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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1943
Page
2
The piece urges farm families to invest wartime income in War Bonds to finance postwar needs. Bonds will replace worn equipment, fund children’s education, medical bills, old age security, and create financial reserves. Purchases available through rural mail carriers banks post offices merchants production credit associations or radio stations.
The article urges farmers to invest extra income in War Bonds rather than buy more land. It notes farm prices rising slowly with inputs, stresses avoiding land speculation to prevent inflation and debt risk, and highlights War Bonds returning $4 for $3 at maturity in ten years. It lists outlets for purchase and ties the decision to national and personal security.
Lower meat prices will take effect July 15 with a 3 to 7 cent per pound range for retail, under OPA orders, while farm subsidies begin for officers slaughtering 4,000 pounds monthly. The article also notes mail to American troops in Iceland, increased farm machinery steel allocations, ice box price ceilings, coffee by mail payments with ration stamps, updated tire inspection rules, and POW totals from the War Department.
Abbott and Costello headline the Universal comedy duo at the Bowie Majestic Theatre showing Wednesday and Thursday June 23 and 24. They star in a program of routines and gags drawing crowds in the city.
The column records a series of weekend visits and relatives gathering across the Dye Mound area. Soldiers and families from Gainesville Clovis Saint Jo Forestburg Wichita Falls Peabody and High Jones exchange greetings with kin including Embry Cook Young Martin and Jackson families.
War notes report prisoners held by nations and diet details while OPA fixes tire substitutes and gas coupons. WPB allows civilian leather goods production through 1943. Regional WLB cites near-full no strike record in Southwest. Local social updates cover visits, theater ads, and the birth of Theodore Roosevelt Jr in Bowie.
The Office of War Information offers guidance for home folks writing to soldiers sailors and marines based on a survey of servicemen at home and overseas in cooperation with the Special Service Division of the Army Service Forces. Tell him how the family is doing.
Mrs Lindsey and her children Carol Ann and Charles came back Sunday after a visit in Dallas.
A reader advises on wartime letters stressing resilience and hope. It urges sharing reassurance about family finances and local community news while avoiding lament and complaints. It emphasizes concise updates and omits private troubles and doleful predictions.
Yants Holliday ends Texas visit returning to Honduras via California where his wife Mrs Holliday will join him after visiting friends in California. Howard Brooks of Gainesville visits E Brown and J M Brooks in Dallas before returning home. Don’t Miss “A Day on the Russian Front” and Red Shelton Whistling in Dixie.
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