War era letters urge local support for food conservation
A late 1910s style column urges enlistment of all trades in wartime food effort. It emphasizes consuming staples like corn bread to save easily kept foods, criticizes hoarding and speculation, and calls for broad public pledges to conserve. The piece argues for local sourcing from mills, packers, and gardeners to stabilize prices and prevent shortages while stressing patriotism and democratic rights.
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Hoover
Congress
Mr. Hoover
Nesbit
Parisian Sage Hair Rinse Promises Pure, Nonstaining Shine
A woman touts a Parisian sage hair treatment to prevent hair loss and aid styling. The product, Giroux's Parisian Sage, is advertised as nonstaining and delicately perfumed. English Drug Co. supplies the brand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giroux
English Drug Co
Wanted All Chickens and Eggs and Misc Goods
Advert shows a general store offering to pay 26 cents per dozen for eggs and 20 cents per pound for young chickens. Stocks include soap, washing powders, sugar, coffee, tobacco, meal, flour, bacon, lard, hosiery, and a corn and apple mill. Also selling a Guernay bull for cash or time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Menton’s Cash Store
Benton's Cash Store
Timely Topics Read The Present Farm Prospects
The article notes Union county corn prospects the best in fifty years and cotton likely to reach its best price since the Civil War. It mentions two car loads of steel and rubber tired buggies, Dart Automobiles, mules and farm mares, and offers credit or swap sales in the salesroom.
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Union County
Dart Automobiles
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