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Show ARMY FOODSTUFFS SUPPLY EXHAUSTED CHICAGO, Sept. 3. Sale of army foodstuffs food-stuffs through the postal sLations was re-i re-i sinned txay. only to be stopped when I Lieutenant Colonel J. P. Castleman. zone i surplus supply officer, notified the su'er-I su'er-I intendent of delivery at the postoffice that there were no supplies on hand, j Delivery of foodstuffs ordered two weeks I neo through the postoffice will be started I next week, according to Superintendent i I,. T. Steward, who has received many complaints from those who ordered the supplies. In accordance with the recently announced an-nounced plans for federal stores. T.ieu-te;arit T.ieu-te;arit Colonel Pastlemau said four store? would be opened here September I"-. Me explained that the recent postal sales were of food delivered to the army and not used, while the new .government stores won d handle goods contracted for but not delivered to the army. |