Plan to Stop the Waste in Eggs Shippers urged to pay only for good eggs
Washington reports a conference of poultry and egg shippers and food administration officials proposing new methods to curb egg waste worth about 50 million dollars yearly. Recommendations include paying only for consumable eggs, chilling at purchase, updates to cooling equipment, standard packing, daily gathering, and selling second grade eggs near source.
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Washington
Food Administration
G. A. Powell
E. Hearty
Mary, Pennington
United States Food Research Laboratory
Philadelphia
W. I. Priebe
Department of Agriculture
Gandling
New York
Whole Food Administration
Red Cross Under Fire From Pro-German Propaganda
Washington reports a pro German propaganda campaign attacking the Red Cross and accusing it of misusing funds. General Manager Harvey D. Gibson orders division managers to trace sources and publicly challenge every unfounded allegation. The Red Cross defends itself as an open, economical organization serving mankind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gibson
Red Cross
Heiress Named In Grand Rapids Beneficiary Estate
Miss Carrie Pointsalot of Alton Illinois is named sole heiress to the estate of Miss Matilda Lowery of Grand Rapids Michigan who died in Philadelphia. The fortune, valued at about $200000, was left after Miss Lowery met Pointsalot while doing housework for a St. Louis family on a cold November day.
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Alton
Ill
Carrie Pointsalot
Alton Ig
Matilda Lowery
Grand Rapids
Mich
Philadelphia
Pointsalot
Lowery
St. Louis
Women in overalls take jobs in Ogden shops
In Ogden Utah women replace drafted or volunteering men in Southern Pacific local repair shops. About a dozen women start with sorting scrap piles, separating cast iron slugs, removing steel and wrought iron. They handle nuts bolts screws and small parts and may move to cleaning cars and heavier yard work if effective. Women earn equal pay to men performing the same tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogden
Utah
Uncle Sam
Liberty Army
Southern Pacific Railroad
Coin in an Apple Delights Albany Congregation
At a surprise party Albany Oregon Rev G L Schuster of the Evangelical church bit into an apple given to him and found gold coins inside enough to cover his and his family's travel expenses to his Ohio home. He decided to use the money to pay his expenses.
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Albany
Ore
G. L. Schuster
The
Evangelical Church
Ohio
Sawdust In German Bread Report Claims Wood Content
In a Swiss legation report from Berlin, a military correspondent who returned to Rome with dysentery tested a loaf of German bread and found it contains 12 percent corn 22 percent barley and 66 percent wood sawdust. Bread tickets are in force in Switzerland. The daily allowance is unclear.
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Rome
Berlin
Berne
Switzerland
Swiss Ration System Tightens During Wartime
The text notes monthly sugar allotments of 18 ounces and rieé nine ounces, with rationed letters capped at three ounces monthly by district. It also reports Swiss ration rules causing hundreds of German and Austrian visitors to depart, aiming to curb parcel posts and potential espionage through nationality and business checks.
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Switzerland
Has Another's Nerve Heals Captain Knyvett Return to Front
Chicago reports Captain R Hugh Knyvett intelligence officer of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade Australian forces was invalided home after a German shell wounded him twenty times. He claims a nerve transplant from another man’s leg restored his vigor. Cuba builds 82 mile canal in Matanzas to reclaim fertile land.
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Chicago
R. Hugh Knyvett
Fifteenth Infantry Brigade
Cuba
Matanzas
Battered Veterans Return From Verdun Ambulance Drive
A Williams college unit describes grim Verdun frontline service as ambulance drivers. Two hit while helping wounded, gas exposure, shell bursts, and a shift to regular army service are noted as volunteers pursue enlistment in Paris.
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New York
France
United States Army
Williams
Verdun
Blercourt
Mort Homme Hill
Will
One Meal a Day Proposed by Green Bay Council
Green Bay council 128 and United Commercial Travelers urge omitting one meal daily as a wartime conservation measure for able bodied individuals. The plan aims to save food for government needs including camps and training areas. A separate report from Graham County notes cowboy Joseph Walsey found an iron box in a tree containing old Spanish coins and vessels seized to Safford, with theories it once hid priests who fled about 75 years ago.
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Green Bay
Wis
Graham County
H. R. Whitman
Solomonville
Joseph Walsey
Safford
Whitman
Walsey
Discovery of 400000 in Gold Unearthed
Report details a cache of four hundred thousand dollars in gold found by an unnamed party in a remote area. The discovery occurred in a lonely spot, prompting investigations and questions about provenance and custody of the metal.
