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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1917
Page
3
A wartime plea urges Americans to cut meat consumption to one meal per day to boost the nation's stock and feed the starving. Women are called to plan meals, use meat substitutes, and save scraps, arguing less meat means helping soldiers and civilians reach healthier malnutrition relief.
The speaker calls on women to carefully and wisely manage scarce meat and other necessities. Breeders will increase supplies, but it will be slow. For the next year or two, women must stretch what is available and find markets for surplus meat and essentials, as the world clamors for them.
Shenandoah reports Draper Colliery, idle during repairs, will resume full operation tomorrow morning. The plant will employ about one thousand men and boys and add two thousand tons of coal to daily market supply.
The Harrisburg Ladies Nest of Owls No. 1930 subscribed four Liberty Loan bonds in a Cameron Building meeting. R F Webster announced the purchase totaling the Nest funds, with plans to enroll other local Nests in the city’s $4,000,000 allotment. Mrs Lillie Miller was elected vice president.
London reports John Sargent has accepted a proposal from the National Gallery of Ireland governors to paint a portrait of President Wilson for the institution.
Governor Brumbaugh announced approval of a seven bill code for decedents estates drafted by the State Decedents Law Commission. It replaces earlier decedents laws, ends distinctions between real and personal property, and sets intestacy and will rules effective December 31 1917. The governor also signed the Burke retirement bill extending state retirement benefits to institutional employees, including penitentiaries.
Paris reports three French ships over 1000 tons and two smaller vessels sunk by mines or submarines in the week ending June 3. Three ships were attacked unsuccessfully while 1005 entered French ports and 958 sailed.
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