Belgium Relief Efforts Highlighted by Belgium Aid Report
The Evening Current reports that by January 1 the Belgian relief officers showed over two hundred fifty million dollars spent on supplies. Two and one half million tons of food had been imported, distributed at monthly rates of twenty million pounds bread twenty five million pounds fat and five million cans milk. America has given less than four percent of the fund though it is American in origin. Hoover says Europe cannot supply enough food to Belgium and America must provide milk and bread for children amid high starvation and death rates.
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Belgium
America
Sriven Lew
Hoover
England
Washington
Jackson
New Orleans
Wellington
Europe
Bridges
The Volunteer Service Debate in Britain and America
A local editorial surveys British generals General Roberts and Lord Kitchener on universal military service and contrasts with American debate. It notes mixed views on drafts, cites General Bridges on training and readiness, and suggests national guards may be first to see service. The piece urges information sharing and announces forthcoming county meeting coverage.
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Great Britain
Roberts
Lord Kitchener
England
Wealden
Goldier
Bent
Frost
Kitchener
Liewenant General Bridges
General Bridges
Oral
Nacional G1ards
Fring
France
Farm Association Organized in Artesia Meeting
Major Bujac and wife with Professor Knorr and wife acted as chauffeurs to organize a branch of the Eddy County Farm and Live Stock Improvement Association. The assembly urged wider participation, pledged assistance, and highlighted the nation’s urgent preparedness as New Mexico troops were named to join expeditionary forces to France.
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Bujac
Knorr
EB. W. Weaver
Eddy County Farm and Live Stock Improvement Association
Edly County
Artesia
United
Abbott
Adjutant General's
New Mexico
France
Gee
Treating Chestnuts for Worms with Bisulphide Fumigation
Wormy chestnuts may be condemned under food and drug rules. The safe method described is fumigation with bisulphide of carbo in a tight box or barrel, using one ounce per bushel and water to create vapors that penetrate the nuts.
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Iator Watker
Chinch Bug Warning for Missouri Crops in 1917
Minor Station warns farmers of chinch bug threats in Missouri’s central belt and across the corn and wheat regions. Dry seasons and mild winters may boost outbreaks next year unless farmers eliminate winter quarters and burn dry areas to expose pests to heat and predators.
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Missouri
Cornfelds
Wheatfelds
Sanitary Hoghouses for Clean Livestock Pens
The piece argues hog houses must be rebuilt with smooth walls and doors to allow easy cleaning and deter vermin. It notes hogs breathe, eat, and drink near the ground in many contamination sources, making frequent, thorough cleaning essential.
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K. Akbiew
Sinots Station
Honor for One Redhead Dr Marion Button Named Redhead Society Life Member
Alexandria Ind reports Dr Marion Leroy Button president of the University of Minnesota, a redhead, may receive a life membership in the National Association of Redheads at the Indianapolis meeting. Once a Minneapolis drugstore clerk delivering packages for 86.8 a week, he earned 10 000 annually as head of the state university. The honor vote is planned for August at the Redhead society gathering.
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Marion Leroy Button
Alexandria
Ind
Lfe
National Association of Redheads
University of Minnesota
Mets
Indianapolia
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Brick
The
State University
Redhead Society
Postmaster Burleson Sets Virgin Islands Mail Rates
Washington Postmaster General Burleson issued an order applying domestic postage rates and conditions to mail between the United States and the Virgin Islands formerly the Danish West Indies.
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Washington
Burleson
Virgin Islands
Danish West Indies
United States
Letter Reaches Oregon Man After Sixteen Years
A letter mailed sixteen years ago reaches Salem Oregon sender BM Crosson from J Sutton Horne of Boonville Missouri. Horne had planned with Croft on's parents in 1840 and the son wrote the pioneer in 1910. He had given him up for dead until the letter arrived, apparently long in transit within the post office.
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Salem
Ore
Crosson
Halem
J. Sutton Horne
Booneville
Education in Motherhood Opens in Los Angeles
A school for mothers and prospective mothers opens in Los Angeles funded by city clubwomen. The chamber of commerce provides free space for baby examinations and lectures twice weekly. The program aims to offer free scientific instruction to women with infants and may seek permanent city and county funding. Within a week hundreds of babies registered. Courses cover eugenics prenatal care home sanitation diet bathing exercise sleep motherhood child care through age six, plus extension work at the state university.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Chamber of Commerce
State University
Quotations on Gas, Seas, and Creation
A fragmentary excerpt blends Lucretius, Merico’s Pacific coast, and Victor Hugo. It reflects on memory of the present, gas, and the gulf of California at 4 574 miles with reflections on creation and human limits.
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Merico
Pacific
Gulf of California
Circulating Libraries and Ben Franklin’s Early Prints
A historical note recalls a Philadelphia printer before the Revolution who shared his book collection with eight eager peers. He invited friends to borrow from his cabinet, laying the foundation for the circulating library idea credited to Ben Franklin.
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Philadelphia
Ben Franklin
Calf Breeding and Homemade Sponge Idea Touted
The text discusses calf breeding emphasizing that elite bloodlines matter less than strong dams and sires for future value. It also mentions a homemade open sponge using small sponge pieces in a bag to mimic a large sponge, noting Turkish toweling as a possible bag material.
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Popular Science Monthly
Thor Ali Maall
Hears His Wife Preach at Avanaton C lan Church
An exhausted minister, Rev. C. Jordan, lets his wife preach for one evening to a full congregation after a week of nightly duties. The piece contrasts a wife taking his pulpit role with the worn-out man and notes his wife’s cheer in providing relief.
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C. Jordan
Avanaton Clan
Jordan
Husband
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