Farmers Must Obey Meat Ration Order Now
The Food Distribution and Price Administration warns farmers they are subject to the nationwide meat management program. Farmers buying or selling live stock or slaughtering for sale must obtain a dealer's or slaughterer's permit by April 1, 1943. Do's and don'ts include keeping transfer records, registering with the local board, turning in points, and observing OPA ceiling prices.
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Food Distribution and Price Administration
Usda War Board
FDA
OPA
Lubbock Youth Reaches Second Lieutenant Rank at 19
W. B. Beach III of Lubbock is commissioned as a second lieutenant with six years of service. He joined the National Guard at 13 in 1937, served with Battery D, 131st Field Artillery, later transferring to a Kansas guard unit before World War II. He was commissioned January 7 at Fort Sill and is assigned to an airborne division at Hoffmann, North Carolina.
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Kansas Guard
Fort Sill
Oklo
Hoffman, N. C
Anthony Mariano Faces Charges After Market Outburst
Anthony Mariano, 44, faces charges after police say he smashed a meat display, hurled a cash register and scales, overturned a candy case, and wrecked other display cases when he found the market had no bacon. The incident followed a Sun Want Ads mention.
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Chanston
R. I
Anthony Mariano
Stop grade crossing crashes with care and caution
A car pushed by a truck crosses a railroad grade crossing amid near continuous whistle signals heard by witnesses. The incident underscores the need for precautions to prevent such accidents as the National Safety Council campaigns to reduce delays to wartime transport caused by grade crossing crashes.
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The
National Safety Council
Statewide Health and Clean Up Week Proclaimed in Texas
Governor Stevenson designates April 4 to 10 as Health and Clean Up Week with Dr. Geo W Cox urging Texans to scrub streets, drain gravels, dispose garbage, remove waste, and curb fire hazards to aid health and war efforts. The call emphasizes sanitation in cities and homes and cooperation for a successful campaign.
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Austin
Coke R. Stevenson
Geo. W. Cox
Texas
Cox
Army of 7.5 Million by Next Year Prompts Women Typists Demand
In a Daily News item a private business boasts an army of 7.5 million by year end and says 187.5 million girls pounding government typewriters will be needed, praising such output for a nation of 130 million. A letter from a reader pleads for no nagging and asks to fight the war in peace, noting distance from home.
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N. N. Daily News
Lettie
Actor orders suit and learns truth in tailor shop
An actor visits a tailor and orders a suit. He shows a material pattern to his son. The boy notes, you’re looking at the wrong side, and adds that the wrong side is the one he will have to wear when the suit comes down to him.
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Tommy
Ouahs
Boston Symphony
Snowball Jones
The Spice of Life and War Time Folklore
A collage of wartime anecdotes and reflections on memory and wealth. A nine year old asks where the Marines were during the crucifixion tale while WAVE trainees flood a Northampton street and a future admiral’s car troubles amuse onlookers. A New York firm defends a tangled California corporate suit with a swift exchange about appeals.
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New York
California
C. C. C. Conscripted Inductee and Other Gags
A compendium of light verse and anecdotes from wartime life. An inductee jokes that he was drafted by the Civilian Conservation Corps and forced into the Army. A honeymoon couple visits Monte Carlo and laughs at romance. Regional dialect humor covers buglers, shopkeepers, and Will Rogers wit. Diverse quips close with marriage and domestic humor.
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Civilian Conservation Corps
Army
Aggressive Wife Reproves Fiancé In Quiet Moment
A meek man endures his wife’s sharp rebuke as she scolds him for making a fool of himself. Friends arrive and she orders him not to satirically strike at her with his fists in his pockets.
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Jack
Commanding officer peering from bomber porthole
A wartime scene notes the commanding officer visible through a bomber's side porthole with the crew reacting to the insignia on its fuselage. The exchange hints at curiosity and authority aboard the craft during flight.
Elderly Couple Debates Train Schedule and Crossing
An elderly couple parked in a small town to ask about trains at the station. They confirm the three ten and four fifteen, learn no other passenger trains or freights are due, and decide it should be safe to cross the track.
War Message Highlights Need for Typewriters in Offices
A solemn VOI line declares that 25 girls at typewriters produce one man at the trigger, underscoring the Office of War Information plea for more typewriters to boost production and morale.
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Office of War Information
Ghost In The Wall At Haunted House Late Night
Moe reports a ghost appeared through a wall at about twelve o clock Zoe asks what happened Moe says he passed through the opposite wall in the same way. The exchange captures a spooky tale from a local haunted house event.
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Moe
Zoe
Rivets Joke Turns Bitter in Market Banter
A butcher mocks a customer quoting a quarrelsome exchange about a steak and nails, highlighting a sharp exchange over value and skill. Sonny retorts the customer could not get the nails through the meat.
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Sonny
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Gomer May
Whitewright Lumber Co
Nantucket American Legion
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Mass
Panion
Monte Carlo
Richard
Will Rogers
Tobe
Yessum
Alabama
Washington
Mobilgas
Mobiloil
G.C. Stateville
LaRoe’s Big Building Store
LaRoe’s
L. LaRoe & Co
Annual Report
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Pearl Harbor
Ern Bell
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