Home Card urges housewives to aid war effort
The article explains that President Wilson and Herbert Hoover urge food conservation to help soldiers win the war. Howard Heinz outlines the second Home Card from the U S Food Administration and Pennsylvania safety groups. Home card instructions stress reading and displaying guidance until the regu lar pledge card is mailed and recipe book offers follow.
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Wilson
Herbert Hoover
Howard Heinz
Food Supply Department
Pennsylvania Committee of Public Safety
Pennsylvania
United States Food Administraton
Bose
Food Administration
Philadelphia
Bulletin Building
Mr. Heinz
Food Administration War Guidance Card 1918
United States Food Administration urges wartime thrift with two wheatless days one meatless day two poreless days and daily fat and sugar savings. Consumers urged to reduce wheat meat and fats, use fruits vegetables and milk wisely, avoid hoarding, report dissuasive behavior, and follow local and federal instructions to protect food supply and support Allied troops.
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Food Administration
Why We Must Save Food Says Hoover Endorsement
A wartime plea from Herbert C. Hoover as Federal Food Administrator urging Americans to conserve, substitute foods, and direct savings to feed Allied nations and neutrals. The message emphasizes national sacrifice, minimal personal hunger, and government food control to sustain troops abroad and families at home.
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North America
America
Ales
Belgium
Europe
Bowall
Herbert C. Hoover
United States Food Administrator
Ecuador Passes Bank Exchange Law Regulating Drafts
A new Ecuadorian law creates an advisory board to guide the president on exchange rates for drafts with foreign markets. The board includes the Guayas governor and delegates from Guayaquil and Quito chambers of commerce, the Agricultural association, issue banks, and the national bank inspector. The president may or may not adopt its recommendations. setting the legal rate remains with the president. Excess charges lead to penalties up to ten times the amount. Export duties may be paid by foreign drafts or checks, using pound sterling values from New York. Purchase of foreign drafts is restricted due to scarce funds, likely increasing difficulties.
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Ecuador
Guayas
Chambers of Commerce of
Guayaquil
Quito
Agricultural Association
National Bank Inspector
New York
Unlucky Bagdad City Cited As World’s Worst
A historical column calls Bagdad the unluckiest city, noting repeated devastations by Mongols in 1258 with 1,000,000 dead and irrigation ruined, Timur's sack in 1888 with mass killings and skull pyramids, and 17th century Persian revenge under Shan Abbas with public tortures and mass drownings in wells.
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Bagdad
Pearson’s
Hulaga
Mesopotamia
Timur
Tartar
Shan Abbas
Swagger Stick Betrayed
A New York correspondent reports a revived debate on swagger sticks in American preparedness culture. Detectives arrested a man posing as a camouflage army captain, who admitted thefts while claiming illegal arrest due to officers not wearing swagger sticks.
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America
New York
Japanese Sculpture Exhibition in Tokyo Draws 7000 People
At the Mombusho Fine Arts show in Tokyo seven thousand attendees, including many notables, watched as a nude statue by Furdo Asakura was moved to a private room in the Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts after police objections. A photograph of the stork accompanies the report.
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Mombusho Fine Arts
Tokyo
Furdo Asakura
Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts
September Morn painting stirs New York crowds
The painting drew delight from New Yorkers while provoking criticism in Boston. The article notes it among 25 other sculptures and numerous paintings listed in Doast and West News. The piece appears amid a broader cultural report on American art reception.
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America
Boston
Doast
West News
Fraternal and civic meeting schedule for Lititz area
Reading lists numerous local lodges and councils meeting weekly or monthly in Rudy’s Hall and other venues. Includes Lititz Borough Council on last Monday, High School board on late Friday, and various Masons and veterans groups meeting at specific times and places. Some names and venues appear garbled but indicate regular schedules for Garfield Castle, Lititz Lodge, Masonic bodies, G A R, and community organizations.
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Litite Castle
M.C
Rudy's
Iseay
Rudya Hall
Litite Lodge
Rudy
Garfield Castle
Lititz Hose Company
Von
Unn Chamber
Mast Orange Street
Warwick School Board
Warwick House
Litita Agricultural Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Court Lititz
F. Ef A
Fiat
P. & R. Time Table Trains Leave Lititz
Trains depart Lititz for Reading and Philadelphia on weekdays at 1.57 AM and 4.17 PM. Sundays schedule lists 7.07 AM and 4.17 PM. For Lancaster and Palm Beach Weare runs at 8.?? AM and 7.28 PM with Sunday 8.23 AM and 7.28 PM. Tebanca service operates on both weekdays and Sundays at 8.23.
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Lititz
Reading
Philadelphia
Lancaster
Palm Bie Weare
Tebanca
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KGW
Heinz
United States Food Administration
The
Belp
India
Australia
France
Bank Exchange IN
Canada
Census and Statistics Office
Record’ Printery
H. L. Kramer
L. N. Moyer
Main St
Lititz, Pa
A. Long,d.d.s. Lititz, PA
Warren S. Buch
JE. Grant
Joseph B. Wissler
Duke Street
Lititz PA
Hershey & Gibbel
Scriveners
Decadental Estates
Ind Tel
Geo. L. Keath
Justice of the Peace
Brunnerville
Howards. Young
Piians
East Orange St
Ind
Haseler
Penna
J. Fred Essig
Lawrence K.grosh
Lancaster Properties
P.O
Frank E. Schnerer
Notary Public
Spruce ST
Banner Lye
Ista
Peno Chemical Works
Spruce Villa Farm
J. Clayton Brubaker
W. M. Grube
Lititz Springs National Bank
Long & CO
A. R. Keller
Lititz, Penna
East End
A. C. Pfautz Lititz
H. P. Gingrich & Co
E. Maine
Haefner’s
Queen St
W. C. Grube, Prop
Hershey, Leaman & Co
Kreider’s Hardware Storery
W.H. Muth &Co
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