Palestine Daily Herald (Palestine, Tex), Vol. 16, No. 237, Ed. 1 Monday, January 21, 1918 Page: 5 of 8
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CORN WILL WIN
| DEMOCRACY'S WAS
America’s Greatest Cereal Crop
Is Now Moving to
Market
MAINSTAY IN NATION'S CRISIS.
Surplus Wheat of the United States
Has Bsen Sent to Famine Threat*
ened Europe.
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America’s great corn crop, exceed-
ing 8,000,000,000 bushels, will save the
ivtserid’s food situation, officials of the
Ufttted States food administration be-
lieve.
Corn is the nation s best food cereal,
housewives are beginning to realize.
It contains all the elements needed to
keep the body in a state of health and
when used according to the scores of
1 recipes, especially when corn-
id with an added portion of oil or
will sustain life Indefinitely. In-
||paa warriors in colonial days lived on
^^^P corn alone for many days at a
and at Valley Forge parched
was at times the sole ration of
jHCbntinental soldiers.
Sotting to transportation difficulties
caused by the war the corn crop moved
more slowly to market this year than
store. Now, however, the cereal
reaching the millers and consumers.
& the meantime the nation's surplus
wheat has been sent to Europe.
Today there are approximately 30
bushels of com for every American.
This quantity is greater by five bush-
els than .in former years.
Corn has become the nation's main-
stay in the crisis of war.
Just as this cereal saved the first
lean colonists from famine on
^^^^■^ccaaions. Just as it served as a
l Maple food daring the War of the Rev-
tion and during the Civil War, King
v has again come to the front In
/flation's battle with autocracy.
meal is finding greatly increas-
Use in the making of ordinary white
Hundreds of housewives and
of the larger bakers are mixing
per cent -corn meal with wheat
to make leavened bread. This
of a mixture is worked and baked
se recipes and with the same
that apply to straight wheat
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Corn bread—using com meal entire-
(m ^gaining a greater popularity
■glk^Mrer before. Housewives are
■Hpt* realize that every pound of
------ured-ta
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Amusements
THE GEM.
When so much is said and being
done about aeroplanes winning the .
war, added interest will apply to pre-
sentations of “Flirting With Death,”
the five reel Bluebird photoplay an-
nounced for exhibition at the Gem
Theatre today with Herbert Rawlin-
son and Brownie Vernon playing the
star parts. The hero of the sensa- \
tional comedy makes a thrilling aero-
plane flight and drops into love and
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good fortune through the aid of a
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parachute. We will'also show “Deep
Seas and Desperate Deeds,” two reel
L-ko comedy featuring Merta Ster-
ling, the funny fat girl. Prices only
1,5c and 5c for this big seven reel pro-
gram. ' : .
Coming Thursday, "Fear Not,”
Allen Holubar’s powerful dramatic
production. •;.•••
. (AUVertjseuieni.)
THE BEST.
Today we will show the first and
second episodes of “Who Is No. 1?”
featuring Kathleen Clifford.
Also Gail Kane in “Red Woman,"
five reel World feature.
Tomorrow, “Retreat of the Ger-
mane,” official war picture. "Ad-
ventures of Carol,” five reel *Brady.
Wednesday, Dustin Farnum in
"The Spy,” eight reels. This is/ a
picture everyone in Palestine should
see;
\ t Advertisement)
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WEATHER FORECAST.
Daily Weather Bulletin Issued by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau.
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For Palestine and vicinity until 7
p. m. Tuesday: Unsettled weather
with snow tonight; continued, cold
with freezing temperature; Tuesday
unsettled, slowly rising temperature.
Temperature: Lowest last night
26; highest yesterday 30.
Weather Condition.
released for shipment to the
i wfth which America is associ-
tbe war.
are a score of com products
today possess unusual Importance
Americans. Corn syrup tor sweet-
corn cakes and buckwheat cakes
for use in the kitchen instead of
^-fsaiaulaied sugar is one of the leading
made from com.
f Corn oil, excellent tor frying and for
purpose filled by salad oils.
Is appearing on the market in large
^quantities. It comes from the germ of
fHocorn.
MADE-IN-6ERMANY LIES
QRCULATED IN CANADA
Canada Is also having trouble with
pfabto-In-tiennany lies calculated to
.kinder Canadian food conservation ac-
cording to an official statement re-
ceived from the Canadian food con-
holler by the United States food ad-
ministration. .
The storlesVbotherIng* Canada are
/ of the same general character as those
the United States food admlnistrs?'
tor recently denounced in this coun-
try, stfch as the ridiculous salt and
blueing famine fakes and the report
that the government would - seize
housewives’ stocks of home canned
pressure Js^cresL
ed over the northeast, causing tem-
peratures near zero in that district.
Rain or snow has fallen in practical-
ly the entire southern half of the
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country. With the exception of light
•snow in the upper Missouri end the
upper Mississippi valleys, fair weath-
er has prevailed in the northern
states. Below normal * temperatures
continue in all districts except South-
ern Florida, where it is warmer.
