Mexico Faces Runaway Inflation Amid War Price Boom
Mexico City reports show consumer prices soaring as war profits stir inflation. Bread jumps to 1 peso from 70 centavos and the dollar buys 4.85 pesos. wages lag and shortages appear in cotton, textiles, and farm labor. Rationing steps target gasoline, electrical use, travel, and beer supply.
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Mexico City
United States
Mexico
General Tire and Rubber Company
Akron
Camacho
Awakening of Spring Faith by Aletha Booner
Poem celebrates spring as a yearly rebirth with nature waking and people renewed in life faith hope and love. Poet Aletha M Booner frames dawn as a resurrection hour renewing spirits and belief in God across earth and heart.
I Give You Texas In yonder life upon that Great Divide
Virgil E. Goodman Texas legislator from Tarrant County reflects on authorship of I Give You Texas and a humorous bookstore encounter. A Roy Bean anecdote recalls Pecos bridge scaffolding collapse and inquest humor showing judge’s blunt wit. The column ends with a note on rationing and smiles in ads.
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Virgil E. Goodman
Tarrant County
Roy Bean
Pecos
Judge Bean
Langtry
Bean
Sellers
A Thought for Today Ecclesiastes Verse
A devotional line cites Ecclesiastes 8 12 promising that those who fear God will have a good outcome despite repeated wrongdoings. This reminder appears as a daily reflective verse.
Boyhood Memory of Mother’s Scrubbing Behind Ears
Edgar A. Guest reflects on a mother’s insistence that her son wash behind his ears at meals. The poem contrasts childhood memory with aging, noting how everyday chores vanish from history while grand events endure. It laments commonplace rituals and questions which names survive in records.
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Caesar
Edgar A. Guest
Jokes and quips parade through a rain soaked day
A collection of light humor and gags treads daily life from foolish heart inventories to elevator awe and office quips. One liners about love work and cars sit beside wry reflections on newspapers and town life.
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Libby Stopple
Richard's ski gift sparks brotherly confrontation in yard
Richard walks home proudly with new skis when his older brother confronts him asking where they came from. The exchange hints at possible trouble or secrecy surrounding the purchase.
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Richard
Child Bargain Talk After Buy Noted For 25 Cents
A dialog shows an older boy inspecting items and asking their price. The reply claims the items cost twenty five cents and some dollars, revealing a casual, youthful sense of value.
Offer for Elephants At A Dollar Down Stance
A humorous line from The Industrial Banker notes that many American families lack elephants simply because no one has offered one for a dollar down. The remark comments on sales tactics and affordability in consumer culture.
Texas Probate Notice in Grayson County 1944
Citation commands the Grayson County Sheriff to publish a final report for Tabitha Dunn deceased. Eugenia DuBois as administratrix with will annexed files in Probate Court Sherman for review on the first Monday after ten days service, May 1, 1944, with all interested parties invited to contest.
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State OF
Texas
Grayson County
Grayson
Tabitha Dunn
Eugenia DuBois
City of
Sherman
A. D
Grayson County Court Clerk Affirms April 13 1944 Seal
Witness H Grady Thompson Clerk of the County Court of Grayson County Texas certifies the document under his hand and seal at the Sherman office on the 13th day of April 1944 Iva Medlin deputy noted.
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H. Grady Thompson
Grayson County
Texas
Sherman
A. D
Iva Medlin
Senator Morris Opens Campaign With Radio Address
Senator G. C. Morris of Greenville will open his campaign for Congress on Thursday April 20 from 8:15 to 8:45 over radio station KRRV Sherman. He will discuss the campaign in detail and invites listeners to tune in.
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G. C. Morris
Greenville
KRRV
Sherman
Morris
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Boyce
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Blackdraught
Junior
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Rastus
Doc
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L. LaRoe & Co
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Conference of Alcoholic Beverage Industries, Inc
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