Wheatless Week Sweeps Boston and New England
Boston and all of New England responded to State Food Conservator Endicott’s call for a Wheatless Week. People from bankers to laborers switched to corn pone and rye muffins to aid soldiers overseas. Grocers report rising demand for rye graham flour and cornmeal with confidence supplies will last the week.
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New England
Endicott
Food Conservator
Massachusetts
Somerville
Man
Wheatless Week Menu Tricks and Old Time Breads
The article describes wartime wheatless week efforts with substitutes like corn bread and potato based breads. It cites Mr Endicott advocating substitute flours to save wheat and boost consumer profits and notes anti-suffrage groups promoting white bread abstinence. It lists recipes from hotels and clubs and urges diluting white flour with barley, cornmeal, or ryemeal.
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Endicott
Stephen S. Fitzgerald
Massachusetts Anti-Suffrage Association
Boston
Harvard Club
What to Eat for Wheatless Week
A concise list of wheatless options including corn pone rye muffins corn bread graham cakes rice muffins brown bread graham rolls rye doughnuts bran bread rolls or muffins. The item presents multiple alternative grains suitable for a wheatless diet.
Mayor Urges Wheat Conservation With Wheatless Week
Mayor Curley will observe a wheatless week at his home and issue a proclamation urging citizens to conserve wheat. He will serve rye muffins and graham bread at home during the week and asks households nationwide to refrain from white bread to aid the plan.
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Curley
Rye Bread Incident Sparks Home Front Sabotage Cheer
A News paper Row restaurant served rye bread instead of white, prompting a patriotic patron to call it German bread. He urged a diet change to conserve wheat for the war effort, suggesting rye muffins and graham bread as substitutes during a week of sacrifice.
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America
TRYING TO END SHOE DISPUTE IN LYNN
A referendum decision by the Allied Shoe Workers' Joint Council seeks to empower a three year or shorter agreement with the Lynn Shoe Manufacturers' Association. Arbitration would be used for future wages while existing scales stay in force. vote timing hinges on USWJ Council actions tomorrow.
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Lynn
Allied Shoe Workers’ Joint Council
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Lynn Shoe Manufacturers’ Association
State Board of Arbitration
United Shoe Workers’ Joint Council
Plattsburg Invites War Secretary and Governors to Review
Plattsburg New York August 6 invitations were sent by the mayor and chamber of commerce to Secretary of War Baker Governor Whitman and New England governors to visit the training camp this week. They are to witness the last review of the brigade of student officers before camp close. The review is expected Wednesday with camp break up and government property issued to men returned and checked.
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Plattsburg
N. Y
Chamber of Commerce
Baker
Whitman
New York
New England
Cardinal Gasparri Seen Likely to Resign Post
The Rome paper Messagero reports Cardinal Gasparri is expected to resign as papal secretary of state. It cites health reasons and Pope Benedict XVI wanting tighter direct control over Vatican policies as factors in the move.
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Gasparri
Papal
The
Messagero
Benedict
Vatican
Central Association Closes 1917 Season Early
Waterloo dispatch reports the Central Association will close its 1917 baseball season tomorrow due to public indifference. Fort Dodge withdrew today with players unable to transfer to another city, Cedar Rapids had already pulled out last week.
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Waterloo
Central Association
Fort Dodge
Cedar Rapids
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