Prices of Paris Foods Soar As War Pressures Grow
Special dispatch reports Paris food prices climbing with war demands. Radishes and cheap meats have risen from two cents and sixteen cents to ten and sixty cents respectively. Poultry remains expensive, with small chickens priced at 2 to 2.50 dollars and fowls at 5 to 5.50 dollars. Geese, rabbits, potatoes, eggs, and salads follow similar hikes while fish remain scarce. Sugar petroleum and tobacco grow scarce, sparking fears of further shortages even as a silver lining appears with potential potato exports easing the crunch.
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Ville Lumiére
France
Alba
England
Germans strip the dead for clothing amid war shortages
Specie Dispatch from London notes Germany’s war ethic degrades further as authorities debate stripping civilian dead of clothes to conserve textiles. An Elberfeld Freie Presse mockingly suggests paper clothes and public disposal of linen while stressing victory hinges on such measures.
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Aesa
Elberfeld
Books Arrive for American Fighting Men in France
The American Library Association sent 110 cases of books to Paris for U S forces, with Western fiction, reference works, histories and science volumes. Dr. M Llewellyn Raney led the mission, coordinating with Y M C A Red Cross and Salvation Army to distribute through coast vessels, cantonment libraries, and naval aviation stations. The program aims to supplement, not replace, existing services, and includes arrangements for prisoners of war and cantons in the United States.
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France
M. Llewellyn Raney
Johns Hopkins University
Baltmore
Overseas War Service
Paris
Raney
Europe
General Pershing
Admiral Simsen
Washington
Quartermaster’s Department
Admiral Wilson
Major Perkins
America
Switzerland
England
Burton.e. Stevenson
Hotel de Orion
Stevenson
Camp Sherman
Chillicothe
Ohio
War and Navy Departments
United States
Carnegie Corporation
One Eyed Engineer Sees Four Germans Lost For One
An American engineer who lost an eye in Picardy boasts he can gain four Germans for the price of one eye. He remains optimistic and says he would trade another eye to repeat the feat. A nearby American woman shelters returning soldiers with home cooking and support.
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