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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1917
Page
4
An advertisement touts Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance as cooperative and investor friendly. It claims policies act as a savings account earning four and a half percent and provide full face value protection. The Las Vegas agency offers abstracts on city property within one day.
In the northeast of the Moisy farm region near Vauxaillon the French retake most territories lost to the German Crown Prince. French artillery drives off a German infantry attack near Hurtebise Craonne, while Mont Camillet in Champagne sees Germans evacuating ground after heavy shelling. Austrians push in the Asiago plateau and Mont Settsass in the Cordevole Valley. Italians counter with heavy casualties. In Russia and Galicia patrols and reconnaissances continue with lively activity, and in the Macedonian front small patrol engagements persist while shelling intensifies near Lake Presba.
Washington city subscriptions totaled 26,850 reflecting an over subscription of nearly percent. Official final tabulation shows more than four million people bought bonds. Ninety three percent of subscriptions amounting to 3,960,000 individuals were for 50 to 10,000 dollars. Subscriptions of 5,000,000 dollars or more were filed by 21 subscribers. New York Federal Reserve District led with 1,186,788,400 dollars, far ahead of Chicago at 357,195,000. Other districts include Boston, Cleveland, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Dallas with substantial totals.
Washington moves to advance the Administrations aircraft program. A 600 million dollar bill for battle planes is ready for presentation in both Houses. President Wilson and advisers press for immediate authorization to expand this arm of the nations fighting forces. The plan aims to build not less than 35000 battleplanes for service on the French front by next winter or sooner.
Griddiecake recipes describe mixing two and a half cupfuls of flour with half a teaspoon of salt and two teaspoons of sugar if desired, plus four teaspoons of baking powder. Then whisk the yolks of two eggs with two cupfuls of sweet milk to blend into the batter.
A scanned recipe passage describes making various griddlecakes. It details yeast raised muffins and sour milk griddlecakes with ingredients such as milk sugar salt flour and airy egg whites. Also included are rice griddlecakes using hot rice yolks beaten eggs and baking powder.
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