Million Women Enlisted for Food Conservation Pledges
A million American women have signed pledges to follow food conservation directions issued by the food administration. Campaign urges reduced meals, use of fats sparingly, canning surplus garden produce, and buying local to ease transportation strains. Emphasizes milk, butter, and leafy greens, with calls to store roots, cut waste, and teach children thrift.
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Yookin
Moneuy
America
Europe
Robbers and wheat speculators in wartime talk
A letter to the Journal criticizes Hoover and Wilson for labeling wheat speculators as robbers. It compares wartime price manipulation to a street robbery, questions Recorder Lemmond’s wartime ethics, and warns of policing women protesters as democracy slides toward oppression. The note ends with a satirical signoff referencing a scaley fish remark.
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Lemmond
Hoover
United States
Jason
Law
Mr. Wilson
DHS
Congressional
Mr. Speculator
Speculator
Mr. Hoover
Washington
Russia
Congress
Wilson
Tre
Lewmond
Bil Jones
Bill
Jenn
Tony
Doan’s Kidney Pills Endorsed by Local Resident
A Monroe shoe and harness shop proprietor, A. Warlick, reports kidney relief from Doan’s Kidney Pills after years of backache and trouble straightening. He confirms the benefit again over three years later, urging readers to try the remedy priced at 50 cents at dealers via Doan’s Kidney Pills, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Dean
Ett
A. Warlick
Haynes St
Monroe
Doan
English Drug Co
Tam
Warlick
Bie Ni Co
Props
Buffalo, N
Economy Versus Hysteria: Experts Urge Thrift To Aid War
In July Hearst’s Magazine, Frank A. Vanderlip argues against hysterical economy and warns that wartime finance requires prudent saving. He cites shifted spending on luxuries and nonessential goods, urging broad, rational retrenchment to free labor for production while maintaining economic stability and war readiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.C. Forbe
Hearst's
Sam
Frank A. Vanderlip
Treasury
Britain
Royal Citiens
America
EU Nest Fed
United States Vessel Sunk by German Submarine
Washington announced Friday that the American steamship Orleans of Oriental Navigation was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine. Four crew members drowned but the armed naval guard survived. Two Americans were in the crew. The Orleans, previously the Avellana and then the Menaptha under the Argentine flag, had become the first American steamship to reach France from an Atlantic port after Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare.
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Washington
Orleans
Oriental Navigation Company
Armed Naval Guard
Germany
France
Avellaneda
Menaptha
Fewer Lynchings Compared With 1916 Six-Month Span
Records compiled by Monroe N. Work of Tuskegee Institute show 14 lynchings in the six months ending June 10, down from 26 in the same period of 1916. Among those lynched were 13 Black men and one white man, plus one Black woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe N. Work
Division of Records and Research
Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee,Mia
Soldiers receive no care packages from Chris tin Endeavor
A Friday announcement states that the two greatest camp comforts for soldiers, cards and cigarettes, will not be sent to the mips in bags prepared by the Chris tin Endeavor societies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mips
Christin Endeavor Societies
Labor strike erupts in Bloomington car lines protest
Labor advocate Mother Jones helped spark a strike on the Bloomington Illinois car lines Friday. Nine companies of Illinois guardsmen were dispatched to restore order. One man was shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones
Bloomington, I
Ilinois
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Drives Malaria and Builds Up System
Old Standard general strengthening tonic Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic claims to drive out malaria enrich the blood and build up the system for adults and children. The reading notes the tonic as a true tonic with broad healing promises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GROVE
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