What the Food Production Act Provides For
Eleven million three hundred forty six thousand four hundred dollars to be used in stimulating production, for protecting and conserving foods, and for a survey of the country's food resources. County staff increased to place agents in nearly every agricultural county to cooperate with the department and state college. Women county agents for home economics in rural counties and new agents in towns and cities. Warm-help service with labor department to unite farmers and laborers. Nationwide survey of food on farms, storage, shops, and homes. estimates of family consumption. Expanded crop reporting with special inquiries on extraordinary farm conditions. Hog and yeast production to be stimulated. dairy production and conservation encouraged. Combat animal diseases, destroy pests, extend plant disease control. Seed survey and supply, purchase and sale of seed if needed. Demonstrations in handling, packing, shipping, and marketing perishables. News service for farm products to inform producers and consumers about supply and demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unite States
Department
State Agricultural College
Lnited States Department of Labor
Cros
Fa Hy
Are You Looking Gid Old Age Sports Gid
An old age health appeal stresses liver and bowel care to feel younger. It promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as easy to take, effective for constipation and biliousness, and available everywhere.
Tilen Some Energy Burst in War Dispatches
A fragment from a New York Tribune quotation reflects that a single explosive burst of energy in a telephone conversation could lift morale for the army of 100,000 heading to France. The note hints at wartime communication as a potent rallying force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
New York Tribune
Prices for meats and poultry from market list
A market listing shows prices for dairy and meats including butter at 400 per dozen eggs, beef live weight 4 to 7 dollars per ewt, pork dressed per lb and veal live weight 9 to 12 cents, veal dressed per ewt 10 to 15 cents, sheep live weight 4 to 5 cents, calf hides and beef hides, chickens 2 to 3 pounds at 2.44 and 4 to 6 pounds at 5.2, and spring chickens in various totals. The entry reflects a midyear market snapshot with multiple livestock and poultry price points.
Spark Cereal Company price list for feed items
A price list from Spark Cereal Company enumerates multiple feed products and commodities with per unit costs. It includes wheat and oats per bushel, barley and corn per ton, various bulk feeds such as bran and hominy, best flour by barrel, middlings, pig and cow feeds, and cotton seed feed priced to market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ELOUR
Spark Cereal Company
Let Your Idle Books Help Our Soldier Boys
Community call to marshalfield residents to donate books and magazines for soldiers. Public library collecting 76 books and around 200 magazines, urging one donation per home and personalizing gifts with donors' names. Donations support camps front hospitals and sailors with war reading, travel, history, biographies and detective stories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gevlers
Marshfield
United States
Marchfield
Red Cross
Liberty Loan
Carbon Copy Joke On Party Line In Arkansas
A colored lady on a party line near Little Rock Arkansas tells a friend over the telephone that a baby is a puffed image of his father. Mrs Dickson adds it is a carbon copy while Mrs Johnson agrees. This light exchange appears in the Southwestern Telephone News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Arkansas
Mrs. Dickson
CourtesyPays Big Dividends in Life and Friendships
The piece extols courtesy as a valued lifelong asset that sweetens relationships and opens doors to opportunities. It emphasizes making good through polite behavior and steady acts of consideration, urging readers to practice courtesy consistently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swoetens
Marshfield Council Approves Isolation Hospital Plan
Special meeting of Marshfield Common Council on August 27 1917 approves building an isolation hospital at St. Joseph's Hospital with city share up to 4000 dollars. Sisters to care for poor sick and contagious for seven dollars weekly for 25 years. Three thousand dollars budgeted. included in 1917 budget.
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Sisters of
St. Joseph’s Hospital
St. Joseph's Hospital
Marshfield
Jano
Raddis
Kalsched
Blodgett
Dumas
Normington
Kirschner
Hastings
Siel
Counseil
Jous Suunee
Special meeting of the common council called by the mayor
August 20 1917 council room city hall meeting called to order by Mayor Felker with nine aldermen listed present. A reader of a call from August 18 1917 announces a special meeting for August 29 1917 to consider repealing ordinance 303. Ordinance 314 read. A motion to adopt passed with a nine to zero voice vote and adjournment follows.
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Marshfield
Wood County
Wisconsin
Felker
Kalsched
Hlodgett
Nymas
Normington
Raddis
Hastings
Sigl
Juno
Guckenberger
Connor
Kirschner
Wis
Adam Guckenberger
Common Council
Joan Seubert
The Value of Potatoes in the Diet
A U S Department of Agriculture statement urges higher potato consumption as markets are well supplied. It notes potatoes are a staple, versatile for leftovers, easy to prepare, and rich in starch minerals and mild alkaline salts that balance acids from meats and eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Try and Want Ad in The Times-£ t Works
Classified notice notes an advertisement option in The Times earnings section. It references a chance to place a notice or request services, with details likely including pricing and placement timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Try & Want
the Times
Harvest of grain crops signals Wisconsin bounty
Wisconsin reports its finest small grain crop in history with wheat yield projections from 25 to 40 bushels per acre and large potato acreage. Officials note labor pressures from fronts and rising lumber and iron demand while praising weather and crop prospects at a Great Lakes convention in Chicago. Harvey Ward leads county stock judging team. others place in contest figures and planning to compete at the state fair.
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Upper
Wisconsin
W. G. Hisgail
Wisconsin Anyancement
Great Lakes
Chicago
Mr. Bissell
Bissell
Harvey Ward
County Agriculture School
Q O. J. Leu
A. P. Bean
Wilmer Drollinger
Earl Leu
Albert Anderson
Judging cows at the Marsh Geld fair exhibit
A large crowd viewed the Marsh Geld fair round barn cow exhibit judged by Prof. Humphrey of Madison. Dairy type and production scores split 50 50, with William Schultz Auburndale first in type on a grade Holstein, Je Schmidt Arpin second, A P Bean Vesper third on a grade Guernsey. Schmidt led in production with two purebred Holsteins, Schultz placed third. Final scores mirrored the type and production rankings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prof
Humphrey
Madison
William Schultz
Auburndale
Je ¥. Schmidt
A. P. Bean
Vesper
Schmidt
Schultz
Cobbs Nebraska Farmer Welcomes Quintuplets To Family
A Cobb Nebraska farmer and his wife welcomed quintuplets after the wife gave birth to five children in quick succession. The first twins arrived, followed by two more, then a fifth birth within minutes. The smallest baby weighed 4 pounds and the largest 9 pounds. The father was in the fields when notified and reportedly gray-haired after the final birth.
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Omaha Bee
Cobb
Neb
Telephonic Diagnosis Question Sparks Odd Exchange
A brief dialogue features a woman asking about telephone prescriptions while a doctor refuses to diagnose remotely stating he cannot see the tongue by phone. The exchange implies a humorous or absurd situation with a partial line about giving a sample.
Wisconsin canning chart for fruits and vegetables
The College of Agriculture releases a canning chart detailing blanching and processing methods for various Wisconsin produce. It includes both card-pack and steam pressure techniques with a punched hole for hanging over a kitchen worktable, encouraging readers to write to Madison for further information.
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College of Agriculture
Wisconsin
Madison
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Pargo
Max Eastman
Tom
Council Proceedings
Felkir
Kalached
Camus
Roddin
Kirachner
Adler
Sig
Wic
Round Rooms
Jol Seulert
Franklin
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Renovators
Sthellies
Marshfield, Wis
Catile
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Dole
Adler Theater
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