davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-14
OUR SAVED FOOD
 FED THE ALLIES
Food Administrator Writes Presi- dent America Conserved 14l,-
 100000 Bushels Wheat.
CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN.
Meat and Fat Shipments Increased by
 s44, 4,soo,ooo Pounds.

Conservation measures applied by the American people enabled the Unit ed States to ship to the Allied peoples and to our own forces overseas 141,- OOO, 900 bushels of wheat and S44, ,6OO,- GOO pounds of meat during the past year, valued in all at $1,400,OO0, ,0OO This was accomplished in the face of a serious food shortage in this country, bespeaking the wholeheartedness and patriotism with which the American people have met the food crisis abroad.
 Food Administrator Hoover, in let ter to President Wilson, explains how the situation was met The voluntary conservation program fostered by the Food Administration enabled the piling up of the millions of bushels of wheat during 1917-1S and the shipment of meat during 1917-1S.
 The total value of all food ship ments to Allied destinations amounted to S1,4OO,OOO0 all this food being bought through or in collaboration with the Food Administration. These figures are all based on official reports and represent food exports for the harvest year that closed June 30, 1918.
 The shipments of meats and fats (including meat products, dairy prod uets, vegetable oils etc.,) to Allied des- tinations were as follows:
 Fiscal year 1916-17... ?. 2.166, 800, ,000 lbs. Fiscal year 1917-1S. ..3,011, 100, 900 lbs.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-14

A hoarder is a man who is more in- terested in getting his bite than in gly- ing his bit
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-14

the same half years in the three-year pre-war period.
 In cereals and cereal products re- duced to terms of cereal bushels our shipments to Allied destinations have been:
 Fiscal year 1916-17. 259,900O0 bushels Fiscal year 1917-1S. .340, ,s00O00 bushels
 Increase ....... SO,000,000 bushels
 Of these cereals our shipments of the prime breadstuffs in the fiscal year 1917-1S to Allied destinations were: :: Wheat 131 100000 bushels and of rye 13,9OO,OO0 bushels, total of 144,900,- GOO bushels.
 The exports to Allied destinations during the fiscal year 1916-17 were :: Wheat 135, 100000 bushels and rye 2,300,O00 bushels, a total of 137, 100000 bushels. In addition some 1O,0O00O0 bushels of 1917 wheat are now in port for Allied destinations or en route thereto. The total shipments to Allied countries from our last harvest of wheat will be therefore, about Al ,00O,- GOO bushels, or total of 154, ,00O,O0O bushels of prime breadstuffs. In ad- dition to this we have shipped some 10,000,000 bushels to neutralS depend ent upon us, and we have received some imports from other quarters.
 This accomplishment of our people in this matter stands out even more clearly if we bear in mind that we had available in the fiscal year l916-11 from net carry-over and as surplus over our normal consumption about 200,000000 bushels of wheat which we were able to export that year without trenching on our home leaf, 7 ;:llr Hoover said This last year however owing to the large failure of the 1917 wheat crop. we had available from net carry-over and production and imports only just about our normal consump- ton. Therefore our wheat shipments to Allied destinations represent ap- proximateIy savings from our own wheat bread
 "These figures, however, do not fully convey the volume of the effort and sacrifice made during the past year by the whole American people. De spite the magnificent effort of our agri- cultural population in planting a much increased acreage in l9l7 not only vas there very large failure in wheat. but also the corn failed 10 mature prop erly, and our corn is our dominant crop
 "I am sure" Mir. Hoover wrote in concluding his report. "that all the millions of our people, agricultural as well as urban, who have contributed 10 these results should feel a very definite satisfaction that in a year of universal food shortages in the north. ern hemisphere all of those people Joined together against Germany have come through into sight of the coming harvest not only with wealth and strength fully maintained. but with only temporary periods of hardship.
 Tt is difficult to distinguish between various sections of our people-the homes, public eating places. food trades. urban or agricultural popula- tions-in assessing credit for these re- suits. but no one will deny the domi- nant part of the American women"
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-14
s44.6oo,ooo lbs.

