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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1918
Page
3
The photograph shows how Versailles palace statues in the garden are shielded as France guards its art treasures against enemy air raids.
Liberty Bread, at 85 Funtington Avenue, Boston, opens with approval from the Massachusetts section of the woman's committee, council of national defense, and city and state women's food conservation committees. The shop provides substitutes for white bread with daily demonstrations led by an expert baker. Volunteer workers act as saleswomen and hosts hincheons.
Canadian horses arrive in Europe for Western front service. Wyde Dunlap, a horse wrangler who spent 21 months roping the 81 006 wild horses from the Peace River country northwest of Edmonton, says none have ever worn a bridle.
The piece quotes Billy Sunday arguing that booze harms success in sports and life. He cites Grover Cleveland Alexander and others, insisting winners do not use alcohol, linking victory to clean living, efficiency, and decency.
A wartime editorial argues food supplies determine victory while alcohol weakens manhood and wastes bread. it urges national restraint on beer and wine to support soldiers abroad and preserve freedom. The piece cites brewers consuming food and questions why troops are sent to risk lives while drink undermines home front strength.
Professor G Sims Woodhead of Cambridge warns that moderate alcohol consumption leads to uneven degeneration. Weaker tissues fail first as alcohol drains the body's reserve strength, leaving no balance to meet emergencies and risking sudden physical bankruptcy.
Dr Haren Emerson of New York City warns recurring bread and milk shortages risk food riots. He proposes reducing daily city expenditure by one million dollars to divert funds to food and relieve the poor.
Governor Cox of Ohio pardoned a convict on the condition the man shuns saloons. The Ohio State Journal questions extending this pledge to all men, arguing abstinence would cut penitentiaries and jail populations and be a true summit of progress.
A bustling wartime market tale explores frugal appetites and domestic tensions as shoppers exchange gossip about husbands, war relief, and ambition. An elderly customer offers a quiet moral about contentment and duty amid trimmed lamb chops and stew beef chatter.
A columnist, interviewing himself, rails at restaurant profits from potatoes during war times. He weighs an order to show inflated costs and argues restaurants should buy the 90 million bushels of potatoes to fund the war, noting one hotel charged extra for bread and butter.
A purple motorcar on Walnut Street attracts three well dressed girls from a department store. A man tries to enter the car as the camera goes off, a sharp woman protests, and the trio flees with the crowd closing in. The scene ends with the women retreating to the store for protection.
Mothers discuss adjusting infant routines to the new clock shift after daylight saving time. Readers inquire about methods to move feeding and wake times to align with the clock, noting fitful sleep and early bedtimes.
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