Lakewood Lake Church Services and Local Visitors
Lake church led by J W Wyrlek holds Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. and preaching at 11:00 a.m. No evening services in winter. Mrs Anna Wells visiting in Detroit after Sunday School. Several locals and visitors from Farwell Saginaw Ann Arbor Flint and Baldwyn appear in notices with family visits and farm tasks mentioned.
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Oman
Lake Bchool
Anna Wells
Detroit
Raymond Scott
Irwin Scotti
Live Oaks
Florida
Irwin Scott
J. Ramsden
Midland Social Notes and Red Cross Meeting Planned
Midland residents spent the weekend at parental homes. Frank Gilman is ill but improving. Mrs Gorden Smith and Grace and her friend from Flint visited at Gorden's farm. A Red Cross meeting at the Grange hall on May 14 invites all members to bring work. There is plenty to finish.
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Midland
Frank Gilman
Gorden Smith
Grace
Flint
Gorden
Red Cross
Grange Hall
Vitamin B's Will Banish Lowly Droopy Feelings
This health note explains the benefits of B vitamins for energy mood and nerves, noting wartime needs for longer hours and tougher work. It lists rich sources such as lean pork, liver, whole grains, dried beans, soybeans, nuts, eggs, milk, vegetables, and fruits, and mentions enrichment of white flour with thiamine and niacin and soon riboflavin.
Europe faces severe food deficit amid global shortages
The article notes Europe would need to feed 80 to 100 million more people to cover ally deficits, with imports from New Zealand Australia and Argentina hampered by long transport. It cites Europe’s prior 10 percent food import share and current shortfalls atop 200 million demand, stressing food as a historic world problem driven by mechanized farming and transport.
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New Zealand
Australia
Argentina
Europe
North America
England
Buenos Aires
Western
New World
Field Museum paleontologist on South American giants
A Field Museum paleontologist notes ground sloths were once the largest and likely the most common native animals in South America, highlighting their extinct prominence in the region.
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S. America
South America
Wartime 10 Star Tune Up For 1943 Automobiles
Wartime Standard Oil tune up lists nine maintenance steps including battery, tires, transmission, lubrication, gas saving, front wheel bearings, safety checks, cooling system, appearance protection, and crankcase care. It promotes war bonds and driving under thirty five, framing cars as part of national strength.
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America
Horse care and clothing advice for tough winter conditions
Agricultural guidance urges farmers to condition horses now for spring, stressing good feeding and parasite control during winter. It cites the University of Minnesota College of Agriculture and notes parasites like bats inhabit the stomach while roundworms and other parasites live in intestines and tissues. Advice covers winter treatments and using carbon disulphide. The article also offers practical darning tips to extend clothing life during shortages, including methods for mending tears and patches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Animal Pathology and Hygienic
University of Minois College of Agriculture
New Wood Uses Hit Industry From Madison Lab
At the U S Forest Products laboratory in Madison Wisconsin researchers report wood byproducts yield varied new products. Wood plastics are made by heating mill waste with acids to form a mold ing powder for tiles and panels. Corrugating board comes from chestnut chips after tannin extraction. Chestnut wood decline prompts substitutes like black jack oak and red gum. Over 200 buildings use glued laminated beams from small boards. Prefab houses use plywood panels glued to light frames. Strong papers from maple birch and aspen wrap. Cellophane from pulped wood becomes transparent sheets. California mill makes redwood sawdust chips shavings into small logs for ships galleys and fireplaces. Shredded red wood bark Paleo wool for insulation resembles mass of red hair.
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U. S. Forest Products Laboratory
Madison
Wis
California
Farm Machinery Overhaul Aids War Production Goals
Advice that 1943 farm output depends on meticulous maintenance of power equipment and coordinated community tool schedules. Emphasizes general overhauls to ensure readiness and calls for shared use to support the war effort.
Expansion of navigation training across schools and clubs
The article argues that fifty to seventy five thousand navigators must be drawn in two years from inexperienced and semi-trained pools. It calls for broader navigation education in colleges, high schools, and vocational schools, plus coast guard, Power Squadron, yacht clubs, and racing societies. It notes equipment support from yachting groups and offers part-time instructors to speed up training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coast Guard
U. S. Power Squadron
Boards of Education
Soap for All Waters Brings Army Bath Soap to Service
Army chemists and industrial soap experts unveil a versatile toilet soap for use in very soft to very hard water. Designed for American soldiers overseas it serves as bath soap and can double as shaving soap or laundry aid in emergencies. It is mild non-irritating with no abrasives and removes many soil types.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Quartermaster Corps
War Department
Better or Worse A Book Makes Us Do Better or Worse
A reading claim argues that a book’s value lies in its power to spur improvement. If it inspires virtue and ambition, it is good. if it breeds complacency or vice, it is bad. The metric is behavioral impact on the reader.
Salt and oil lamp brightness tip from old note
A note advises adding a teaspoonful of common salt to kerosene lamp oil to boost brightness and slow burning. The tip claims brighter light and fewer refills. A separate line recalls Bizerte in 1940 as an Allied base attacked by Italian bombers during France's collapse.
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Bizerte
France
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Bvart Priday
Mary Ellen Irwin
Farwell
Misa Marion Ramsden
Irwin, Scott's
Hart Shook
Baldwin
Bert Scott
Betty Varney
Frederick Scott
Harold Lockwood
Larry
Ann Arbor
George Scott
John LaPond
Dwight Gilman
A&p
Florida Doz
Ser
Texas
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Sunnyfield
Kellogg’s
IONA
Yukon Club
White House
Corree
RED Circle
Bokar Corree
SRC Ra
UCU
Uy Aes
Edna Gray
Randolph
Littleton
N. C
Florence C. Weed
Homemakers
Armstrong
Clare Howe. & Furniture Co
Consumers Electric and Gas Service In
Consumers Power Company
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