United States Food Administration notes update famine efforts
The United States Food Administration reports on farm implement licenses, pumpkin planting urged to feed livestock, and threshing to save grain. It notes beef storage levels, rye week continuation, 100 percent flour extraction, and subsidies to curb price manipulation. It also covers meat shortages in Italy, cheese commissions, sugar losses, and U S export of wheat substitutes to Allies.
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United State Food Administration
United States
Iowa
Charles Howson
DeWitt
Red Cross
United States Food Administration
United Sates Food Administration
Meat Division
United Airpac Food Administration
King House
Washington
Italy
Hungary
Food wastes and substitutes sweep wartime life
The article reports on bread made from mixed flours and even fish or wood in Norway, and on Danish egg shortages with prices doubling. It notes a German Belgium decree banning mattress fillings with hay, and discusses a poultry feed from city garbage. It covers sugar scarcity, canned fruit without sugar, and advice from Miga Catherine J. Mackey to help housewives with instructions. It ends with a Bohemian farmer urging canvas liners to save 25 to 50 bushels of wheat daily during threshing.
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Norway
Miga
Catherine J. Mackey
Home Economica
United States Food Administration
Frank Svehoda
Oklahoma
Butterfat Recovery From Whey and Sugar Saving Tips
Wisconsin farmer notes whey butterfat potential worth 800 to 1000 dollars a ton and urges recovering one-half of one percent butterfat. The piece also covers English sugar import limits, meat rations, and practical canning sugar ratios for fruit preserves with step by step syrup guidance. Hazel B. Spencer provides home demonstration tips.
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Wisconsin
Larson
To Meet the Sugar Situation and Wheat Saving Talks
A fragmented rural notice outlines sugar reduction practices for fruits and jams, rye week promotion, and time efficiency for housewives. It promotes demonstrations on war breads at the high school and urges use of Calumet Baking Powder to save time. Names, dates, and places limited by legible text.
The Volunteer Myth in War Time Valor
Poem and public notice celebrate volunteers in wartime. It contrasts drafted praise with voluntary service, urging pride in being a volunteer. A Ford-a-Tractor sales pitch targets farmers, urging local agency distribution and farm implement conversion from Ford cars. Lake Park, Iowa.
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Ford
Chrysler Tractor Co
Lake Park
Iowa
Methodist Episcopal Sabbath Services and Epworth League Plan
The Methodist Episcopal church schedules Sabbath school at the usual hour and morning preaching by the pastor at 10 30 AM with all de sired to attend The evening preaching service is canceled due to chautauqua The Epworth League meets at 6 30 PM with full attendance requested to finalize plans for the Okoboji institute
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Methodist Episcopal ‘Church
Epworth League
Okobojiwo
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Uncle Sam
Kuovent
Food Administration
Ministry of Food
Vernon Kellogg
Leland Stanford University
Atlantic
Cuba
Porto Rico
Great Britain
Bavarian Egg Supply Office
Denmark
Belgium
England
Alonzo E. Taylor
University of Pennsylvania
Hazel B. Spencer
Berlin
Rye Grahm
Evangelical
Lutheran Immanuel Church
J. E. Andreae
Union Baptist Church
Federal Reserve System
First National Bank
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