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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1917
Page
6
Mrs. Alice Gitchell Kirk spoke at Jordan Marsh urging women to wear serge and flannel instead of chiffon and cashmere hose instead of silk to curb coal use. She advised turning off radiators when leaving rooms and offered economy recipes.
A wartime interview urges American households to conserve wheat and wheat products. Dr. Agnew Johnston and Mrs. Kirk advocate cutting back flour usage, meatless days, minimal sugar, and simple meals to meet a 200 million bushels target, with emphasis on women leading by example.
The article outlines making peach butter from lower quality peaches by cooking, straining, then sweetening and spicing with cinnamon cloves and allspice. It also suggests tomato butter, green tomato pie, and a brown bread recipe using rye meal cornmeal graham flour and molasses with sour milk, steam cooking then baking.
Information from Hillside School lists Walter A. Stoddard James I Stoddard Thomas R Stoddard Joseph G Moore Earl G Parsons Bernard C Winslow Albert FE Harding Ernest B Smith and Charles Baker as having joined the army or navy Bernard C Winslow has sailed for France already.
Food Commissioner Henry B. Endicott plans a program letting individual farmers and farmers organizations buy grain in carload lots directly. The move seeks to remove mandatory payments to agents and streamline access to grain supplies for farming groups.
The October meeting of the Ladies IK Kennel Association of Massachusetts will be held at the Hotel Touraine next Monday afternoon.
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