Food Conservation Urged Despite Wheat Shortage
Washington reports circulating dispatches give a false impression that wheat restrictions can ease. The Food Administration warns total available supply until the new harvest is about 56 million bushels, with 80 million exported to keep army and Allied shipments, leaving 26 million for domestic use, far below normal consumption. Harvested flour may not be widely available until August or September, while war demand remains high.
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Fodd
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Food Administration
Song Will Win War Says Emma Roberts Con pecho
Emma Roberts the contralto chosen to represent American song in an Ann Arbor festival and the Bethlehem Bach festival argues that national anthems reflect a nation. She notes Allied songs express unity and that colleges form bureaus to study songs for soldier inspiration.
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Emma Roberts
America
Ann Arbor
Bethlehem
France
England
Germany
Miss Roberts
Town is shot to pieces: Isle Minnesota loses youth to Marines
Isle, Minn, once a bustling village on the Soo line near Mille Lacs Lake, reports its baseball team brass band and many young men enlist in the Marines. An elderly resident laments the town’s decay as the phrase The town's simply shot to pieces is exclaimed.
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Mille Lacs Lake
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U-Boat Victim Plans to Enlist Against Germans
Frank Wilson of Elltsburgh Pennsylvania, a four time victim of German submarines while with the British merchant marine, has left for Canada to enlist in the English navy to get even with the enemy.
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Elltsburgh
Frank Wilson
Canada
Deadly gas for Fritz Jr joins Edgewood arsenal effort
A Clark County enlisted man connected with the Chemical Battalion at Edgewood Arsenal describes Allied gas production. The article covers secret gas service work, phosgene production, testing on goats, and Niagara Falls plants directing shells to Edgewood for overseas use.
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Clark County
Edgewood Arsenal
Edgewood
Herald
Gas Service
Ordnance Department
Ypres
Sibert
Bureau of Mines
Washington
Army
Niagara Falls
Great Edgewood Arsenal
Niagara
Subscriptions Offered for Herald and Terre Haute Star
Enclosed is $3.50 for one year of both the Herald and the Terre Haute Daily Star. The request specifies delivery to the provided address for a full annual subscription.
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