Women urged to help win war in Southwest Texas
Miss Grace Parker urged American women to match English and French efforts, calling for large Liberty Loan subscriptions and food distribution support. The piece highlights onion production in the Rio Grande Valley, transportation limits, and home recipes as part of wartime mobilization, urging Southwest women to aid ships and munitions through over-subscription and food supply actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Grace Parker
Europe
Atlantic
Miss Parker
France
Dallas
Germany
Army of Democracy
Southwest
Rio Grande Valley
Texas
Federal Food Administration For
Miss Lou Stallman
Child’s jab at a neighbor over war stamps sparks county critique
A five year old in Ellis County accuses a neighbor of being pro German and lacking Liberty Loan support. The child’s remark is used to urge adults to buy war bonds and meet their quotas, highlighting public wartime pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamie
Ellis County
Liberty Loan
Liberty Loan Meeting Sparks Ring Donation to Bonds
A Liberty Loan meeting in a Louisiana parish featured a speaker who urged economy and sacrifice for the war effort. A prominent citizen donated his $500 diamond ring, telling the speaker to sell it and invest the proceeds in Liberty Bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
France
Meissner of Copperas Cove Sells Liberty Bonds
Otto Meissner, a Texas farmer in Copperas Cove, describes organizing a meeting at the public house, displaying posters, and selling Liberty Bonds. He began a house to house campaign and within three days reached his quota, showing enthusiasm and active participation in the loan drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Meissner
Copperas Cove
Texas
Food Administration Onion Recipes for Soldiers Diets
A wartime appeal invites readers to try Food Administration onion recipes to boost appetite and energy for soldiers. The piece emphasizes simple, concentrate foods to support nourishment and morale at home and in service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Food Administration
Knight Hood is in Flour in Texas Wheatless Period
Texas adopts a wheatless program from April 15 to June 1 1918 as part of a war effort. Public eateries and homes seek substitutes for wheat flour with recipes for corn flour biscuits cornmeal hoe cakes cornmeal sticks corn muffins rice waffles and Indian pudding. Federal Food Administrator Peden and Texas officials promote voluntary compliance and conserve stocks for babies and invalids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Peden
Washington
Richard Cour d’Lion
Robin Hood
Elaine
Arthur
France
Herbert Hoover
Action of Texas
Pershing
Wheat substitutes rule clarified by Food Administrator
Under U S food administration rules a baker must use one pound of substitutes for every two pounds of wheat flour. Food Administrator Peden notes confusion since April 15 about a 6 percent increase. The correct interpretation is 26 pounds of substitutes per 75 pounds of wheat flour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peden
United States Food Administration
Seven bread substitutes to replace wheat for wheatless period
Texans prepare to observe a 15 day wheatless period using seven substitute recipes. The guidance urges using non wheat flours and grain blends to maintain meals while supporting home cooks and local markets during the restriction.
France and Texas clash over bread during wartime plea
A wartime exchange features a Texas speaker condemning wheat shortages while a French representative, Lieutenant Perrigord, pleads for continued aid. The dialogue underscores strained food provisions and steadfast national resolve amid years of conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
France
Perrigord
Special certificate required for sugar
Houston April 25 to aid canning housewives the federal food administration orders a special purchaser certificate for sugar. Merchants will countersign and forward to N A Peden. certificates must state use for preserving and require return if unused in 20 days. Retail limits stay five pounds city ten pounds country. canners may stock up for 1918 needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Texas
United States Food Administration
B. A. Peden
Peden
N. A. Peden
The
Food Administration
Retail ice price control announced by food administration
A telegram to I A Peden from the Federal Food Administration for Texas says profiteering in ice sales will be prohibited. With supervision of ice manufacture and distribution now under the administration, consumer prices will not rise above last year's level without evidence from ice companies. Any increase to households will be investigated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Food Administratios
Texas I. A. Peden
The
Food Administration
Wheatless bread contest offers $1000 in prizes
John M Bowman of the United States Food Administration offers $1000 in prizes for the best wheatless and ryeless sandwich bread by hotel or restaurant bakers. Awards: $500 for the top loaf, $300, $150, and $50 for next places. Entries must be 16 ounces, baked by a hotel or restaurant baker, with certificates and two typed recipes. Entry deadline: May 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Me i. Bowman
United States Food Administration
Washington
The
Food Administration
Handsome Watch Gift to E. A. Peden in Texas Food Drive
At a Houston session on April 28 1918 E A Peden head of the Federal Food Administration for Texas received a handsome gold watch from county and district food administrators. The gift honored his leadership and pledged 100 percent efficiency as the group applauded his war effort. Administrators also thanked Texas papers for covering state activities and attended a patriotic program at the municipal auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peden
Federal Food Administration
Texas
Howard Make
JB. A. Peden
Vexas Food
Houston
B. J. Johnson
Wichita Falls
Ass of Texas
Houston Post
The
Houston Chronicle
Galveston News
Municipal Auditorium
Cottonseed. Men of Texas to Meet Federal Experts
Administrator Peden calls a Dalph meeting May 3 at 10 o'clock in the Adolphus hotel to survey cotton seed industry needs in Texas. Invitations go to Cotton Seed Crushers Association members and related milling and distributing firms, with Gov Hobby opening the session and numerous state officials and association leaders attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Stumphereys
George W. Denny
Cotton Seed Products Division
United States Food Administration
Texas
Peden
Dalif
Adolphus Hotel
C. W. Gibson
Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association of Texas
Tobby
Hobby
F.C. Weinert
Fred W. Davis
Fritz Engiehard
M. Walkner
Texas Farmers' Congress
D. A. Lyday
The
Texas Farmers’ Union
BE. W. Cole
State Bureau of Markets
T. F. Justiss
S. &. Frazer
Texas Cotton Cginners’ Association
T. O. Waiton
Agricultural and Mechanical College
College Station
Also Mentioned on This Page
America
Sosinkte
E. A. Peden
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!