Army cooks lead the way with rolling kitchens and menus
Wallace Irwin recalls the 1916 Manual for Army Cooks and how the quartermaster general sought 3840 chefs from hotels to teach science of ration planning. Rolling kitchens feed 200 men, a bakery produces bread for all, and strict accounting backs efficient field meals at cents per man.
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Sage Wallace Irwin
Wallace Irwin
Quartermaster General's Department
Fifth Avenue
Tremont Street
Army
M. Panchard
McAlpin
New York
NationalGuard
Washington Barracks
Sam
War Talk on Germany and the Kaiser Sparks Public Outcry
H. C. Bell decries German atrocities and sympathizers, urging Americans to condemn the German people and hold the Kaiser and war staff responsible. He argues the Allied cause requires clear, harsh language to rally support and fund the effort, noting prior loan shortfalls and moral outrage over murders on the Lusitania.
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Kaiser
Wilson
William
Germany
Lusitania
Europe
Jeff Davis
Bob Toombs
Alexander H. Stevens
Belgium
France
H.C Bell
Extra Session Probable in Illinois Legislature
The governor may call an extra session in January as Chicago presses to relieve municipal finances. A reopening of legislative business is expected with proposals to abolish the state board of equalization, create a tax commission, and changes to the deep water way law. Changes also discussed for voter registration in Chicago, private banks law, and soldiers voting from the field.
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Illinois
Lowden
Gov Lowden
Chicago
General Assembly
State Board of Equalization
Horserelated Fatality and Local Notes From Hutsonville
Everett Brown of Hutsonville died after injuries from a horse kick last week. Canary Anderson and family, formerly in Alice Texas, have moved back to Hutsonville by automobile. Vern Winters returned from Newcastle Indiana where he worked at the Maxwell factory before the plant was seized by the government for munitions. Cairo division trains haul daily about five loads of coal in 60 to 80 car trains averaging 45 tons. Solomon Stanfield died at his son Johns home in Indianapolis from a paralysis stroke. he was Hutsonville’s oldest resident, aged 93 years 11 months 6 days.
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Canary Anderson
Alice
Texas
Vern Winters
Newcastle
Ind
Maxwell Automobile Factory
Cairo
Solomon Stanfield
John Stanfield
Indianapolis
Stanfield
Huttonville
Automobiles to Yield to War Effort in Planned Shutdown
The American auto industry plans to halt pleasure car production for the war period to free plants for munitions aeroplanes guns and helmets. A national defense council committee and industry representatives are coordinating to redirect factories toward war work including Liberty engine cylinders at Ford plants.
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Automobile Manufacturers of America
War Board
Automobile Industry
Council of National Defense
Walter Stifford
Council
Liberty Aeroplane
Ford
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Uncle Sam
Broadway
Bisa
Escae
Diana
Fort Riley
Dunne
Kubelik
Jonel Holbrook
St Riley
Army Schools For
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Fort Sam Houston
Tex
Kan
Monterey
Cal
Everett Brown
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Marshall Herald
Terre Haute Daily Star
Star
Herald
the Herald
Marshall, Illinois
HM Dewey
Marshall
Foley
Garrett
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