Farmers Rally to Boost Crop Production in Tennessee
Farmers across Tennessee organize to increase staple crops amid wartime demands. Counties report growing acreages in corn hay sorghum and perishable crops with seed use optimized to stretch scarce supplies. Local business leaders support efforts to ensure producer and consumer stability as the nation mobilizes for Liberty and Humanity.
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Tennenes
United States
Bors
Tennessee
State Committee On Public Safety
Flo
Potato Preparation And Cooking Guide
Genev a Conway of the University of Tennessee offers practical methods for preparing potatoes. Includes boiling with skins, salting, steaming, mashing with milk and butter, keeping warm without sogginess, baking skins, and hash browns. Tips emphasize tender, dry, mealy texture and timely serving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva Conway
Division of Extension
University of Tennessa
Knoxville
Prepare for good horses now
During a period of agricultural change in the Middle West farmers sought draft stallions to improve their mares and breed high priced offspring. The piece argues to again stock the country with plug horses by using strategic matings of draft stallions with native mares, noting wartime demand and markets for such stock.
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Tennessee
Middle West
Kentucky
Lwo
D. Lowe
Knoxville
War Work at Navy Yards Brings Large Appointments
Washington reports nearly 55 000 appointments to the navy yard force for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917 and continued growth since. An appropriation of 7.5 million dollars funds the Washington naval gun factory expansion to employ 4 000 more skilled workers, on top of 8 000 already at work, plus a new naval operations facility in Philadelphia with top class foremen and pride in wartime production. The Civil Service Commission coordinates recruiting nationwide through local agents to meet shortages in shipbuilding trades, including sailmakers, coppersmiths, shipfitters, and machinists, with women also sought to operate power weaving machines.
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Washington
Hest
Pea
Naval
United States Civil Service Commission
Civil Service Commission
The
Pirat
Civil Service
Low
Ovacco Market Opens November 27 At New Warehouse
The Washington county Tobacco Warehouse is completed and will open for sales on Tuesday November 27, continuing through the season. The 40,000 square foot facility includes four prize houses with hydraulic presses delivering a hogshead of tobacco each minute, plus a railroad siding to cut drayage costs. Buyers from leading manufacturers are expected, and Evan E. Rees, the warehouse manager, predicts the market will be higher than ever.
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Washington County
Evan
Rees
Bare
Wy Tobacco
Wanted Experienced Yard Workmen in Cigar Box Lumber Mill
Announcement from Jerome H. Shoip Inc seeks experienced men and boys for work in a lumber mill yard with highest wages. Positions include matehers, graders and veneer layers. Address Box 1008 Mobile, Alabama for application.
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Jerome H. Shoip
Inc
Mobile, Alu
America's Wheat Trade Highlights Postwar Shifts and Exports
Figures from the U. S. Food Administration show wheat exports for the year ending May 30 totalled 117,000,000 bushels, up about 110 percent from prewar averages, with imports rising chiefly from Canada. Exports exceed imports by over 51,000,000 bushels, roughly half a bushel of wheat per person. The Central Powers received virtually no U.S. wheat since 1915, while Greece and Switzerland saw dramatic increases. The piece notes economic use of wheat at home supports large exports, and that the government guarantees $2 per bushel for the 1918 crop at interior markets, urging a record U.S. crop next year.
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United States
Europe
Food Administration
Canada
Germany
Greece
Switzerland
America
State Highway Commissioner Tours Jonesboro Road Work
Jonesboro November 18. J A Reagan member of the State Highway Commission and W E May inspected the Jonesboro to Johnson City road project. Reagan praised progress and urged county officials to secure government funds. Under current law the state and nation match county funds up to two dollars per mile, with over a million dollars due from the Rural Road Fund, much of which could go to Washington County if it participates.
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Jonesboro
J. A. Reagan
State Highway Commission
W. E. May
Johnson City
Eagan
State of
Tennessee
Pudmoral
Washington County
Ordinance adopts city health board rules on infectious diseases
The ordinance adopts the city health board regulations for communicable diseases in Johnson City Tennessee. It defines terms, lists notifiable diseases, requires physician and household reporting, and outlines quarantine, observation, and exemptions rules for households, with emphasis on proper isolation and restricted movement during outbreaks.
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Board OF Health
Johnson City
Johson City
Tennessee
Houltholders
Jmval Board of Health
State Board of Health
Local Board of Health
Board of Hearth
Oral Board of Health
Jocal Board of Health
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Navy Yards
MR. Wiseguysr
D Graves
National Cartoon Service Corporation
Ovacco
Washinaton
Rex
Malena Ee
Royal
Warnes
Royal Baking Powder Co
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