Federal Food Administrator Denounces Wheat Export Rumor
Dr Andrew M Soule of Georgia defends the food administration against charges that wheat saved for U S troops is diverted to England for beer. He calls the claims ignorant or treasonous and stresses that wheat supports starving women and children in France and Belgium. He rejects the idea of any grain shipment to nonexistent needs and brands the accusers as a danger akin to alien enemies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew M. Soule
Georgia
Food Administration
United States
England
Europe
France
Belgium
Offers Of Wheat And Flour Continue To Come In Daily
The United States Food Administration receives daily offers of wheat and flour from individuals and firms eager to aid the Allies. Ben H. Williamson of Memphis Tennessee offers 2,000 bar rels of whole wheat flour now held in Kansas City. Another offer comes from George H. Cross Company of Sturby Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Food Administration
Ben H. Williamson
Memphia
Tenn
Heldansas City
George H. Cross Company
St. Bury
Federal license revoked for A. P. Treadwell & Co. Atlanta
The U S Food Administration revokes the firm’s license No G 16468 for wildcat cotton seed contracts and failure to reply to letters. The revocation by Herbert Hoover takes effect April 30 1918 and ends with the war. Business may continue only for on hand or preexisting contracts under Vasser Woolley approval. Andrew M Souls Georgia Food Administrator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. P. Treadwell & Co
Atlanta
Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
United States
Vasser Wooley
Closure of Marianna Store Over Price Violations
The W. H. Lewis retail store in Marianna Arkansas was closed for three months by Food Administration order for selling flour in excess and violating the fifty fifty rule. An unfair order also blocks wholesalers and dealers in licensed foods from selling to Lewis during the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Lewis
Marianna
Arkansas
The
Food Administration
Lewis
White Star Confectionery loses license for sugar sales
The White Star Confectionery Company of Boston forfeits its license after admitting guilt before the Massachusetts Food Administration. The firm must donate 200 to the Red Cross in addition to license revocation.
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Food Administration
White Star Confectionery Company
Boston
Mass
Massachusetts
Red Cross
Potatoes Promote War Effort Says Department
The Agriculture Department urges Americans to outconsume the enemy in a potato campaign. It cites per capita weekly potatoes, defending native American crops and noting the potential waste of surplus harvests.
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Department of Agriculture
Fort Hitella Defends Against The Huns
A wartime poster-style verse urges careful sacrifice and valor. It frames bread and money as weapons in a Home Front defense, praising fortitude and urging faithful service to keep the last line of defense intact against enemy assault.
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Hitella
Wheat Saving Rules Amid Wheat Shortage
The United States Food Administration urges daily wheatless meals and no wheat in foods unless health requires. Citizens should substitute meats, potatoes, vegetables, fruits, dairy, and other cereals. meatless and porkless days are suspended. no food is restricted except wheat, and no food should be wasted.
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America
United States Food Administration
Cardul praised by Mrs Stilman for relief after illness
Rouse City Texas woman Mary Stilman recounts severe postnatal pain that left her bedridden for months. She credits Cardul, the woman's tonic, with restoring her health after three bottles, and urges others with monthly aches or weakness to try it.
Fresh Eggs Sales Rules Outlined in Opinion A 56
The opinion states dealers cannot sell fresh eggs to a class more removed from the consumer than their own class, preventing jobbers from selling to wholesalers and retailers to wholesalers. It says a country retail merchant who buys eggs from a farmer is not a retailer but akin to a packer or shipper and may sell to anyone.
Lyonnaise Potatoes and Baked Potatoes Recipe Tips
A compact recipe note describes Lyonnaise potatoes cooked in fat with onions, sliced cold boiled potatoes folded like an omelet as they brown. It also outlines baking potatoes: scrub, bake forty minutes, then slit skin to vent steam before serving.
Reaching His Capacity on a Crowded First Floor
A family returns home with many parcels with Eugene leading. On the final ascent the father asks him to open the screen door, but the boy replies he cannot because he is all used up. The scene captures a humorous domestic moment as they enter.
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Eugene
Left Handedness Rates Across Populations
Scientific American notes that at least one in fifty people are left handed with some estimates up to four in fifty. W Franklin Jones cites four percent born left handed and most converted to right handedness, while about one percent born right handed are trained to use the left due to right side injuries.
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W. Franklin Jones
Scientific American
Latin Countries Origin of the Latin label in South America
The article explains Latin Countries as nations of South America where populations are ethnically and linguistically related to ancient Romans or Italians, hence the term Latin countries. It defines Latin as the language of ancient Rome and Latin Countries as culturally linked to Rome and Italy.
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Rome
Latium
Europe
South America
Military college prospectus offers Mountaintop training in Georgia
The notice promotes a Georgia college with total yearly expenses from 125 to 175 dollars covering all needs. It highlights climate, mountain location, discipline, obedience, and a strong military department with cadet band. Courses in AB and B, agriculture, mining engineering, and commercial science are offered. Boys live in dormitories under officer supervision. For details, contact Dr. G R Glenn, President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
A.S. Army
G. R. Glenn
The Cruelty of Man versus Brutes in Moral Thought
In The Lancet commentary, Trenry Campbell argues cruelty stems from anger and self awareness in humans, while carnivores lack moral consciousness. He says animals act by blind instinct, not deliberate malice, and that labeling human cruelty as brutal misnames both humans and brutes.
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Sagar
Trenry Campbell
London
Lwman
Cohitdeon
Pin
Take Inventory of Self in Farm Life
Advice urges every man to study his character for discord and discontent and begin a life long fight to eradicate faults. If not done the farmer becomes a miserable failure and an object of pity to neighbors.
Differing Views on Marriage Announcement
A Kansas City Star item shows social reaction to a marriage announcement with comments from a bride’s friend who mocks the bride as aging and crabby and from a groom’s friend who questions why he wed so early and fears lost years.
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Kansas City Star
Stork Blunder Sparks Hair Color Confusion
Evelyn frets over her red hair, insisting it is gold. She notices neither parent has red hair and tells her mother the stork must have made a mistake.
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Evelyn
Papa
Food's Function in the Body Engine
Food serves as the energy source for all bodily activities and also builds and repairs the body. It functions like fuel stabilizing the body's machinery and maintaining its condition.
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Cve Cardus
Townsend
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Foley
H. Head
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