The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-24
|SALE Of CANNED
GOODS COMING
WAR Department is Going to Take
Another Whack at the High Cost
Of Things with Surplus
Food Sale.
|ENLISTS MUCH HELP
Postmasters, Bankers, Mayors and
Others are Asked to Help Out in
the Big Bargain
Sale.
ENLIsTs MUCH HELP,

WASHINGTON, D. c., July ID
The war department today, through
the director of sales, announced the
beginning of the biggest campaign on
canned meats ever known. Despite
the fact that the cost of foodstuff
has advanced nearly 800 percent in
| the last seven years, these meats will
be distributed by the war department
lat figures below even prewar quota
tons.
! In it's efforts to reduce the high
icost of living, the department an
!nounced that it will sell to the Amer
fican public, through the thousands
| of wholesale and retail dealers of the
country, many million dollars worth
of canned corned beef, corned beef
hash, roast beef, and bacon. The
meats are to be sold at figures far
below the regular commercial prices
for the same items.
The selling campaign will reach
every section of the country. The
meats are being offered for domestic
consumption exclusively.
These meats are stored in various
sections of the United States, ana
within reasonable haul to every COM
munity. Every dealer, from the largest
wholesaler to the smallest retailer, is
being given an opportunity to make
purchases at prices which are con-
siderably below the. prevailing mar
ket ones.
The canned meats are the best that
the American packers could prepare.
Their quality is the highest. They
were packed under government super
vision. and their quality is guaran-
teed. The war department is stand
ing back Of every can sent from any
supply depot.
The nutritive value of canned meats
is unquestioned. These war depart
ment meats, being of choice selec-
tons and having been packed under
the exceptionally close vigilance OF
representatives of both the govern,
ment and the packers, their food
value cannot be doubted. The Ameri-
can army, at home and overseas.
thrived almost exclusively upon
canned meats during the war-the
healthiest army the world has ever
known.
In it's drive to reduce living costs,
the director of sales, having super
vision of the sale and distribution of
these canned meats, has enlisted the
services of the more than 10000 post
masters of the United States; 5000
bankers, and the mayors of every city
and town in this country. These Off
Gals and individuals have been re-
quested to render all cooperation
possible to the war department in its
undertaking.
The surplus property division, Office
of the quartermaster general of the
army, has engaged an increased per-
sonnet for the various army supply
depots for receiving, executing and
shipping the thousands of orders which
will be received daily.
While the canned meats are stored
in various parts of the country,
orders will be received by the depot
officers at these addresses: Army
Supply. Base, Boston, Mass: 461
Eighth avenue, New York City: 1919
West Thirty-ninth street, Chicago:
San Antonio Texas; San Francisco,
Calf, and Transportation Building,
Ca Any additional Informal
ton desired will be furnished by
these officers, or chief, surplus prop
erty division, Munitions building,
Washington. ID g.