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THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 22. 1917.
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MAY SELL BREAD
IN PENNY SLICES
Food Administration Rules
Loaves May Be Divided for
Sales to the Poor in
the Cities.
Bread may be sold by the 1-penny
and 2-penny slice to the poor of Amer
ican cities who wish to buy it that
way. This ruling is announced
through the office of the food admin
istrator of Nebraska, coming from
headquarters at Washington. In New
York and some of the other large
cities many of the poor buy bread
regularly by the penny's worth, thus
getting only a slice or two. This con
dition does not prevail in Omaha.
Under the strict interpretation of
the rulings of the food administra
tion concerning the standard loaves,
the sale of bread in slices would have
been impossible, but the bars have
been let down on this one point in
order that no hardship might be
worked upon the very poor in the
large cities.
It has been ruled that hotels and
restaurants baking waffles and hot
batter cakes and railway companies
which manufacture bakery products
to be served in dining cars or restau
rants are included among those sub
ject to license.
Though the food administration dis
approves of all kinds oi rebates, bak
ers may, if they like, donate their
products to churches and charitable
organizations.
Annual Bush of
Xmas Mail Begins
At Local Postoffice
Twenty-two extra wagons and au
tomobiles are at work delivering
' l"-;tmas packages in Omaha. Eight
hundred sacks of mail were received
at the Omaha postoffice after 12
o'clock Thursday night The mail
this year is extremely heavy, but the
big parcel post room in the basement
was completely cleared out by noon.
The first class mail is moving along
mi scneauic at the same time. When
Postmaster Fanning arrived Fri
day morning he found a number of
letter clerks at work on the parcel
post packages. He sent them back
to the first class mail, which, he de
clared, must not be neglected under
any circumstances.
All the clerks are putting in from
two to six hours of "overtime" in ad
dition to their regular eight hours
daily. Thirty extra men and high
school boys are being employed. As
sistant Postmaster Woodard put in
several- hours at the insurance desk
of the parcel post department.
"I'm working about 14 hours a day
myself in the postoffice these days,"
said Postmaster Fanning. "And I'll
bet I walk 20 miles a day around the
building,- seeing that things are run
ning efficiently everywhere."
The time-honored Christmas cards
still continue to be conspicuous by
their absence this year. The people
seem to have "cut them out" almost
entirely. Two-cent postage on all
cards is believed to be responsible
for this.
But the big rush on parcels is on in
earnest. Three extra weighers are
kept busy in the corridor of the main
postoffice. A large number of extra
mail bag racks, made of wood, are
being used by the distributing clerks
and the outgoing parcel post is be
ing rushed to the railroad stations on
mail cars as rapidly as it is made
ready.
French Envoy to Lecture
In Omaha Next Saturday
Morris Boucher,, special envoy of
the French government, who is lectur
ing in the United States, will be in
, Omaha next Saturday. He is a pro
fessor in the University of Lyons.
Prof. Boucher will lecture at the pub
lic library Saturday afternoon under
the auspices of the Alliance Francais.
The lecture will be delivered in
French.
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Poultry in Omaha
CHICKENS Milk Fed, Dry Picked, per lb 20 H
BEST CREAMERY BUTTER, Mb. Prints, per lb. .47
EGGS, per dozen 34t
I On Sale Daily, Consumers'
United States Food Admmistratlon Ueenss No, G01191.
A "New Novel by the Nebraska
Writer, Mrs. Anna C. Newbigging
"A Cry of the Soul"
A ROMANCE OF 1862.
An open air story of primitive conditions and stout hearts, and,
primarily of a royal battle between love and faith.
The story opens in New York in 1861, though the Civil War
has little to do with it, for it follows the fortunes of a train of Mor
mon convert emigrants crossing the continent to Utah by ox team
and on horseback, and flood, fire, pestilence, wild beasts and In
dians left scant leisure for politics on a cross-country trip those days.
It is a tale to make the blood race, and he who "loves a lover"
or an adventure will find both here, and much to his liking.
Published by Sherman, French & Co., Boston, Mass.; the letter
press is high-class, on good paper, and handsomely bound in cloth.
Price, $1.50.
For Sale in Omaha by
Megeath Stationery Co. Kieser's Book Store.
A Restaurant Blouse
By GERTRUDE BERESFORD.
