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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
2
United States Tires set mileage and serviceability records as sales surge. The answer lies in the factories where these tires are produced.
In a mix of wartime notes and local items, the column recalls Mothers Day while reporting on Major Howard Schneider’s promotion to duty in France. Macedonian nuptials between Bilton Clayton and Lillian Mae Roberson are noted, as are the Dye sisters’ plans for Red Cross and patriotic work in New York. Transcripts from Montgomery county grand jury proceedings are requested by the supreme court to decide licensing for J N Wilkerson, weighing a heavy 49 pounds.
Administrator Deems ordered a five day mill closure after confronting Otto Boening of St Ansger mills about selling flour in excess with no substitutes. Boening admitted guilt and paid $100 to Mitchell County Red Cross. The notice warns all mills to cancel credit due bills and place flour on the market for fair distribution under US Food Administration rules.
A food administrator states ice cream may be served at socials for the next three months but only ice cream, no wheat or other foods. He argues replacing meat with dairy products can ease shortages, warning surplus milk, cheese, and butter must be used to prevent price and supply problems.
A curiously phrased text condemns hoarding of Pondstuffs and consumer opposition to food saving. It argues that buying excess for home stockpiling undermines wartime goals, aids the enemy, and defends government efforts to ensure fair distribution and price reduction.
Community Kitchens operating in Ohio Pleasants Kanawha Jefferson and parts of West Virginia used cooperative canning under home demonstration agents. In Charleston a kitchen opened in July drawing 58 mothers and many more to process surplus vegetables and fruits, aided by about 15 volunteers. The program conserved large quantities of food that might have been wasted.
A homemaker follows the fifty percent rule to reduce wheat use by increasing vegetables and baking wheatless bread and desserts. Her weekly ration for five includes meat substitutes, fats, milk, sugars, cereals, and a heavy emphasis on potatoes and fresh vegetables. The plan totals meal groups with specifics on quantities and substitutions.
A wartime era guide lists wheatless options for picnics including baked potatoes, tomato sandwiches, barley flour cookies, and barley flour recipes. It emphasizes non wheat reliance with items like butter hard boiled eggs cream cheese oranges and thermos coffee.
The Food Administration has found over 11 000 bushels of wheat held by Iowa farmers via farmer responses to a Burlington inquiry. All wheat is requisitioned for soldiers in France and the allies, with efforts to locate any remaining surplus. Rice shipments from China rose sharply in 1917 and may set records this year.
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