Poreless Days and Prodding to Cut Protein Use
Washington December 20 United States Food Administration issues new home card directives urging one wheatless day weekly one wheatless meal daily one meatless day weekly one meatless meal daily and one porkless day weekly. guidance stresses reducing sugar and meat, cutting fats and waste, and avoiding hoarding to stabilize prices amid wartime shortages.
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Washington, D. C
United States Food Administration
Iit
United States
Food Administration
Federal
The
Hame
War Department to call 463000 men by February
Washington reports unofficially that a new draft of about 463000 men will be called by President Wilson around February 1. They will be selected from questionnaire answers and join the regular army in place of transferred National Guard troops. The second draft would send men to cantonments in March, with about 1500000 in uniform by late summer, depending on cantonment space, equipment, and ships. Camp Lewis has filled its quota from the first draft.
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Washington
Wilson
War Department
National Army
National Guard
Camp Lewis
American Lake
Wash
Ley
Joffre
France
Hopewell School Christmas Program Moves to Dec 22
The Hopewell school on Muscatine Island will present its Christmas program Saturday night December 22 instead of Friday. Miss Grace emp directs a lineup of songs readings dialogues and a Silent Night tableaux with students Gladys Wells Celia Thompson Bertha Wells Edith Thompson Anna Harder Jennie Craig John Fowler Jessie Craig LeRoy Thompson Mildred Dance Thomas Dance DeEtta Rockafellow Lucille Welk Grace Thompson George Kinsley Herman Harder Earl Welk Hazel Mads Gladys Fowler Ellen Greiner.
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Hopewell
Muscatine Island
Grace Emp
Gladys Wells
Celia Thompson
Bertha Wells
Edith Thompson
Anna Harder
Jennie Craig
John Fowler
Jessie Craig
LeRoy Thompson
Mildred Dance
Thomas Dance
Cure for Croup Advocated by Mrs Rose Middleton
Mrs Rose Middleton of Greenville Illinois cites Cham berlain s Cough Remedy as a reliable cure for croup in her family noting it stops attacks immediately and she has used it for herself with good results Ady promotes in house efficiency and Christmas dinners at Hotel Magnetine while commenting on politics and wartime conservation efforts opposing increased production and suggesting opposition aids the enemy
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Croup
Rose Middleton
Greenville
Ill
Chamberlain
Ottie Snyder Rites Held After Long Illness Ends
Ottie Snyder former Muscatine livery stable owner died after years of illness at his home 1 West Third Street. Born February 3 1866 he built a trusted business career and shaped local commerce. Survived by wife Laura May Crippen and now private services at 253 Front Street with interment in Greenwood Cemetery. Flowers requested to be withheld.
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Muscatine
Ottie Snyder
West Third Street
Snyder
Nirsree
William Sny*der
West Front Street
William W. Snyder
Iowa
Snyder Wa
Rose Hinkhouse
Fudoliph Hinkhouse
Laura May Crippen
Greenwood Cemetery
Pipe Line for Barges Planned
Davenport plans for a pipe line from the Standard Oil plant on Federal street to the levee sawmill to supply barges for a river route to Wood River Missouri and Sugar Creek Louisiana. Robert A. Thompson, local Standard Oil manager and driving force, reported before the levee commission that consent from Western Floar Mills was secured to cross a levee lot and only a few details remained to start operations.
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Davenport
Standard Oil Company
Federal Street
Wood River
Sugar Creek
Robert A. Thompson
Levee Commission
Christmas Program at Mittman School Plans Observance
Mittman school pupils will observe Christmas in a Friday program at 2 o'clock directed by Miss Anna O Keefe. The show includes numerous recitations and songs such as Merry Merry Christmas, When Santa Was a Boy, Dear Santa Claus, Christmas Tree Farm, A Lady Santa Claus, At Christmas, Empty Stocking, If Santa Claus Was Pa, The First Christmas, A Christmas Thought, and How We Caught Santa.
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Mittman
Anna O’keefe
Molly Mittman
Santa
Donald Hyink
Santa Claus
Edwin Middleton
Pat Edward Pagel
Irred K Opf
Glac
Mildred Rugel
Flora Huttig
Irma Middleton
Harl Mittman
Clifton Hyink
Herbart Pagel
Bernard Middleton
Debate Theme At Excelsior Literary Society Meeting
The Excelsior Literary Society meeting Saturday in Bloomington township features a patriotic debate on whether internal faction endangers the U S more than external foes Ray Downer and Ivan Klein argue the affirmative while Joe Lang and Harry Van Atta argue the negative The program includes song readings and a current events segment with several local participants. An ordinance to allow laying four inch pipes on city property to connect a barge line carrying up to four million gallons annually is presented to the council Wednesday with likely opposition unlikely.
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Excelsior Literary Society
P. B. Lake
Bloomington Township
United States
Ray Downer
Ivan Klein
Joe Lang
Harry van Atta
Levee Commission
Conservatively made farm loans pitched as war proof
Not Affected by War Every day, month and year demonstrates more and more clearly than ever, that conservatively made Iowa and Illinois farm mortgage loans are the nearest war proof investments. Titus Loan & Investment Co. offers forty years of experience with no losses and serves customers in nineteen states. If you have $100 or more to invest, it will pay you to investigate these investments.
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Iowa
Illinois
Titus Loan & Investment Co
Iowa Ave
Chas. H. Fletcher
UBOAT BEATEN EXPERT CLAIMS DOOM OF PRUSSIAN HOPE
Arthur Pollen, British naval expert, says allied navies curb submarine campaign and stop world tonnage decline. He credits a British admiralty command change and U S Navy help as pivotal. He notes American destroyers in war area and praise for Sims Mayo and Benson influence.
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Associated Press
New York
Arthur Polton
Europe
United States
Pollen
Admiralty
Great Britain
Mr. Pollen
Germany
France
Italy
U. S. Navy
Whitehall
America
Sims
Mayo and Benson
Jumps From Hotel Window In Chicago Incident
Chicago December 20. Harry C Moore a broker in imitation butter either jumped or fell from a sixth story hotel window, investigators probe the sudden fall. No immediate details on injuries or motive released.
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Chicago
Harry C. ‘Moore
Hotel guest killed in room. wife cites somnambulism
A hotel guest was found dead today in his room after being in the hotel for two weeks. His wife described him as a somnambulist, suggesting sleepwalking may have been involved in the death.
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