THE dressy blouse has come into its own again, except for wear with
sport suits, To complete a costume of olive green duvetyne, when the
coat is removed, this peplum blouse of olive Georgette crepe, wjth
motifs of bronze, finds its mission in life. The novel collar of bronze crepe
is braided with tarnished gold. A string of gold and jade beads completes the
circuit of the neck line. Diamond motifs of bronze crepe, braided in gold are
set on the blouse, which is cut kimona with an attached peplum, bordered
with bronze. The construction of this blouse is simple, upon analysis, and if
made at home the .braiding of the collar and motifs will supply a relief from
knitting.
Otto Meyer Buys New .
Fairview Apartments
The new "Fairview" apartments,
just completed, in Dundee, at the
northwest corner of Fiftieth and
Webster streets, consisting of 12 four
room apartments, have been sold by
Hastings & Heyden for H. D. Frank
furt to Otto H. Meyer for an invest
ment. Mr. Meyer transferring about
$20,000 worth of property on the deal,
consisting of two houses at Forty
first and Wakeley streets, and two lots
in Dundee, located at the corner of
Fifty-second and Webster streets. The
building is all rented with the excep
tion of two apartments. Considera
tion about $65,000.
On the ProDiiotor.
"I thought you were working on Jay
Krank'g new house," said the home painter s
friend.
"I was going to," replied the house
painter, "but I had a quarrel with him,
and he said he'd put the paint on himself."
"Did he do it?"
"Yes; that la where he put most of It."
Philadelphia Press.
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Department, 1116-18 Uoug. St. YfA
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Wounded Man Pursues
Assailant After Shooting
George Auramoplos, Union Pacific
laborer, lost the decision to Stavros
Metzos, fellow workman, when the
two became involved in an argument
at Ninth and Jones streets. Metzos
used a .32 caliber revolver io press
home his points.- Despite a flesh
wound in his side and the fact that
Metzos carried "the difference," Au
ramoplos pursued Metzos for three or
four block and the latter escaped be
fore police could arrive on the scene.
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Unusual Why Yankee WQ)inmn?
Yankee women have been, for
years, noted for thrift, their business
intuition and enterprising activities.
Now comes Miss Marcia Mead who
has planned a model community of
workmen's houses and has drawn
every detail herself. She is an ar
chitect with every vestige of the
right and honor to that title.
"The name of my house plan, she
said, "is the 'Connecticut Develop
ment' and it is located in Bridgeport,
Conn. Bridgeport is one of the mu
nition towns which have had such a
mushroom growth during the last
two years. My houses arc hot, how
ever, for munition workers alone, but
also for those connected with more
permanent industries. The develop
ment is the largest in New England
and was built by the Bridgeport j
Housing company and backed by the j
manufacturers themselves. I here are
houses for 1.58 families.
To Fit the Families.
''We have tried to regulate the
houses to the size of the families that
will , occupy them. There are two,
three and four room flats tind five
room houses. All the houses and flats
have a separate entrance and a sep
arate back yard for each family. The
flats are only two stories high and
arranged so that each has a privacy
of a single family house. We make
the separate back yards by a pretty
shrubbery division instead of a dis
agreeable board fence.
"Our object in this is to make the
back yards and porches so attractive
that the social life will center there
rather than in the street All the
back yards radiate from a huge com
mon playground. Roughly, the idea
of the plot is a square block with an
interior plaza, with a delivery alloy
winding around the back yards and
playground.
"This is in no sense a suburban de
velopment. It is in the city, right
next to the factories. Because of the
high land values we are forced to
build row houses, but we have taken
great care that each has both a front
and a back yard.
"There are no objectionable fea
tures to these homes," continued Miss
Mead. "No courts, no opposite win
dowsall the rooms are lighted di
rectly. A great deal of attention has
been paid to cross circulation and
sunshine.
Fresh Air Assured.
"One vital advance and we are
very proud of this is the way in
which we have studied the height of
working structures and regulated
them to the needs of women. For
instance, we have built the sinks high
enough so that an average sized
woman won't break her back by need
less stooping when she washes her
dishes. The plans of the houses rfre
particularly designed, also, to pre
serve the privacy within the home as
well as outside. For instance, one
never enters a bathroom through an
other room; always through a hall.
