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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1918
Page
3
A window cleaner and a nervous poetess stage a dramatic ascent as a man clings outside a high rise for a music moment. Sue fears the drop yet urges him to perform and plans to pitch her piece to Keech, a famed but elusive music patron.
Sue and Keech form a fragile bond as he reveals his true feelings and a plan to help her after she creates a song cycle. He appears door to door as their lives intersect in music and danger, and a confession leads to a dramatic marriage proposal.
Annual tree rings can chronicle historical weather, droughts, famines, and floods. A. F. E. Douglass of the University of Arizona cites over 65,000 measurements linking rings to events in Arizona and New Mexico over two centuries, matching Croft’s historical drought and flood records from 1680s to 1820s.
Germany operates over a thousand factories to crush and dry potatoes turning them into meal flakes and cubes for animals fuel and chemistry. After processing potatoes lose weight and volume yet store as a long term reserve. This year Germany produces about two and a half billion bushels, over a third of the globe’s crop, feeding a population.
Herbert Hoover warns that despite a record wheat harvest a portion must be saved to guard against a potential bad year. He follows the biblical Joseph noted for food control in ancient Egypt.
Food shortages bite Petrograd as flour sugar potatoes cheese milk and grain vanish from stores. The commentary notes the city’s struggle amid the war against Germany and the wider famine impact on civilians.
Britain has sharply reduced brewing inputs since the war. Total material used for alcoholic beverages falls from 1 856 000 tons to 512 000 tons. No manufacture of spirits for human consumption is permitted. No unmalted barley remains with brewers or maltsters. Existing unmalted grain stocks are requisitioned for breadstuffs.
A humorous note explains that twenty five pounds of cabbage dehydrate to two pounds, leaving twenty three pounds of water unused. The remark suggests railroads save on weight carried by not transporting that water weight.
The United States Government awarded a Buffalo firm a contract to supply 376000 pounds of dehydrated carrots for American troops in France.
A message from Herbert Hoover appeals to local and state food administrators urging housewives to supply their tables from home gardens where possible. It notes cost basis and claims cheese is twice as nutritious as meat, comparing coffee cheese’s energy and tissue-building value to other foods.
Washington reports Food Administration calls for tighter beef use and greater pork, bacon and ham consumption. Hoover says production, shipping and military demand require policy flexibility, effective until September 18. Households should not exceed 1.25 lb clear beef weekly per person, 1.5 lb with bone. hotels and restaurants limited to two boiled meals, one beefsteak, and one roast weekly.
Washington requests to conserve resources by forcing hotel diners to write orders rather than speak them and to remove menus. The Food Administration expects written orders reduce consumption and suggests stopping table d hote meals. It notes no price controls exist but urges hotels to charge the lowest possible prices.
A breezy call invites readers to grow a personal garden and enter the Maryland $25,000 Produce Contest, promising a prize opportunity and a chance to showcase homegrown harvests. The note frames gardening as a friendly challenge and community event.
Four medium cold boiled potatoes and peppers layered with onion parsley in cream sauce. Bake until hot and tender. Also a wartime note cites Hoover on wartime food rhetoric and sauerkraut.
The fruit crop relies on housewives to curb daily sugar use. By saving more sugar on the table, households directly contribute to preserving fruit supplies amid tightness.
The Canada Food Board imposes similar restrictions on picnics and parties serving over fifteen people as on public eating places. It notes sugar rationing of under two teaspoons per beverage and mentions sugar’s London price drop to 17.5 cents per pound in 1750.
Parboil and cut sweetbreads into cubes. Saute mushrooms, add to heated cream, then stir in sweetbreads. Beat in yolks of two eggs, salt, paprika, and a splash of sherry. Cook until thickened, do not boil, and serve on hot toast rounds.
Twenty ounces of meat per week including chicken and game is the presentation in England except to those engaged in very hard labor. This summary reflects a rationing policy note indicating who qualifies for the meat allotment.
Buffalo vendors began by rescuing celery scraps from city markets and cooking soup in the thrift kitchen. The testers then decided to sell the soup celery themselves as part of a broader waste elimination effort inspired by wartime lessons.
The brief note claims Sweethreads are available at their lowest price and best quality, highlighting their easy digestion and overall value.
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