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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1918
Page
6
A speech extols French women’s wartime labor in agriculture and industry. It argues American wheat policy should ease women’s burden by expanding food freedom to sustain morale, noting men serve in military roles while women manage farms and home front duties.
Practical notes on dry mash for laying hens. Describes mash composition options using cornmeal wheat middlings beet scrap and meat scraps. Advises controlled access to mash to avoid overeating and outlines substitutions with cottonseed meal and green cut bone as available. Emphasizes avoid spoilage and monitor digestion when feeding greens and tops.
Vegetable refuse provides valuable green feed for hens and lawn clippings add to the mix. Freshly cut clippings can be fed, dried, or cured and stored in bags. In winter they are soaked in warm water, fed alone, or mixed with mash or scraps for nourishment.
Two physicians testified before the Chicago commission that no preservation method can keep milk for 21 days without spoilage. They described a process called Buddeized milk using peroxide solution and heat, arguing it would lower prices and enable long-distance sourcing for housewives, while tying pricing to butter fat and cheese factory bases.
A short item notes the College of Tawau offering four year programs in sugar technology. It mentions a large education budget in the United States and a new public wireless station opening in Torre del Fuego. It also records a breakthrough in devices for stenography and typing.
Sixteen women appointed as mulgaveiera in New York wear gray uniform melkotg and cans but keep to skirts. They march in progress behind conductors. Twenty eight female conductors on the New York trolley lines wear uniforms described as Wwemunalls with divided skirts, a compromise between marginlines and female attire.
Professor Ten Dyck of Winds urges farmers to double acre yield by proper clay production fundamentals including drainage seed selection timely tillage crop rotation and fertilization using manure legumes and fertilizers. He notes war production limits and freight shortages require early spring supplier orders and cites the Birmingham Sentinel praising farmers for noble service to soldiers and families at home.
A vintage recipe collection describes cauliflower winter gilad with Haven Juice and olive oil vinegar dressing, plus a nest of canned salmon on lettuce with lemon juice and mayonnaise. It details Herring Salad with onions eggs and vinegar oil, Nut and Celery Salad with walnuts and orange rind, Cream Johnny Cake batter, and Tomato Salad with celery onion and mayonnaise dressing.
A correspondent notes there is no proven connection between the moon's phases and weather. Professor Schuster's century of records failed to show a lunar influence, though some authorities admit no cloud patterns align with full moons. Predicting weather from moon phases would be easy if there were a link, but that is not the case.
Washington forms a historic Army and Navy club to handle rapid postwar expansion. A Westinghouse mansion at 1600 Twentieth Street serves as the headquarters with auxiliary houses planned near major camps. The club provides rooms for officers, and the fourth floor houses barracks for transient personnel awaiting assignments.
A newspaper notice mocks patent office absurdities with tales of bizarre inventions. It notes models including a Dox-trap nest for nonproductive hens and a luminous harness for night driving, and mentions a pocketbook pistol concealing device aimed at deterring muggers.
A ragged scene on icy street features an old horse named Old Bony slipping and falling in a wagon with two women. A quick Good Samaritan from the south side frees the horse, rehoists it, and dispatches the women toward safety amid mixed local color and blunt humor.
Washington composer Wilmuth Gary designed a symbolic flag uniting the United States with 17 allied nations in World War I. The flag features a circle of flags, a shield of the allies with the motto Liberty Humanity Democracy, and the eagle, with 17 stars and stripes representing allied entry dates and honor. President Wilson viewed the flag, with approval from Secretary of State Lanning and Alvey Alee.
Mrs. May Hult of Des Moines reports Tanlac improved her catarrh throat and nerves and made her ten room house work feel easy again. The tonic is described as a bark and berry preparation claimed to aid stomach kidney and catarrhalitis with availability through druggists. An ad notes corn bread boosts beauty as wartime nourishment.
Claims the powders cure colds feverishness headaches stomach troubles teething discomfort and intestinal worms in children within 24 hours. Promoted as pleasant tasting and suitable for salinas by mothers, with sample free and available at six cents from mother gray co le roy new york.
The note asks about congestion impact of a closing order, describing it as an opening wodge. The writing includes a paradoxical phrasing and unclear context, leaving the exact transportation outcome unspecified.
Content mixes fragmented phrases about taxa and names with a humorous dialogue on love and belief, followed by a stray medical claim about chronic constipation and an ad for Garfield Tea. Reads like a damaged OCR snippet from a newspaper page with indistinct attributions and questionable wording.
An interview excerpt recalls stage life from musical comedy to grand opera. The performer quips about stage nickname Miss Tonsils and explains her shift to art driven by devotion and lack of a steady spouse.
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