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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1918
Page
3
A wet Saturday canning demo urged women to conserve food by canning gooseberries cherries and strawberries. The piece promotes eating fish fruits and vegetables, increasing milk use, and joining the Total Abstainers Club while supporting soldiers and allies with flour shortages.
The text lists ingredients including 3 eggs 3 4 cup milk 1 teaspoon salt 6 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon cinnamon 2 squares chocolate 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 3 cups sugar 1 2 cent fat 1 cent syrup plus flour options using buckwheat oats or rice flour with proportions unclear.
The piece argues for an abundant wheat crop in America around 900 million bushels, with Washington and Kansas contributing large shares. It warns that harvest hands are scarce and that 70 thousand men are needed, offering high wages to attract labor. It calls for all able-bodied men to harvest every grain.
Tacoma launched its third ship in thirty days as the Foundation yards launched the Roye on June 1. The firm announces plans to build twenty to sixty ships at the Tacoma plant in addition to its existing contract with the French government.
A historical recipe fragment describes making a pie crust with fat salt flour and cold water and a wheatless loaf bread using mixed grains and syrups. Instructions advise handling dough lightly and baking the loaf in a moderately hot oven for about an hour.
A new cattle feed using yucca, a desert plant covering southwestern sands, is being tested. A dry feed chopper grinds the yucca into pulp for cows, claimed to help cattle thrive during the growth season.
Nine thousand white draft registrants will be assigned to special limited military service in the military aeronautical corps and sent to Vancouver Washington to obtain material for airplane production.
Linn County Oregon reports the largest fruit crop on record with high yields across multiple varieties. Officials credit favorable weather, ample rainfall, and strong orchard management for the unprecedented harvest.
The Pacific American Fisheries in Bellingham reports an unusually large spring salmon run, about two and a half times the 1917 level. To boost the Puget Sound spring run, officials plan increased hatchery effort to release chinooks in local waters.
The war accelerates surgical progress with rapid intervention improving survival rates and reducing amputations. Surgeons grow more adept at saving lives through immediate action, pushing wartime medicine toward its best era.
Seattle shipyards have contracted for over a million tons of ships to be built for the United States Shipping Board. This figure includes fourteen commandeered hulls not yet completed at local yards.
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