Slats Diary a Local Child’s Week Reflections in Vivid Talk
Oliver N Warren records a week of a child named Slats recounting town life through conversations with relatives and neighbors. The diary includes remarks about a Parker bank vice president, car upkeep, charity research, a feisty marriage discussion, a school composition, marriage rumors, and playful U.S. notions of freedom. The voice is informal and local, with humorous and observational snippets across five days.
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My. Parker Witch
Lucy Gipper Witch
Reddy
Hal Pinney
Md Merry Go Round and the Sandy Spring Farmers Club
The Sandy Spring Farmers Club, with 20 regular members, maintains a tradition of tea and farm talk, avoiding religion and politics. They uphold a flexible constitution, insisting on no fixed rules beyond universal good sense and allowing each member to challenge arrangements freely. Members pay one dollar annually to avoid serving as secretary, with funds going to the volunteer secretary.
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Sandy Spring Farmers Club
Not so many days we hope until the war is over
The speaker notes that fathers cannot return until VPs victory is secured, leaving thousands of bewildered children and millions of Americans uncertain about when daddies will come home. The tone conveys wartime longing and collective anxiety.
How many more days Mum War Bonds plea urges buying more bonds
The message urges immediate investment in War Bonds to shorten the war and save American lives. It stresses every dollar accelerates victory and calls for increased bond purchases to back the war effort to the limit. It frames time as minutes, days, or months saved by funding fighting equipment.
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BY Oliver N. Warren
Oscar Weddle
Milly Tombs
Washingtons
Lizzy Stone
Enny
Wensday
Ant Emmy
Land of the Free Becuz
Merry-Go-Round
Maryland
Ghesapeake Bay
Ses As
Sandy Point
Matapeake le
Romancoke & Claiborne la
Romancoke
A. Claiborne
Potomac River
Richmond
Williamsburg
Yorktown
Jamestown
Washington Trafic
State Roads Commission
Chesapeake Bay Ferry System
E. Lextopten St. Baltimers
Tewepa Perrhlhve
Cooper Furniture CO
ICE Service Company
Coal
Stafford
J. Virgil Moore & Son
T. R. Benson Caroline Maid Ice Cream
J. L. Everngam & Son
R. H. Stafford & Son
Hardware and Farm Implements
Burrsville, MD
Lockerman
Charles W. Bradley
Sinclair Refining CO
Ikoenic'’S
Bryan & Hopkins
Hexall Drug Store
Benton
Seaford
Dover
Del
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Denton National Bank
Federal Reserve System
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
G. D. Crouse
Gustav Good
Southern States
Nuttle Milling CO
Ideal” Flour & Feeds
George F. Connor
Universal Dairy Products
U. S. Treasury Department
War Advertising Council
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