lICf C0oS o1NsOSOsCOO 'D'
 Our saughterable animals at the be- ginning of the last fiscal year were not apprecably larger than the year be- fore and particularly in hogs; they were probably less The increase in shipments is due to conservation and the extra weight of animals added by our farmers.
 The full effect of these'efforts began to bear their best results in the last half of the fiscal year, when the ex- ports to the Allies were 2, 133, 100000 pounds, as against 266,500,000 pounds in the same period of the year before. This compares with an average of S01 100000 pounds of totsl exports for the same half years in the three-year pre-war period.
 In cereals and cereal products re- duced to terms of cereal bushels our shipments to Allied destinations have been:
 Fiscal year 1916-17. .259,900,000 bushels Fiscal year 1917-1S. .34O, ,s00,OO0 bushels
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-05
HALF MILLION MEN
in FIELD this YEAR
A MILLION MORE TROOPS WILL
SOON FOLLOW, SECRETARY
BAKER TELLS COMMITTEE.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-America
will have an army of 100000 men
in France early this year, with mil
lion more trained and equipped and
ready to follow as quickly as ships
can be provided to carry them-and
the outlook for ships is not unprom-
Using.
Secretary Baker gave this informa-
ton to the nation and to the world
today in a statement before the SEN
ate military committee, barring much
of the army's military secrets that
until now had been carefully guard
ed, in answering charges the govern
ment has broken down preparing for
war.
From early morning until late af-
ternoon the secretary addressed the
committee and a crowd, including
many members of both houses of
congress, gathered in hearing room
of the senate Office building.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-05
RICH BACHELOR TOO
BUSY TO CHOOSE Wife
FINANCIER WHO RANKS WITH
ROCKEFELLER AND MORGAN
LIVES IN TENEMENT.

Henry L. Doherty, banker, capital
ist, engineer, inventor, next to John
D. Rockefeller the greatest producer
of oil in the world and next to J.
Pierpont Morgan the most powerful
financial factor on Wall street, is the
wealthiest and at the same time the
lonliest bachelor in the world. Do
herty simply has not had time to Sc
lect a wife from the thousands of
women who have written him letters
proposing marriage and insisting that
they have the qualifications to make
bachelorhood distasteful, especially
to millionaires.
Doherty lives in a tenement in low
er New York city with "Joe," me-
gro chef, and a beautiful gold and
green canary bird as his sole COM
panion. When the Fright woman
comes along he declares he will re-
turn to his Fifth avenue mansion,
which he left two years ago in charge
of his sister and to which he declares
he never will return, except with a
bride.
Despite his fabulous wealth, Do
herty is known to few persons in the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-05
ICATS ARE WANTED
FOR ARMY TRENCHES
BRITISH COMMISSIONER IN THE
UNITED STATES TO COLLECT
AN ASSORTMENT OF THEM.

There is big demand for Amer
lean cats to deal with the curse of
the huge and loathsome rats that in
fest the thousands of miles of trench
es in Flanders, in France, in north
ern Italy, in Salonica, and even in
Mesopotamia. Life in the trenches
is hard at the very best, and the
trenches shown to visitors of note
convey little idea of the foulness of
these holes in the ground, which are
often knee and even thigh deep with
mud, and which indeed are little bet
ter than open sewers. When to the
all pervading atmosphere Of putre-
faction which officers and men are
unable to get out of their nostrils
weeks and even months after they
have left the. front there are added
myraids of huge rats, which have
lost apparently all fear of man,
which do not hesitate to rob the sol
der of his food, and which destroy
his accoutrements, especially his
boots, one can readily comprehend
that vigorous efforts should be made
by the military authorities to pro-
tect the troops in the trenches from
this evil.
All kinds of methods of extermi-
mating the trench rats have been
tried in vain. Poison seems to be as
inefficacious as dogs, which were
tried, but which also failed.
English cats have failed to fill the
bill. They did not remain in the
trenches. The impression prevails
that they were devoured by the rats.
So the British military authorities,
having heard some rather tall stories,
of the gigantic size and of the feroc-
lty of the cats that make their habi-
tat on the wharves and piers of
Greater New York, Philadelphia, Bal
timore, Galveston and New Orleans,
pirate cats they call them, have
sent over here Inspector ,Cuthbert
Kidder to investigate and with au-
thority to start in by purchasing
from 500 to 1000 brawny American
waterside cats, to be followed, if the
experiment proves successful, by
whole shiploads of this particular
brand of American four footed war
rior.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-05

