Hoover’s Food Administration Centered In World War Week
A vivid account of a Washington gathering at the Food Administration where Mr. Hoover spoke to fish producers and distributors. The writer describes Hoover as a calm, decisive leader who urged increased fish production by 50 percent and stressed the need to eat less wheat and beef to feed allies and troops overseas. He portrays Hoover’s impact on policy, the nation’s war effort, and public resolve to “eat to win the war.”
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Parliament
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Europe
Evie Greene Ghost Story Told by London Gossip
Miss Kyle Greene the late musical comedy star recalled a ghost tale from Sunderland where she stayed during a pantomime. A young sailor appeared on the stairs dripping water, then vanished. A telegraph later confirmed the ship carrying her landlady's son was sunk with all hands.
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Kyle Greene
London
Shefferd Daily Telegraph
Sunderland
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Platinum Output Declines in Urals for 1916
Despite high prices, Urals platinum production fell to 86,608 ounces in 1916 from 118,700 in 1915 and below 158,084 in 1918 and 156,765 in 1914. Through 1900 the output reached 214,042 ounces.
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Urals
Quotations on Germans and a Mount Vernon justice
Mayor Edwin W. Fiske cites a graphic comparison about German raids and the past California Chinaman case. The quoted judge allegedly freed a drunken rancher blaming ignorance of law, illustrating perceived judicial error and local attitudes.
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Edwin W. Fiske
Mount Vernon
California
Feller
But He Knew One Kind A Class Violet Tale
A school teacher reviews student compositions about the violet. One child writes the flower has a gun, others mention sepals petals and pistil, while the author explains he could not spell pistil and the word he meant was pistol. The mix of mis heard terms shows playful language and spelling confusion in a classroom.
Tasty Foods For The Family Salad And Desserts
A kitchen booklet outlines fruit salads core steps for Fruit Salad Tomatoes and Oranges salad Perfect Layer Cake and various fruit and beet salads. Recipes include dressing with vinegar egg butter and oil plus then serving with whipped cream or sherbet cups.
Household hints for comfort and home remedies
A compact list of home tips covers foot relief with formaldehyde in water, glycerin as a lubricant for food choppers, and preventing tartaric acid in jelly. It also suggests freshening rolls, using a flashlight in the kitchen, and remedies for sleeplessness, poisoning antidotes, fever bed cooling, eye relief from grated potato, rice in meat loaf, and stain removal with cream of tartar.
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Alice
Psalm 108 Lesson Highlights God's Praise and Mercy
The lesson extols praising God with all the self. It urges remembering God’s benefits, including forgiveness, redemption, satisfaction, and justice for the oppressed. It outlines God’s merciful, patient, compassionate nature and enduring mercy for covenant people, ending with a call for universal praise of the Lord.
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