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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1918
Page
1
A vintage guide describes using sirups such as honey corn and fruit syrups to sweeten cereals pastries and puddings without sugar. It covers Brown Betty Oatmeal Betty Indian pudding Rice pudding Honey or maple custards and Honey Drop Cakes with details on ratios steps and baking times.
A wartime appeal urges Americans to save wheat for soldiers and feed troops by replacing wheat with corn oats rye and barley. It promotes corn dodger biscuits as a practical ration, endorsed by the Food Administration and signed by E. F. Lapd.
Danbury Fair and Fairfield county in Connecticut produced seven tons of jam for French army hospitals. The jam, made by county women under the home demonstration agent, was shown at the county fair and then transported by decorated trucks to New York, along Fifth Avenue, and shipped to the front.
A brief aphorism appears crediting Maz gini with a maxim about measuring time by the good deeds one performs. The line frames a moral viewpoint on ethics and personal conduct.
Fargo ND January 17 Farmers may buy bran at the mill door for no more than 26.35 a ton when wheat cost is 2.05 a bushel under a new United States Food Administration rule. For less than carload lots the price rises to 26.50 with sacks extra.
A Levens France radio message quotes the Frankfurter Zeitung of December 8. The liberal paper, widely circulated in the German Empire, says the German people do not want to use eastern front gains to fuel annexationist Pan-German dreams on the west front.
Fragmentary quote ponders the meaning of gluttony with a quip about a grown man who can eat like a child, attributed to a casual life remark. The source text appears damaged and ambiguous.
Local hotels report few delegates for the special session opening next week. Townley has not yet secured league headquarters, and a stockade plan may be dropped. Steen may challenge Governor Frazier in June primaries though not confirmed. Affidavits target the attorney general and state highway commission. Seed grain loans tot up to 250000 by Ward County and 200909 in Burleigh County. Home guard units push for state support before public funds are used for uniforms and equipment.
The article details varied emergency food packets for global troops. U S troops receive three parched maize-meat packets and three chocolates while Belgian French and Teutonic forces use chain-shot rations. Additional items include compressed tea, rice and macaroni, oat bread sausage forms, compressed fir coffee, smoke-dried pears, Swiss white chocolate, and Italian army sausage-length chocolate with beef membrane plum duff.
While men registered under the selective service law are not being accepted at recruiting offices for enlistment in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps they may be inducted voluntarily into service by their local boards if they are physically fit and skilled enough not required to fill the current draft quota They will be sent to Camp Kelly Texas for trades training and formation into squadrons with ranks and salaries from 30 dollars a month as private to 81 dollars a month as master signal electrician food and quarters provided by the government
Governor Frazier hopes the four day special session will limit work to seed and food provisions. Lacking time limits in law, legislators may consider multiple topics as the crisis demands. Dr. Ladd urges price stabilization for bread and flour to curb profiteering, while banks defer December 31 statements due to postage cost constraints.
In Washington the quartermaster’s corps building at the Washington barracks burned for the fourth time in ten days. Firemen and soldiers faced exploding munitions as flames caused up to $200,000 in losses. Secretary Baker ordered an immediate probe while guards doubled and no arrests were made.
Petrograd January 15 David R Francis the American ambassador told Russian press that President Wilsons message to Congress on January 8 expresses Americas friendship for Russia. He said the greeting from American people to Russians is embodied by the presidents address.
The Supreme Court sustained the convictions of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman for conspiring to obstruct the draft by urging draft age men not to register. Louis Kramer and Morris Becker in New York were also affirmed, with Kramer sentenced to two years and a £10,000 fine and Becker to 20 months.
Petrograd reports that Turkey violated the armistice by landing 20,000 troops between Trebizond and Rize. A Turkish submarine is said to have sunk a Russian transport.
British prisoners released in Rotterdam allege Germany has devised a new gas weapon aimed at Americans. The device reportedly has been thoroughly tested and is intended for use against U S forces. The report comes via Red Cross involvement.
Otto H. Kahn of New York urged against militarist Germany and praised American unity in a mass meeting at the Auditorium Milwaukee. He condemned war crimes in Belgium and northern France, Lusitania killings, and urged Americans to back the war effort regardless of birth or sympathies.
Mrs Streeter writes from Des Moines noting War Department letter restrictions and military life details. She mentions Van Richardson in hospital with diphtheria and fever, Anery Lyon with measles, Frank aiming for further officers’ schooling, a recent promotion with pay rise, and Red Cross activity in Emmons county. The letter updates neighbors on friends, travel, and daily life while awaiting the next draft and home return.
The first requisition under new selective service rules seeks 1000 bricklayers to support the armies in France. Only white men are wanted and must report to the aviation section at Kelly Field San Antonio.
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