world of finance. He earns from
$20,OO0,0OO to $30,OOO,OOO a year,
and on Wall street is known as ''No.
co." which is the street nubmer of
the towering skyscraper which hous-
es his Wall street offices. The famous
money kings know him, scores of
young men in scores of cities
throughout the country who are be-
ing given educations fitting them for
places in the world of finance know
him, but the rest of the world doesn't.
In Washington, the big men of the
treasury department fear but admire
him. In the midst of the second lib
erty loan campaign he sent a criti-
cism of treasury department meth
DDS to the white house, but accom-
panied it with a 100000 check
for liberty bonds.
Started as Newsboy in West.
This remarkable man started as a
newsbOy in a Western city. His faith
er died while he was still a young
ster, leaving sister dependent on
the Lad. From newsboy Doherty be-
came messenger boy, then office boy,
then clerk, and after a while bank
runner for a financial house. He
gained the confidence of his employ
ers and saved his money. He took a
vacation when he Rad saved his funds
for FIVE years, and while he was away
invested in a street railway company
in Maine. The preliminary payment
took all his savings, but succeeded
in interesting his employers in the
project. The road soon became a
paying proposition.
Doherty's billion-dollar fortune has
been built by the purchase of more
than 100 public utilities, and all have
become profitable, money makers I'M
der his direction.
He has many thousands of propos-
ais from women in all parts of the
country, which he reads occasionally.
They furnish his only pastime after
his 18-hour work day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-05

All goods ordered before 9 o'clock will be
delivered in the morning, delivery leaving
stores promptly at 9 o'clock; and all goods af-
ter 9 a. m. until p M will be delivered on.
the 4 o'clock delivery
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-05
Six Million Shells for Russian Guns
Piled on American Docks, Dead Loss
v aIue One Hundred and Sixty-Eight
Thousand Dollars, But Useless as
They Fit No Allied Guns.

Between 100000 and 100000
shells made in American plants for
Russia a2c representing a value of
nearly $168,00O,00 are piled high
on American dock and near manu-
featuring plants with no place to go.
They are considered little better
than scrap because they will not fit
the bore of the guns used by the
United States, Great Britain. France
CT Italy, but the United States will
no. allow them to be sent 20 Petro-
grad until it is certain that they will
he used against the Germans and not
he allowed t. fall into the hands of
the Germans for use against the al
lies. Some urge that the United
States might manufacture a gun of
such bore as to enable our forces
to use the shells. At all events the
United States and the allies will
make good the cost of the shells to
the various manufacturers and thus
save them from heavy losses.
Part of the shells now held by the
United States were made and were
ready for shipment while Nicholas II
was still on the Russian throne. At
that time harbor conditions and
transportation facilities in Russia
were such that it was considered in
advisable to ship the shells. When
the bolsheviki obtained control in
Russia, President Wilson issued in
struction barring any shipment of
munitions of war to Russia until he
might obtain assurance that the boil
sheviki would stand against Germany.
The shells represent a value of
$28 each and cannot be unloaded
without considerable risk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-05
MORE AND HIGHER WAR TAXES
ARE PREDICTED BY SIMMONS
Increase Sure, Says Chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee. Gov
eminent Planning Finances.


