Wage Scale and Farm Labor Notices in Idaho and Oregon
Farmers urged to hire by wage scale as Council of Defense promotes fair pay for harvest help. Advertisements seek housing included laborers and irrigators with monthly wages from 60 to 80 dollars. Also listings for real estate and rental property in Oregon, including a six room house with barn and chicken house and a five acre parcel near Payette Heights.
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Idaho
Agriculer Acale
Council of Defense
Time Table Effective June district trains Payette Idaho
New schedule takes effect June 2 on the O S L Ry at Payette Idaho. Eastbound trains 18 86 4 6 and westbound 17 85 19 5 with specific departure times listed. Also notices about Masonic lodge meeting and seed grower contracts and agricultural notes appear.
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Payette
Idaho
Washoe Lodge
Masonic Hall
Thurston-Crighton
Worry Kills More Men Than War and Disease
A March of caution urges readers to favor steady toil over anxiety. The piece cites Equitably Life Assurance data noting worry harms health more than war or disease, warning that careless fear undermines career progress and daily balance, urging disciplined living to avoid being a casualty of worry.
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America
Fatie
Pitesburgh
Keails
Dogs Hair Becomes Wool In England War Aid
In England during the war era, combings from pet dogs are spun into yarn to make jerseys muf fers bed socks and stockings for the Red Cross. The material comes from dog hair after special preparation and is linked to a proposed collection scheme, reflecting hostilities and public service debates.
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England
Shetland
Red Cross
London
Ministry of National Service
All teeth examined reveal hidden dental cause
A local manufacturer, health satisfactory, seeks dental exam after doctors order tooth extraction for rheumatism and other aches. Report notes some dentists remove sound teeth to cure illness, claiming poisoning from teeth affecting circulation. The Indianapo lis News recounts the patient showing upper and lower plates to the astonished doctor who could not find a dental cause.
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Byerthen x
Indianapolis News
How Johnny Cake Got Name From Civil War Bread Shortage
The article recalls how corn bread rose in popularity during the Civil War era in the South. Soldiers known as Johnny Rebs ate corn pone, leading Yankees to call it Johnny Cake. The piece links corn bread's rise to wartime flour shortages and Southern dietary adaptation.
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Johnny
Confederacy
South
Mason and Dixon Line
Johnny Rebs
Johnny Cake
Neck and neck the housewife flips the script
A directory collector questions a woman at her door asking for the occupant's name Mary Jane Smith. He inquires if she is widow or spinster and asserts the husband is the head of the house. The woman retorts that if the husband is head she is the neck and a head without a neck cannot wag it.
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Mary Jane Smith
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