18 Jun 1918
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Newspaper
The Belen News
Location
Belen, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1918
Page
1
A wartime article explains sugar prices and rationing. It cites Hoover on saving 180 million dollars in four months by regulating refinery profits and limiting cane sugar margins. It urges Americans to cut consumption, shift to substitutes, and supports the liberty loan drive with a call to Southwest women to double their quotas.
Mr Weeks, held in high esteem, recalls decades of nervous indigestion and severe heartburn before declaring relief after a recent experience. He spoke at his Lydia Street home about suffering twenty years and twenty pounds gained, detailing painful symptoms and failed remedies prior to a pivotal moment on a Saturday in late month. The Valencia County High School upstairs work proceeds despite bids needing deposits, with chair Saturnino Baca noting the board may reject any bid.
In Jacksonville Florida eighty two year old engineer J Weeks of Seaboard Airline, the second oldest in service, claims Tanlac improved his health. He says the medicine restored vigor after fifteen years, and reports relief from troubles and a renewed, childlike vitality. Buckland Bros. in Belén distributes Tanlac.
An exhortation urging patriotic home front support as the American youth join the khaki ranks. It praises volunteers, stresses duty and sacrifice, notes casualties and privations, and calls for continued backing rather than limiting interest to pay.
Miss Grace Parker, sent to Europe to study women at work, asks why American women should be shielded from tasks done by French and English women. She cites English women building ammunition and farms, nurses enlisting rapidly, and motor drivers in France. In Dallas, Southern women applauded the call and urged a large Liberty Loan over-subscription to aid soldiers.
A five year old in Ellis county quotes Mamie as pro German and lacking war stamp buying. The piece notes men who have not settled to the Liberty Loan face public criticism from even children.
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