Wartime farm values cautions and agricultural updates
The circular About That Farm You're Going to Buy warns buyers to avoid inflated wartime farm values and offers free copies via the Bakersfield extension office. Other items note oil from cottonseed yield factors, home dehydration of foods, farm safety, and turkey price ceilings under OPA rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Farm Credit Administration
Farm Advisor
M Street
Bakersfield
M. A. Lindsay
Kern County
Bureau of Agricultural Economies
Eas
Chicago
Agricultural Extension Service
Dorothy Wilkinson
Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Victory Food Fair
Camp Firé Returns to Shafter for Another Week
Fragmented text indicates familiar names Camp Firé and individuals Donna Bougtasan Pat Kelly Bonnie Bender and Betty Tays lor returning to Shafter for an additional week with unclear context and date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donna Bougtasan
Pat Kelly
Bonnie Bender
Betty Tayslor
Shafter
Greenhorn
Pat. Kelly
Poms Baughman
Cassip” Fire Girls
Le Doux Brother ie certilete Or xrtocetle
Le Doux brothers face unclear certilete amid Macatee Army Porces rumors. Officials report no confirmed details as residents watch for updates.
Women Now Head Family In 5 Million U S
Washington report from the census bureau notes that 5,302,040 households are led by women. In 1,909,000 cases women head entire families as single-person units. Counts show 3,328,0 widowed 393,520 divorced and 898,34 single. Housing shortages by 1940 left lodgers in 2,858,560 households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Washington
America
U S.census Bureau
Jettisoned Bombs Halted Raid Over Berlin
A badly damaged United States bomber forced to retreat from a Berlin raid jettisoned its load to avoid a crash. German defenses at the airfield provided no return fire as the lone Fortress failed to hit targets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
STA
England
Berlin
Stae
400 Year Old Murders Bared by Allied Bombs
A Hamburg Fremdenblatt dispatch notes two men and a woman found in the sarcophagus of Cardinal Vice Dominic in a bomb damaged church. Bodies show fractured skulls and 16th century dress. the cardinal died in the 13th century. The report says a 16th century murderer hid the remains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburger Fremdenblatt
Vice Dominic
Malaria Fight Noted By U S Army Medical Corps
In Philadelphia a wartime report from American troops in India highlights malaria resistance. Lt. Col. Thomas Fite Hugh notes mortality from malaria is less than one tenth of one percent among troops due to improved health and nutrition and medical care.
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Philadelphia
Indie
Thomas Fite Hugh
Army
Ameria Calee
Expressions of sympathy and notes from a bereaved community
A community card expresses thanks for sympathy shown after a bereavement. The note mentions Mrs H A Rightmire receiving word that her son Corporal Walter Rightmire, Army Engineers, is stationed on Saipan. Marines Ken Mandaville visits Camp Alony to see his wife’s parents, with plans to stay a week.
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Rightmire
Saipan
Cpl
Walter Rightmire
Army’ Engineers
Island
Kenneth Mandaville
Marine Ee
Camp Alony
E. K Cee
Mandaville
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Central and James
H. A. Hubble
Shell
Shell Gasoline
Columbia University
Sher
Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
U.S
California
OPA
Meiene
H. T. Strong
Norma
Bureau of Agricultural’ Economics
U. S. Department of Eer M. A
Tranaigabie
War Food Administration
San Francisco
Los Angeles
San
Ray Albert
Standard OF California
CHO SS Central Market
Haeter
Cal
Christchurch
Theodore Roosevelt Jr
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt II
Cornelius Roosevelt
USNR
Comér
William McMillan
Italy
Naples
Brazil
War Workers of America
le Doux
Lumbago
California Hot Springs
Calif
J. C. Penner
Tax and Bookkeeping Service
Pacific St
Nevet
Sharenks
Hho
Will
P.K. Gorsching
Miss Gorsching
Ni ‘Ati Pe
Blogga
Shafter's
Santa Fe Ave
Ath
Bank of America National Trvamie Association
Young
McClute
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