"The houses vary in cost the aver
age is about $2,000. People are both
renting and buying them, but which
ever they do they seem delighted.
Many of the houses, which have just
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been finished, were rented by eager
workmen before the roof was on. The
rents range from $15 a month for the
small apartments to $29 for the five
room houses."
Miss Mead has always been inter
ested in housing and city planning
and for years has been making a
special study of this type of com
munity housing. "I'd much rather
build for the masses than do indi
vidual houses," she says. "This way
I feel as if I were really branching
out in the world."
Yankee women, it is said, have
planned everything from farms to
frocks, and, knowing Omaha women
as we do, we ask:
"Why Yankee women?"
Engagement of Young Wo
man of Pierce to Omahan.
Winifred rancle
Announcement is made of the en
gagement of Miss Winifred Bratule,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L.
Bratule of Pierce, Neb., to Mr. John
Drcxel of Omaha. No date has been
set for the wedding, the future plans
of the young couple being indefinite.
Mr. Drexel, who is the son of the
late John C. Drexel, owner of the
Drexel and Fry Shoe companies, is
now a member of both firms. He is
a graduate of the Central High school
and also attended the University at
Lincoln.
Looking for workr Turn to the
Help Want Columns now. You
will find hundreds of positions listed
there.
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Yuletide
Suggestion
There is exceptional quality and
distinctive flavor in Puritan Hams
and Bacon, which will delight
every guest at the Christmas board.
Serve them as you choose,
they are always good
ALL-WAYS.
-and so PURITAN ex
tends to you and yours,
happy Yuletide Greetings.
THE CUDAHY
PACKING CO.
'The Taste Tells"
If your dealer doesn't handle Puritaji
telephone
F. W. CONRON, Branch Mgr.
1321 Jones St., Omaha.
Telephone Douglas 2401.
Puritan Hams and Bacon are smoke'!
daily in our Omaha plant, insuring fresh.
In'iiihtly smoked meats at all times.
Merchandise Sold Under a
Money Back Guarantee Must
Possess Real Merit.
Money talks. The housewife should
listen only to the claims of manufacturers who
back their assertions with a money back guar
antee. I have found in my years of Domestic
Science work that manufacturers of meritorious
products employ the money-back-if-not-satisfied
policy of merchandising. Such manufacturer! are deserving of
housewivej'patronage and usually gtt it.
No matter how good a manufacturer,
may say his product is if he lacks courage
to offer a refund of purchase price, if buyer is not satisfied hs
displays a lack of faith in his goods. In such instances tht
purchaser assumes all risk and there is ahuays risk, when ths
maker of merchandise refutes to stand by his goods with a
money back guarantee.
To make this point clear consider
the advertising of a certain brand of baking
powder. Ths producers of this baking powder abolish ths
uncertainty of buyers getting full money's worth as every
can is sold under a clear cut guarantee of money-back-if-not
satisfied with bake day results.
Their advertisements state that their
product is superiorthey say that it is unfailing
in results pure in the can and in the food and that it pro
duces absolutely pure and wholesome bakings. Furthermore
they assert that "You save when you buy it and you savt
when you use it." The phrase is so familiar to ths housewife,
every one no doubt will recognize it as taken from a Calumet
Baking Powder advertisement. But to get back to my subject
the importance of those printed words lies in the fact that
the Calumet Baking Powder Co. put the proof before the
housewife with positive bake day results. They invite her to
buy Calumet on a money back trial basis. They demonstrate
dependability with bake day results. They show her actual
savings in rtal money. I have tested Calumet Baking Powder.
The tests I conducted were far more exacting than could be
made by the housewife and those tests have proved the truth
of the Calumet Baking Powder Co.'s contentions. No house
wife can afford to refuse so liberal a proposition. AH should
give Calumet a trial and millions have done so. That it
makes good its advertised promises is shown in the fact that
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NOTE-Misa Costdlo is already mil known to mott of tht ladies
of our city. Sht it of the Domestic Science Branch of tht University
of Chicago, a graduate of Lewis Institute, Supervisor of Domestic
Science in Public Sclaols, Special Lecturer on Domestic Arts and
Economy, Special Lecturer to tlie Women's Clubs.
Wt art publishing a series of her most important articles.
