Rest Rooms For Rural Women
Rest rooms have been established in over 200 counties in the United States to serve farm and town women on business. Projects arose through farm women’s clubs, civic bodies, chambers of commerce, and local authorities with local merchants providing facilities near markets and at stations. Kalamazoo Michigan hosts a long running example since 1882, showing community support and cooperation among county agents, merchants, and clubs.
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United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Chambers of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Kalamazoo
Mich
Widows Pension Law Summary From 1917 Act
An act of Congress dated October 6, 1917 established pension benefits for widows of officers and enlisted personnel of the U S Army Navy or Marine Corps who served in the Civil War Spanish American War or Philippine Insurrection. The act set rates for widows on the pension rolls or to be added to the rolls and entitled to receive a pension.
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Congress
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Unite States
Spain
Efficient Lovemaking Man Said to Be Favored by Women
A writer in the New York Mail argues that women judge men by their romantic experience. He cites Sydney Shields and Havelock Ellis to claim that a man who has loved many women is preferred, and that women admire a masterful, worldly lover who can make a woman feel intelligent and desired.
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New York Mail
Sydney Shields
Havelock Ellis
Romeo
Backyard Poultry Advice for City Dwellers
Uncle Lars urges city residents to keep hens and raise chickens. A small backyard can support a flock to supply the household with eggs with minimal care and waste-fed feed. Good hens laid 10 to 15 eggs annually. start with a few hens and begin promptly.
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Lars
Thrift Pointers Declared Sinful When Nation Calls For Economy
Florence Mary Bennett urges thrift as a moral duty in a Vigil anten article quoting old New England housewife rules. Tips include using water in cakes, reducing yeast, making soup from leftovers, stretching bread, and saving scraps to avoid waste, framing economy as patriotic and sinful wastefulness.
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New England
Florence Mary Bennett
Vigilanten
England's towns lead with policewomen in numbers
The piece notes that most principal English cities have policewomen. It mentions the French horizon blue as top for military uniforms. It lists rice production leaders by state and claims the Dominican Republic houses the most virgin land in the West Indies. Montenegro youths tend sheep while elders engage in war work.
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Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas
California
South Carolina
Dominican Republic
West Indies
Montenegro
Germans Destroyed Forests and Orchards in Belgium and France
The Indianapolis Star notes German forces overrun Belgium and parts of France and destroy forests and orchards to barren land. The piece argues forests are essential for moisture, beauty, and economy, urging stronger protection and wider planting, especially among youth.
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Belgium
France
Indianapolia Star
Temporary Repair Of Broken Spectacle Lens For Wearers
Those who are so unfortunate as to have to wear glasses know what inconveniences and discomfort are caused by a broken lens and have a temporary solution described for quick fix and continued use.
Wheatless recipes and wartime substitutes rise in kitchens
A wartime style notice presents recipes to save wheat flour across meals. It lists combinations for bread made with oatmeal corn and entire wheat flours, oatmeal bread, cornmeal bread, and oatmeals with fruit desserts. It notes rye scarcity and suggests oat and corn substitutes while offering a Walnut Sausage and a Chicken and Chestnut Salad as meatless options.
Wholesome Wheatless Breads And Filling Dishes
A collection of old fashioned wheatless recipes using rice oats cornmeal and corn flour for breads crack ers and puddings. Includes Oat Crackers Cornmeal Patties Cornmeal mush baked oatmeal and a loaf style fish and tomato sauce dish with peas, featuring Rebecca Foresman quotes.
Tipped Off Mew-Quager Judge Confronts Confession
Fragmentary report shows a courtroom exchange where a judge hears a emotional confrontation. Statements hint at marriage and betrayal while referenced quotes touch on marital tensions. Names and precise facts are unclear due to damaged text.
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Mr. Guagge
Tou
Cottage Cheese as Staple Food and New Dishes
Federal and State agencies team to promote cottage cheese as staple food. About 39 billion pounds of skim milk available. cheese outvalues livestock feed sevenfold. Forty seven women specialists from many states train in Washington to demonstrate dishes and serve officials. Demonstrations include cottage cheese sausage and cheese tart. County agents, food dealers, and extension forces will promote the product nationwide.
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Washington
United States Department of Agriculture
The
Food Administration
Department of Agriculture
Dairy Division
Carl Vrooman
Raymond A. Pearson
Clarence Ousley
Dean H. L. Russell
Cleveland. O
States’ Relation Service
Bureau of Markets
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England
Beiee
Epring
Robt
Browning
Ruby
Rebecca Foresman
Nerece
Wyectal Information Serview
United States Department of Agricultur
Women’s Task
Sanewien
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