Nebraska sugar buying limited to small quantities
Gordon W. Wattles Federal Food Administrator for Nebraska urges residents to limit purchases to three pounds per person per month. Retailers should cap sales at five pounds in towns and ten pounds in rural areas per transaction to ensure fair access amid a sugar shortage.
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Gordon W. Wattles
Nebraska
United States
Federal Food Administration
Mr. Wattles
Washington
Flour ration figure set at four pounds per week
Gordon W. Wattles Nebraska Federal Food Administrator calls for a four pounds per week per person limit to ensure even flour distribution and prevent price spikes. He urges voluntary citizen cooperation to avoid hardships and keep bread affordable.
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Gordon W. Wattles
Nebraska
Mr. Wattles
Recent Food Rulings From the Nebraska Food Administration
The Nebraska Food Administration announces rulings affecting traveling salesmen brokers must be licensed. Bakers may use ten ounces of skimmed dried milk per 196 pounds of flour and may donate products to churches and charitable institutions.
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The
Food Administration
Aix
Nebraska First State to Show Foods Saving
Nebraska leads the nation reporting sugar, meat and wheat saved under the meatless and wheatless day program. Federal Food Administrator Gordon Wattles and State Committee Chair John Letton receive commendation letters from Washington for Nebraska’s savings.
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Nebraska
Gordon W. Wattles
John F. Letton
Washington
Phillippa Sands Ends With Secret Wedding Plans
In a richly dialogued scene from 1917, Phillippa Sands confronts Anne and Hayden as a garden romance drives toward a double wedding. Phillippa vows to go, but Anne reveals an upcoming marriage to Uncle Mark, while Hayden offers support and warns against public scandal.
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Anne
Ned
Miss”Burton
Phil
Hayden
Phillippe Sands
Phillie
Ann
Phillippa
Shu
Philipps
Mark
Ahi
The
McClure Newspa
Ner Syndicate
Thoughts for the New Year
A compact, period voice piece presenting aphorisms and literary quotations about work, piety, and longing. It weaves lines from Milton, Henry Van Dyke, St John Honeywood, Hood, and Shakespeare in a reflective meditation for the season. The tone blends moral exhortation with classical references.
Smile, Smile, Smile New Year Greeting Admonition
A cheerful New Year themed note urges readers to keep a positive outlook throughout the year and to avoid selling or discarding a new leaf of opportunity. It emphasizes cleanliness and personal renewal as the year begins.
Delirium of Arabs tobacco habit noted by travelers
Observers report Arabs in the Syrian Desert showing unusual fondness for tobacco. A common smoke is Sekharan, dried Hypocyamus leaves with purple flowers, which can cause delirium and giddiness. They prefer this to what is called the white man's smoke.
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Palestine
Syrian Desert
Engagement Wanted in Old Neighborhood
Dialogue fragment shows a character planning relocation with intent to leave and potentially confront someone. The terse exchange implies imminent move and aim to settle disputes by entering a new area. No clear names or events beyond the implied confrontation.
Local Happenings Ahead of Holidays in Potter Sidney Area
Herdon Nela Thurston returned from Denver with hogs for the market. Mr and Mrs White and others shopped in Potter and Sidney for Christmas. Nellie Gilliam and Blanche Kulp on vacation from Heron schools. C S Anderson welcomed a baby boy December 15. Rex Wagner injured his neck on a wire fence but is recovering. The Sidney Telegraph solicitor Jacob Morfeld and sister Elizabeth visited Sidney.
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Nela Thurston
Denver
L. Ms White
Potter
Joseph Johnson
Thomas Iverson
Blanche Kulp
Sidney
Herdon
Nellie Gilliam
Lewis Olson
I. A. Johnson
N. J. Nelson
Nels Thurston
C. S. Anderson
Rex Wagner
William Pearson
Sidney Telegraph
Jacob Morfeld
Elizabeth
Free Sample of Green's August Flower at Red Cross Pharmacy
An advertisement offers a free sample bottle of Green's August Flower to cure indigestion, dyspepsia, and related stomach issues. It touts fifty years of success and notes the medicine comes in 25 and 75 cent bottles, with Red Cross Pharmacy selling it nationwide.
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Red Cross Pharmacy
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promoted as Constitutional Cure
Local citizens are urged to use Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy for catarrh, claimed to affect the blood and mucous surfaces. The advertisement offers a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure, directs readers to Toledo, Ohio, for circulars and testimonials, and also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney, & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Eix Caenet. & CO
We Will Loan You the Money Build a Home
A wartime home building appeal contrasts daily hardship with a promise of loans for homes. The speaker condemns German Kaiser actions while detailing austerity measures and personal deprivation. The piece leverages nationalist sentiment to urge support for home construction during hardship.
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Nebraska Food Administration
G. W. Wattles
Bartow
Fla
Phillippa Sands
Milton
Carlyle
Henry van Dyke
Felix
St. John Honeywood
Hood
Hero and
Leander
Benjamin Woodcox
James
DRAY
George Puckett
Hotel National
Quality Lumber
Sidney Lumber Co
U. P. Depot
NEBR
Harper Furniture
Sidney, Nebr
C. E. Harper
Nebraska State Bank
F. M. Wooldridge, Pres
Sidney, Neb
Mr. Hoover
David Lawrence
Out
Curtis Publishing Compa
Independence Square
Philadelphia
Ted
Peter Peetz
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