Wartime Restrictions Ease Food Equipment and Freezer Use
Wartime notes indicate pressure cookers and feed grinders are removed from rationing with approvals needed for nonfood uses. Freezer space rules tighten with exemptions only for limited items, while US farmers praise British aid via Lend Lease.
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War Food Administration
Office of Materials
Washington, D. C
United States
British Isles
U. S
Foreign Economic Administration
Oscar Heline
Marcus
Robert J. Howard
Sherburne
N. Y
Earl Robinson
Mondovi
Wis
Rahn and Downing Families Attend Sunday Gatherings
Sunday social rounds include Mr and Mrs Harvey Downing and son of Wacker visiting Mr and Mrs Evan Rahn. The Rawlins and Nice and Nelson families join Morrison residents for meals and celebrations. Wilma Ogata stays with Alvin Reiff in Alvin. Leland Haskel’s homecoming honored. he heads to Notre Dame for teaching.
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Evan Rahn
Harvey Downing
Wacker
Vernon Rawlins
Howard Nelson
Stanley Heller
Jonas Nice
Ray Nelson
Morrison
Wilma Ogata
Sterling
Alvin Reiff
Fred Olson
Robert Carlson
Leland Haskel
Notre Dame
Delmar Lang
Robert Spearman
T. R. Moritz
Reynold Bloyer
Voices and voices in state news include an ad hoc choir critique and war resource plea
A little negro church soprano draws mixed reactions while Illinois Governor Green urges conservation of critical resources for war. The piece also recalls a charity song anecdote and a quip about wealth, followed by a moral about not spending time on revenge. The statewide note highlights goose migration at Horseshoe Lake Refuge and the governor's war effort proclamations.
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Horseshoe Lake
Cairo
Ilinois
Livingston E. Osborne
Department of Conservation
Osborne
Dwight H. Green
Illinois
Guadalcanal veteran now at Green River plant
Ernest John Schmall, a 27 year old Dixon native and Guadalcanal survivor, helps move ammunition at Green River Ordnance Plant. He served Dec 8 1942 to Feb 9 1943, earned several ribbons, and later enlisted as a war worker. His brothers also serve in the armed forces.
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Green Hell
Guadalcanal
Ernest John Schmall
John Schmalls
Route 2
Dixon
Green River
Bushnell General Hospital
Brigham City
Utah
Green River Ordnance Plant War Workers
Co. A
129Th Inf
National Guards
Camp Forrest
Tenn
South Pacific
Clarence
Virgil
Infantry
Texas
Melvin
Idaho
War era program to produce two million flatirons approved
The war production board approves a plan to manufacture two million flatirons for civilian use in 1944. The release will not meet normal production levels but will ease hardships after two years of limited output. It may take six months for irons to reach dealers. OPA sets retail ceiling prices at 10 and 15 cents per pair for rubber heels sold for home attachment to shoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
In- Manpower Commission
WPB
OPA
Ideal School Reading Program Totals and Attendance
Ideal School reports a successful program with purchases of bat and ball flag and flag pole and reading books. Students Edwin Webster Betty Webster Carol Spangler Bernie Hartman Phyllis Webster Bernard Hartman Paul Hartman show varied books read counts from 4 to 63 and several pupils achieve perfect or 100 percent attendance for the month.
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Edwin Webster
Betty Webster
Carol Spangler
Bernie Hartman
Phyllis Webster
Bernard Hartman
Paul Hartman
Bernice Hartman
Mary’s Fur Coat From Dead Alley Cats
A claim that a woman’s new fur coat was made from pelts of alley cats, with twelve cats allegedly killed to craft the garment. The text suggests sensational scandal without confirming details.
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Mary
Truth and Practice Highlight Christian Science Lesson
Sunday service outlines the Lesson Sermon with citations from Deuteronomy and Corinthians and passages from Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy. The text emphasizes truth, integrity, and spiritual transformation as core themes. A light joke about a honeymoon accompanies an ad for Pay Day Boards.
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Mary Baker Eddy
God
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Town & Farm
Concord
War Department
Italy
War Manpower Commission
Chadwick News
State News
Mandy Culpeppah
United Nations
Newell Dwight Hillis
Gardner
GROP
Hubby
Darling
Wifey
Ernest Schmall
Flatirons
Raymond H. Judd
Navarre
Ohio
Konormbi
New Guinea
Chadwick
BPS Paints
Ideal School
Christian Science Churches
Churches of Care
THE
Greison Agency, Inc
Savanna, Illinois
Clinton
Savanna
Thomson
Lanark
Lyndon
Fred Smith
SargoFa
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