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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1918
Page
2
G W Wattles states the Food Administration will issue all official notices through newspapers. News items constitute official notices and readers must govern themselves by reports published in the paper.
By proclamation Food Administrator Wattles designates Thursday each week as potato day. Merchants should lower potato prices and encourage consumption in Nebraska. Potatoes may substitute wheat flour on Thursdays with four pounds of potatoes per pound of flour, not exceeding half the substitute amount. Aims to reduce potato surplus and prevent waste.
Food Administrator Wattles clarifies the ruling allowing farmers to exchange wheat grown by them for flour at the mill for not more than a thirty days supply to straighten out confusion about the exchange.
Administrator Wattles states rye flour is not a substitute for wheat flour and should be sold with substitutes. Whole wheat and graham flours likewise are not substitutes and must be sold with substitutes. Buyers using whole wheat or graham must purchase substitutes at a ratio of six-tenths the amount of flour bought.
Extension News Service reports the hog market may rise if corn falls, with government aims to keep hog prices above 15.30 and set hogs at 13 times the corn price next summer. Farmers urged not to sell bred sows, and pork campaign placards indicate commitment to raising more hogs as warm weather may devalue soft corn.
More than 6000 Nebraska farmers asked the agricultural college for 1918 farm account books to record business. The demand is driven partly by income tax laws, with 15 cents now charged after the initial 5000 books. Farmers may obtain books through county agricultural agents or by sending 15 cents to Farm Management Demonstrations, University Farm, Lincoln. The Dairy Reference Circular notes a compilation of dairy literature valuable to dairy work including bulletins, papers, and publisher addresses, available free on request.
Nebraska towns plan war gardens for next spring with school authorities listing every vacant lot owner and whether the space will be rented or allowed for free garden use. A card index tracks ownership and access, with school children given first opportunity to cultivate the plots. About 100 larger towns and cities expected to participate.
A fragment quotes Napoleon era views declaring women are either much better or much worse than men. It asserts women when degraded fall into greater excesses, contrasting with men, and treats morality as binary within the sex.
Ward M Burgess Nebraska War Savings Director asks 1100 town chairmen to use school houses as community centers to promote the War Savings Stamp campaign. He says the little red school houses are cradle of liberty and should host meetings with school officials and local leaders to enlist cooperation.
Paris Academy of Sciences calculated the fall time for a stone dropped to the earth center. M Sanger finds 19 minutes 1 second considering density variation, and 79 seconds longer if mean density is assumed.
A customer testimonial notes relief from sour stomach and bloating after using Ad ler-ika with buckthorn bark glycerine and other ingredients. The ad claims it flushes the entire bowel tract relieves gas and prevents appendicitis with instant action. Western Drug Co.
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