Louis Dorman,
Official in Cl.arge.
Palestine Oakland Co.
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With Headquarters at the Model Garage
Now has on hand Two Car Loads of
Oakland Sensible Sixes
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..INCLUDING A SEDAN.
These cars* have the lowest gasoline consumption and
greatest tire mileage record of any car on the market, the
lightest weight per horse power of any car made,; except one,
and that car sells for upwards of $3000. Forty-eight pounds
to the horse-power.
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Palestine Oakland Company
# WITH DISPLAY ROOMS AT MODEL OARAGE.
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Weather Forecast.
Forecast tor the week beginning
Sunday, Jan. 20, for West Gulf
States: Fair and somewhat colder
Sunday, snow or rain Monday or
Tuesday, rising temperature and fqir
weather thereafter with; a return to
below normal temperatures.
Harry C. Frankenfield, -
Forecaster.
Trying Kaiser Bilf Now.
.
Sheriff Guinn has received this
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* Local News Notes.. *
: Place your order lor printing with
fhe Herald. Phone 444.
American Shoe Shop. Phone 188.
Last Words of Spies
Read the Herald and get the news
while it is news.
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iot rr down
L. R. Deathe tor Jury service “Mr.
Guinn—Roy ie on the jury of Kaiser
Bill, and is in Norfolk, Va. H. W.
Deathe.”
It Will Pay You
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to become a regu-
lar advertiser in
This Paper
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Mark Quaintance, in the William
Fox special, “The Spy,” is no lees
brave than the courageous men who
have given up their lives for their
country.
The last words of Nathan ’ Hale,
greatest spy in American history,
were:
“I only regret that I have btn one
life to give to my otrantiy.”
"■^"15ia3orT6BT*]!tt6d^, We dfllUhTW1
i cer who carried on negotiations with
krtte very
best line of Commercial
Printing and at reasonable ! the traitor Benedict .Arnold and was
prices. Give US your next ! afterwards captured by the Ameri- j
order and let us prove our can8- M his dying words:
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assertion. - #
Bear in mind, we want
your business, and we pro-
pose making ourselves de-
serving. Are you with us?
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THANK TOD
All I request of you, gentlemen, is
that while I acknowledge the pro-
priety of my sentence, you will bear
me witness that I die like a brave
man.”
“The Spy,” featuring William Far-
num, will be at the Beet Wednesday.
Adv. It.
People Read
This Newspaper
^ That’s why it yould ha
profitable for yoo to
advertise in it
egggggl
If yoa noant a job
If yoa no ant to hire
If yoa •w^nl to bay
If yoa noant to rent yoar home
If yoa noant to sell your hoom
If yoa noant to sell yoar farm
If yoa noant to buy properly
If there Is anything that yoa
noant the quickest and best noay
to supwL that noant is by placing
isement in this paper
The results will surprise
and please you
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The Canadian food controller esti-
mates that when the people listen to
and pass on such stories, each one
has the power of destruction that lies
In a battalion of soldiers.
••Stories without even a vestige of
foundation have been scattered broad-
‘ Saat,* said the Canadian statement
' "Nor have they come to life casually.
They have started simultaneously In
different parts of the country and in
each Instance have been calculated to
, arouse public indignation.
| “They are insidious, subtle, perstst-
ent. Bit by bit they dissipate public
' trust, the great essential In the work
. , of food control.
“It lies with every individual to for-
bear from criticism: to refrain fi-om
passing on the vagrant and harmful*
gory, and thus the more effectively
ta co-operate in work which is going
to mean *n°re than 1116 majority of|
people yet realize.”
THE UNITED STATES FOOD
* „ ADMINISTRATION SAYS:
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There Is no royal road to food
conservation. We can only ac-
k complish this' by the voluntary
action of our whole people, each f
element in proportion to its means.
I ft is a matter of equality of bur-
den; a matter of minute saving
l^mnd substitution at every point In
the 20 000,000 kitchens, on ths 20,-
000.000 dinner tables, and la the
000,000 manufacturing, wt»eis<
and retail establishments sf
the country.
A Sensation!
You Want to See This Picture-Expose of German
Secret Police
e This Picture-
in Arnerica—
How the Kaiser
Operates and Secures Information.
GEORGE BRONSON HOWARD, Author, Knows His Berlin and Potsdam
RICHARD STANTON, Director, Has Staged Inside Secrets, with
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DUSTIN FARNUM
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1 THE AMERICAN FAVORITE, IN
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“THE SPY”
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There are 10,000 Foreign Enemy Secret Police Lurking and Scheming in the
United States. Some Claim American Citizenship
DO YOU KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR?
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The Best Theatre Wednesday
PRICES 10 AND 25 GENTS.
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Hamilton, W. M. & Hamilton, H. V. Palestine Daily Herald (Palestine, Tex), Vol. 16, No. 237, Ed. 1 Monday, January 21, 1918, newspaper, January 21, 1918; Palestine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1037503/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palestine Public Library.