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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1945
Page
5
A chaotic clump of mock classified ads mocks wartime German figures and Allied forces. The blur blends offers trade requests shifts of management and oddball asks with references to Berchtesgaden Dachau and Nippon amid spoof notices from Karl Doenitz and Kraut General Staff.
An offbeat advertisement catalog lists doghouses of various shapes marketed to former dictators and earth rulers, tied to a satirical note on Truman Churchill Stalin and a barrage of era phrases. It mocks Americanisms and wartime rhetoric with a snappy, period voice.
A satirical note mocks headlines about fires in eateries and car price promises by Ford and General Motors. It imagines 1930s diners calmly continuing meals despite a fire alert while noting a predicted new car price around 8500 dollars amid a spending boom.
The OPA announces price ceilings on auto repair work for buses and asks service stations to post the scale publicly. Citizens are urged to insist on adherence, with a humorous aside about demanding fair rates at local stations.
Washington Bureau reports J. Edgar Hoover condemning juvenile delinquency as the era's biggest crime problem. FBI data show 1,393,655 crimes in 1944 with ages 17 to 22 leading arrests. Urban rural crime trends differ. home discipline and religion urged as防ills. The FBI underscores its role and training standards for agents.
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