To the People of this Community 4th War Loan Appeal
The editor urges local support for Extra War Bonds to fund Pacific and European campaigns. It frames Marines on Tarawa as facing deadly fire and calls readers to buy bonds to reduce casualties, noting soldiers are from the readers’ community and invoking national sacrifice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Tarawa
Pacific
Gilbert Island
Tokyo
Berlin
Pernans
Anne
Japan
Germany
Inlands of Spitzbergen Rich in Raw Material
Spitzbergen comprises five large islands and several rocky islets covering over 24 000 square miles. Before the war a population of about 2000 lived there with mining and fishing as main work. The islands hold vast coal reserves up to eight billion tons and deposits of iron copper and zinc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spitzbergen
West Virginia
West Vic
Arctic
Eliminate Wasps and Keep Attic Flies Out
A poison bait can clear wasps from the attic by mixing green parts with syrup and spreading on bread. Keep bait away from children. For cluster flies, seal cracks with cotton, use a pyrethrum spray, and open attic windows in spring before pests reenter, then close doors at dusk.
Tourists flood Mexico demand high as postwar markets rise
American visitors swarm into Mexico buying sin products and household goods while rationing remains light. Mexicans grow irritated at surging imports and re shipments of U S appliances. Electrification efforts abroad open future markets for electrical appliances as industrialization expands in Mexico Brazil and other nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
United States
Brazil
Sculptor Borglum Finely Shaped Mount Rushmore Using Dynamite
The late Gutzon Borglum and Du Pont experts used small dynamite charges to carve Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. About 6,000 pounds of explosives and 40,000 detonating caps moved granite to form the heads of Washington and others, with precise electric caps aiding delicate work.
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Rushmore Memorial
Gutzon Borgium
du Pont
Washington
Jefferson
Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Mount Rushmore
South Dakota
Borglum
Bethlehem Shipyards and Workers Rally for 1944 Output
The message salutes Bethlehem's shipyards steel mills factories and mines and the 300000 workers who completed the year's work. It notes a larger 1944 shipbuilding task and urges maximum pace to hasten victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel Company
Bethlehem
Herder
Ration Reminders and War Economy Notes
Ration details cover gasoline, sugar, fuels, meats, processed foods, and stamps with dates through January and March. Notices discuss fighting black markets, civilian meat allocation, price changes in 1943, veteran apprenticeships, and lend lease farm machinery, including Allied needs and wartime repurposing of machinery.
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Middle West
Far West
East
Middle East
U.S
U. S
WEA
The
Manpower Commission
Congress
Longest Coral Reef Named in Northwest Coral Sea
The article notes the Great Barrier Reef as the world’s longest coral reef along Australia’s northwest coast, extending about 1,290 kilometers. It highlights its location off Australia and its status as a global natural landmark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Barrier Reef
Australia
General Woman's Club Meeting Set for Tuesday Evening
The General Woman's Club schedules a 8 PM gathering Tuesday January 18 in the Chateau grade school auditorium. Home Defense program led by Mrs Beulah McNal Mrs Jonah Zgoda and Mrs Willard Paulus. Refreshments chaired by Mrs John Hentges with Andrew Alpha Mrs Kiss and others assisting.
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General Woman’s Club
Chateau
Pines
Home Defense
Beulah MeeNal
Jona Zgoda
Willard Paulus
John Hentges
Andrew Alpha
Kiss
Ae Otis Mellon
Blyigs
Subscribes for the need yet another acamtea
A brief notice urges readers to subscribe for the needed issue of acamtea. The fragment references a local subscription campaign and urges action within a short window.
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PTR
Bethlechem In
United States Navy
U. S. Maritime Commission
Bethlehem Ship Repair Yards
Beth!_hem
U. S. Navy
America
Aaa Data
Tia
OPA
Francis Perkins
Secretary of
Labor
Britain
Moscow
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Mikhail Keliain
Soviet Union
Pres. Kalinin
Russia
Z. Fierlinger
Pres. Benes
A. Korneichok
General Woman's Club
Jax
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