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Newspaper
Colville Examiner
Location
Colville, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1918
Page
7
The article lists wartime kitchen recipes including Potato Muffins Potato Loaf Belgian Baked Potatoes Sponge Cake and various muffins with measured ingredients and baking instructions. It also notes sugar purchase limits for hotels restaurants and camps and clarifies allotment meanings for distant farmers and purchasers.
Food Administrator Hebberd announces measures to standardize fair price lists in counties with towns over 2500 and county seats. The goal is to protect consumers from unreasonable price hikes and shield ethical merchants from unscrupulous dealers. Colville board members include Al Miller merchant representative Mrs. Geo Thomas consumer representative and W C Wilwock the county administrator’s representative.
Due to the acute sugar situation sales to family consumers are cut to two pounds in towns and five pounds in the country with a 25 pound limit for canning and preserving upon signed statement.
U S Food Administration regulations issued with Herbert Hoover as administrator and local Spokane Colville and Stevens County officials named. The document lists local chairmen and auxiliary leaders, price interpretation boards, and home and serving guidelines on wheat limits, substitutes, sugar, and reporting price violations.
The San Francisco Bulletin notes Samuel Pepys holiday menu in 1663 centered on meat and fish dishes with limited vegetables. It highlights rabbits, chickens, mutton, carps, lamb, pigeons, lobsters, anchovies, and wine, suggesting vegetables were rarely used and potatoes uncommon in England then.
Dr Elle Metchnikoff, famed Russian born scientist long based in Paris, dreamed of a return to primitive human purity and predicted death with ease after about 160 years. A second piece explains rainfall measurement using a standard weather bureau rain gauge with a funnel and cylindrical reservoir sized to factor ten to one.
A collage of witty exchanges and social quips from Chicago News Boston Globe Boston Traveler Kansas City Star and Washington Star. Jokes touch on lawyers romance elopement and daily life while a detective scene and car joke provide light satire.
A detailed roll of Colville and Stevens County officials includes General Director Stevens County Senator C R McMillan and many county and city leaders. It lists Colville city officers and council members, health and legal staff, and numerous lodges and fraternal groups with meeting times and locations. The document also notes railway timetable details for northbound and unrelated local weather and community notices.
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