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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1918
Page
5
The 1918 winter tests American resolve to conserve food. The United States Food Administration promotes voluntary sacrifice to supply world needs by limiting consumption and guiding national consumption rules.
Five San Antonians earned Carnegie hero medals for lifesaving acts. Carrie M. Combe of 505 Belkway Place saved four people at a Country Club fire in March 1916 and aided three others. William J. Norton of 527 Sherman Street rescued Glenn B. Reese from electrocution in Austin in March 1916. George W. Smith, deceased, of 201 Young Street died aiding D. Frank Pugh from suffocation in April 1917. the award goes to his mother Lizzie Smith. Additional Texas awards went to the widow of James K. Stroud of Silsbee and Lyle A. Stoddard for involvement in the Smith rescue.
Lon Hill of Harlingen secured a government contract to cultivate 10 000 acres of eastern beans next year for the Department of Agriculture. The beans will supply oil for the army and navy and manufacture by products. This is described as the largest contract of its kind ever awarded.
Arthur Hudleston suffered a serious head injury when a cable broke at the Markham oil field causing a casing to fall. He was taken to Bay City Hospital, a Houston specialist treated him, and an operation removed a brain blood clot. He is expected to recover.
Dallas, Tex Jan 23 A Houston and Texas Central train fatally struck infant salesman i G Slaughter aged 20 while his automobile stalled on the tracks south of the city. He could not jump clear before impact. His head and right arm were severed in the crash.
Dallas jan 23 J Wilson a carpenter of 1728 South Austin Street is in critical condition at City Hospital after nearly freezing to death near Letot. HeLay on the pond for more than twenty hours before being found Tuesday night his feet and hands were frostbitten and severely affected by cold.
The United States food administration regulates sugar pricing from producer to wholesaler while retail prices depend on public opinion. With a world shortage and heavy shipments to France, Hoover outlines cost controls, refined sugar profits capped at $1.30 per hundred pounds, and a plan to ration imports and reduce consumer prices to 8 to 9 cents a pound to aid the war effort.
In 1593 Paris a conjurer calling himself Cagliostro amazed crowds with the Mask of Balsamo a death mask replica from the Vatican he claimed could answer questions. The narrator traces Cagliostro s career from Palermo through London and Paris noting his hypnotism medicine occult Freemasonry and rise as a celebrated yet infamous para-scientific charlatan.
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