Sugar Backbone Shown as U S Averts Sugar Famine
The nation reduced sugar consumption by about 500 000 tons helping avert a home sugar famine during peak shortages. July to October saw distribution fall from 400 000 to 230 000 tons as the public followed government injunctions and beet and Louisiana cane crops neared harvest. Europe may ease rationing if it matches continued U S sharing.
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United States
Food Administration
Louisiana
Europe
Premier Lloyd George recalls Wilson aid cable in 1918
Weston Oregon article recalls a March 21 1918 exchange with President Wilson urging 120000 infantry and machine gunners to Europe. Lloyd George notes America sent 1900000, with 1100000 carried by British mercantile marine, as part of the Allied effort.
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Leeda
England
Wilson
Lloyd George
Amiens
Europe
America
Mr. Lloyd George
British Mercantile Marine
Food conservation and shared burden in wartime rhetoric
A wartime statement from the U S Food Administrator stresses voluntary sacrifice by all citizens to conserve food. The piece argues autocratic control failed in enemy lands while democratic sharing sustained the United States and Allies through the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Weston Leader Urges Universal Red Cross Membership
A Weston Oregon city notice calls on every adult citizen to join the American Red Cross as World War aims progress. It cites Red Cross work for soldiers in France Russia Siberia and home service, and stresses allegiance and civic duty through universal membership.
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Woodrow Wilson
United States
American Red Cross
RED Cross
American Red
France
Russia
Siberia
Europe
J. M. Banister
Weston
State
Oregon
Nana
Paris
Weston Leader
Brestan
Pendleton Quarantine Debate Sparks Local Friction
A special meeting of the Central Loyalty Committee of the Umatilla County Patriotic Service League reports Pendleton barber Ed Nelson defies a quarantine ordinance. The group frames Nelson as a religious fraud while a Spanish influenza relief drive seeks to ship three thousand tons of condensed milk for prisoners' children.
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Umatilla County
Nusseilte
Service League
Nelson
Pendleton
Red Drum
Hohenzol Jern Described as Happy as a King
The St. Louis Star notes Mr. Hohenzol Jern is described as unusually happy, a remark aimed at capturing his mood in a quirk of language.
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Mr. Hohenzol
Jern
St. Louis
Discontented Newcomer Seeks Better Life Abroad
A reflective note contrasts American aspirations with the grim fate of those in Rusia, suggesting a discontented man would face harsher conditions there under a different regime.
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America
Rusia
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Veity le Vast
Bill Hohenzollern
Greece
Serbia
Uncle Sam
Cologne
Columbia Record
Red Cros
Hearst
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