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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1943
Page
5
Classifieds appear in three publications offering advertisers access to two counties Car roll and Rock Island. Rates are based on a reasonable charge and the territory covered. Ads restricted to proper classification and new type style. REVIEW accepts responsibility for only one incorrect insertion.
A front page look at meat news notes a shift from record crops to rising demand, fueling shortages. The piece cites eggs and poultry use in military and civilian sectors, with reserve broilers and fryers rapidly depleted from January to January and lockers nearing empty.
Fresh and smoked fish available at Robinson's Fish Market on Route 80 in Thomson. No ration tickets required.
A humorous column by Wade Guenther mocks rationing, old-time sayings, and wartime humor. Jokes touch on fashion, inventions, marriage, and the roles of men and women, ending with a quip on pessimism amid the war era.
A humorous column recounts aging wartime rationing jests starring a Boston girl who believed pointing was polite and a pair of Fifth Avenue pedestrians who fearfully misread a midget as rationed men. It also recalls a stock company memory from Hank Marshall and a golf club prize for longtime non-winners with a drinking joke.
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