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title: 'Closed: Public Notice for Violation of the Rules of the United States Food Administration'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/closed-public-notice-food-administration-1918/
description: A blank form notice reading 'CLOSED / Public Notice' around a shield-and-wheat seal, to be filled in with the number of days and the dates in 1918 on which
section: Collection
---

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[![Closed: Public Notice for Violation of the Rules of the United States Food Administration, 1918 US poster: A blank form](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/closed-public-notice-food-administration-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/closed-public-notice-food-administration-1918.jpg)

# Closed: Public Notice for Violation of the Rules of the United States Food Administration

A blank form notice reading 'CLOSED / Public Notice' around a shield-and-wheat seal, to be filled in with the number of days and the dates in 1918 on which a business is shut for breaking Food Administration rules. It addresses the public, and by display the trader, rather than urging anyone to anything. The tell is the penalty itself, shown as a posted sanction that warns other businesses of the consequence of non-compliance.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
CLOSED

Public Notice

For Violation of the Rules of the United States Food Administration This Place of Business is

Closed for ______________ Days

From ______________, 1918 to ______________, 1918

UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION
Enforcement Division
```

Blank lines are the spaces to be filled in by hand. The circular seal between 'Public' and 'Notice' shows a striped shield within wheat ears and carries no legible text.

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