Wartime OPA Guides Ration Reminders and Gifts for Servicemen
Ration details cover meats fats blue and red stamps, sugar limits through 1945, gas and fuel oil coupons, and shoe stamps. Also notes three red stamps become valid every four weeks and overseas servicemen may order Christmas gifts from US catalogs. Penicillin distribution to hospitals expands with WPB plan. Authority for more irons issued. poultry transport plans aim for orderly year. Invasion-year transport must stay free from delays. travelers warned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
United States
U. S
WPB
Mansfield
Ohio
New York
ODT
Subscribers renewals and local recollections for the Acantha
Helena reader Mrs. W D Streeter sends a 2.50 money order for a subscription and praises the Choteau Acantha. The letter recalls Dr Crary's death and notes Streeter as daughter of pioneer Ewing Steele. The editor thanks her and invites a future visit to the office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Streeter
Streeter
Helena
Acantha
Choteau
Fed
Pendroy News Highlights Local Weddings and Obituaries
Pendroy residents share celebrations and greetings as Mrs. Nick Wellenstein weds Max Hoeschen in Choteau. Funeral for Myrna Campbell held in Walden after fatal car crash. Community notes report Army corporal Howard Hamer, births, visits, and local gatherings across Pendroy and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. L. Lewis
Galata
Miss Lewis
Choteau
Nick Wellenstein
Max Hoeschen
Jas. J. Sheerin
Garnet McDonald
Arnold Hoeschen
Hoeschen
H. L. Fuller
California
Missouri
Pendray
Howard Hamer
Progress in Substitutes for Gasoline Worldwide
The article notes rapid global advances in fuel substitutes as gasoline becomes scarce. Charcoal gas power is used where fuel is limited, with about a 20 percent power deficit. It highlights coal and shale gasoline, Nazi wartime coal-derived gasoline, and Brazil’s 90 percent alcohol fuel mix since 1931 under compulsory law to alleviate shortages and use surplus sugar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Bureau of Standards
Ploesti
Brazil
Oil Drilling Start On Wm. Asmus Place By Union Oil
The Union Oil Co. of California has begun drilling for oil on the Wm. Asmus place. Local residents and visitors noted social calls at several homes including the Lehnert and Beck households. Pvt. Elmer Johnson visits his father Charles W. Johnson on furlough. Nearby residents Mrs. Frank Timmerman and son Tony visited the Frigge home east of Dutton.
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Great Falls
Ted Paulus
Columbus Hospital
Farmers Union
Becks
A. J. Ringen
Jens Greenlis
K. C. Knutsons
Dutton
Peter Hagen
Joe Tackes
al Nelson
Wm. Asmus
Union Oil Co
California
Nick Paulus
Why a Farmer Should Buy and Keep War Bonds
American farmers are urged to sacrifice beyond taxes by investing excess earnings in War Bonds during 1944. The piece argues farmers should tighten farm production costs to divert funds into bonds, easing postwar transitions, reducing inventories, funding new home and barn improvements, and providing retirement security while countering aggressive land and real estate sales pressure. It stresses prudent saving to replace worn equipment and to support national war aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anich
Perhops
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Office OF War Information
Pendroy News
Southwest Pacific
Jake Gutshall
Aimour and
Jones Ranches
Dillman
Frissell
Lois Dillman
Dale Mofflet
Myrna Campbell
Walier
Bert Moon
Whitney Connole
Conrad
Billy Briggs
Harold Brown
Hargens
Helen Halcott
Cora Seekins
Lee Hamer
Bob Stromswold
Barrett Ranch
Carl Peterson
Yule
Chateau
Russell Frissell
al Hargens
Carl Gulbrandsen
Louis Bailey
Fairfield
Baily
Hargen
A. Warneke
Wm. Morehead
Cut Bank
Hamer
Sullivan Ranch
Pardue & Morehead
Charlie Flynn
Standard Oil
CTA Service
Junior
Beck
John Toenyes
Cer
America
Vrom Fleet
Fort Erie
Royal Canadian Air Force
Atlantic
Pacific
Airforce Service
U. S. Army Air Forces
Air Transport
A.A.F
Dominion
Marjorie Logan
Billings
Mont
Elizabeth A. McKinley
Arlington
Doris Manual
Bronx
N. Y
Virginia
Disbrow
Schenectady
Ihanice C. Christensen
Waukegan
Ill
Paul A. Ekie
Agricultural Economist College of Agriculture
Moscow, Idaho
Sal Pet
Satelie Titans
England
United Nations
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