War shortages curtail health services in Maryland
War born personnel shortages force the Maryland State Department of Health to drastically cut crucial services. Inspectors of water carriers, public conveyances, stream pollution, and oyster waters may be reduced or abandoned as technicians head to armed services and war industries.
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Maryland State Department of Health
R. H. Riley
Department
Health Department
Armed Services
Riley
Bureau of Chemistry
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Bureau of Bacteriology
Maryland
George L. Hall
Army
Industry
United States Public Health Service
Hall
Gasoline and Fuel Oil Cuts Ordered for Eastern States
The War Production Board ordered a fifty percent reduction in gasoline and light fuel oil supplies for seventeen Eastern States plus Washington and Oregon. The measure starts May 16, following the gasoline card rationing launch, with interior regions potentially affected later. A nationwide tank car control system was also established to prioritize rail transport for war needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Prouction Board
Seaboard
Washington
Oregon
Joseph B. Eastman
Office of Defense Transportation
Federal
Tank Car Service
Petroleum Industry War Council
Harold L. Ickes
War Production Board
Ralph K. Davies
Atlantic
New Hog Rearing Method to Be Described at Grange Meeting
A gradual method of raising hogs with two crops marketed each year will be discussed May 1 at 8 00 PM at East New Market Grange. W R Khal of the Portland Cement Association will present motion pictures. Local agent comments will follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East New Market
W. R. Khal
Portland Cement Association
Charles Fuller
F. B. Clifton
John H. Hendriks
One More Canvass Changes Teenager to Life Insurance Agent
A tired magazine subscription solicitor in Indianapolis named Arthur F. Hall persuades the local Equitable Life manager to subscribe and commissions him. The manager then offers Hall a bigger path, inviting him to join and sell life insurance, changing his life.
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Indianapolis
Arthur F. Hall
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Funny Pranks Then A Store Ad Interlude
A humorous tale of Fred chasing his girlfriend after a church prank ends with Fred sprinting four miles. The piece then shifts to a local sales insert for S. H. Jones' Store Church Creek Ma offering cheap beef and groceries. It promotes flour, hats, paint, shirts, sweaters, peaches, and bulbs with casual customer chatter throughout.
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Jim
Fred
S. H. Jones
Jeandy
John B. Stetson
Bill
Church Creek
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Continental Congress
Navy
Marine Corps
U. S. Naval Academy
Dover ST
Easton
THE
Cambridge Tribune
Phillips Hardware
Wilson Phoenix
Phillips Hardware CO
Race & Muir Sts
Cambridge, Md
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