AMERICAN FOOD
BADLY NEEDED
BY BRITISHERS
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NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (Correspon
dence of Associated Press).—Abund
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ance of imported meat, bacon, cheese,
margarine, rice, tea, sugar, and ap
ples is assured the people of Great
Britain the coming winter by the au
thorities, but home-grown products
such as milk, meat, butter and dried
fruits, it is said, will be scarce and
costly.
Meanwhile the government food
control will continue in order that
rich and poor alike may share in the
available supplies. Nothing like the
hardships endured during the last
two years of the war is anticipated
because the government supervision
and distribution will not be so rigor
ous as when Haig’s army had its
“back to the wall.”
The expense of feeding and fatten
ing cattle is the factor that will make
home-grown meat scarce. Hay and
oat crops are abnormally short, and
root yields in some parts of the coun
try are almost a failure. Cattle
“cake,” which will have to be used
more freely, is more expensive than
last year.
The same considerations apply to
milk. The price for August was
fixed at 68 cents per gallon to the
dairymen, and for September at 75
cents. Last winter it was 20 cents a
quart, but higher prices are expected
the coming winter.
There is plenty of tea in the coun
try, but transportation systems are so
out of joint, dealers say, it will cost
more to handle and distribute it.
Bacon prices are rising in America,
which makes the British price. Port
and dock delays, due to strikes and
the general apathy of labor, con
tribute to higher prices.
Nobody is worrying about sugar ex
cept as to price. The sugar commis
sion has been very active in the gen
eral market, and has obtained enough
to last the country until the end of
the year at prices which, it is de
clared, are a little below the average
of Europe, but, of course, much higher
than the American price. If the com
mission had to go into the market
now it would be compelled to pay as
much for sugar as the present retail
price, and as it wife likely have to do
that early next year the consumer ex
pects to pay more.
Apples are high and scarce, the
controlled price being 18 cents a
pound. It is expected, however, that
the fine crop here in England will
serve to reduce this price materially
before the winter comes.
Bakers and the government expect
an increase in the cost of bread. There
are abundant wheat supplies in Aus
tralia and the Argentine, but the
scarcity of shipping makes immediate
delivery impossible. So England
must depend on the United States and
Canada which, the authorities say,
means costlier loaves.
named twenty-two members of the
family who have fallen for the father
land, all except two of them officers.
Similarly, the family of Baron von
Puttkamer, little known in Germany
and not as large a family as the Wan
genheim, announces the loss of nine
teen members, ranging from non
commissioned oficers to lieutenant
colonel.
Individual regiments, divisions and
naval units, are daily letting their
individual losses be known, and they
make a formidable appearance and
attest to the bitter severity of the
war.
In this connection it is interesting
to note estimates of the ministry of
finance about the cost of the war to
Germany. It amounts to about $36,
500,000.000, according to the peace
time rate of exchange.
WOMAN WHO WORKED
FOR HALF A CENTURY
AT MANUAL LABOR
WIGAN, England, Aug. 24 (Corres
pondence of Associated Press).—Mrs.
Bridget McHugh, the oldest “pit
brow” voman in the Pemberton coal
field, has just died here at the age of
80 years. For more than half a cen
tury she had Avorked at the mines.
“Old Bridget,” as Mrs. McHugh was
familiarly called, was a hale and
hearty, strongly built woman who
could use a shovel in filling mine cars
as well as any man and was alAvays
looked upon as an expert pit.-broAv
worker, few being her equal.
The shorter working day Avas un
known to her and summer and winter,
rain or shine, she was accustomed to
leave home at 5 o’clock every morn
ing, and was in her place at the coal
bank before the whistle sounded at
six. Her day continued until five or
six at night. Mrs. McHugh was a
grandmother and two of her sons are
employed in the colliery Avhere she
worked so long.
VALUABLE MOSAIC
DISCOVERED IN ROME
ROME, Aug. 23 (by mail).—Archae
ologists have discovered a rich mo
saic, believed to date back to the days
of the caesars. The work was found
in a perfect state of preservation un
der the foundations of the Case Pop
olari. Its decorations are elaborate
geometrical designs. The piece pos
sibly composed part of the floor of
one of the imperial palaces.
We always have a supply of
pasteurized sweet milk and cream on
hand. Also buttermilk and Bulgarian
buttermilk. City Dairy. Phone 187.
WONDERFUL MECHANISM '
OF LONDON’S BIG BEN
LONDON, Aug. 15 (Correspon
pondence of Associated Press).—
Fifty disabled soldiers, many of whom
had lost a leg in the war and wore
an artificial one in place, climbed the
360 steps of the house of commons
tower the other afternoon to study
the mechanism of “Big Ben,” the
giant timepiece. The soldiers are be
ing trained by the ministry of labor
in watch and clock repairing.
One, spying the clock mechanism,
exclaimed: “Is this the works? It
looks more like a blinking printing
machine.”
A guide told the party that the
clock was designed by Lord Grim
thorp and placed in the tower in 1859.
It has been working for 60 years and
is still regarded as one of the best
timekeepers in the world.
The minute hand is 14 feet long
and weighs 224 pounds, the pendulum,
which requires two seconds to com
plete each swing, weighs 700 pounds.
The bell which sounds the hours has
a diameter of 9 feet and weighs 14
tons, the weight of the striking ham
mers being 766 pounds.
An electric motor now winds the
clock in 20 minutes. Formerly it took
two men working three afternoons
a week to complete the task.
INDUCEMENTS OFFERED
BY PARIS UNIVRSITY
PARIS, Aug. 24 (by mail).—Stu
dents all over the world are offered
special facilities to attend lectures at
the Sorbonne, the ancient university
of Paris, beginning November 3.
Courses include six months’ work on
French history, literature, geography,
philosophic and social doctrines, art,
laws and legal institutions of France,
medicine, the sciences and languages.
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Bakery. 2-6t
Fresh Ever-Ready Flashlight Bat
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Drummer Boy, 50c
LADIES’—Silk, 50c and 75c
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Tablecloths on sale yet.
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(MRS. JOHN NELSON)
Across St. from Modern Laundry
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GERMAN FAMILIES
ARE MAKING PUBLIC
THEIR WAR LOSSES
BERLIN, Aug. 21 (Correspondence
of Associated Press).—Belated news
of the losses incurred by German
families and organizations, military
or civilian, as it is verified, is being
placed in the newspapers in the form
of obituaries.
The Baron von Wangenheim family
recalls its dead in a great black
bordered advertisement in which are
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