High Cost of Living Upheld by Department
Washington officials testified that the War Department refused to release a large surplus of food despite rising living costs. C. W. Hare, director of sales and expenditures, cited 75 million pounds of bacon and hundreds of millions of pounds of ham and canned foods held in storage. He accused Food Director Hoover of buying Italian bacon while offering little to U.S. buyers and tied the issue to Beef Trust criticisms.
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Washington
War Department
C. W. Hare
Hare
Congress
Europe
Hoover
Italy
Mr. Hoover
Beef Trust
Sayings of the Wise A hodgepodge of wry aphorisms and riffs
A jumble of satirical maxims covers misjudgment marriage money and manners. The column laments social vanity warns about loyalty and friendship and pokes at fashion and age while noting paradoxes in love work and life through quippy one liners and pointed observations.
Alaska's 1918 salmon export value tops gold
Government statistics show northern canneries value salmon at 51 million dollars wholesale. Pacific coast propagation yields large returns through new industries and jobs as war fame expands Pacific canned salmon worldwide. Gypsum fertilizer trials by State Chemist Olson on H. H. Curtis's alfalfa farm show gains of 0.75 tons per acre above unfertilized land, with 200 pounds per acre gypsum costing one dollar per acre and alfalfa value rising to 116 dollars per acre at 20 dollars per ton.
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Alaska
Geo. A. Olson
H. H. Curtis
Everyday Education of a Child Raises Stakes for Mothers
Katherine Beebe argues mothers shape early development more than schools. Through contrasting mothers' approaches from infancy to kindergarten, she shows neglect leads to damaged minds and bodies, while engaged care fosters growth, discipline, play, reading, and social readiness.
U S supplies in France face sale talks to France
Negotiations proceed on selling all United States Army supplies in France to the French government. The total value of A E F supplies is 1 billion dollars, not including transport costs. France has offered 800 million, and both governments appear not hopelessly apart.
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United States
France
Sears Roebuck and Co Must Stop Misleading Public
The Seventh Circuit sustained a FTC cease and desist order against Sears Roebuck & Co for unfair competition through false and misleading ads and acts aimed at harming rivals and deceiving the public. The court ruled the evidence supported the charges and allowed broader review of what constitutes unfair competition, noting that low price alone is not per se unfair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Seventh Circuit
Commission
Sears Roebuck & Company
Federal Trade Commission
Circuit Court of Appeals
United States War Effort Figures and Capitol Decorations
A summary of U S war totals shows spending of 21.85 billion dollars, 4.8 million armed, 2.036 million overseas with 1.39 million in battle. Deaths about 50,000, wounds 286,000, disease deaths 56,991. Production includes 131.8 million wool stockings and 380.7 million shoes. Also 226,557 machine guns, 3.5 billion rifle rounds, 755 enemy planes downed, 13,574 Liberty engines, air service 200,000. Capitol decorations contract set at 283,267 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Quartermaster’s Department
Typewriter Ribbons Sold at The Echo Office
Remington Underwood and L Co Smith typewriter ribbons offered for sale at The Echo office with a note dated July 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Remington, Underwood and L. Co. Smith
Lands Office Notice of Final Three Year Proof
Joseph Hughes of Peshastin Washington filed notice of intention to make Final Three Year Proof to establish his homestead claim on the N% NE% NW 1% in section 12 township 23 north range 17 east Wil lamette Meridian. before R. S. Luddington Wenatchee on August 30 1919. Witnesses W E Boston J C Baumgardner J Q Carrell and L S Chambers all of Peshastin. BEN SPEAR Register. First pub July 25 fifth aug 22.
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U. S. Land Office
Waterville
Washington
Joseph ©. Hughes
Peshastin
Township
Range 17
Willammette Meridian
Luddington
United States
Wenatchee
W. E. Boston
J. C. Baumgarder
J. Q. Carrell
L. S. Chambers
Ben Spear
Register
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Standard Oil Co
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Sears Roebuck & CO
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F. M. Crollard
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Lewis J. Nelson
Elliott Block
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