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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1918
Page
5
Long list of home economy tips from a wartime era column. Advice covers kitchen hygiene, preserving and utilizing garden produce, substitutions in cheese making with junket tablets and skim milk, shelf life and cleaning, as well as recipes for cottage cheese salads and spiced puddings. Includes moral exhortations on diligence and restraint.
Readers are urged to share simple wartime hospitality on Sunday evenings. Suggested menus include cold roast beef with sauces, escalloped dishes, rice as a conserve, hot soup if cool, milk toast with cheese, cottage cheese with dates, and sandwiches.
A special dispatch describes Czech and Slovak volunteers in the Italian army who elect their own officers, swear to die rather than fall into Austrian hands, and form a disciplined, fearless force loyal to their distant homeland. The piece notes Verona women gifting a Bohemian flag, and praises their self-imposed tests and unity.
War gardeners nationwide answer Pershing's plea to keep the food coming with an estimated 4,000,000 war gardens by June 15, up 40 percent from last year. The National War Garden Commission offers 10,000 dollars in prizes for top canned vegetables, backing a plan to reach 1.5 billion quarts canned. Central Western states and Pacific coast show the strongest growth, while Eastern states lag, with New York and neighboring states reporting heavy garden activity and 848,000 gardens in the region.
Ernest Chase of Corvallis, a rural mail carrier, was drafted after a prior navy discharge for physical unfitness. He had invested $40 in a rig and outfit, worked 20 days, and now must decide whether to sell his team and gear or take a layoff while hoping for another rejection.
Miltonvale, Kansas resident V. Emick, 21, tried to enlist at the Salina naval recruiting office but was rejected after a physical and review. He weighs 276 pounds and had recently registered under the new draft law, prompting the officer to say no sailor would fit him in Uncle Sam’s navy.
Workmen at Beech Flats Coal Company line Rush Tun, above Martins Ferry, unearthed three Indian skeletons while stripping coal. All remains are well preserved with teeth described as perfect and white. A fragmentary ending mentions Tasmania and wine without clear context.
Billy, poor and out of place, loves a rich girl who eyes him across a town entertainment hall. After a brief wartime romance and enlistment, he confesses at last, only to learn from a gypsy fortune teller that the woman he loves will wait at his return for a triumphant reunion.
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