100 years ago in the Saratogian
Saturday, June 29, 1918.
New wartime sugar regulations take effect next month limiting the amounts that can be sold or used for baking, The Saratogian reports.
Retailers, bakers and restaurant proprietors won’t be able to purchase sugar from wholesalers after July 1 without certificates issued by the New York office of the Federal Food Board.
In an effort to reduce civilian consumption, for the next three months “bakers will be restricted to seventy per cent of the amount used for the months of July, August and September 1917.” Restaurants face strict rationing: “three pounds for every ninety meals served. This includes all sugar used on the tables and in baking.”
The new restrictions do not apply to private homes or public places that feed less than 25 people daily.
Women Cashiers at U.S. Hotel
Under wartime rules, civilian men of draft age must be employed at jobs deemed essential to the U.S. war effort. The rule forces men to yield a wide range of retail jobs to women.
As a result, the management of the United States Hotel in Saratoga Springs announces today that Mrs. George Everart will be head cashier when the establishment opens for its 45th summer season on July 1. Everart, an “expert bookkeeper” who previously worked with proprietor J. C. LaVin in a New Haven hotel, is the first woman to hold that role at the United States. Her assistant will be Jennie Henderson, formerly of the Holland House of New York City.
City Health News
“The Saratogian has offered the City Health Department space each week for the publishing of matters of general interest pertaining to public health,” the paper announces today.
The start of tourist season is the time for local families to be most vigilant against childhood diseases, a health official writes. “Reporting of every contagious disease to the city health officer is required by law. This applies to every person whether they employ a doctor or not.
Keeping sick children under quarantine at home is “a courtesy to your friends and neighbors,” the official adds, “It is not considered good form to take a dog full of fleas to any social function, yet many a mother who prides herself on her knowledge of etiquette thinks it is perfectly proper to send her child full of whooping-cough germs o the school or to the movie.
“The fleas never cause doctor bills or funerals, but whooping cough does both.”
What’s Happening
“World funmakers” Jane and Catherine Lee star in “American Buds,” a “rollicking patriotic drama” at the Palace today. At the Lyric, Eddie Polo and Vivian Reed star in “The Merry Mermaids.”
-- Kevin Gilbert