Allies Fed by Self Denial and Food Aid during War
Wartime aid credited to exports sustaining Allied Europe and preserving democracy. The speaker notes U S food shipments fed hundreds of millions, supported liberation, and prevented famine after entry into WWI. Despite crop shortfalls and transport limits, voluntary American generosity fed nations, reinforcing patriotism and humanitarian duty.
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Allied
Europe
Yehiell
Germany
United States
Donne
Meantime of Meatless Days Bring Jokes and Humor
Readers reflect on moral and social effects of meatless and wheatless days noting incidental gains in health and fitness along with a new crop of jokes songs and cartoons to replace old stereotypes and boost public morale.
Save Food From Long War Production Losses
Eighty million men cannot be removed from production for four years without lasting yield losses. Recovery will take years as other sectors, farms, and herds recuperate and restock. It urges saving food.
Purposes of Food Administration on its Beginning
The Day of its Beginning outlines three aims for the Food Administration. It seeks to guide trade in essential commodities to curb speculation extortion and wasteful practices and to stabilize prices in staples as stated by Herbert Hoover on August 10 1917.
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Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
Seven loaves saved per person in U S from waste
U S Food Administration reports cleaner threshing and improved handling saved 16 000 000 bushels of wheat last harvest with other grains also reduced losses. State figures vary but voluntary co operation by farmers and threshermen drove the conservation effort.
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U. S. Food Administration
United States
Food “Administration
The Food Drive That Won the War Message
A wartime food savings campaign is praised as a vital factor in victory. The text recalls voluntary action to prevent waste and highlights the new respect for food in global relations, noting exports of 141 million bushels and the will of a free people. It asks readers to remember food as a democratic daring adventure.
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Mar‘vel
Earth
Kith
First Teachers 10 China
A historical note on the 1845 permission for foreigners to teach Christianity in China after the Opium War, followed by missionary influx and hostile reception. It covers Taou-Kwang's death in 1850, Hieng-Fung's reactionary policy, and the 1851 Taiping movement led by a self-proclaimed brother of Jesus seeking universal submission.
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China
Great Britain
Taou-Kwang
Hieng-Fung
Dumas Fils Manuscript Fetch at Hotel Drouot Sale
At Hotel Drouot the Jules Clarette collection including Alexandre Dumas Fils' Tale of a Lottery manuscript of sixteen pages, published 1851, sold along with a note that Dumas earned 240 dollars for those pages. Dumas contrasted this with his Dame aux Camellias contract sold for 80 dollars, which later yielded Michel Levy about 100000.
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Dumas
Michel Levy
Quaint Legend of Alsace Giants Teach Humble Labor
A Christian Science Monitor piece recalls a centuries old Alsace legend of giants living in a castle. A girl giant lifts a laborer and his plow to the castle but is told that what feeds the giants is the laborer’s work. After returning them, peasants are left unmolested.
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Alsace
Christian Science Monitor
Bugs in France and the Terrat insect contracts
In the reign of Louis Philippe Monsieur Terrat fought bugs in Paris barracks and received contracts in 1846 for extermination at 90 centimes per room with a second phase at 50 centimes. He claimed to share a secret with the state, which was not accepted. the secret died with him as soldiers still faced bugs.
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France
Louis-Philippe
Monsieur Terrat
Paris
Monsieur ‘Terrat
Monsieur
Terrat
Cri de
Compliment From a Prisoner Tells of Billy Sunday
In Philadelphia Sunday visited Moyamensing Prison where a housebreaker promised to reform after speaking with him. Sunday described the man as moved and changed, remarking he seemed to be one of the gang reformed by the encounter.
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Billy Sunday
Philadelphia
Moyamensinog
Sun
Jay
How Insane Were Regarded In Old France
In a Century serial, Anne Sedewick retells a Breton countess’s childhood memory of a Bourbon era madhouse. She recalls a dungeon room flooded at times and neglectful care as inmates begged for food while the town slept and church bells rang.
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France
Louis Philippe
Anne Douglas Sedewick
Brittany
Mourning Bees and a Rector Reflect on a Death
In Forty Years in a Moorland Parish Rev J C Atkinson recalls a Sessay rector who buried a parishioner. The widow carried provisions to beehives and spoke to the bees declaring the master is dead. Beehives were put in mourning with black strips and taps signaled doors as each hive was told the master had died.
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J. C. Atkinson
Sessay
Thirsk
England
John G
Why American Nurses Are Loved
A 1918 Indianapolis News reflection on American nurses serving in France notes their courage discipline and healing impact. It admires their work under danger and haste and hints at public gratitude while joking about romance and proper bedside conduct.
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France
Indianapolis News
Grain effect by scratch graining on trim for Pasadena home
Elmer Grey designed a Pasadena home aiming for chestnut look with gray grain. California redwood trim was painted nut brown then scratched with a handmade tool to depth about a quarter inch. A white coat was applied and rubbed in before most surface paint was removed.
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Elmer Grey
Pasadena
California
Community Spraying Circles Cut Costs in Farms
In New York community areas farmers form spraying circles per department guidance. A team works across nearby farms reducing disease costs. The season average spraying cost per acre fell to about 65 cents, with a single application averaging 13 cents per acre.
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Agricultural ‘Department
New York
Thanksgiving Victory and Illinois Tuberculosis Sanatorium Vote
A Thanksgiving message praises victory after four years of war and honors those who served. Separately, Illinois voters approved a county tuberculosis sanatorium law across thirty-three counties, creating forty county hospitals and related services to aid consumptives statewide.
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Threelinois
W. D.thurber
Illinois Tuberculosis Association
Good Roads
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