Wartime rationing notes and shortages for town and farm
Prepared by the Office of War Information weekly rural digest outlines stamps and rationing updates. It covers Meats and red stamps through ZS, processed foods, sugar stamps and canning sugar, gasoline, full oil, nitrogen for farms, light naptha under Midwest rationing, vacuum cleaner price controls, and January distillers’ alcohol guidance. It notes army mail from the Philippines and delayed batches awaiting security clearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wartim
Office OF War Information
Ndt
OPA
Jaluary
Philippines
Soldier earns honors from field as Red Cross wraps medals
Overseas Red Cross workers say it is an honor to wrap decorations for fighting men. A second lieutenant handed a leather box labeled First Sergeant Mas R Hendon Willington Kent UK to be wrapped. Inside lay a Silver Star. Hendon explained the medal was his from the field. He returned next week with a Distinguished Service Cross for wrapping as well.
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Red Cross
Mas R. Hendon
Willington
Kent
Hendon
Bac
Dont Wait Until Pyorrhea Strikes At Beckmans Drug Store
A fragmentary notice notes Beckman s Drug Store urging prompt dental care amid warnings about pyorrhea. Mentions unnamed agents and individuals linked to a health advisory in a local business context.
El Campo Lawyer J. J. Duckett Promoted to Major
J J Duckett aged 29 of El Campo Texas, brother of State Representative L L Duckett, rises to major in the U S Marine Corps Reserve. A veteran of Pacific amphibious landings, he enlisted as a private in February 1941 and has been overseas over two years. His wife Arlene Duckett remains at home with her parents Dr and Mrs J A Halamicek in El Campo.
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Third Amphibious Corps
Pacific
J.J. Duckett
el Campo
Texas
U. S. Marine Corps Reserve
Duckett
L. L. Duckett
Marine Corps
Arlene Duckett
J. A. Halamicek
Local Marine Treybig Enjoys Wild Game Hunt During Furlough
Marine veteran Clinton H Treybig of Garwood spent a three month furlough in Hawaii New Zealand and other Pacific locales hunting wild game and sightseeing He earned two Presidential Citations for action at Guadalcanal Tarawa and the Marshalls He rejoined Camp Lejeune after visiting family and friends in the Pacific region and amid his trip his brother Raymond W Freybig also returned home on furlough from Camp Fannin Texas
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Clinton H. Treybig
Tort Mont of
Garwood
Treybig
Marines
Jini
Hawaii
New Zealand
Une Gremiers
Secon Marine
Trevis
Flo
Tuliysi
Guadalcanal
Tarawa
Troy
Marshalls
Tonga
Pearl Harbor
Sapa Init Tinkin
New Zeland Wey
Red Cross
Trevbis
Pfe
Pvt
Raymond W. Freybig
Camp Fannin
Texas
Treybiz
States
Camp Lejeune
N. C
James Ferguson’s Dramatic Night Backed by Crowd Fervor
The stump speaker Jim Ferguson drew fierce responses in Houston as crowds cheered his barbed jabs at a rival. He proclaimed that the historian should record the moment when free speech faced disruption, just after his oath as governor. Supporters hailed his dramatic reach while critics called his ridicule harsh.
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James Fr. Pergison
Fergson
Ieeantyron
Steertiin
Uupen
Ferguson
Jim Perguson
Houston
James E. Ferguson
Hanstos
Tess
Battleflont
Qhites
Swearingen Family Weekender Hosts in Houston
Mr and Mrs D D Swearingen of Houston were weekend guests of H D Swearingen and Miss Anni Lee Swearingen. HL HL Teil entertained guests, with mentions of Mrs and Mr W Brishais and Justin in the social notes.
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D. D. Swearingen
Houston
H. D. Swearingen
Anni Lee Swearingen
HL HL Teil
Gues
Hove
W. Brishais
Ustin
The Jokesmith Seth and the Curfew Matter
A fragmented oral relic shows a tightfisted farmer named Seth angry at neighbors over eaten provisions. Amid misheard quotes and comic asides a curfew tale blends with tales of farm life, school jokes, and a veteran judge governor Feretsen.
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Aine
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
OWL News Bureau
Corte
Beckman's Drug Store
U. S. Marine Corps
J. J. Duckett
Hige
U. S. War Bonds
Stami's
Pioneer Ware Wines Oe
Wotre Wince Flourioneer Flour Mills
Wilcox Grocery
Sancere
Eagle Lake
San Antonio, Texas
Pi White Wings
Kay Utoa M
Seth
William
Sethiehab
TAU
Aline
Cary
Perestum
Wey
Aves
Jones
Smith Co
Sally
Bill
Vinny Joe Ia
Bation
Eiverse
Feretsen
Rae Hyit
Stin
Jess
Ast
Znd
Sandy
Sambo
Rastus
Snegean
Albay
Strickland Insurance Agency
Sam H. Broyles
Mgr
BAR Lumber
Eagle Lake Lumber CO
Max Conner
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