflects prudent thrift with a practical punchline.
Article touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy that cures catarrhal deafness by acting through the blood to reduce inflammation of the Eustachian tube mucous lining. Claims hearing loss can be permanent if inflammation remains and offers a one hundred dollar guarantee and 75 cent price with free circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio.
A brief dialogue imagines fishing as exercise for the imagination, contrasting practical fitness with creative thought. The exchange plays on the idea that leisure activities can stimulate mental images and ideas beyond physical effort.
An old advertisement promotes Red Cross Bag Blue laundry soap praised for keeping clothes beautiful and clean. It directs readers to find the product at all good grocers and labels the message as an advertisement.
A figure recalls a lucrative trademark that funded early success, then reveals a choice to abandon it in favor of a heraldic crest. The remark highlights shifting branding and personal fortune tied to evolving identity.
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