WASHINGTON, D. C.-Steps to-
ward yast financial operations for
the war here were planned today at
conferences between Secretary Nc
Adoo and leaders in congress.
Next Monday, it was agreed, the
administration bill to create a war
finance corporation with $5OO,OO0,-
600 capital and authority to issue
$4,OO0,000,000 in short-term notes
to finance private war Industrial OPP
erations will be introduced simulta-
neously in the senate and house.
For the governments own finances,
Senator Simmons, chairman of the
senate finance committee, announced
after comforting with Secretary Nc
Adoo that work probably would be-
gin about March Is or April on
war tax legislation, first to perfect
the present law, and second to pro-
vide, both by additional bonds and
increased taxes, for the government
needs in the fiscal year of 1917.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-05
NEGRO FARMER SELLS
$1,1OO WORTH OF PEAS

BUTLER, Gal. M. Harmon,
one of Taylor county's prosperous
negro farmers, recently sold $1,1OO
worth of field peas. This negro
bought a place only few years ago,
for which he has paid in full, has a
four-mule farm, with plenty of corn,
oats, hay, meat and money in the
bank. He also comes to town in a
nice car, and his department is such
that he has the respect of the white
citizens of this county.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-05

This action on the part of the grocers has
been taken after much consideration and is
in line with the campaign Of conservation
now being so earnestly waged all over the
country. 1t is realized that at first there may
be some inconvenience occasioned by the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-05

On and after February 1st only two deliv-
cries of goods day will be made by the re-
tail grocers of Dawson, an agreement to this
effect having been recently entered into by
them
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-05

rule, but it is sincerely hoped and believed
that the public will enter into the spirit and
appreciate the purpose of the new order and
give its cheerful cooperation in the enforce
ment thereof
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-05
STEEL CORPORATIONS EARNINGS
S59,OOO,OOO net in 3 MONTHS
Enormous Sum in Golfers of Con-
Germ After Paying Government
an Equal Amount in Taxes.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The United
States Steel corporation paid to the
federal government more than half
its earnings in the final quarter of
1917, according to a statement of the
corporation issued today.
Total net earnings for that period
amounted to $59,724,125 after MAX
ing allowance for $6O,95O,364 paid
into the government treasury as war
income and excess profits. Net in
come for the final quarter was $48,-
035,344 and surplus for the same
period amounted to $16,255,272.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-05
WHAT net INCOME MEANS
in MAKING FEDERAL RETURNS
Case of a Farmer Who Is Subject 10
Payment of Income Tax Taken
as an Illustration.

Here is some information in regard
to the income tax that may be help
full to those who are subject. Net in
come defined means expenses incurr-
ed in the production of said income.
To further explain, take for instance
a concrete case of farmer, who is
married and has one child under
eighteen years of age.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-05

FOR RENT-Hoyl residence on Lee
Street, Dawson, Ga. Apply to L.
c. HOyl or write ]. B. Hoyl, Lees
burg, Ga.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
And Anna Wheaton Soid--

as she is. But she couldn't take tim.
to tell US, for she was rushing madlv
around the room dressing to go some.
where and dance. The dressing rooms
at the Palace aren't very large. so we
sat on the trunk, Mrs. Wheaton got
behind the w4shstand and the maid
chased Miss Wheaton around the room
with her mouth full of pins. We could
never be maid We should scream
and swallow the pins.
"You are in hurry" we asked Miss
Wheaton. ''No, indeed said she.
What made you think that?" And she
made flying leap for a pink chiffon
gown which hung in the corner
perhaps some one is waiting for
you,' we suggested.
For me? No, indeed. No one ever
waits for me. | haven't any beaus."
Right here the doorman interrupted
US to hand in a box of orchids, six cards
and letter.
Miss Wheaton had to stand still while
she pinned on the orchids, so we took
advantage of the opportunity and said:
"How is it that you can take any song
and put 1t right across the footlights as
you do? Who taught you?"
Nobody. l just taught myself. al.
ways could sing and | ALWAYS could
dance. 1t just happened Here Ann
reached for her hat, SO we reached for
ours, tiguratively speaking, and Mrs.
Wheaton reached for hers, and We all
went out.
And at the stage door were two sail.
ors, one marine, one lieutenant and two
men in conventional black We
don't know for whom they were wait
ing.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

