Berlin's Food Struggles Highlight Butter Scarcity And Ration Limits
Berlin residents face tight rations as abundant potato harvests prove of low quality due to wet weather. Butter remains scarce despite rising meat and bread allowances. A Dutch onion trader and Neumark farmer offer dubious butter schemes while many rely on long lines, with hotels sometimes charging more for limited supplies. A white, temperance restaurant on Kochstrasse becomes a show place for officials and elites.
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Berlin
Germany
Neumark
Domaene Edardshof
Granow
Perps
Jermany
Kochstrasse
Forty as a common measure in law and legend
The Boston Transcript notes that forty appears repeatedly in English law customs and stories. It cites widow settlements, parish residence, parliamentary arrest, quarantine, land taxation, mendicants, and religious rites, mentioning Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Nasir’s tale to illustrate the recurring motif.
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Boston Transcript
England
Scotland
Wales
Llandaff
Ali Baba
Nasir
Webb bill eyed to bolster American trade after the war
The House backed the Webb bill seen as essential for American manufacturers to gain footholds in foreign markets. President Wilson supported it, and the measure aims to let U S exporters form foreign trade selling partnerships to meet European competition while preserving U S anti trust prohibitions at home.
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Texas
Hardy
England
Germany
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Lincoln
Kern
Indiana
Webb
North Carolina
United States
House
Horse Drives Line Regrets Change at Curtis Hotel Lenox
The Springfield Republic says a strong hand signed H R Hinckley Northampton noting horse fed on a Cur tis Hotel Lenox register. The hotel once a coaching hub hosts its first horse guest in five years marking a notable change in era.
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Curtis
Lenox
Springfield
Mass
H. R. Hinckley
Northampton
Corporal of Nineteenth Infantry Arrested for Bigamy
A corporal from Company L is arrested on Crosby street at 10 o clock Saturday night on an affidavit by a San Antonio girl’s brother alleging bigamy. He reportedly has a wife and two children in Ohio where he enlisted. The incident follows claims of a prior marriage in Ohio.
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Nineteenth Infantry
Long
Crosby Street
San Antonio
Ohio
Hood Street
New Braunfels Avenue
Post Hospital
W. R. Maynard
Local News Briefs from San Antonio Area Items
A range of notes from the Bexar County region details a home for the aged rebuild and expanded walls by Rheiner Brothers, a shoplifting arrest of three Mexicans, an auto streetcar collision injuring A R Holbert, a dying Mexican found near Probandt street, market updates on shotgun shells prices, and a Presbyterian class picnic outcome between Denver Boulevard and Sutherland Springs churches.
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Bexar County
Rheiner Brothers
Ruhnke and Guerra
Bethany Organized
Young People’s Bible
Denver Boulevard Presbyterian Church
Sutherland Springs Presbyterian Church
Friday Night Brackenridge Park Event Sets Stage for Forty
A social gathering at Brackenridge Park drew about forty attendees. Quartullo, noted teacher of mandolin and other stringed instruments, performed for the group at the Y M C A Building. A separate item notes a minor bicycle accident at West Commerce and Flores streets with no arrests. Sunday School Teachers' Meet covered by Rev Batchelor emphasizing a dedicated department for young children. The Washington Star quote adds a wry exchange about understanding in public discourse.
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J. T. Garcia
Buena Vista Street
Philathea
Travis Park Methodist Church
Husband and wife spar over poultry judge in Baltimore
In a brief exchange the husband complains that Hubbs is no good at sports foul calls. The wife defends him noting he raises the neighborhood’s finest fancy chickens in Baltimore.
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Hubby
Hubbs
Novelty hand bulb signals night drivers light
An electric flash lamp with a bulb shaped like a hand is described as a novelty item for night signaling by automobilists.
Italian soldier recalls Gorizia supper during war
A Bersaglieri private recounts a daring wartime meal in Gorizia with Austrian guides. He describes crossing to the town from a hill, sharing salad and Chianti, and even taking a collar badge from an Austrian uniform before returning to his lines. He was wounded weeks later and returned to his London restaurant job.
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Gorizia
Bersaglieri
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