North Dakota War Era Bulletin Highlights State Events
The dispatchs report Bridging civic actions across North Dakota from draft calls for 2 800 select service men to San Francisco to a 40 000 potato warehouse in Berthold and a 15 000 Liberty Loan subscription from an Oklahoma Indian. The inflation context touches state budgets and clerical hires while schools close and influenza precautions rise. The piece notes notable figures like J F T O Connor proposer for Provost Marshal General Crowder and Charles Brewer editor in New Orleans with multiple local incidents from gas leaks to a fatal tractor crush and a 13 240 bushel wheat yield estimate.
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Fessenden
Red Cross
Bismarck
Stephen Taber
Gilby
Robert Haddow
Prince Axel
Denmark
Lnst Eek
Fraser
San Francisco
Frank Heibauer
Hughes Electric Company
Fargo
Wahpeton
Midland County
Grand Forks
J. F. T. O'Connor
Frazier
General Crowder
Washington
L. B. Mathison
Talcott
State Penitentiary
Food Administration
Thompson
Fred Schenk
George Behl
Dickinson
Cecil Mitchell
Albert Shaw
D. B. Shaw
Tower City
Sam
Mandan
Oklahoma
Montana
State Bank Deposit Guaranty Board
North Dakota
Legislative Assembly
United States Bureau of Crop
Burley
Charles Brewer
North Dakota State Board of Regents
Gsuncy Southland
New Orleans
Brewer
Atlanta
Georgia
Daily Forum
Edwards & Plumley
Minot
Nedreloe
Nebraska
H. R. McKinnon
Wm. Caincross
State Normal School
Starkweather
Ed Larson
Williston
Thomas Ashbridge
Oberon
John Burnett
Cooperstown
Carl Bonewell
Palestine
Robert Rebard
West Front
State Council of Defense
Grafton
H. T. Lockett
Willaton
State University
Carrington
Germany
L. H. Patten
U. S. Employment Service
John B. Brown
North Dakota Methodists
Jamestown
George Rand
Rand
Stutsman County
North Dakota Historical Library
N. W. Hansen
South Dakota Agricultural College
Bull Neck
Clara Wetzstien
Mathias Wetzstien
State Board of Health
New Food Administration Orders Cut Bread and Butter Use
The United States Food Administration announces 12 general orders for all public eating places effective October 21. Rules limit bread to 20 percent wheat flour, cap servings, ban bacon as garnish, limit meat, butter, sugar, cream, and table condiments. Restaurants, hotels, dining cars, and clubs must simplify menus and rely on voluntary compliance with enforcement possible through food distribution controls.
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Food Administration
United States Food Administration
The
United States
Plan for Victory in 1919 War Effort Urged by Hoover
Hoover and the Food Administrator outline a 1919 victory plan calling for 3.5 million U S troops in France with top equipment. They warn no end before next year, emphasize food conservation, reduced imports, and strict enforcement of patriotic food rules by state food administrators. They urge every American to act to hasten the war’s end.
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United States
Europe
Food Administration
Little House in the Wood romance ends in a wedding
Edwin Witham reads an ad for Little House in the Wood and travels to Yokum to meet Eunice Loveless. He falls for her, helps her with a race-related debt, and proposes at the house by the river, with the couple planning marriage as the story shifts to a magazine editor’s prank about Tolstoy and Balzac.
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Edwin Witham
Milsionaire
Harvard
Yokum Daily
Eunice Loveless
Miss Eunice Loveless
Yokum
Miss Loveless
Jose Sen
Mr. Witham
Thesittle House
Canals in Sponges Enable Constant Water Current
Sponges possess a canal system with a continual sea water flow in a single direction. A unique series of cells drives this flow, unmatched in higher animals, and the sponges depend entirely on this water current for their life.
Use of Orange Oil in Perfumes and Foods
Unadulterated orange oil has a strong aroma and is used in perfumes essences soaps and beverage flavors as well as cakes and confectionery. In Jamaica the principal use is in making fancy biscuits especially wafer biscuits used with ices and iced drinks.
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Jamaica
No Mistaking His Meaning In Cautionary Drive
A man takes a friend for a drive in a car that misbehaves with jumps and bucking. They enter a park boulevard where a roadside sign warns drivers that the road is for pleasure cars only. The exchange highlights the misunderstood message and humor.
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Smith
Best Workers Win
The piece argues merit determines victory, praising the man who does the most and best work. It notes the modern doctor adapts with an automobile to arrive on time, preferring to be early rather than late, highlighting efficiency over traditional methods.
Air Plants Grow Wild Amid Mexico’s Wires
In parts of Mexico air plants flourish and live without soil. They rely on the atmosphere for moisture and one type, Spaniard's beard Tillandsia usneoides, hangs on telephone wires. Often it becomes a nuisance requiring workers to clear it away. The plant lacks proper leaves and looks like a tangle of green gray threads.
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Mexico
Doans Kidney Pills Endorsement From Mandan Woman
Mrs W P Reynolds of Mandan North Dakota praises Doans Kidney Pills for curing severe back pains headaches and kidney ailments. She reports lasting relief after use and continues to highly recommend the remedy more than a year later. Price 60c at dealers Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY advertises the product.
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Linton
W .P. Reynolds
Main St
Mandan
N. D
Doan
Housefly Demonstrates High Speed Flight
Experiments show a housefly can travel up to 160 feet per second or about 110 miles per hour in a straight line when propelled. The observation highlights the insect’s rapid movement when motivated to travel.
Linen tracings and a crafty wife in London
An engineer recalls a resident engineer asking draftsmen to send large linen tracings. On visiting the site he found the reason a wife locked them away and used the shirts for her boys.
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London
E. Arden Minty
Lona Dun Biull
Settlement Reached in Oriental Strike Ends Weaving
Labor and capital resume full weaving work after a Monday settlement. The resolution followed Mahatma Gandhi’s vow to fast until a settlement was reached, signaling a peaceful end to the dispute reported by the Times of India.
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Mr. Gandhi
Times of India
Great Scientist's Error and Aristotelian Influence
A discussion of early astronomy notes that many ancient scholars held the earth as a sphere moving around the sun and that this view was largely overturned through the influence of the esteemed philosopher and scientist Aristotle.
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Office of
Federal Food Administration
F. Ladd
Federal Food Administrator
McClure
New York
Zola
Tolstoy
Balzac
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