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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1917
Page
10
Mrs. Elbert A. Harvey of the American Red Cross told the Women’s City Club how to conserve fats in wartime. She suggested rendering chicken fat for shortening spice cakes and gingerbread and rendering other meat fats to remove strong flavors by mixing with charcoal and straining through flannel.
Mrs. Harvey's dietetics class explores fat value in food noting fats yield high fuel value, fat content aids meat economy but slows digestion. They learn olive oil substitutes like peanut, cottonseed, cocoanut, and corn oils and future sunflower oil. butter color linked to spring feed. fruit sugar praised.
Friends of 18 year old John Herbert petition the Massachusetts Humane Society to award him a medal for rescuing an elderly woman from drowning in Winthrop Creek. The incident occurred early Monday evening as the woman swam from a raft toward the shore.
The article outlines a coming second draft army and rapid Guard deployment, with training camps filling and estimates for a half billion dollars for one year plus 12 months for the second draft. Secretary McAdoo reveals nearly five billion in department costs, urging delay of the war tax bill and signaling possible bond financing and revised tax totals.
Washington July 24 The master lists for Friday's conscription drawing head to local boards as the process shifts to civilian authorities who will notify draftees and grant exemptions. The final record corrects a number of duplicates and misnumberings found in the unofficial national report, with several numbers adjusted and blanks resolved.
A historical draft form outlines exemption grounds for civil employees and mariners and lists dependents rules. It details required affidavits from claimants and spouses, the need to swear or affirm, and conditions for discharge based on marriage and family support.
Exemption boards in the Bay State see crowds seeking guidance on release from national service. Officials await draft lists from Washington and prepare 72 forms for shipment to 122 boards while urging timing for exemptions and noting most seek only nonphysical grounds.
A passage listing exemptions under select service rules for various public and federal roles including county or municipal officers licensed pilots mariners and workers needed for government operations It also begins to describe dependent related subclassifications for married men and sons of widows relying on the individual’s labor for support
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