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Newspaper
Dermott News
Location
Dermott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1918
Page
5
A public meeting in Dermott with leaders from Chicot Desha and Drew counties launched the Southeastern Arkansas Development Bureau. Gov Charles H. Brough and John J. Gibson touted Arkansas farming, highways, and honesty in advertising while outlining plans, officers, and a twenty-member board across four counties.
The text outlines the formation and bylaws of the Southeastern Arkansas Development Bureau, to be known as the Bureau. It lists purposes to promote agriculture, horticulture, and mechanics in Ashley, Chicot, Drew, and Desha counties, with principal offices in Dermott, Chicot County, Arkansas, and a 30 year term. It specifies twenty directors, membership rules, annual meetings in Dermott, and detailed officer duties, boards, committees, vacancies, seal, amendments, and business order.
A full day canning school will be held in Dermott at the Community Kitchen on Monday July 8. All women in town and country are invited with no fee. Attendees should bring vegetables to fill jars of corn squash tomatoes plain and soup mix. Miss Sallie Chamberlain from Little Rock and Miss Margaret Callahan of Lake Village will assist. dress for work and bring apron paring knife dish cloth and jar rubbers. The program runs 9 am to 5 pm with lunch hour.
Sanol claims relief from kidney and bladder problems and backache within 24 hours. The ad promotes a guaranteed remedy available at Bordeaux drug store for one dollar per bottle.
The piece contrasts English hardship during wartime food shortages with American abundance. It notes bones sold at five pounds for one shilling, long queues for small rations, and shop displays of minimal goods while Americans waste edible scraps. An Official Press Bureau image aims to show England’s struggle and calls to save food and carry on.
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