This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 8 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1945
Page
4
Holly Miller, in Capper’s Farmer, urges teens to use school to build a solid foundation for success after graduation. She notes diplomas don’t guarantee intelligence or efficiency and warns against letting others outpace them by skipping study for play or easy paths.
The Capper's Farmer Home Editor advises homemakers to improvise a long-handled dustpan from a mop handle and dustpan when store items are unavailable. Treating a dish mop with furniture oil helps dust clean bedsprings, saving time disposal and backache for millions of farm families.
Scotch Oat Bread offers a crusty loaf from a famous early Scotch recipe. For breakfast toast with butter and jam or a supper dessert with cottage cheese and jelly. Read the recipe: ingredients include four, buttermilk, oats, raisins, baking powder, soda, salt, sugar, and shortening baked in a loaf pan for about one hour.
Washington secretary Claude Wickard urged farm families to invest extra dollars in the Sixth War Loan, calling it an effective postwar planning step. He noted farmers have a strong wartime record and that agriculture faces a large postwar funding need, with high production and favorable prices boosting income.
Prepared by the Rural Press Section of the Office of War Information the piece discusses farm labor, food production, and community cooperation as essential to wartime mobilization. It emphasizes efficiency, home front support, and patriotic duty among farmers and townspeople.
The Office of Price Administration urges housewives to destroy invalid food ration stamps and notes red tokens remain valid for meats and fats while blue tokens expire for canned goods. It lists specific stamp ranges declared invalid as of December 26, 1944, and details which stamps will become good in late December and early January 1945.
Tests at the University of Illinois show that reducing indoor temperatures by six degrees at night can cut winter fuel use by up to ten percent. The study notes the findings come from simulated home conditions and emphasize energy savings.
State parks recorded 2 100 000 visitors in 1944 an increase from the previous year with Starved Rock at about 300 000 Black Hawk and White Pines Forest at 200 000 each and Lincoln’s Tomb 135 000 The war limited construction and a five million dollar postwar plan will follow the war Governor Green announced higher aid for dependent children December payments reached 46 669 children in 19 506 families The duck hunting season closed January 1 after a good flight but poor linger Ducks shifted south Goose shooting thrived at Horseshoe Lake in Alexander county Highways projects exceeded ten million dollars including 4 695 million for 70 miles of highways mainly US 66 Funk’s Grove to Pontiac Reconstruction Expected 1945 Wartime limits produced 44 million spent til now The Illinois Legislative council meets January 2 in the Statehouse with twenty two studies planned.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.