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Unusual Mix of News and Notes From Aug 8 to Aug 13
A broad snapshot of wartime and domestic topics includes tin can scarcity and tobacco box waste, diverse coal classifications, a clever coin curiosity about the 25 cent piece, the July USDA crop forecast predicting large harvests of corn and other foods, a proposal to mint bronze American Eagle medals from Revolutionary War cannon, wrestler Earl Caddock's exemption query, swim instruction advocacy after drowning incidents, draft calls by Provost Marshal General Crowder, and county weed control guidance for quack grass and Canadian thistle with tar paper and tilling methods and cautions about arsenate solutions.
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D. A. Noble