Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps Buy Where Easy
The Treasury aims to ease pressure to buy by offering Stamps and Bonds through post offices banks and retailers. Consumers should purchase Stamps as often as possible and exchange completed albums for Bonds. Buy at near post office bank or savings association or write to the Treasury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Treasury
Defense
Neargatost
Savings Loan Association
United States
Washington, D.C
Local holiday visits and recoveries across area towns
The community lists teachers and residents spending Christmas and holidays with relatives in towns such as Eldorado, San Angelo, San Antonio, Del Rio, Texon, Sabinal, Ozona, Uvalde, and Edinburg. Several patients are recovering from illness or surgery, including Walter Fulcher and others, while numerous families travel to visit kin.
What To Do In An Air Raid Official-0 S Office
Practical wartime guidance lists calm behavior and crowd control during air raids. It outlines steps to prevent panic, identify warning signals, extinguish/incendiary bombs safely, maintain water supply for fire use, proper extinguisher use, gas safety, blackout procedures, home air raid wardens, and shelter basics to minimize harm.
Holiday Visitors Gather For Christmas At Local Homes
Notes show Nelson Lee and families visiting LaGrange for holidays while others from Denton Fort Worth and El Paso travel to stay with relatives. Included are Duncan Jr from San Antonio awaiting Air Force posting, the Copeland and Billeiter families, and Austin area connections. Several relatives from New Mexico Arizona and California join relatives in town for Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelson Lee
LaGrange
Mrs. Lee
Baby
Cecil Duncan Jr
Duncan Field
San Antonio
Visitors and holiday departures mixed with local hires
The text notes visits by Mrs. Kokernot and Mrs. Webb with their families during holidays. Mrs. Webb will relocate to Del Rio to assume a school post after year’s start. The passage includes garbled lines and stray letters, making later details unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. A. Webb
Future Development Proposals for Town Growth
Continued discussion outlines plans for more residences and wholesale distributors. Industrial design aims to use local labor. Proposals include making curios and articles from regional raw materials and boosting mining in nearby silver, lead, and manganese deposits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abor
Texas
Mexco
False Tooth Needed So He Could Join Army
Roy Hansen, 21, of Cambridge Wisconsin pawned his only overcoat in San Francisco to pay for a false tooth required for Army enlistment. He hitchhiked to the city, lacking funds, and sold the coat to finance the tooth before Uncle Sam provides him a new coat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Roy Hansen
Cambridge
Wis
Hansen
Army
Wisconsin
Sam
Abuses in Handling Texas Public Domain Ended by New Vacancy Rules
Austin reports new vacancy filing procedures under the 1939 Act reduce abuses in Texas public domain. Attorney Jack Sparks told 150 surveyors that hearings, impartial surveyors, and higher fees curb spurious claims. Land Commissioner Bascom Giles discussed Texas land policy history and wealth from retained public domain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Jack Sparks
General Land Office
Sparks
Bascom Giles
Quillen and Carter Erect Odd Monuments in South Carolina
Robert Quillen once built a whimsical monument to life and now J Forter Carter of Chester adds a stone in his yard inscribed Adam the First Man. The odd pair reflect local humor as a cultural note from Chester, South Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Quillen
J. Forter Carter
Chester
Adam
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Catherine Slight
Yeteta
Miltia Hill
Eldorado
Lee Smith
Abbiene
Walter Fulcher
Mrs
Forrest Weston
San Angele
Lillian Sonnier
Mire BR. Cox
Syren
Norman Wright
Tom Bowles
Nay Bowles
Olan Tipps
Seahere
Wm. Cote
GW. Martin
Sabinal
Mrs. Willis
C.D. Wood
Supt. Drury Wood
del Rio
J. G. Leath
Jack Hitt
Mr Hitt
Texon
Josephine Linn
Victoria
E. D. Linn
Menard
Willard Bennett
Edinburg
W. M. Meador
Rose Winnette Coleman
University of Texas Medical School
Galveston
Anja Wilson Jr
Joan
Anne
Ozona
PC. Perner
Graves Bogel
Clara May
Graham
Lee Hancock
Corona, N. M
FE. Gillett
John R. Sanford
Mamie Scrivner
Bale Pass
RB. Slight
Lena Cook
Bara Glenn Cook
Alice Cook
Miss Cook
John F. Cook
Uvalde
Wao
Toen Wits
Whittle
Magnolia Station
Cross & Cross
W. C. Friesen
North Texas State College
Denton
D. M. Bennett
John Washington
Fort Worth
H.W. Morelock
Gay Copeland
McCamey
Copeland
Hull
Cleburne
C. W. Copeland
C. W. Billeiter
Dal‘Aviation School
J. 8. Billeiter
C. W
Dallas
J.J. Oliver
Bainburg
Nevill Haynes
New Mexico A. & Mand
GR. Mauger
Natchito Temes
Snas
Kate Nev- M
Lacie Chatin
el Paso
Arthur Chathin
Phoenix
Tears
Mes AN By
Prescot
Arie
Mn Davi Chat
Tar
Ruth Sewell
San Angelo
RC. Hay
Hobbs
N. Mt
Mr May
Ernest Mollison
Veterans Hospital
Los Angeles
Jme
Ray White
la Mesa
Calif
White
Robert Kokernot
Texas A. & M
Gertrude Moss
Jack McNamara
Little * von
McNamaras
Panama
McNamara
Bail Alten
Alpine
Mary Ann Kokernot
Smith College
Northampton, Mass
H. L. Kokernot Jr
Ms. R.A. Meatury
Aed
City Drug Store
Pearl Harbor
Best
Model Tailors
First National Bank
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