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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1918
Page
2
A guide for farm households explains canning meats to extend variety and reduce waste when ice or refrigeration is scarce. It covers equipment steam pressure canners aluminum or steel, safety to avoid explosions, and preparation steps for meats and bones to make stock, soups, and varied meals without spoilage.
The article urges readers to contact the department of agriculture home demonstration agent to learn steam pressure canning and to use every bit of pork beef mutton fowl and fish. It encourages varying the family diet by substituting fresh meat for salt meat whenever possible.
The note advises dipping the entire flock including lambs about ten days after shearing. It also recommends a pasture crop for hogs of oats, Canada field peas, and rape seeded together. For one acre use two bushels peas, one bushel oats, and six pounds rape.
The subsistence division of the quartermaster corps feeds the U S Army with three meals daily for nearly 2 000 000 men across France training camps the Philippines Hawaii and the Panama Canal Zone Maj Gen George W Goethals heads the corps Col W R Grove leads the subsistence division Centralized purchasing saves the government millions, with 24 000 000 rations ordered at once and delivered within 24 hours.
Police found bonds and stocks worth nearly 175000 in a cupboard of Dr. Robert Stedman a Brooklyn recluse who died suddenly. Three bank books showed 20000 on deposit. He had abandoned his Manhattan practice over twenty years ago and was working on a boat when he collapsed near Twenty first Street Brooklyn. A letter to Secretary Daniels requested a trial of an invention.
Miss Willie Duncan, a friend of Representative William D Oliver of Alabama, hopes to reach France by becoming proficient as a radio operator. She has made rapid progress in her study.
Jack Watts a 24 year old sailor on a torpedo boat dove from a Seattle pier toward the training ship Philadelphia eighteen miles away. He was pulled from the bay and taken to City Hospital for treatment after consuming large quantities of salt water. He expressed pleasure at being saved from the journey.
New York report from Union Settlement in South Harlem notes gradual improvement among city boys over ten years. Secretary Gaylord White cites wartime departures and junior police work as factors reducing mischief and changing attitudes in tenement districts.
He claimed a design would stop torpedoes from sinking ships, stating the invention could protect vessels from underwater blasts and extend naval survivability.
The church board voted to remove the word German from its name. Rev A L Bernthal urged parishioners to buy Liberty bonds and announced a bond salesman will push bond sales in the church.
Ad touts Freezone as a painless remedy that stops corn pain instantly and lets a corn be lifted off with fingers. Claims a tiny bottle costs only a few cents and cures hard or soft corn and callouses without irritation. The copy states Freezone was discovered by a Cincinnati genius.
A fragmentary exchange questions where fire and a parent go when leaving. Betty and a mother debate the fate of the fire and the father in a terse, unresolved line of dialogue.
An old advertisement warns of kidney and urinary trouble and promotes Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a rapid remedy. It emphasizes early treatment, claims 200 years of use, and offers a money back guarantee if relief is not felt. It also urges ensuring the GOLD MEDAL brand.
A brief quip contrasts the familiar on card showing Out of Order with a newer smoother label Out of Service highlighting a temporary equipment status change in a plain spoken style.
A lighthearted proverb contrasts leading someone to marriage with persuading him to eat biscuits. It frames domestic effort as simpler in jest.
The item promotes a spring health regimen focusing on blood quality. It touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a tonic, lists herbal ingredients, and advises a liver and diet approach. It also recommends Anuric for uric acid and provides contact details for trial packets from the Buffalo institute.
Ht L Kramer creator of Cascarets introduces BATONIC and WATONIO claiming rapid relief from acid indigestion and dyspepsia. He urges post meal use to aid digestion with a money back guarantee. Available 50c per box from Eatonic Remedy Co Chicago.
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