Wheat Storage Crunch Looms as 1945 Crop Grows
Widespread wheat storage strain expected as a 1945 crop may reach a record 1.085 billion bushels. AAA officials urge farmers to plan home storage and use emergency bins while AWB and WPB rules guide lumber and construction. Country elevators hold 129 million bushels on April 1, with shipment limits looming due to war materiel movement.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Pacific Coast
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
AAA
United States
Great Plains
Thar's Pearls in Them Thar Creeks
Liberty magazine touts pearl hunting in North American streams as a driftless hobby with over 500 pearl bearing mussels. The piece notes famous finds like Queen Pearl of Empress Eugenie and a 1890 deal in Sugar River Wisconsin worth $60000.
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N. America
Liberty Magazine
New Jersey
London
Sugar River
Wisconsin
Lend Lease Aid for China Exceeds Prior Year in April
Washington reports April lend-lease to China valued at 61 million dollars, over fifteen times April 1943. Since March 1941 total aid to China reaches 458.874 million dollars, according to Foreign Economic Administrator Leo T. Crowley.
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Washington
China
Leo T. Crowley
Tombstone Sleuths Hunt Early American Families
The Tombstone Hounds of New Jersey, based in Newark, study grave markers on field trips each weekend. Members, including retirees and professionals, have documented 200 000 graves across 450 New Jersey cemeteries, preserving inscriptions as a permanent family record. The example gravestone for Isaac Fourat’s wives notes Mary’s death in 1767 and Esther’s in 1789.
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Genealogical Society of New Jersey
Newark
New Jersey
United States
Isaac Fourat
Mary
Esther
Violet eye shadow tips from Gabrielle
If eyelids appear pinkish or veined avoid violet shadow. Use a light brown base first then apply violet to avoid boosting the pinkish red tone. Ledger Syndicate WNU Features.
Gay Gadgets and Girls Cheerleaders Fashion Tips
The piece outlines cheerleading fashion for girls with guidance from Hi Style Scouts. It suggests Reet Pleats using underlays in school colors, Princess dresses with color-lined skirts, Striped Slacks with color stripes, Satin Skirts with Peter Pan collars, and a Military look using white braid frogs and satin blouses.
Black Sheep Mary Parks Near Railroad Sparks Market Talk
A playful local verse about Mary with a lamb lacking a parking place. The scene notes the lamb near a railroad line and then shifts to a quirky line about a black market. The poem-style piece hints at urban parking woes and streetwise humor.
High School Quips Spark Busy Paper Headlines
A set of light hearted gags circulates in school papers with jokes about paper warmth, report cards, and playful exchanges. The snippets highlight student humor and teacher poke lines as campus chatter grows.
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Pak
Trixie Teen Scoffs at Soda Fountaindom manners
A playful quip questions a girl’s social graces at a soda fountain booth. It teases her for interrupting a party and for flashy table manners while praising her as mellow and sweet. The tone echoes light gossip in a teen column.
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Trixie
Junior
Spokes in Wheel May Aid Planes in Landing
New York's under construction airport is planned for 8,600 landings and takeoffs daily. It uses a spoked wheel runway system allowing three planes to take off from a center apron while three others land on opposite lanes converging near the apron.
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New York
Washington Digest on Nazi Concentration Camps
The column explains how planned terror destroyed individual initiative in Germany, conditioning prisoners to become docile and spread fear. It details camp stages from arrest to “old prisoner” status, torture methods, and the effect on families and broader society under Nazi rule.
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Germany
WNU
Union Trust
Washington, D. C
Gestapo
Occupied
Mussolini
Bruno Bettelheim
Bettelheim
McClure
Pressure to relax anti fraternization rules in occupied Germany
Barbs notes pressure to ease anti fraternization rules in the American army in Germany. A Moscow broadcast says life returns to normal in Berlin suburbs. A July 1 bicycle race occurred in one town. An estimate from the Petroleum Administration puts three million barrels of petroleum products lost to strikes. Two thousand seven hundred Liberty ships were damaged beyond use.
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Berlin
Moscow
The
Petroleum Administration
Novelties to Crochet in Pineapple Design
Crochet pattern 732 offers a basket handkerchief case sachet pincushions edging and corner details. Due to high demand and wartime delays some orders take longer. send your order to the address provided.
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Okla
D. L. Jones
Tombstone
St. James’ Church
Piscataway
Raritan Township
Gabrielle
BY Nancy Pepper
Telefact
Asia
Washington Digest
Baukhage
Bankhage
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
W. Randolph St
Chicago
Cerra
Kooms
B. F. Goodrich
B. F. Goodrich Koroseal
Uy Fom
Bfgoodrich
Mii Ras
Tropics
Nurscle
Yodora
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