Unimportant Cogitations Reflect Daily Life and War Rations
A fragment from Inez Faber notes women hoarding ration tokens, a Red Cross rescue of Staff Leicester Gillen from a German internment camp, and local musings on domestic chores, dreams, and spring. It also records Bernadine Bishop performing in Easter music and Charles Enos Hiatt departing for U S Army service.
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Leicester Gillen
The
Red Cross
Germany
Chester
Charles Enos Hiatt
Fred Hiatt
Moravia
United States Army
Orchestra and Solo Pieces Program Ledger
A list of oboe, clarinet, horn, string, and band performances with titled works and performers including Eloise Argo, Ruby Johnson, Jeedlyn Saret, Maxine Smith, Trish Air Tothill, and Yvonne Harrison among others. It catalogs solos, quartets, and overtures with accompanying musicians and bands.
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Jack Spencer
Ruby Johnson
Erceuse
Jocelyn
Beaunita Main
Maxine Smith
My Own
United States
Finlandia
Eloise Argo
Rosemtay Aiaisy McCrory
Rosemary Main
Wilbur Harris
Maron of the Heroes
Galway Piper
Salo
OPA Predicts Meat Ration Values Steady for April
The Office of Price Administration announced April meat ration point values remain near March levels with only a slight decrease in estimated civilian supplies. Beef pork veal and mutton keep the March low-point values, and butter remains at 16 points for the coming month.
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Office of Price Administration
Local notes and federal rationing notices mix with community updates
Maple Grove brief items list visits among neighbors including Tadlock Arnold Andrews and Gilliland families. Also mentions a published Federal Security Agency civic guide, OPA ration actions on autos, bicycles, and pulpwood prices, June return of pickled fruit rationing, cosmetics excise pass-through, extra ration handling for ill persons, Newfoundland agricultural workers to the northeast, and a WAR BONDS call to support the nation.
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OPA
Newfoundland
WPA
Wartime food stamps and rationing measures outlined
The Office of Price Administration announces food stamps good indefinitely unless expiry is noted. Three red stamps every second Sunday and five blue stamps on the first of each month authorize purchases. Frozen fruits and vegetables are untaxed through April 29 to free cold storage, lard remains unrationed, and certain hams shift points. A broad list of basic foods is expected in good supply for the next three months, with meat projections and regional adjustments in draft and reclassification for registrants under 26.
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Office of Price Administration
War Food Administration
War ration calendar details and shoe coupon notices
The notice lists ration periods for Class A through C and bulk coupons, expiration dates for gasoline and fuel oil coupons, sugar and canning allowances, and indefinite validity stamps. It also names individuals as dinner guests at U. O. Main’s home, including Mrs Cora Main and families Charity Jones Murdy and Main.
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Josie Charity
Moulton
Ben Jones
Donald
Wendell Murdy
John and
DayMs
Cora Main
U. O. Main
Also Mentioned on This Page
Moravia Union
Appanoose County
Iowa
Co Ee
Congress
Wayne Pitman Davis
Grace L. Bedinger
Centerville
John O. King
Caldwell Township
G. D
Mike
Lotridge Bellair Township
R. C. Wilson Taylor Township
Dewey E. Goode Bloomfield
County Recorder
Dukes Centerville
A. Osborn
M. G. “Mage
John L. Dillon
Jack Bailey
R. Barkley Moulton
Frank Swaim
Nen
Eb Son
Midway
Pea
Inez Faber
March
Bernadine Bishop
D. E. Bishop
Parsons College
Bardyet Chapel
Fairield
Victory Garden
P. D. Schreiner
Girls Glee Club
Hemstreet
Buck
la Violette
McKay
Tuba
Harbarrosa
Maxine’ Smith
Ace Z
Charles Burton
Lassie Q
MacLean Sibelius
Toselli
Walt Bullard
Colossus
Imogene Padlock
Miss Hoover
Vandercook
Sarasati
David Hoover
Misa Hoover
Edley
Yvonne Harrison
Mystic Land of
Egypt
Osmes
Poet
W. Harris
Jewell Ketelbe
Bae Suppe
Mendelssohn
Chaminade
Bortniansky
Brahms - Skornicka
Weber
Zamecnik
Maple Grove
Imogene Tadlock
Lon Arnold
Steve Gilliland
A. BE. Shull
Grant Tadlock
Dean Andrews
C. A. Andrews
A. Gomer, Stocker
Gabe Johnson
Arlene Arnold
Basil Tadlock
C. H. Andrews
Unionville
Clarence Dowd
Delmar
Richard Tu
Baugh
Pete Crestani
Tommy Dowd
Bert Arnold
Walter Scott
Bernice
Wanda
Wilbert Johnson
Ray Tubauch
Richard Tubaugh
Delmar Dowd
Gene Lowery
Federal Security Agency
Armed Services
National Selective Service System
ODT
WFA
Office of the
Rubber Director
Office of Defense ‘Transportation
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Gardner Hatchery
L. H. Robinson
Graham Property
Sherwin-Williams
Falvey Bros
Albia, Iowa
For
Jack
Lee Johnson
Milea
Rob
Howiery
Jean Edwards
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