What is a weekly newspaper and its public service
The weekly newspaper serves as a citizen morale center and community co operation agency. It acts as a war information bureau for rationing and bonds, a trading center via classifieds, an employment and real estate source, an opinion forum, a selective service bulletin board, and a local news and social information hub. It also provides free advertising, a reporting service for service personnel, and birth and death records, forming the backbone of community wartime effort.
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War Information Bureau
Selective Service Bulletin Board
Age Information Exchange
America
Exchange
The Value of Human Life in Traffic Deaths
Police Director Homer Garrison notes the value of human life is unmeasurable yet argues lost lives inland could have yielded vast productivity. He cites 489 deaths in six months in Texas and compares potential output to torpedo bombers, life saving sulfa drugs, Army rations, and global UN needs in a stark, data driven appeal.
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Homer Garrison
Texas
United Nations
Nazi Ups and Downs Nasi Military History
A clipped historical item notes Major von Blite maneuvering to capture a route, followed by a retreat and a surrender rally attributed to Marshal von Blits. The prose echoes a wartime chronicle tone from a St. Louis Globe-Democrat framing, urging caution in a quizzical aside.
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Nasi
Maj
von Blite
Marshal von Blits
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Businessman Speaks on Fadgar Monsanto Queeny Book
John Chamberlain in the New York Times notes the book The Start of Extenvnise by Fadgar Monsanto Queeny marks a rare explicit defense of American industry. Queeny cites Smith and Mars as predecessors while Albert Jay Nock highlights the work among influential volumes on individualism.
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Mr. Queeny
Adam Smith
Karl Mars
Thorstein Behlen
Albert Jay Nock
Economic Council Review of Books
Isabel Patterson
Paterson
Queeny
Postwar Jobs In Industry In Its Plan for Demobilization
The report to the President on postwar demobilization notes that private industry must provide bulk employment. Frederick C. Crawford of the National Association of Manufacturers says industry is willing to shoulder the burden. The National Resources Plan will be sent to Congress, with hopes the theory becomes concrete actions to empower industry to bear heavy burdens.
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Frederick C. Crawford
National Association of Manufacturers
NRPB
Congress
Ten Billion In Taxes Reported For Fiscal Year
A garbled excerpt notes that federal taxes paid by industrial plants reached about 10,000,000,000 for the year ending June 30. The text wanders through thoughts on income taxes, wartime profits, governance, and a long aside on personal and social rules, ending with a club anecdote about a forty five minute talk.
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U. S Treasury
Commodore’s wrath over Japan line stirs old clash
A fragment recalls a famed naval figure who once spanked the Japanese and now would rebuke them again. The speaker muses that the man remains in spirit, angry at not being able to face the foes anew, as Los Angeles Ties notes.
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Commodore
Spirit Land
Society of Nations
Los Angeles
California slaughter figures show sharp 1943 drop in cattle
Figures from the California Cooperative Crop Reporting Service indicate second quarter 1943 cattle and calf slaughter under official meat inspection fell to 234,970 from 321,937 a year earlier, a 27 percent drop. Despite government demand and armed forces consumption, civilian beef supply remains severely restricted.
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California
California Co-Operative Crop Reporting Service
CPA
Los Angeles Union Stock Yards
Isis
Sul Ross Graduate Joins WAAC Third Class Alpine Arrival
AFC Martha A. Crawford a 1936 Sul Ross State College graduate with a B S degree is among the WAACs new third class arriving in Alpine. She hails from Royalty near 90 miles away and notes pass constraints. Crawford taught in Grandfalls and Port Arthur after graduation and joined WAACs from Houston on April 30 heading to Fort Oglethorpe Georgia then to June 11. She urges more women to enlist and mentions sisters Jeanne and Mary also attended Sul Ross.
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AFC
Martha A
Aileen) Crawford
Fet Waacs
Alpine
Sul Ross
Afc Crawford
Sachems and International Relations Club
Grandfalls
Port Arthur
Waacs
Houston
Fort Oxlethorpe
Georgia
Regular Army
APC
Crawford
WAAC
Jeanne
Mary
Quick Thinker and Witty Exchanges at a Club Breakfast
A breakfast table tale collection features a club chairmen’s dare about never kissing his wife, a seven-at-lunch joke, and a city driver who floods a shallow stream after a farmer’s warning. The sharp punchlines contrast social vanity with rustic pragmatism in quick one liners.
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Mary
George
Former SA Student Writes From POW Camp
Miss Vickey Escajeda of El Paso reports receiving a postal card dated April 18, 1943 from Lt Eugene B. Ellis, a prisoner of war in a German camp. In seven lines, Ellis notes his downing on February 4, 1943, that two crew members were killed and three injured, and expresses hope to finish the war and leave the camp, signing off with love.
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Sal Ross
Vickey Escajeda
el Paso
Eugene B. Ellis
Elis
Sul Ross Tex Lieutenant Urges War Bond Support
Lieutenant Eluis, a Sul Ross graduate from Lubbock Texas, appeals for War Bond donations. He urges residents to give and to send their money promptly, stressing wartime patriotic duty.
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Bien
Eugene
Eluis
Lubbock, Texas
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Brewster County
Davis Mountains
Ben
DM Bennett
C.D Wood
Alkire
Fort Davis
Frank Wedin
Marathon
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Union
New Waac
Energy
DR. Pepper Bottling
Coalpine, Texas
Walter
Arctic
Aruggist
Tiny
Alpine Lumber Company
Sea
Ine
Een
Eer
Gun Bling Company
Wouston. Texks
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