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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1917
Page
2
Washington ordered rapid expansion of aviation training with a focus on the Hempstead Plains Mineola site. Prospective pilots face tuition costs and moral character checks, while facilities rapidly rise to support accelerated courses. The aim is to transform raw recruits into finished airmen in about three months amid wartime needs.
The article outlines Mineola aviation training under the signal corps. It describes student progression from preliminary exams to flight instruction, aerial scouting drills, and mechanics work. It notes aircraft speeds, instructor-led corrections, and the rigorous ascent and landing tests required for pilots.
A cooking column explores using milk fat substitutes for butter in cake making and offers methods to mix fats, beat eggs, and shorten mixing times. It includes Prune Cake, Hungarian Goulash, Cornish Pasties, Spanish Codfish, and other hearty recipes with step by step preparation and baking directions.
Allied nations face rising food shortages with calls to cut consumption. London imposes weekly meal allowances and meatless days while Lloyd George appeals to land workers to boost home grown food as war presses on.
In a Colonial Bridge Club gathering Kin Hubbard ridicules card clubs as a knockers industry. He lampoons social chatter about knocking, notes its ubiquity from banks to weddings, carves a humorous portrait of neighbors and touts automobiles as a frequent target.
The town house ceremony joined Miss Linnet Spry and Winsor Kale of Eclipse Barber's College, with 35 pounds donated and guests traveling from Tell City. Rev. Wanner Meadows officiated as the couple began a life of travel and partnership, amid playful wedding humor and hopeful blessings.
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