Sugar costs and reforms curb profits as France aid continues
Amid world sugar shortages and wartime demand, U S food administration regulates the market from producer to wholesaler. Hoover touts savings of over 180 million and outlines steps to curb refiners’ profits while urging housewives to keep consumption tight and prices at 8.5 to 9 cents per pound.
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America
United States Food Administration
The
Food Administration
France
Herbert Hoover
Mr. Hoover
West Indies
Europe
Java
Seaboard
Hoover
Cuba
State Department
Rolph
California
Church Services and Sermons Across Local Congregations
Second Reformed and First Reformed list morning and evening sermons with anthems and soloists including Loyde Hillyer, Mrs T H Liggett, and a quartet. Baptist, Methodist Episcopal notes cover service times, Sunday school, Junior and Senior unions, and midweek prayer meetings.
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First Reformed Church
Loyde Hillyer
Sadler
T. H. Liggett
Miss Jones
Baptist
Robert Carroll
Methodist Episcopal Church
Lincoln Memo Memorandum Leaves Soldier Thirty Days
A photograph of a March 15 1865 Lincoln signed memo records thirty days leave for a soldier. The note personally signed by Lincoln times exactly the thirty days before his assassination thirty days later.
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Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's Good Old Friend
An old New Salem woman, called Aunt Sally by Lincoln, visits the president-elect in the old state capitol. Lincoln greets her warmly and introduces two national figures, praising her flap jacks as the best he has tasted.
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Lincoln
Sally
New Salem
Abe
Washington
State Capitol
A Few Facts About Lincoln
He valued a merry jest and a hearty laugh yet was simple in manner dress and bearing but big of heart and brain. He cared for the living generation more than ancestry. He did not seek war for glory but to liberate people from slavery. All men were his brothers and equals before God.
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Lincoln
Making Nails
An excellent illustration of the difference between old and new methods. The metal was once cut into strips and forged by hammer for about a minute and a half per nail. Now nails are steel, lighter and stronger, strips cut with saws and fed continuously for mass production.
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N.vall
Pella Knitting Club Receives Florida Soldier’s Thanks
Dave Welle, on January 10 1918, thanks Mrs C F Aschenbrenner president of the Ladies Knitting Club for knitted goods sent to a new Florida camp. He notes wearing a sweater and that he will use other items later, describes camp facilities and his enlistment satisfaction. Letter from Jacksonville Florida to Park School Section Jos E Johnston F.
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Tof Cc. Hall
Dave Welle
Jos. E. Johnston
Park School
Jacksonville, Fla
Noted Food Commission Speaker to Visit Pella
John D. Berry of Washington, famed for wartime food investigations in France, will speak at Pella High School on Wednesday February 18 at 7 pm. The U S Food Administration’s Commission to France, in New York since January 19, toured the Midwest, met British and French food controllers, and spent five days with American forces, detailing European food conditions for Marion County residents.
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France
John D. Berry
Washington
Pella
Marion County
Europe
United States Food Administration
Commission
New York
Middle Western
Pershing
January Report for Pella Red Cross Surgical Dressings
January tally from Pella Chapter Red Cross shows 190 gauze compresses 140 abdominal muslin bandages 160 triangular muslin bandages 30 knitted sweaters 31 pairs socks 4 wristlets. Chairman leads chapter activities and reporting ends.
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Pella
Red Cross
Meyer dies at 84 at Home for the Aged funeral Friday
John Meyer died at the Home for the Aged at 2 00 p m Tuesday February 5 1918 aged 84 years 5 months 16 days He had been ill for some time He leaves two sons and two daughters Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at two o clock Interment will be at the First Reformed cemetery
Delicious Corn Muffins From Old Fashioned Recipe Revival
An old fashioned corn muffin recipe revived for use in several large New York hotels. Ingredients include one quart milk six ounces butter substitute twelve ounces light syrup or honey four eggs salt baking powder one and a half pounds cornmeal and rye flour. Butter and syrup beaten, eggs added gradually, then milk and dry ingredients folded in.
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New York
Rock Island Train Service Eastbound Schedules
Eastbound Passenger No 2 and Passenger No 60 depart Rock Island at 6 31 p m with arrival times and service details indicating limited train connections and platform information in the era’s timetable. The note reflects a concise listing of two trains in the same service window, emphasizing schedule order and numbering.
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Ciity
Ite
Epworth League
Westt
Buurrs
Iowa
S. C. Mann
Ave. A. Buruineron
Doctor Pierce
Anna Mosena
Ashmun Street
Rock Island Train Service
Wabash
Howell
Lowa
Iowa Company
State of
Franklin St
John Ulrich, Sr
J. T. van Zante
Auct
Wilson’s Jewelry Store
South Side Square
L. DeVries
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