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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1942
Page
6
Denton Journal issue dated Saturday December 12 1942 from Melvin Johnson Inc. publishers. Page six contains regional notices and brief items reflecting wartime era events in Denton area.
Students report on agriculture club fundraisers, chicken care, and a scrub on sanitary hog troughs. Sophomores study Lancelot and Elaine, count to a million in French, and prepare for a Christmas music assembly. Freshmen tackle energy and algebra, while seventh graders finish heat affect studies and aprons. FBI conferences in Maryland discuss enforcement and future quarterly meetings.
Ration guidance lists Class 1 coupons for heating dwellings and hot water with 50 gallons total, plus 10 gallon period coupons in five periods. Validity spans and overlapping use rules shown, with serial numbers required. Class 3 coupons cover domestic cooking lighting and broader uses with values of one, five, and one hundred gallons issued in quarterly and yearly terms. All start October 1 1942.
A compilation of handwritten Christmas requests from Second Grade students including Barbara Fuchs Dolores Breeding Betty Hayman and Barbara Jean Boyles, asking Santa for toys clothes and school items while remembering teachers family and classmates. Names of children Ridgely Denton and locations appear with December 1942 dates and varied gift lists.
FBI Baltimore office Special Agent in Charge E A Soucy announced quarterly FBI police conferences to be held in Salisbury at 10:00 a.m. for Wicomico Somerset Worcester and Dorchester counties and in Easton at 2:00 p.m. for Talbot Caroline Queen Anne Kent counties Maryland. Firearms instructor Charles B Beall Jr will discuss disarming methods and arrest techniques with attending police officers.
William M. Jeffers asserts a real rubber shortage, demands stringent conservation and 100 percent public cooperation. He notes Japan cut off 90 percent of supply and the U.S. must rapidly build synthetic rubber, stretching the million tons in tires as far as possible.
A collection of Denton area Christmas wishes from many children in the second and third grades. Each letter lists toys books candy and fruit, with requests for siblings teachers and parents to be remembered. Names include Charles DeFord Adele Palmer Lois Ann Dutin Frances Wood Betty Crouse Marvin Patten Marion Reed Carlton Dukes Geo F Connor Ralph Breeding Russell W Hill Wayne Butler Bob Lee Herman Lee Annie Blockston Isabelle Jester Bobby Whirlis and others. The notes reflect festive hopes and gratitude as well as a nod to service members and families nationwide.
Childrens gift requests from eight year olds in Second and Third grade list items for Santa including dolls with curly hair candy fruit oranges nuts airplanes boats gloves dresses stockings shoes pencils tablets and books. They also ask to remember teachers mothers fathers siblings and their classes in a festive note from 1942.
A child asks Miss Cade to bring a cowboy suit a soccer ball a penknife and a chain for a watch recalling a prior Christmas gift. The note mentions a fountain pen and an Eversharp peach and requests indoor toys for bad weather days this winter.
A brief note from Federalsburg Maryland dated December 11 1942 shows a ten year old pupil in the fifth grade at Denton School expressing a simple personal sentiment and school life moment.
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