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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1917
Page
3
Herbert Hoover urges wartime food guidance to Americans urging thrift in meals. Buy local produce and seasonable foods, cook only as needed, serve smaller portions, and support local producers to cut transportation costs while feeding families and children.
A public appeal stresses saving food in every home to support the war. Citizens are urged to avoid waste, cut consumption, and contribute through daily meals. Hoover links household savings to millions of tons of wheat and sugar saved, calling for universal service across kitchens.
A home bread method uses five pounds of flour two ounces of compressed yeast and lukewarm water to form a soft dough that rises overnight. Potatoes are boiled and sieved then added with more flour and water as needed. In England wastage is punished with fines and bakers face penalties for fresh bread sales.
Paris newspapers cite President Wilson vow that the United States will aid until victory and stand with the Allies to the end. The assurance frames U.S. resolve as public morale strengthens amid wartime diplomacy and cross Atlantic pressure.
Washington reports Congressman Austins secretarys seven kittens have been hired to help on the floor below in Representative Hulberts office. Mice overrunning the place have chewed seeds and a bas relief model of the East River Hell Gate and Ward Island. Hell Gate matters deeply to the congressman.
New York women contributed old gold and silver to the National Special Aid Society. The melted items yielded 2400 dollars, coming from heirlooms from Maine to California. Funds will buy necessities and luxuries for American soldiers in camps, including 300 sweaters 300 pairs of socks 800 pairs of gloves phonographs and other essentials.
The new chemical and analytical deduction method used by the New York detective bureau failed in general sessions. An indictment of Vencenzo de Stefano for the murder of ten year old Tillie Brown was dismissed after chemists admitted overconfidence about infinitesimal fragments of a strap on a knife blade found with the defendant.
In Alton Illinois area the 8 year old Boy Scout Drowns while aiding by 21 year old scout master William Strittnatter. The master and boy were swept into deep water as Strittnatter tried to rescue Ferris after he was pulled away by the river current.
English children engage in chestnut hunting as a new sport with aims to gather 200000 tons of nuts for use in munition manufacture during wartime.
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