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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1918
Page
5
City notices report numerous residents visiting relatives in Wenatchee and nearby towns. Travelers include Miss Lovell Hendricks Leavenworth Mr Biglow and many locals on errands and business across Wenatchee Leavenworth Seattle Spokane and Portland.
Mrs Rollins believes ads help. A lost neck chain was recovered after a small Echo ad. John Castleberry recovered a purse with rare coins after advertising. Grandma Glaeser found it. A lawn mower ad yielded an offer within four hours. A drummer found a cap lost from an auto after an Echo ad.
The Great Northern Lumber Co sold fifteen of its new logging cars to a west side lumber firm. They were too long for western use and the company had shorter older cars better suited to eastern logging, so the fifteen cars sent west yesterday over the Great Northern railway were disposed of.
The Heinrichs family thanks friends and neighbors for sympathy and floral offerings during the illness and death of beloved baby Jack. Mr and Mrs R A Heinrichs and children Bernice and Bertha join Mr J B Cahill grandpa in the note.
Mrs Beamish announces a clearance sale featuring suits skirts and housedresses. Customers are invited to browse the Ech building location 7H for discounted fashions in the sale event.
The Echo advertises taking orders for any item in its Rubber Stamp line with emphasis on careful attention and prompt delivery.
The Food Administration says allied demands for breadstuffs rise due to Argentine arrivals shortfalls. It urges further meat consumption reductions to balance scarce bread supplies, notes meat output expansion, and stresses continued conservation with occasional relaxations for transport needs.
The United States supplied large wartime food aid to European allies from July 1, 1914, to January 1, 1918. It provided complete yearly rations for 57,100,933 people and extra protein for 22,194,570 more men. Wheat and wheat flour exports to the three main allies equaled about 384 million bushels. Pork exports reached about 2 billion pounds over 3½ years and fresh beef exports totaled 443,484,400 pounds. Russia received negligible food compared with western allies.
Sir Joseph Maclay the British Shipping Controller warns that Allied supply needs are dire while American capacity and resources could be the decisive factor. He notes exhausted Allied troops and strained nerves after three years of war and urges U S assistance before the next harvest to avert a critical situation.
The piece notes wheat reserves in India and Australia are blocked by a ship shortage, forcing Allied and US rationing. Australia holds 180 million bushels awaiting ships while India has 70 million. Argentina ends season with 11 million left. April adds 50 million from new crop. shipping remains the main constraint.
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