Owners Regaining Farms Find Market For Foreclosures
The life insurance companies hold 15 000 to 20 000 farms valued about 200 million dollars. They aim to exit farm operations as wartime farm product programs and rehab efforts reshape the market. About 10 percent returned to owners, 50 percent sold to tenant farmers, with uneven progress across states. The Dakotas remain a sticky spot.
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Oskaloosa Herald
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Dakotas
Village Grocer in the Limelight Amid Ration Rules
A light verse laments the daily grind of the village grocer under a maze of OA rules and ration point balances. The poem notes grocers face disputes over sauerkraut beans and fruit while the OPA issues new regulations each day.
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Burlington Hawk-Eye Gazette
Henry Wadeworth Longfellow
Bronx
The Cutworm Poem From Farm Bureau Spokesman
A rural verse describing the cutworm as a night prowler that munches down garden crops, leaving empty husks by dawn. The speaker notes the bug’s appetite and asks where such a small creature stores so much victual, then mentions poison bait as a remedy and asserts cutworms do not engender hate.
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Farm Bureau
Greenleaf Bakery Shuts Two Weeks Over Sugar Rationing
The Greenleaf Kansas sentinel reports the local bakery closed for two weeks as sugar rationing limited supplies. Trucks from other towns delivered bread and bakery products while extra fuel and rubber were used to keep shelves stocked.
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Greenleaf
Kans
Wide range of wartime clippings and opinions from 1940s papers
A collage of quotes and notes from multiple newspapers discusses radio listenership, wartime politics, and social observations. Items mention corn growth in Iowa, a sow with sixteen piglets, budget and anti strike debates, a Chicago hotel sale, and reflections on religion and debt.
Remarkable Penney Store Veg Head Stuns Shoppers
Dr. R Wilson manager reports a cabbage head with twenty five small heads, unlike any ordinary cabbage. The odd produce drew curious attention last night at the Penney store while a light Sunday School quip between a father and son decorates the page.
A Collection of Pithy Saying on Life and Work
A compact set of maxims on touchy relationships, hard work, wealth, aging, optimism, risk, and business. The quotes contrast honest effort with bureaucratic bloat and warn that listening to oneself yields little learning.
Old Doc Curem’s Threat Backfires in Local Tale
A humorous local note recounts Old Doc Curem telling his young wife she has two days to live. She quips that he left town for a couple of days, turning the urban superstition into a joke. Contrib. by J.C. B.
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Doc Curem
J.C. B
Colored boy in London poker game claims big raise
During a lull in AFE activities in London a Chattanooga youth plays poker with English players. He looks at four aces and, after a one pound bet, declares I will raise you one ton.
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London
Chattanooga
Teacher asks about the cow jumped over the moon
A classroom exchange features a teacher prompting Jimmy and him delivering a jokey line about vanishing cream after the moon cow reference. The playful moment centers on a nursery rhyme image and a humorous punchline.
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Jimmy
Sergeant Recruits Gentle Steed In Odd Exchange
A humorous wartime exchange has a sergeant selecting a horse for a new recruit who admits never riding before. The recruit explains his want to strengthen rather than weaken his conscience, prompting a psychiatrist angle in the dialogue.
Circumstances After Cases Bobby Refuses Seat
The lady in the street car asks why Bobby does not give his seat to his father. Bobby replies not in a car but it hurts at home. Va Oana
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Bobby
Local Notes Include Trips and Repairs Across Brighton
Una Gordon and L. M. Birney spent Wednesday evening at Frank Embrees near Brighton. Mrs. Dave Powers was a passenger to Washington Thursday morning. A building project on a site is underway with 10w fixing a well.
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Una Gordon
L. M. Birney
Frank Embrees
Brighton
Dave Powers
Washington
Haskins News Highlights Local Visits and Cork History
Mrs. Anna Nichol son visits Haskins with old friends while Mrs. Jim Bean travels home to care for her stroke-stricken father in Lone Tree. Effie Van Sickle and Mrs. Sue Thoma host and visit, as rain halts threshing. An 1847 cork growth note mentions Virginia plantings and Napa County trees as the largest in the U S with a 58 inch diameter and 75 foot height.
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Clara Godlove
Haskins
Anna Nicholson
Jim Bean
Richard ‘Ome
Lone Tree
Marjorie Edwards
Betty Louise Kdwards
Floyd
Hap) Edwards
Effie van Sickle
West Chester
Sue Thoma
D. H. Peters
Booys
G. C. Ebner
Thoma
Hilton Coon
Haseen
Iowa City
United States
Virginia
Napa County
California
Napa State Hospital
Laundering Woolen Cloth Without Rubbing
Advice warns against rubbing or twisting colorfast wool garments. Use lukewarm water and mild suds for cleaning to prevent matting and preserve fabric quality.
Crops From Weeded Land Suggest Plan For May Plowing
Experts say weed infested ground can yield crops if plowed in late May or early June after weeds gain some size. Cultivate every two weeks until about July 1 and then plant a smother crop like sudan grass millet or sorghum. The goal is to control weeds while avoiding idle land.
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Sudan
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Washington County Elder, Shannon & CO
Bruce Cowden
North
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Iowa
United Press
Iowa Daily Press Association
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Klemme Times
Burlington
Council Bluffs
Hongaten
Langer
North Dakota
Creston News
Chicago
Detroit News
Wichita Eagle
Ames Tribune
Cherokee Times
Bill
Dad
Ancy Finance
Someboy
Bowles
OPA
Chester Bowles
Prentiss Brown
International
Butler County
Herman S. Beeler
Elmer G. Kestner
Amerita Robinson
Beeler
Pittsburgh
Va Oana
Haskins News
Mr. Norton
Haskins Snd
Fam
Oe National Select
Inyyrario
Pennsylvania
the Lady
Joe Palooka
Ham Fisher
Palooka
Leemy
Come
Dixie Dugan
Pipe OF Peace
By Mevoy
Striebel
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