Food Administration Calls for Home Card and Voluntary Saving
The article declares a new home card under Herbert Hoover as part of the second year of the Food Administration. It urges women to lead voluntary cutbacks in sugar, meat, wheat, and fats to support allies, with targets for reduced per person weekly bread and meat consumption and greater thrift in homes and public eating places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
Eminii
Texas
Mr. Hoover
France
Far East
Watiels
Moany Pari
America
Food Saving Report for Texas Public Eating Places
R A Parker, Director of Hotels Restaurants and Bakeries for the Federal Food Administration Texas, submits August savings on meat wheat sugar and substitutes in public eating places. Meals served 17 018 095 persons served 189 089 about 4 of Texas population. Sugar under 2 pounds per person month and wheat under 6 pounds. Over July total meals up two million due to more reports. No sugar certificates issued until monthly reports reach County Food Administrators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. A. Parker
Federal Food Administration For
Texas
Food Administration
Ihotel and Restaurant Section
New Federal Food District Created on the Border
A new Federal Food District named the Sixteenth is established with headquarters in Mission Texas. H. F. Bishop of Hidalgo County serves as District Administrator. Counties and admins join the unit from Brooks Cameron Hidalgo Jim Hogg Starr Webb Willacy Zapata with Laredo and Sarita names noted. The Sixteenth splits from the old Sant Antonio border district to address border conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peden
Mission
Texas
H. F. Bishop
Hidalgo County
Brooks County
Richard Miller
Falfurrias
Cameron County
A. Wayne Wood
Brownsville
Jim Hogg
W. T. Acklen
Hebbronville
Starr County
C. P. Alvarez
Rio Grande
Webb County
Joseph W. Kenney
Laredo
Willacy County
Wm. Turcotte
Sarita
Zapata
A. C. Taylor
Sant Antonio
Sleden
J. B. Carrington
San Antonio
Sugar certificate returns show large Texas savings
Hotels and restaurants in Texas returned sugar certificates totaling 21,890 pounds for July and August, reflecting unused portions of a two pounds per ninety meals allotment. Bakers and eateries reported 15,000 and 4,260 pounds respectively, with Van Noy Interstate Company posting 4,710 pounds from its 30 southern Texas outlets using syrup instead of sugar for bread in two months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Food Administration
Texas
van Noy Interstate Company
South
Tin Containers to Disappear From Retail Shelves
Packing of spaghetti and macaroni in cans will end after October 15 by agreement of alimentary paste makers. Tea and coffee move to non metal packs as tin stock runs down. Kraut mainly in bulk to save tins. 1919 pack to use three standard can sizes. small and odd sizes discontinued.
Rules Governing Sale of Flour to Farmers
The Revised Wheat Flour Regulations lift limits on per purchase flour amounts for retailers to farmers, allowing a sixty days supply max with a 20 percent substitution requirement at purchase. Farmers with home-grown substitutes may certify they have substitutes and need not buy them, via written merchant notice.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hoover
United States
Touchstone
Europe
Uger
West Indies
Breuth
Berlin
N. Pitts
Cameron, Texas
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