Rumors of a Sugar Delivery - Grocery Store Germantown and Indiana Avenues - Nov 1919

Public Ledger 24 Nov 1919

Continued disruption of consumption patterns of commodities such as sugar following WWI. “Voluntary rationing”, “Meatless Mondays”, “Wheatless Wednesdays”, brain child of Director Herbert Hoover of U.S. Food Administration in efforts to reduce domestic use of food by 15%, commodity controls through June 1919, and then the same agency turned into the American Relief Administration to feed a starving Europe following the war.

http://judyspostcardsplus.blogspot.com/2011/06/vintage-sugar-ration-card-ww1.html

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28th Pennsylvania - Review of Returning Troops - Philadelphia Parkway - 1919

Source: Google Books



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Msgr. Edward F. Hawks – 1878/1955 – St. Joan of Arc Harrowgate – Veteran, Canada, Chaplain, World War I - Memorial Day USA 2013

Edward F. Hawks

(PAHRC – Phila Pa)

http://www.pahrc.net/index.php/catablog/hawks-rev-edward-f-papers-1900-1952-mc-15/

"...After converting, Hawks left his home in Canada and became a priest in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, where he served for several years as a parish curate. During World War I, he served as a chaplain in the Canadian army. When he returned to Philadelphia in 1919, he established St. Joan of Arc parish, where he remained until his death.  He was also the founder of the Catholic Evidence Guild, an organization designed to attract converts and lapsed Catholics.

Hawks was a well-known writer and lecturer. For more than 30 years, he wrote a column on current events for the diocesan paper The Catholic Standard and Times. ..."

Canada's Red Ensign 1868-1921

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Grave Behind Chapel - St. Joan of Arc Philadelphia

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