who attended the stars during the last
lap of their long journey.
Henry" said one, "there amt no
use talkin'. These show people are a
whole lot more generouser than any of
these here millonaires Henry, All
wants you to know they'se the most
liberal handed folks All ever tied up
with. They'se nah notion of the kind
of folks we's a-gwine to meet a-sittin'
along that old Jordan sho' when we
done quits down heah"
DON you jeopardize none o. yo' con-
ISOLATION bettin' on dat, Gawge 'Tain't
actors'll be settin' on dat ol' Jordan
sho'; dey'll be standin', knee deep in
mud, a-helpin' folks across"
Theatrical managers who have heard
of the anti-loating law are coming tc
the rescue of the dramatic critics. This
week seems to mark the beginning of g
new season, bringing as it does the first
production of "Friendly Enemies" and
"The Passing Show of 1872
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
By Harriette Underhill

Anna Wheaton is going to be easy!
When one interviews at least three
people each week, and tries to remem-
ber what each one said or to substitute
something equally breezy and enter
tanning when one forgets, it is not al
ways easy.
Sometimes we can't for the life of US
remember whether it is Blanche Bates
or Maxine Elliott who hates to have
her hair marcelled and whether Billie
Burke likes the stage better than the
screen, or vice versa.
had been CLEANED from the wrong side
of the footlights. We knew that she
had wonderful elusive something
which people refer to as her "person-
atty" that she had the prettiest feet
and ankles we ever saw and that she
doesn't look or act the least bit like
any one else on the stage.
Miss Wheaton was at the Palace last
week, and if all goes we'll she is going
to be there for some time to come. We
know her quite we'll now-well enough
to call her Ann. So as soon as she and
Harry Carroll were allowed to stop
taking encores we went back to AIMS
dressing room.
"What are you going to do next sea-
son? 2" we asked firmly.
"What are you going to write about
e?" retorted Ann, as with the utmost
sang -froid she removed her eyelashes
because it was quicker than removing
the beads with cold cream.
Haven't the slightest idea" we an
swered, truthfully.
"Something NICE" said Ann, in
gratiatingly. at must be something
nice. | love to read things about my
self, but only if they are nice" And
right away we knew of one thing we
should say. "Miss Wheaton is entirely
natural"
After this we asked again: "What are
you going to do next season."
"How can you ask" she said. "'Oh,
Boy of course! Why, l wouldn't feel
natural in anything else. was young
girl, you know, when that show
started.
Tell me, don't you think look Won
derfukly we'll? Every one does; at
least" with sudden and most un-
looked for accession of modesty 'they
tell me so. I've been on a milk farm
tor two weeks and had nothing else
to drink. l gained hundred pounds!"
We wished to know something Of
MISS Wheaton's part and of how she
happened d-if she did happen-to be just
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
In Vaudeville

PALACE.-Irene Franklin and Bur-
ton Green will make their farewell an.
pearance in vaudeville before going to
France. Other acts on the programme
are Anna Wheaton and Harry Carroll
(second week), T. Roy Barnes and Bes-
sic Crawford, Andrew Mack, Kelmer
and Brown, Tarzan, the lie Grohs Stan
icy and Birnes and Kramer and Morton.
RIVERSIDE. - Clifton Crawford
Nine Chilson~Ohrman, Ben Welch, Gal
lagher and Rolley, Nine. Besson and
company, Percy Bronson and Winnie
baldwin, Jack Patton and Loretta
Marks, Sterling and Marguerite and "a
Study in Sculpture"
ROYAL-Sophie Tucker, Claire Vim
cent, j. c. Nugent, Jay Gould and Flo
Lewis, Joe Parsons and Dave Irwin.
Vivian Holt, frankie Wilson. Marie
fanchonnetti and Jack Kraft, the Levo-
los and Pat and Julia.
LOEW'S AMERICAN-Royer's Ladv
Quartet, Bob O'Connor and companv.
Chester Nelson's Rubes, Roeber and
Gold and Charles Kenna will be pre-
sented at the theatre and roof the first
part of the coming week. "The War
r'or," with Maciste, will be seen in the
theatre and other numbers on the bill
VIII be Thrills and Frills," Senator F.
Murphy, French and Brandt and Mary
Pickford in "How Could You. Ieanro