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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1918
Page
6
A wartime article urges households to save and substitute food to aid Allied needs. It highlights the "food base" in every kitchen, promoting poultry and egg production and careful utilization of staples to prevent Europe starvation and support the war effort. Hoover quotes emphasize simple living and collective effort.
The Federal Food Administration office in Bozeman will publish a conservation recipes and menus pamphlet around February 23. The booklet will include only recipes tested at the state college or state university. Women requesting a copy should mail their name and the paper carrying the notice on a postcard. The pamphlet will be mailed free of charge.
Montana consumer guidance outlines Monday and Wednesday wheatless days, Tuesday meatless day, Saturday porkless day, and all noon meals wheatless. Each day at least one meatless meal required and substitutes priced at seven cents and up. list includes cornmeal corn starch corn flour hominy corn grits barley flour rice rice flour oatmeal rolled oats buckwheat flour soya bean flour and feterita flours.
A reflective motto urges bold perseverance through daily tasks. It frames effort as a continuous loop of work recreation and rest, highlighting courage as the driving force behind steady progress.
The United States Food Administration asks hotel managers and restaurant owners to mail meatless wheatless and porkless day menus to the Washington office as part of a national census on meals and food use. Montana reports many menu cards received in Bozeman.
The piece notes meat packers and hotel men boast of tons saved from meatless Tuesdays and meals while urging private citizens to measure their own savings in pounds. It frames the idea as a personal accounting of meat consumption gains.
Since Germany entered the war prices of food stuffs in that nation have risen 120 percent. In England they have risen to meet the shortage of small silver change in Norway a large issue of one crown notes has been put in circulation.
A wartime food administration appeal urges maintaining supply lines to support a growing force in France. Officials warn that a million troops may be there within months and stress keeping transport and food moving to frontline units.
The Food Administration urges the public to observe meatless and wheatless days to preserve supplies and ensure future meals. The appeal frames personal sacrifice as a patriotic duty and highlights community cooperation.
The U S Food Administration requires wheatless days Monday and Wednesday and meatless Tuesday with at least one meatless meal daily. Serve War bread with 50 percent or more substitutes on wheatless days and for meals, Victory bread with five percent wheat flour substitutes, increasing to 20 percent by February 24, 1918. Do not serve beef mutton or pork on meatless days and conserve fats and sugars.
Food administration warns cannot assure ammonia supply for artificial ice production next season. Women with French fluency trained in several cities to serve as telephone operators with Expeditionary forces, to depart in groups as needed and not as a single unit. Lighthouse service employees praised by Secretary Redfield for hazardous acts defending lives and property in severe winter conditions. C. W. Merrilies offers services as traveling organizer for War Savings societies, member of Montana’s first local War Savings group.
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