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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1918
Page
7
Households face shortages as new devices vanish and thinned supply lines increase thrift. Tips cover care of knives, brooms, glassware, and china to extend life and cut waste. Practical guidance includes drying, cleaning, and storage to preserve usefulness of everyday utensils.
Simple kitchen fix uses a bread pan and wire racks to hold dishes while drying. A poultry netting or screen wire compartment stores silver and drains into the sink, keeping dishes clean and lint free.
A tip urges reducing sugar in coffee and tea to one teaspoon or one sugar cube per cup to prevent waste. It notes many Americans waste sugar daily and suggests dissolving the sugar fully for satisfying taste.
Suggestions include chopped hard boiled eggs with salad dressing, peanut butter, cottage or cream cheese, chopped dates and nuts. Wheatless options use corn muffins or rye or oatmeal breads. A sweet fruit or oat cookie can replace a cooky, with sandwiches and fruit forming a simple lunch with hot cocoa or soup.
Describes the silverfish pest, its damage to books, wallpaper paste, starches, clothing, and curtains. Recommends remedies including pyrethrum and roach powder sodium fluoride, plus handling and airing to reduce infestation. Offers a boiled starch paste poison mix for hotspots with warnings.
The record cites diary extracts and Whitlock testimony detailing German atrocities in Belgium and France in 1914 including executions in Dinant and Tamines the destruction of villages and the killing of civilians especially infants at Rock of Bayard. The documents describe systematic looting and burning and mass expulsions with references to Liege Louvain and other sites.
Camp Dodge Iowa reports top participation in war risk insurance among Iowa Minnesota North Dakota and Central Minor states. The camp leads in wheat flour conservation and boasts low disease rates. Draft increments arriving Feb 23 will reshape unit placements with qualified soldiers, and a West Point entry program is announced for promising youths under 22. Guardhouse sentences for misconduct highlight strict discipline, while soldiers request phonograph records to lift morale.
The first fired gun by enlisted men of the national army came from Dakota troops at Camp Dodge Iowa on February 13. Gun crews were from the 888th Field Artillery and Batteries D and F. Corporal Tuttle of Battery D and Corporal Gomsrud of Battery F fired the first two shots.
Dr A H Doty a physician was arrested in St Paul Minn on charges of performing an illegal operation on a 19 year old domestic from Almena Wis. The girl died January 31 at the city hospital.
An early 20th century health blurb promotes drinking hot water with limestone phosphate each morning before breakfast. It claims internal sanitation improves digestion, cleanses the stomach liver and bowels, and boosts appetite. It urges readers to obtain a quarter pound of limestone phosphate for a small cost.
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