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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1918
Page
3
An enthusiastic plea for mince pie as essential to Christmas meals and daily menus. Promotes NoxeSucu Mince Meat in modern packaging, claiming economy, reduced waste, and versatile uses from pies to cookies. Encourages None Such War Pie without top crust and ties to U S Food Administration effort.
Omaha announces new Food Administration rules to conserve wheat for export. Two wheatless days each week with one wheatless meal daily, one meatless day weekly and one meatless meal daily, plus two porkless days. Bakers to use 70 percent wheat in mixed flour breads. substitutes urged and sugar to be saved.
Article promotes substituting wood for coal amid rail and fuel strain. Farmers and urban landowners with woodlands urged to supply wood, noting potential savings of millions of tons of coal if one quarter of farm and one tenth of village coal use shifted to wood. It explains wood cord value, seasoning, and basic methods to prepare cord wood for heating.
A Washington DC man allowed public access to his suburban woodlots to cut fuel for shivering families during the coal shortage. He later found about 5000 cords of timber in nearby lands, secured owners consent, and arranged supervised cutting in needed quantities. Are woodlots near you helping with the fuel emergency.
Two piece wood grates fit through the fire door and sit atop the standard cord of well seasoned hardwoods. The heating value equals about one ton or two thousand pounds of anthracite coal.
White Oak figures show cordwood yields by size from 10 to 24 inches in diameter and heights of 50 to 70 feet, noting variation with branch use and trunk taper. White Pine yields range from one eighth to seven eighths of a cord for trees 60 to 70 feet tall.
The article notes drying wood takes six to eight months with air circulation and that half the moisture can be removed in three months. It calls farmers and woodland owners to harvest poorer trees, offering profit and urging communities to promote wood cutting to avert fuel shortages as part of national effort. It also suggests reducing average sugar intake to improve health.
A federal representative assessing Atlantic possessions notes limited local foods in the Virgin Islands. Sugar cane and Sea Island cotton are the main crops with low yields, markets lack vegetables and fruit, and stock farming, forage plants, dairying, and overall farm practices require improvement to boost self-sufficiency.
Sidney readers are urged to use buckthorn bark and glycerine mixed in Adler-i-ka to flush the entire bowel and prevent appendicitis. One spoonful Adler-i-ka relieves sour stomach gas or constipation by removing foul smatter. Instant action surprises doctors and patients. Western Drug Co. Sidney Lumber Co.
District 71 residents Mr and Mrs Henry Bartels and baby visited the Krei home Sunday. Mr Rehmer did business in Sidney Monday. Frank and Mattie Harvey with Mrs B F Long and sons planned Sidney visit Monday afternoon. Krei couple were in Sidney on business Monday. B L Walker seen in Sidney Monday. Wm Witzel a Sidney visitor Wednesday. Mrs BE F Long and two sons returned to Colorado Thursday. Chapman butchered a beef Wednesday. Mrs John Harvey Frank Mattie and Mrs EB Long visited Hunnicutt home in Sidney Wednesday evening. Lena Krei staying at Newton home this week helping with house work. Mrs B L Walker’s mother, visiting for months, left last week for South Dakota.
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