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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1918
Page
6
Food administration urges wider use of fish in place of meat to aid soldiers in France. It argues freshness matters and that lower price fish can be nutritious, while detailing consumer prices for various staples in a wartime market.
German rations lowered from three pounds to one pound per person weekly due to late potato harvest. An extra six ounces of peas and beans are added to each person’s allotment to compensate for the shortage.
Eddie Rickenbacker recalls a bold two‑wave strafing raid on German balloons near the front. American pilots flew high and low, using stunts to provoke German gunners, then dived to attack with incendiary balloons. The mission ended with several balloons destroyed as observers hung from parachutes.
Col Grove, chief of the subsistence division of the U S Army quartermaster corps, oversees every meal for American soldiers in the United States and in France. In six years he rose from private in the National Guard to colonel with no complaints about Army food in his tenure.
Peter Jensen a 77 year old retired seaman collapsed and died of heart failure Monday afternoon in front of a Yesterway hotel where he was staying. His body remains in the morgue as authorities update the case.
Mrs. Anna Burbank, wife of I.KE Burbank, reported at Bartell Drug Store that she gained 32 pounds after four years of weight loss. Starting at 95 pounds, she rose to 127 pounds in just over a month, with improved appetite, energy, and relief from headaches and back pains. Tanlac is sold in Seattle via Bartell Drug Stores.
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