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Thoenix
Aviz
U.S. War Board Arrives in Paris for Allied Council
The American commission reaches Europe to join the Paris war council. Col. J. M. House leads a U S delegation with Navy Admiral Benson Army Gen Bliss and officials from treasury shipping board and food control to coordinate allied strategy and war aims. Secretary Lansing calls the gathering a war conference aimed at maximizing U S and Allied cooperation and efficiency in defeating Germany.
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Washington
Europe
Allied War Council
Paris
United States
America
BE. M. Howse
Wilson
War Board
Army
Navy
Treasury
War Trade Board
Shipping Board
Food Comptroller
Priority
J. M. House
William 8. Benson
Niker H. Bliss
Oscar L. Crosby
Vance GC. McCormick
Charitian War Trade Board
Bainbridge Colby
Alonzo &. Taylor
Tooger
Thomas Nelson Perkins
Gordon Auchincloss
Touse
Polk
Iowa War Measures and Rail Rate Rulings Highlight Des Moines Dispatch
Des Moines reports the railroad commission rejected major changes to excess baggage rates. a 10 cent per hundred pounds minimum is set when fares are under 60 cents. The ruling also covers free baggage allowances, storage on holidays, and transport charges. Separately, promotions at Camp Cody include Major George W. Dulaney and several officer moves. The Eighty-eighth division signals cavalry elimination, and Iowa National Guard units prepare for home defense and possible overseas service. Iowa flags and holiday furlough plans are noted, with church fuel-saving suggestions and labor needs across the state. An Iowa soldier’s death by suicide at camp ends the dispatch.
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Des Moines
State Railroad Commission
Travelers’ Protective Association
Commission
Transmission One
Electric Company
IM. Dodge
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Council Bluffs
Iowa National Guard
Adj
Guy Logan
Adjutant General's Department
A. Green
National Guard
Town City
Logan
Towa
Adjutant General
Stone Houses of Aleppo Stand As Robust Trade Hubs
The stone houses of Aleppo are described as strong and well preserved. Dussurs and Khins operate in fortresslike stone buildings. Aleppo’s merchants display goods from around the world in narrow-fronted shops, with vast interiors behind unassuming façades. The city has long been a bustling trading center.
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Aleppo
Europe
Things Worth Knowing From The War Era Briefs
A column notes inventions such as a tire pump riding on a car crankshaft and a foot operated ignition lock for thieves. It mentions folding carrier ideas, POW psalm books used as spies guides, rising female munitions labor in England, a wooden 1776 canteen, possible vast undersea bed cover of invadable plans, and coal frame rearrangement saving miles. Patents in New Zealand rise, milking machinery leads, pearls grow in popularity, turf field requisition in Switzerland, and a world war course at the University of Wisconsin.
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Tula
Russia
Eagland
Charles H. Cleaves
Saco
England
New Yealand
Great Britain
Australia
United States
Foreign Trade Department
the National City Bank of New York
Nto
University of Wisconsin
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Parisian
Verdun Horrors
Lance
Taffy Young
Jim
Taffy
American Red Cross
Ambulance Corps
United States Artillery
Air Service
Wisconsin
U.S. War Board IN
Council
Sol. E. M. House
Lansing
Howard M. House
Germany
Mit
House
Envoy
Italy
Cadorna
Austria
Teutons
Ijn
Railroad Commission
Railroad Board
Dulaney
Camp Cody
Deming
N. M
George W. Dulaney
Milton S. Denman
Bred C. Hubbell
Fred 8. Lehmann, Jr
James H. Wray
John GB. Wallace
Chase Wickersham
John M. Paterson
Bullery F
Peterson
Frank K. Hahn
Cedar Rapids
Buablery 1
Dodge
War Department
National Army
Eighty-eighth Division
Camp Dodge
Cers
Cavalry
Infantry
Artillery
Wort Snelling
O. K
New Lowa
Iowa
Dixie Cornell Gebhardt
Knoxville
Daughters of the American Revolution
Flost
Harding
State Council of Defense
Washington County
Plummer
Thomas Gjerdeson
Arthur Nelson
Harry Jidwards
Marl Caddock
Charles Webster
Mr. Webster
Mret
Webster
Iowa City
Postoffice Department
Port of Embarkation
Pier No. 1
Hoboken
New Jersey
Postal Department
Min
Trance
State and Federal Employment Bureau
State House
Camp Fins
Elmer C. Buegies
Three Hundred
Wiftieth Infantry
Fort Atkinson
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