Endowment push at Oak Hill Cemetery Foundation
The Oak Hill Cemetery Foundation reports its first year endowment progress with a $20,100 trust fund and plans for a $50 per full lot or $25 per half lot endowment. Many details list donors and amounts as endowments or dues to support permanent upkeep amid ongoing additions and land expansion on Oak Hill Annex.
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Kay Kimbell
William Fleming
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Oak Hill Annex
Fleming and Kimbell
Enme Owen Een
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Eccisse Acta
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Winter Flock Management in Cold Weather
Winter egg production hinges on comfortable hens, ample feed, and proper ventilation. Poultryman George P. McCarthy notes fresh warm water each morning, steady mash intake, and moist noon mash boost. Maintain water and mash consumption to sustain higher production.
Texas Produces Millions in Minerals in 1942 Output
Texas mineral production in 1942 reached 895,775,540 dollars, down from 1941 by 58,435,610. Copper output totaled 198,000 pounds valued at 23,958, with silver at 672,781 fine ounces worth 478,422, gold about 8,260 for 236 ounces, and sulfur a 41.28 million dollar industry from 2.58 million long tons.
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Texas
University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology
United Nations at War: U S Army Builds Broadcast Network
The U S Army with Office of War Information runs 55 low power stations across Britain to reach American troops. Monthly, 30 midget book editions are distributed to overseas personnel with a goal of nearly 20 million books in the coming year. A newsreel fundraising effort aids famine relief in India. Japan expands mass marriages to Java with five couples wedding in Batavia.
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U. S. Army
Office of War Information
British Isles
Japan
Java
Batavia
To the People of this Community Think It Over
The editor asks readers to reflect on local matters and consider collective responsibility for community wellbeing and future actions.
Mass marriage program offers state bonus to couples
Reports indicate the state pays a bonus to couples to promote quick and early marriages. Gas supply to private homes in Yugoslavia was halted due to coal shortages. Requests to households to reduce consumption by half did not achieve the expected results.
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Yugoslavia
British Army Braced for Locust Swarms in Saudi Wastes
A thousand British troops armed with bran and arsenic preparations prepare to battle vast locust swarms in Saudi Arabia. The U N supplies face severe disruption as neutral Saudi Arabia hosts the operation in the trackless desert.
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Saudi Arabia
United Nations
WAC Recruiting Appeal Urges Women to Join Army
Motivational recruitment notice invites women to enlist in the Women’s Army Corps. It highlights training, pay, travel, and job roles, directing readers to a local Army Recruiting Station or The Adjutant General in Washington, D.C., for more details.
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WAC
U. S. Army
Adjutant General
Munitions Building
Washington, D.C
Canada War Loan Sets New Oversubscription Record
Canada’s Fifth Victory Loan, aimed at 1.2 billion, closed with an oversubscription of 183 million. It marked the largest financing operation to date and saw more individuals buying bonds than in any prior war loan drive.
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Canada
Life In Kharkov Returns To Normal After Red Army Recapture
Kharkov residents crowd streets as shops markets and dining rooms reopen after the Red Army recaptured the city on August 23. Seventy seven new schools open serving 23 000 children. Muslim troops accompany the expedition wearing Arab headdresses with no ranks and no alcohol allowed under Islamic law.
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Kharkov
Russia
Red Army
Army and Navy Give Toys to Algerian Orphans in Algiers
Fifty children from a Protestant orphanage in Algiers were guests of the U S Army on the day before Christmas. WACs played games with them and distributed toys, cakes, and fruit. American sailors in North African ports prepared toys for 1 000 Algerian children.
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Army
Navy
Algiers
U. S. Army
WACS
Australia plans wartime food exports in 1944
Australia intends to produce six million pounds of apple sauce twelve percent of a million pounds of apple butter and ten million pounds of tropical butter spread. It will also can seven million pounds of sweet corn for American troops. The Statue of Liberty has stood in New York Harbor since 1886.
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Australia
New York Harbor
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