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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1917
Page
26
Record crowds attend an auction sale featuring furniture from dressers and chiffoniers to beds and dining room pieces. The notice touts substantial savings as shoppers browse linoleum, bedding, and bedroom suites while urging aud ition times 3 and 8 p.m.
Washington Star reports a heated exchange where Senator Sorghum defends a remark as a diagnosis rather than an insult. The exchange centers on a contemporary figure described as lowbrow and a bonehead, prompting defense from Sorghum about intent.
New Castle residents planning vacations in Canada this year should carry evidence of citizenship and identity. Americans born in the United States should bring birth certificates or affidavits. naturalized citizens bring naturalization certificates or court copies. male citizens of military age must obtain a leave permit from the provost marshal general in Washington, D C.
Major General Henry G. Sharpe serves as quartermaster general guiding the army’s outfitting amid congressional resistance to war department reserve stores. New plans are required to meet the large logistical challenge.
The article discusses potato propagation by seed and cutting, noting Burbank's seed ball with 23 seeds that produced unique tubers, and two exceptional hills that reproduced true to type. It explains composition: potatoes 75% water, turnips up to 90%, with turnips high in water and low in starch, carrots and parsnips higher sugar, onions 90% water but low nutritional value. It argues vegetables provide limited protein, mainly serving as carbohydrates, and urges increasing vegetable intake to reduce cereal and meat demand. It also notes garden expansion and summer consumption as practical aims.
Herbert Hoover appeals to American housewives urging more vegetables to conserve staples, boost storage, and increase shipments to the Allies. He stresses that a vegetable rich diet will help the nation sustain war needs and support allied supply lines.
Bishop William Lawrence spoke at Trinity church about a $5,000,000 pension fund for Episcopal clergy and warned that many with incomes between $50,000 and $100,000 are poor or on the path to poverty due to high fixed charges and spending. He urged parents to teach saving and giving to their children to foster financial responsibility. A New York Sun note recalls a Lincoln office chat where a child suggested saluting the flag by placing the right hand over the heart and gazing at it.
Mr Lincoln style quote appears in fragmentary OCR about a filibuster and family dialogue. The usable fragment mentions Transvaal producing citrus fruits alongside a dated newspaper voice.
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