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Newspaper
Warren Evening Times
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1918
Page
3
American troops shift from trench life to open warfare with more movement and cavalry revived. Training at home emphasizes target shooting bayonet practice and long marches in preparation for driving back the Germans, aiming for decisive open combat and above ground fighting.
The Looking Glass critiques General Hulings and Prohibition Party stance on pledges, praising Mr. Beshlin's candidacy and party support. It argues total abstainers and Prohibition Party members reject promises from opportunists while emphasizing shipbuilding gains and U boat raid context. It highlights United States shipping goals and future tonnage projections under Chairman Hurley.
The speech stresses a vast merchant fleet as an instrument of probity and liberty, pledges America’s unselfish stance in Mexico, and rebukes German influence shaping Mexican distrust. It argues withdrawal after Villa’s defeat shows restraint and condemns threats of partition as barbarians’ aspiration.
The article notes two Kellerman titles How to Learn to Swim and Physical to Swim Beauty and urges all children near any safe water to learn swimming this summer. It cites Kellerman's own recovery from weak legs through swimming and argues swimming prevents accidents and builds confidence, health, and grace.
A collage of local dispatches covers Fourth of July preparations, new fairy tale writers in Kaisers country, motor boats requiring Federal licenses on Conewango, a thirteen day old baby operated on for appendicitis, aging reservations for alien women, and Hoover’s meat ration proposal of one and a quarter pounds per person weekly plus bone.
The Sharon Herald notes a view that the Huns will ignore Marine assurances while Charleston News and Courier recalls Mr Daniels advocating universal conscription from ages 16 to 60 to win the war, alongside past pacifist criticisms.
The Food Supply Department and Federal Food Administration move to the Finance Building with tenth and eleventh floor offices. Civilian War effort headquarters consolidate under the Pennsylvania Committee of Public Safety to avoid duplication, with key figures like Howard Heinz and Edgar C. Felton holding multiple posts.
Whey from cottage cheese should be saved and used in breads lemonade or punch and as a water substitute after straining. Make whey ice by adding corn syrup and fruit, or heat with syrup to honey consistency for spreading on waffles. Whey jelly uses gelatine lemon rind and whey strained through cheesecloth set in sherbert cups. Whey salad dressing mixes salt sugar mustard cayenne rice flour egg chicken fat vinegar and warm thickening whey then strains.
The text contrasts diseased meat with meat from diseased animals and notes that live trichinae cannot be guaranteed by inspection in fresh pork. It adds that proper cooking kills any trichinae present, preventing disease.
Governor James H Cox visits Camp Lee in Petersburg Virginia addresses the 37th Division praising the men. Andrew M Lee of Prince Edward County is sentenced to three months hard labor for causing the death of Clyde E Kepple during a revolver incident while teaching a fellow soldier a draw. Lee convicted of negligent manslaughter. Camp rules restrict women after 8 pm and passes for nonuniformed men are barred. Col H N Falls named camp executive officer.
A fragment notes the asa tree harms nearby vegetation by shading while a yew permits little growth under it. The observation contrasts shade effects on plant life in the same area.
At the Federated Women’s Clubs convention six thousand members representing about two million women pledged to go without wheat until the next harvest. The text urges careful buying, reading labels, ensuring full weight, and choosing trusted brands to build a reserve and cut waste amid Food Administration guidance.
A National War Garden Commission bulletin urges intensive small plot farming to crowd out weeds. It cites dwarf peas early, corn between rows, turnips broadcast between rows, and soil humus from harvested peas. Home gardeners should outproduce commercial growers per square foot with proper fertilization and cultivation. Readers are asked to request a free garden primer by sending a two cent stamp to Washington.
In eastern Washington a large gas well, discovered three years ago after a miner drilled for water and exposed a four inch pipe, has been tamed. A passerby once set the gas blaze alight for 18 months until the well was capped. Development work begins now as an 18 inch pipe was sunk into the reservoir for future use.
Clarence Oumley Assistant Secretary of Agriculture argues against uniforms for farm labor. He notes farm work is typically done in shirt sleeves and overalls and that workers would prefer to reuse old clothes for practicality and cost.
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