Surplus Potatoes Highlight War Agriculture Missteps
In a wartime balance of crops the OPA notes beet acreage down forty percent and sugar rations unlikely to ease while potato production creates a surplus with sixty to eighty loads spoiling last week. Farmers, urged to grow potatoes, receive high prices. beets face declines and factory closures. Franklin county offers sympathy to Blaine Peterson's family as a native son dies in service.
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OPA
Wizards of Washington
Department of Agriculture
Franklin County
Blaine Peterson
Idaho Leader Urges Unity On Constitution Anniversary
The governor calls Idaho citizens to observe the 166th anniversary of the Constitution on September 17. He urges support for free enterprise, warns against federal overreach, and urges citizens to contact Congress. The address references wartime policy, taxes, and farm income filing deadlines in 1943.
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Idaho
United States
National Society of the Sons
Utah Idaho border patrol bias draws concern in Franklin county
A Franklin county Idaho readership notes rising discrimination complaints as Utah highway patrols arrest more out-of-state drivers. The piece cites Utah figures showing Idaho motorists targeted and questions consistency with national limits. It calls for possible border patrol reciprocal figures and critiques the motor vehicle use tax amid gas shortages and wartime costs.
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Franklin County
Idaho
Utah
Utah Highway Department
Franklin
Highway Department of
Social notes and notices from Time Pages in Salt Lake
The column reports a business trip by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Skigmore to Salt Lake City with their daughter Armina and Sylvia Hansen returning home after study. A social for Aunt Mary Head on August 22 marks her 83rd birthday. Rumor links Alvin Crockett of Preston and Miss Millie Howell of Clifton for an upcoming marriage. Funeral services for Professor John Johnson, 61, are described. Lillian Weaver will sing at the Jub Hee Dance and Ephraim Peterson dies at 70 after illness. Dr. Leslie Merrill prepares to practice dentistry in Rexburg, while local ledger stocks advertise binders.
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Eli Whitneys
Washington
Daniel Webster
W. A. Skigmore
Salt Lake City
Armina
Spencer—Chansenr Jr
Sylvia Hansen
Stake
John Johnson
Santa Lake—City
Lillian Weaver
Mickey” Hart
Oddball Caption Fragments Liven Local Page
A collage of humorous quips and scattered lines from a local page. Jokes about aging hair loss, misheard phrases, and small town banter mix with oddities about a boy asking what wenries are and a dairy anecdote. The tone imitates a lighthearted community column.
Local message hints at family news and political quip
A fragmentary note from a local girl to her married sister in Nevada mentions a baby arrival and fixtures. The piece quotes a Dayton mayor urging restraint in wartime debates and letting the other side speak to reveal ignorance.
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Nevada
Frank
Verse Rhythms and Party Photo Prank at Lynden
A humorous Lynden Tribune snippet notes Jed Lewis dictating verses to Phyllis and Wanda with playful misprints. It adds a joke about a married woman hosting old maids who bring photos of one man, her husband, and a closing paragraph about typewriter ribbons and office machines for sale.
Income Tax Facts Interest To Farmers
The 1943 declaration rule split tax into two payments due September 16 1949 law provides that farmers with 80 percent farming income can delay filing until December 15 1943. Farmers filing December 15 must pay the entire estimated tax. Special consideration is noted for farmers.
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