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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1918
Page
6
The Weekly War News Digest notes diverse army rations across combatants. Russian commissaries use pressed teas and compressed rice and macaroni. Orient forces get oat bread in sausage form. North British troops use compressed fig coffee and smoke-dried pears. Central Powers adapt fig coffee for food or beverage, Swiss troops receive white chocolate, Italian forces supply sausage-shaped chocolate and beet membrane plum duff.
Agronomist Harmon Benton of Texas A and M College answers questions from Palestine and Houston on killing Bermuda grass in dry and cold weather, and on tomato fertilizer. He recommends fall plowing and harrowing, plus lime and organic amendments to improve soil. For cotton, he notes no single best variety but suggests Texas Star or Mebane depending on conditions.
Advertising benefits consumers by expanding sales and reducing production and distribution costs. It speeds product flow from factory to consumer, enables larger stock turnover, and lowers retail prices. Self-trust guides success while indolence harms progress.
William Bruns, chief of the Fredsburg Volunteer Fire Department, presents the annual report noting nine calls, property losses around $25,000 with insured loss about $925, a 48 percent average attendance across five companies, costs of operation about $820 with $350 saved on citizenship insurance rates, and a push for better water works and modern apparatus to reduce insurance costs and improve safety.
Reports describe the diverse emergency rations supplied to United States troops including three maize meal packets and three chocolates. The maize meal echoes American Indian sustenance while the chain shot ration served Belgian French and Teutonic soldiers as winter food. More than a dozen varieties of corn-based rations are noted.
Austin voters approved local option to prohibit alcohol, by two vote margin in a 4,076 total with 2,089 pro and 1,987 anti. The result ends saloon activity in Travis County except Pflugerville Dessau and Cockrell, affecting about ninety saloons and four clubs. St Edna district also voted 50 to 34 for prohibition. The November tally favored anti in the city and county, now contested in District Court.
Two cadets died after airplanes collided at Kelly Field No 2 on Monday at 10 am. Cadet Frank L Seery was killed instantly while Cadet V C Dunham died at the Base Hospital after being fatally injured. The crash occurred at 300 feet during a landing approach witnessed by hundreds. Dunham banked his craft reducing visibility of Seery.
Raw materials of many kinds are needed for the equipment of United States troops. Jute, silk, linen, wool, fur, cotton appear across uniforms, gloves, hats, and shelter tents. Buttons use mussel pearl ivory nut bone. aluminum appears in bayonet scabbard canteen cup knife meat can. rubber in slicker. horsehide leather wood iron steel bronze brass zinc copper tin and lead in various articles.
Agronimist Harmon Benton of Texas A&M Extension cautions that high fertilizer prices limit recommendations for live rich black soil. If soil is deadened by cultivation or poor, he advises per acre application of 200 pounds cottonseed meal and 200 pounds 16 percent acid phosphate.
By Associated Press New York Jan 16 a disastrous blaze on the Brooklyn waterfront destroyed a four five story warehouse storing government food stores valued about 500000. During the same day a six story theater storehouse in Manhattan owned by William A Brady burned, killing one firefighter and injuring several. Metropolitan Opera scenery valued at 75000 was lost.
Agronom Benton of Texas proposes a method to kill salamanders using soaked corn laced with strychnine. He instructs placing grains in burrows or mounds, but warns strychnine is highly poisonous and must be kept away from children and domestic animals.
Texas Extension Service promotes wood ashes as a superior fertilizer for all soils, especially sandy. They note ashes provide potash this year and suit Irish potatoes. For dark loam soil, a recommended mix includes 250 lb acid phosphate, 300 lb cottonseed meal, and 300 to 500 lb ashes per acre.
Meadowsville resident Mrs. Cynthia Higginbotham describes age related digestion issues and constipation improved after using Black-Draught. The ad claims the product has 70 years of success and promotes nationwide household use for liver stomach and bowel cleansing and general wellness.
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