Kitchen Fat Salvage Drives War Fat Campaign
Local campaign urges housewives to save all cooking fats and greases for military production. Massachusetts meat dealers, 5000 strong, pledge to collect fats for rendering plants to produce glycerine and explosives. Collectors promise four cents a pound, with cans and posters guiding safe storage and timely drop-offs. Two million pounds of fat idle yearly could aid war effort and possibly deter Axis forces.
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Pacific
Far East
Cam
Tion
Tokio
America
Japan
Jimmy Doolittle
Fox
Massachusetts
United States
Masachusetts
Hirohito
Hitler
Acton Sugar Applications Open on Specific Days
Acton residents may apply for home canning sugar at the office of Rationing Board No 41 in the town hall on Mondays Wednesdays Fridays and Saturdays from 9 30 a m to 12 30 p m and 2 to 4 30 p m during the canning season. Stamp values for sugar are temporarily adjusted with stamps 5 and 6 valid in defined four week windows while overall weekly quotas per person remain half. The board urges careful use and warns of a two month wait for new ration books to prevent excess purchases.
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Acton
R&tioning Board No. 41
Town Hall
OPA
Henry Parkman, Jr
The Unbeliever and Sir Humphry Davy Quotation
A fragment cites Sir Humphry Davy on unbelief and belief in a terse antiquated voice. The line calls the unbeliever the pert and slyest of kinds, reflecting a serious stance in a historical context.
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Sir Humphry Davy
Time Stone Farm hosts Members Garden Club visitors
Members of the Garden Club toured Time Stone Farm, viewing an 18th century dwelling enlarged by Abner Goodale in 1778. Guests admired colonial furnishings, a book house, seven barns, a music box cradle, and gardens while officers discussed plans for upcoming floral displays.
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Stone Farm
Gia
John Goodale
Abner Goodale
Tomes
Clarence
Bedford Notes On Local Travel And Health
Mrs William Arnold left Friday on a motor trip to Pennsylvania accompanied by her daughter Harriet Breland to Harrisburg Virginia where she visited her husband serving with the medical corps. Margaret Johnston and her sister Barbara of Maple street stayed home with the measles. Alfred J. Wiggins of Arlington moved into the Hunhnewell house on Springs Road and bought it through William Lyons. Floyd A. Sweetman and children of Concord Road went to their summer home on Stimson Lake Indiana.
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William ‘Arnold
Pennsylvania
Harriet Breland, Jr
Harrisburg
Virginia
Medical Corps
Margaret Johnston
Barbara
Maple Street
Alfred J. Wiggins
Arlington
Hunhnewell House
Springs Road
William Lyons
Floyd A. Sweetman
Concord Road
Stimson Lake
Freedom Exists Only Where People Care For Government
Quote attributed to Woodrow Wilson about freedom arising when citizens actively steward government. No additional context or dates provided.
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Woodrow Wilson
Bronxville prognosticator taubeneck predicts war end by 1943
Ignatius Donnelly Taubeneck a mild manned schoolteacher uses science to forecast events. He predicts the war ends in 1943 with Axis beaten and warns of a possible global mood drop after the war. He claims 89 percent accuracy and stores prophecies in a Bronxville bank safe deposit box.
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Bronxville
N. Y
Ignatius Donnelly Taubeneck
Gallup
Taubeneck
America
Orient
Bronxville Trust Company
Bedford Man Earns Rating in Harbor Defenses unit
Boston Corporal Robert A Brown of Bedford now at Fort Standish designated enlisted man attaining highest rating in his grade in Headquarters Battery 8rd Battalion 241st Coast Artillery Harbor Defenses of Boston for May. Inducted January 8 1941 promoted to corporal in 1941 served as clerk and now acting supply sergeant lives at 18 Cutler Street Bedford.
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Boston
Robert’ ‘A. Brown
Bedford
Fort Standish
241St Coast Artillery
Henry DeCassard
Brown
Army
Cutler Street
Army Seeks Hawaiis Dogs for Guard and Sentry Duty
Honolulu reports the Army asks Hawaii dog owners to enlist pets for defense work. The program cites urgent need and promises trained dogs will free soldiers for other duties. Questor, a German shepherd owned by Harold Castle, becomes Hawaii director of dogs for defense and serves as Lt. Gen. Emmons escort.
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Honolulu
Army
Hawaii
Questor
Kanohe
Harold Castle
Dogs For Defense
Delos
C. Emmons
Spa
United States
Io Fi
War Industries Firm Will Return All Profits to Government
Stillwater Minnesota reports a non profit war industries company formed by watermen led by J Ahegin state senator Karl Neumeier John Stolze and R M Hardrath. They leased a factory to a firm already working on war orders and vow to turn back 100 percent of profits to the government.
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Stillwater
Minn
War Industries
Pled
Water War Industries, Inc
J. A. Ahegin
Karl Neumeier
John R. Stolze
R. M. Hardrath
Tment
Equipment Sought For Navy War Effort Contributions Urged
Citizens urged to donate binoculars and radio telephone gear for the Navy as part of the war effort. Requested items include 6x30 and 7x50 binoculars, identification tags, and safe packing for shipment to the Naval Observatory in Washington. Owners receive a receipt and $1. past war saw 31,000 instruments accepted.
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Navy
Uncle Sam
Zeiss Bauch and Lamb
Naval Observatory
Navy Department
Washington, D. C
Ser
Navy Yard
Boston
Mass
Three Autoists Pay $5 Fines In Local Court
Marlboro R J Zanca of 84 Winter Street Leo H Tremblay of 107 Winter Street and William A Flynn of Cordaville Road Cordaville paid $6 fines in District Court before Judge James M Hurley. They were charged with failing to obey a Stop sign at an intersection. Patrolman J Joseph Slattery was the complainant.
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Marlboro
Roland J. Zanca
Winter Street
Leo. H. Tremblay
Winter, Street
William.a
Flynn
Cordaville Road
Cordaville
James M. Hurley
J. Joseph Slattery
Ride sharing vehicle application questions and details
The text lists questions for a ride sharing vehicle application including principal occupation, employer, industry, purpose of vehicle use, passenger capacity, mileage in past 30 days, travel to work, and public transit options. It cites certification, vehicle details, and forms OPA R-536 and R-527 for G and E/R ration applications.
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Perm
OPA
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