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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1918
Page
6
A listed weekly menu from a Montana household outlines meals for children and adults. Breakfast includes baked apples coffee oatmeal toast and milk. dinner features baked potatoes glazed carrots stewed lima beans cabbage and bread. supper offers soup toast and cottage cheese with prunes jelly and peanut cookies, emphasizing simple rationed foods.
Bozeman reports federal food officials have eased restrictions. pork on Saturday and most meatless meals are lifted except Tuesday. Mutton and lamb may be served any day. Freshly killed hens remain banned through April 30. Reasons include Europe’s meat needs, limited transport, and bread conservation. Miss Arnold highlighted staff role.
Miss L A Harkins head of the Home Science department at the State college led Montana’s Food administration efforts. She returned from a Washington conference of home science directors and warned of wheat shortages prompting heavy substitution of potatoes and other measures to feed America and support the war effort. She noted Montana’s strong food conservation and arranged for Miss Arnold to visit Montana.
Montana implements weekly food program with Wheatless Days Monday and Wednesday, Meatless Tuesday, Porkless Saturday and daily noon meals with at least one wheatless meal. Consumers must buy substitutes at a rate of one pound per three pounds of wheat. Substitutes include cornmeal, corn starch, corn flour, hominy, corn grits, barley flour, rice, oatmeal, rolled oats, buckwheat flour, soy, and millet flours and meals.
The bank promotes thirty years of careful management and prompt courteous service as the foundation for a satisfying banking connection. It emphasizes big resources for large transactions and small personal service for every customer.
A quoted exhortation urging bold action and a stated aim of victory. The line reflects motivational rhetoric emphasizing resolve and outcome without additional context.
The U S Food Administration announces wheatless days on Mondays and Wednesdays and a meatless day on Tuesday with noon meals wheatless. War bread must have 50 percent or more substitutes, victory bread 5 percent plus increases to 20 percent by February 24, 1918. Do not serve beef mutton or pork on meatless days and conserve fats and sugars with listed foods and beverages.
The public is urged to eat brown or dark bread when possible. Bakers must use 20 percent substitutes in all bread and, if white bread is demanded, must source white corn meal or other scarce substitutes. Bran and shorts are available in the state to keep breads brown and healthful, supporting local supplies and easing transportation.
The Bozeman Knights of Columbus lodge launches the Knights of Columbus War Savings society of Bozeman with John Kauntz as president and A E Siess as secretary.
One hundred five national banks 213 state banks and six private banks in Montana are authorized agents for Thrift and War Savings stamps. This represents 90 percent of all banks in the state. Lewistown known as War Savings Society Town hosts a single exclusive Chinese War Savings society with 16 members each purchasing over $200 in stamps.
Lost, stray or stolen two red stock. A full blood Shorthorn cow branded Dipper on left hip and Bar on left shoulder with Bob Jones Big Hole Basin brand in left ear. Also a red bull calf. Liberal reward for information or $20 for delivery to 11 41.
Readers see a British photograph of soldiers lodging in a large concrete tank turned over by shellfire. The scene, likened to the old woman in the shoe, shows a vast Tommies family using the improvised shelter a stark reminder of wartime improvisation and home life on the front.
Aerial battle in progress photographs capture a French plane maneuvering for a swoop on a German adversary. After a brief machine gun duel the French aircraft downed the Teuton, shot from another French battleplane observer.
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