Sugar supply and strict economy urged for war season
The United States food administration acts to allow 25 extra pounds of sugar for actual consumers via purchaser certificates, enforcing five pounds to city and ten to rural buyers. Prosecutions for profiteering follow as measures tighten before the canning season, with penalties including license revocation and red cross donations. Corn is urged as a wartime symbol, highlighting national self reliance.
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United States Food Administration
Tere 'S
Swifts
American Red Cross
Zinn & Co
New York
Swift & Co
New York City
Co. A. English
Ottumwa
Elmer Wood Company
Red Cross
B. A. Brown Company
Laverne, Minn
Little Rock
Ark
St. [Uin, Minn
Sell Flour to Buy a Liberty Bond for Iowa’s War Effort
Iowa officials urge residents to exchange excess flour for Liberty Bonds or Red Cross aid. Deems and Hoover outline a state program to collect and ship surplus flour to soldiers and allies, with fines for hoarding and a guaranteed price to sellers.
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Red Cross
World faces food shortage as war drains supplies
The nation must conserve food as marked by a federal report detailing starvation risks in Belgium Finland Romania and Holland due to wartime shortages. It warns 18 million soldiers cannot be replaced by destruction of human products and urges Americans to sacrifice meat and wheat to feed Europe.
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Finland
Russia
Sweden
Roumanina
Holland
Denmark
Europe
Food Administration
The
America
Canada War Food Drive Aims Record Wheat Output
Food Administrator notes Canadian sacrifice and urges Iowa readers to support soldiers abroad. Canada reduced beef bacon and flour use to feed an army of 500000, plans to grow 400000000 bushels of wheat, with spring grain campaigns. Quebec to add 600000 acres of grain. Manitoba aims for 42000000 bushels.
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Canada
Iowa
Keeie
Quebec
Manitoba
Why We Must Save Meat in War Time
Food Administrator Deeis warns of a severe meat shortage in England as meat leaf titles end May 1. Reports show home-grown meat sales to markets averaged 55.9 million pounds weekly since January 1, far below 1916 levels, with cattle down 45 percent, sheep 40 percent, and hogs 68 percent.
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Deeis
Food Administration
England
Engish
Deems
United States
Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of Rolfe Light & Power Co
Amends Article Five to change Twenty to Fifty and Article Six to replace Five Thousand Dollars with two thirds of paid up capital stock. Adopted by Rolfe Light & Power Co. officers C. W. Siefkin and Ward Ferguson. Notarized in Pocahontas County Iowa on April 27, 1918.
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Rolfe Light & Power CO
C. W. Siefkin
Ward Ferguson
Secy
State of Iowa
Pocahontas County
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