Red Cross Call Encourages Women to Aid War Effort
Address by Mabel T. Boardman urges American women to join the Red Cross in wartime service. She emphasizes roles from nurses in France to clerks at home, arguing every contribution helps soldiers and supports liberty. The speaker notes funds, material supplies, and volunteers are essential, and no sacrifice is too great.
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Mabel T. Boardman
United States
Qehere
France
Legion
Red Cross
Pershing
Visiing
Washington
Red
Cross
Reee
Bridgeport Farmer Requests Home Canning Primer
A Bridgeport farmer asks for free copies of a Home Canning Primer and requests continued mailing from the Agricultural Department for price lists and other notices to Fairfield County. The note mentions Prof. Gustav von Schmoller and an obituary in Harribors, and lists John Neck & On as seed suppliers.
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Bridgeport
Agricultural Department
Fairfield County
Nane
Gustav von Schmoller
Weil
Hiehomp
Harrburs
John Neck
Flyaway Parasol Sets Summer Hat Style Aloft
A hat scarf and parasol in natural pongee feature a flock of flamingos soaring into high fashion. The write up urges matching parasol to hat trimming for an ultra coordinated look.
Little Benny's Note Book The French Revolution Play
A fragment from Little Benny's Note Book depicts a street scene with starving families and a dubious donor offering charity. Frantic dialogue shows mock nobility and mob anger as references to the French Revolution echo through a chaotic, satirical exchange. Colonel Oliver H. Payne, a prominent figure in New York and Cleveland society, is described as dead at home.
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Oliver H. Payne
New York
Cleveland
The June Bride Faces War Time Trials
A column discusses how World War I draft age limits threaten June weddings. It notes many brides planned lavish ceremonies as soldiers go to the front, potentially delaying or canceling plans. It weighs the impact on both couples and communities, urging resilience and patience.
Practical Flame Dress Making Serions
A brief pictorial review highlights practical flame themed dress making serions. The feature outlines simple steps and visual guidance for crafting stylish outfits with emphasis on fabric selection and finishing touches.
Foulard Waist With V Shaped Vest Pattern Guide
Dress pattern overview for a foulard and crepe georgette ensemble featuring a waist with a V shaped vest. Includes fabric requirements 44 inch crepe 2% yards and 36 inch foulard 1% yards plus lining percentage. Provides step by step construction hints for blouse vest jumper girdle and finishing touches with button and bead trim.
Recipe and dessert ideas from a historic kitchen page
A collection of cooking instructions covers savory meats baked in mold with breadcrumbs and parsley and a golden gravy, plus a lemon flavored loaf and a cornmeal batter. It offers tomato and blackberry layered dishes, toasted crackers, and a marshmallow topped cake. It notes a Greek ship torpedoed by a U boat off the English coast with 23 dead, and mentions Ira Nelson Morris and his wife visiting the King of Sweden at his palace.
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Ira Nelson Morris
Sweden
Ida Tarbell urges women to rethink bread buying
Washington, June 25 The Commercial Economy Board studying wheat use reports that bakers overstock retailers with fresh bread to prevent complaints, leading to about four percent of bread being returned daily. Tarbell notes waste from returns and urges women to buy for 24 hours, plan ahead, and support the no return bread approach to conserve wheat.
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Ida M. Tarbell
Washington, D. C
Council of National Defense
Commercial Economy Board
Washington
Washington City
Woman’s Committee
Pene
Summer Furs And Wheat Aid Battle Of The Home Front
A column urges patriotic support for bread rationing to back the no return plan and save 1.5 percent of wheat value for soldiers and hungry families. The piece promotes fur fashion, a taupe cape, and a discussion of diet and health in Home Health club notes with medical advice on stress spells and sterilization.
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Home Health Club
Home Health Glub on Saving Food and Drying Produce
Dr Davin H Reeder shares practical advice on home food production and preservation. He urges growing on two acres, drying vegetables with gentle heat or sun to preserve flavor and nutrients, and notes a new dehydration method using steam. He also suggests reusing tin cans and solicits health questions for readers, including a letter about a stomach weakness.
Fourth of July Sale At Caesar Misch Stores
Caesar Misch stores announce a Saturday Fourth of July celebration sale featuring summer merchandise at new low prices. The ad promotes cheerful credit with no money down and small weekly payments, covering men’s, women’s, boys’, and children’s departments and new family outfits.
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Caesar-Misch
Con
Initials in War Time and a General Traffic Manager Joke
A column discusses how initials proliferate in England during war and explains a sample: Assistant Director, Implements and Machinery Department, Food Production Department, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. It recounts a Manchester Guardian item about a South African war case where an adjutant misreads a message from the general traffic manager and cleverly defends his reply.
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Tennyson
Usaue
England
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries
Manchester Guardian
Marriages License Issued Amid City Reports
Marriage licenses issued yesterday include Emeline Havens aged 35 of Iranistan Avenue and Chauncey Hull aged 83 of Fairfield. Also listed are Hdula Husso from New York City with Peter Prune, 34, a peachpicking laborer from Pequot River, and Marie Heissner, 22 of Stratford Avenue with George Dukas, 20 of Harvey Street. New potatoes from southeastern states have fallen 31.25 per barrel, with prices 3.25 to 4.53 lower than last year. Mrs. Brickley, mother of Harvard football kicker, says she is happiest in America as her four sons have enlisted in the army.
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City
Brickley
Harvard U
America
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Serrons
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