This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 19 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1943
Page
4
A collage of wartime musings and social observations. Notes on John L. Lewis and Uncle Sam in jest, post war learning, coupons, beauty shop imagery, and reflections on gender roles and youth fashion. The piece sketches cultural anxieties and humor without a single narrative arc.
Mrs Mildred Stone and son Donnie of Kansas City visit the Browns. Mr and Mrs Wiley Taylor host Har old and Barbara with Emma Baker and Anna Taylor. Everett Harris serves on the jury. Miss Wileta Taylor visits Rochester and Chicago. Miss Doris Harris travels to Chicago. Mrs Cora Thrasher returns home after ten days with Wiley Taylor family. Happy Workers Club entertained by Mrs Mary Ball with fourteen members and five guests. Browning family visits Earnest Bundridge near Cora.
Mr and Mrs Mel Burress and two children and Err and Ira Crump of Humphreys visited C E Burress family. Virgil Grindstaff and baby from Kansas City spent the weekend with relatives. Hinda Dillinger of Kirksville and Tommy Breeding of Kansas City visited relatives here. Melvin Stephenson and Russell Roberts of Kansas City also called. The school house social Friday night and moving picture show were enjoyed. William Sargent and William Wheeler returned home near Browning Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Rogers and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Haddox with children spent Sunday with relative Miss Vera Gordy who recently returned to Iowa after finishing a school term here. Ora McClarren of Humphreys visited with his children in town Sunday afternoon.
A Purdin column recalls weekend visits including Mrs. Van Vencill and daughter Jane traveling to Texas, Mrs. Cassity of Kansas City visiting Mrs. Hisel, and Kenneth Hisel from camp. Mrs. Phoebe Baker Smith suffers severe illness with limited speech and movement. Mrs. Street sells property to Curt Gooch as he plans to move to town this fall.
Local residents visit relatives and report travel, health updates, and employment news. Johnny Connell and family spend time with kin, Chas Collins resumes work after an injury, and several families travel or host gatherings around Decoration Day and other events in Milan, Independence, and nearby towns.
Mr and Mrs Smith built the house and lived there for years before moving to the country west of town. The show held its regular Monday night showing to a pretty good crowd. He will be here each Monday night.
Wartime rationing extends to all cheeses and cheese products except cottage, bakers, and pot cheese. Soft perishable cheeses join the list in early June. Civilians will gain 30 million cases of canned fruits and vegetables as government requirements are reduced, affecting corn, peas, tomatoes, beans, fruit cocktail, cherries, peaches, pineapple and juice. Current point values for 1943 production remain unchanged until known.
War Food Administration announced prospective 1943 sugar supplies likely to sustain current consumption. Allocations include 1,153,000 tons for armed forces lend-lease and exports, and 4,600,000 tons for civilian use. Civilian demand covers 2,258,000 tons for households and canning and 2,342,000 tons for industrial and institutional users.
A WPB clothing conservation program tightens dress making with square inch limits on trim and standardized silhouette rules. Amended Order L-58 specifies measurements for length sweep hip hem and related dimensions affecting all women’s and children’s outerwear.
Farmers using nitrogen fertilizer expect about 225000 dollars in annual savings from six percent freight reductions effective May 15, 1943. The gains largely affect 1944 purchases as farmers have largely stocked 1943 needs. Individual savings vary by location and seller delivery system.
Rubber boots are now available to miners loggers communications linemen construction workers oil drillers quarry workers and clay extractors. formerly only miners and loggers were eligible. Applicants must show ration boards a definite occupational need. purchaser no longer required to turn in worn out boots when buying a new pair.
The Children's Bureau of the U.S. Labor Department announced that wives of men in the four lowest armed forces pay grades can receive maternity care plus medical hospital and nursing care for their babies in 23 states at no cost to the family. Applications require a form from the State Health Department. More states are expected to approve programs soon.
The Office of Rubber Director excludes reusable tire carcasses from scrap sent to reclaimers to obtain extra mileage. As a result, about a half million tires otherwise unusable can be placed in service through the Defense Supplies Corp.
An easy government update announces a fuel ration change with a planned upward adjustment. Officials say the move will ease shortages and help households maintain basic travel and heating use through the coming period. Details on quotas and dates were not provided in the readable text.
Next year's fuel oil allotment for small homes will be adjusted automatically by War Price and Rationing Boards without extra forms. The change corrects excessive cuts and uses the regular renewal application to implement the adjustment.
War program allocates 500 million board feet of lumber to farms for maintenance repair and new construction essential to food production. Delivery set for AA-2 rating during June July August and September. Farmers lacking rating should seek certificates from the County Farm Rationing Committee to obtain lumber.
About 400,000 workers are needed for the peak season in the food canning and processing industry. Canning is a seasonal, hometown industry, staffed by local workers including youths, housewives, and mechanics who usually hold other jobs.
The Office of Price Administration reports food retailers and wholesalers will keep the best economic position on record as ceilings set across the year. Business volume, margins over cost and pre tax profits remain high, with business failures at the lowest level in fifty years.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.