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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1918
Page
13
Williston schools promote War Savings Stamps with a bank like plan across grades. Pupils exchange coins for Thrift Stamps and later War Savings Stamps while learners in Junior and Senior rooms vie in speeches and drills led by teachers and the school band under Professor Ohnstad.
As Easter approaches the local army and home community urge a keepsake photograph. The offer promises the best service possible so friends both at home and in the army will appreciate a special present for Easter.
Washington reports the railroad wage commission will propose increases based on helping the lowest paid workers, with emphasis on those earning under $100 a month. A statement on women in railroad work is expected in the final recommendations.
Urges wheat conservation through substitutes in bread and cake recipes. Highlights buckwheat breakfast cake cornmeal rye muffins potato breads and cornmeal ginger cookies while detailing ingredient substitutions and baking guidance for wheatless meals.
The article urges using potatoes to substitute for flour to conserve wheat for American and Allied armies. It notes plentiful potato supplies, low cost at about $1.20 per bushel, and compares it with flour at 13.70 per barrel. It highlights USDA recipes showing potato usage in bread making.
A vintage instruction outlines substituting mashed potato for part of flour in bread. It covers yeast options, water adjustments, sponge fermentation, kneading, rising, shaping, and baking for a loaf yield.
The steamship Oregon was lost off Fire Island on March 14, 1886. It was rammed by a coastwise schooner yet stayed afloat for half an hour allowing all aboard to be saved. Mail recovered from the wreck showed stamps with excitement that they had been lost, the first practice now used by the International Postal Union. Credit for the device is given to Edward M. Morgan of the New York post office for foreseeing that a few minutes with a rubber stamp would prevent many complaints.
Draying services listed with contact numbers for Evans. Office phone 31 and house phone 31, extension calls 2 and 3. Advertising code 38-tf.
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