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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1917
Page
3
Francis B. Peabody urges households to cut coal use to ensure prompt delivery to munitions factories and railroads. Lowering home consumption, shifting to daylight saving, and curbing luxury coal can reduce prices and free supply for ships and weapons in the war effort.
A U S Bureau of Labor Statistics bulletin notes that by October 1916 about 988 thousand women, 30.6 percent of July 1914 levels, had replaced men in British wartime industry and government work. It urges three eight hour shifts, rest pauses, and weekly time off to protect health and maintain output, while stressing canteen facilities and welfare supervision. youth labor limits and Sunday work elimination are discussed.
A McClure Syndicate piece criticizes American fashion for overusing red white and blue during wartime. It notes women wore flag colors in dresses capes hats and accessories inspired by General Joffre's New York visit while French and British attitudes toward national colors varied. The survey catalogs cape designs sleeves pockets and fabrics driving a rise in top coats and bold color combinations. The article laments patriotic fashion as a public trend and calls for restraint.
Uncle Sam’s department of agriculture urges housekeepers to save wide neck bottles for canning fruits preserves jellies and juices. If jars are scarce use corked paper and paraffin sealed glass or porcelain containers or sterilized tin cans with hermetic sealing to preserve perishables with high nutritional value.
The article notes forty years of women's suffrage in the United States and reports on various women’s gains. It cites Antoinette Taylor of St Louis obtaining a Hancock table, mentions a New York bill allowing night work for print shop workers, and a six day 54 hour week for women in restaurants. It also profiles sisters Jennie and Blanche Lamb as pioneering female homesteaders in Ventura County who earned about $1,100 last year and expect to double it.
Fragmentary old text shows a trader’s quip about drought and water price. A farmer names reluctance to give up hope, musing that even with spring dry, happiness remains scarce at two dollars per gallon. The wording preserves dialect and period voice.
A Baltimore American quip contrasts belief in cycles with motorcycles. The piece mocks ambitious public movements as lost motion and criticizes a single rich lawyer as emblematic of fools and obstinate men.
A Washington Star excerpt recounts elder Swift, founder of a major Chicago beef firm, disapproving of women in bright attire. A stenographer, lively in color, draws his glare and a terse plan to dock pay unless she reforms or leaves.
An ad proclaims freezone, aether-based corn remover discovered by a Cincinnati chemist, available cheaply in small bottles. A drop on a corn or callus loosens and removes it with no pain or irritation, lasting effect claimed. If unavailable, customers are urged to ask their druggist to stock it.
An early 20th century note hawks Allen's Foot Ease as an antiseptic powder to shake into shoes or into foot baths. It claims relief for painful, swollen, smarting feet and eliminates itching. It is promoted alongside wartime claims and general health tips with scattered ads and odd asides.
A garbled excerpt presents a stark moral about brave men fleeing danger first and women misjudging character. It suggests war tests demand quick retreat and harsh justice, reflecting old proverbs about courage and insight.
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