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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1918
Page
9
A woman in wartime England prioritizes a social invitation over an appointment with a volunteer worker who receives no pay. The scene contrasts luxury, fashionable attire, and the social pull that keeps dedicated laborers from essential duties.
Inbar laments volunteers in Theil England accepting unpaid or underpaid war work while paid workers are scarce. She warns against taking a man’s job for less pay, calling it betrayal to families and humanity. She urges solidarity to ensure fair wages and full employment for all, noting ample jobs exist if wages are right.
A vintage recipe for plum pudding appears with instructions and ingredients including dried bread crumbs, vegetable oil, corn syrup, currants, lemon zest, cloves, and rye four. Step by step directions cover mixing, filling buttered molds, boiling for six to seven hours, cooling, and reheating before serving with sauce.
A wartime pamphlet advocates using small potatoes to replace wheat flour in bread. It claims 100 million bushels of potatoes could save 200 million bushels of wheat and urges households to use potatoes in bread, biscuits, pancakes, and other staples. The piece cites U S production figures and notes extension service offers free samples of war bread recipes.
A vintage food column outlines Pot Roast With Creole Sauce using English cut beef simmered three hours with carrots onions tomatoes pickles olives peppers and water. Includes mashed potatoes, lemon crackers recipe yielding three gallons crackers, and nut cookies with ground nuts bread crumbs sugar and eggs.
A historical newspaper fragment lists a breakfast menu with cereal and toast, a luncheon dish, and a dinner including mock chicken pot pie. It also details a meat curing recipe with precise quantities and steps. The bottom notes reappointment of ProvO police officers James C Snow William Johnson and Edward A Schafileld and city recorder Fred Eustis reporting $5547.20 collected.
The Western United States food administration issues orders limiting flour and sugar sales in Utah. Sugar to consumers not over ten pounds per purchase, with larger amounts only for distant buyers. flour restricted to forty eight pounds per sack to consumers and two sacks to distant farmers. Retailers must prevent order duplication. wholesalers warn against ads urging higher purchases. Officials urge clerks to explain there is no shortage and discourage hoarding while supporting conservative distribution. Provo meeting notes mention local packing contracts and potato rule discussion by the Farm Bureau.
Old advertisement notes a feverish illness blamed on January, describing aches chills and fatigue. Mrs Lisate Tres of Wenders, Kentucky writes of illness lasting weeks and relief found with Foley's Money Tar remedy, praising local drugstore availability.
A Salt Lake City tailor described as an alien enemy was arrested by Deputy U S Marshal David Thomas and jailed for internment at Fort Douglas. The suspect, about 35, not married, refused to fully cooperate but allowed his photo for publication as officials proceeded with the case.
Provo county farm bureau canvassers named to secure acreage for Goddard Packing Company. Canvassing by farm bureau and Commercial Club covers Pras 30 acres tomatoes 150 acres beans 60 cabbage 40 cucumbers 40 sweet corn 8. Team will start immediately to determine corn suitability for canning at the Provo district office of the packing company.
Salient details describe preliminary hearings for Clarence Livingston charged with second degree murder in the fatal shooting of Arthur Tryde. Livingston contends the shooting occurred during a confrontation over a planned break in at his residence, root cause being self defense, with hearings set to begin at 10 o'clock.
Advertisement copy extolls Caticuta Soap and a Curicura ointment for skin and hair care. It promises cleansed pores, reduced pimples and redness, and quick five minute preparations, claiming purity, fragrance, comfort, and convenience from the products.
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