America Must Feed Neutrals After the War
Federal Food Administrator F B Mumford warns that victory on the Western Front heightens the need to conserve and save food for neutrals after the war. He urges continued strict economy, increasing exports for Allies, and a lasting food conservation program to prevent hunger in 180 million people and sustain postwar relief efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. B. Mumford
Bulgaria
Turkey
Germany
Austria-Hungary
America
Missouri
Mumford
Poland
Serbia
Armenia
Norway
Sweden
Holland
Roumania
Ukraine
Baltic
Gas Mask Drive Sparks Nationwide Material Hunt
In a wartime appeal a Patriot urges citizens to collect natural items such as peach pits walnuts and nutshells to supply carbon for gas masks. The Thoughtless Waster questions the demand while urging practical sacrifice and collective effort.
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Dale
Dell
Anufacture
Count Your Spoonfuls Save Sugar
The Food Administration urges voluntary sugar limits of two pounds a month per person to ensure supplies for soldiers and allies. It questions autocratic rationing and asks citizens to avoid taking more than their share, warning against stealing from those at home and in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Food Administration
United States
Mr. Hoover
France
New Food Program for Eating Places Implemented
The Missouri Division of the Food Administration announces an Oct. 21 effective plan applying to all public eating places. Twelve general orders limit bread, meat, butter, sugar, and garnitures. promote simplified service and conservation of bread, fats, and other foods. ban double cream and table d hotes. require English menus and guest orders.
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Missouri Division
The
Food Administration
Food Conservation Plan Under War Pressures
The Missouri Division of the Food Administration urges strict waste elimination and thrift as essential to wartime needs. It outlines a two class system of foods, prioritizing staples like meat and fats for the war effort while urging broad conservation to prevent shortages for Allies and domestic needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Division
The
Food Administration
United States
Alles
Food Administration Urges Broad Food Use Reduction
The Food Administration calls for cutting all food use and waste rather than targeting specific items. Federal official F B Mumford reiterates a return to the clean plate gospel, stressing educated home judgment and a heavier burden on all to conserve resources for war needs.
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F. B. Mumford
Missouri
Ford Administration
Germany
Diverse farm sale offering livestock and equipment
Auction lists 270 horses cattle sheep hogs and breeding stock including mares, mares in foal, yearlings and calves. Also 80 black face ewes, 40 weather lambs, 3 bucks, shoats, sows, and assorted farming gear plus a Red Cross benefiting Duroc gilt sale. Terms announced sale day. Haseville Aid to serve dinner.
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Poland
Farrow
Soldier Letter From Europe Describes War End Hopes
A World War I era letter recounts daily life from the front A narrator notes the war ending soon detailing travel in a Packard truck and a Y M C A visit He mentions Liberty Loan subscriptions and observers of uniforms and conditions while awaiting return to the United States
Homestead Lands Placed Under Government Irrigation
United States Director General of Railroads W. G. McAdoo announces availability of splendid irrigable lands with government irrigation that ensures water, offering new homestead opportunities.
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United States
W. G. McAdoo
Free Lands in Big Horn Basin Offer in Wyoming
Real estate notice invites settlers to file for 12 000 acres of irrigated farms in the Denver Unit along Burlington's Central Wyoming line. Lands sell on easy terms with no interest and water guaranteed from Government canals. Agent B Howard of the C B and Q RR urges immediate action from Powell near by to compare with similar lands in Nebraska.
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Denver
Burlington
Wyoming
Powell
Wyo
B. Howard
C.b.&qrr
Farnam Street
Omaha
Neb
Special Thanksgiving Services in Browning and Kaifong
The M. E. Church, South schedules special worship: services at Kaifong Saturday evening and Sunday morning, plus Special Thanksgiving services at Browning Sunday evening conducted by J. F. Patton.
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M. E. Church
South
Kaifong
Browning
J. F. Patton
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Mr. Mumford
Kipling
Europe
Hoover
Ion Mat Weet
Haseville
Jack
Red Cross
Haseville Aid
J. B. Fleming
C. A. Hamilton
D. W. Nichols
Pershing
OF Railroads
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Big Horn Basin
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