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'PCDf is the Special Ice Cream Dessert
Vlr which will bring pleasure to hun
AjT if dreds of homes this Sunday.
THE UNITED STATES
GOUEEMENT I101V URGES
Pay cash and carry horn plan. W always did advocate this in (act. V ar ths
originators of this plan In Omaha.
It Does Pay
Watch all prices. Don't let a few specials bait you. We can supply your Christmas
needs at prices that will be of a treat saving to you. A few prices quoted hers.
NUTS FOR CHRISTMAS
No. I Walnuts, per lb 25c
Mixed Nuts, these are strictly No. 1,
no cheap hickory, black walnuta or
peanuts in these, lb 23c
Brazil, large washed, per lb ,17c
New Drake Almonds, per lb 23c
Royal Cocoanut, per pkg 7c
Tip Baking Powder, noted for Its prise
winning bakings, 1-lb. can 15c
Tip Chocolate, Vs-lb. can.... 19c
Walter Baker's Chocolate, Vj-lb. can 22c
Hershey's Cocoa, 'A -lb. can 21c
Tin Cocoa. .-lb. can 20c
Onstatt's Seedless Raisins, fine, new
stock, excellent quality 14c
Thompson's pkg. Seedless, 15-oi..16c
Prunes, Fancy 40-60 size, lb 16c
Dried Peaches, Fancy Muir, lb... 16c
Fancy Dried Apricots, lb 28c
6-lb. sack Cornmeal 36c
Iowa or Wilson Milk, tall can 12,c
Sunbright Cleanser, can, 4c; 3 for.. 10c
Britt'a Powder Ammonia 8c
Old Dutch Cleanaer 8c
ivory Soap, large bar 11c
Excel Soap, bar 6c
People living In ths vicinity of
Leavenworth and Park Avenue will
find It profitable to trade at our new
store No. 44, which will bs open Sat
urday, December 22d.
Basket Store No. 43, at 150 West
Broadway, Council Bluffs, just opened
recently, has had a splendid patron
age Sales growing every day.
THERE IS A REASON
Thrifty Buyers Save Money
By Buying There.
We want to help the RED CROSS all we can. so we bought THEIR STAMPS
and will put one on your Carry Homo package Saturday. They want to help lick and
stick and stick and lick, and help lick the kaiser.
(United States Food Administration License No. G-2S403.)
BASKET STORES COMPANY
42 STORES OMAHA. LINCOLN AND COUNCIL BLUFFS.
OVER 300 PRICES LOWER THAN OTHER GROCERS.
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to Carry ft Home
Palm Olive Soap, bar 10c
Cocoanut Oil, Pumice or Castile, bar, ,4c
SYRUP
Karo Corn, l'a-lb 14c
Karo Com, B-lb 42c
Karo Corn, 10-lb Tc
Leg Cabin Syrup, small size ..23c
Medium Site, 45c j Largo Site.... 89c
Hominy or Pumpkin, large can lie
Krisp Corn Flakes, pkg Sc
COFFEE! COFFEE I COFFEE!
Our Independent Coffee is a winner
it's a blend you will like. This
grade usually sold for 35c. Steel cut
1-lb. fibre can 29c
Cash Habit, another good blend
1-lb. pkg., at 25c
RICE
Fancy Blue Rose, an extra valuo for
9c lb., or 3 lbs., for 25c
Bread, per loaf, 16-oz 8c
Arab Chief Dates, lb., 9c; 3 lbs., for 25c
Plain Olives, 24-oz. jar 24c
Peanut Butter, 5',-oz. glass 9c
Basket Stores Jelly Powder, pkg 7c
Tinted Tip Oleo, lb. pkg 32c
White Tip Oleo, lb. pkg 31c
Cash Habit, lb. pkg 29c
Magnolia, Z-lb. roll 52c
Mince Meat, bulk, per lb 11c
Crisco .
37c. 74c and Si. 48
A GOOD DISPLAY OF XMAS
POULTRY AT ALL MARKETS
HOME MADE SAUSAGE
A Trial Will Convince You
That It Is Fine.
Wienies, per lb f....20e
Frankfurters, per lb. 20c
Bologna, per lb.' lac
Minced Ham, per lb..... 22c
Berlin Ham, per lb 27c
Knockwurst, per lb 20c