War info and production boosts outlined by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt orders an intensive week long scrap rubber drive led by gasoline stations to feed the RFC. He also unveils a 24 inch Longview Texas to Salem Illinois pipeline plan worth 35 million dollars and a broad civilian supply program restricting steel usage in child carriages weapons and tools. The White House announces the United States and Soviet Union signed a lend lease and the two nations agree on a combined US UK production and resources board. Congress action includes pay raises for armed forces and allowances for dependents. Additional army units including Negro troops reach the British Isles and Coral Sea results show heavy Allied successes against Japanese ships and aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Rubber Recovery Corporation
Patterson
Army
Navy
U. S
Commerce
Jones
RFC
Longview
Texas
Salem
Ill
WPB
White House
Molotov
Washington
State Department
Soviet Union
Britain
China
United States
United Kingdom
House
Senate
War Department
Congress
Air Forces
Ordnance
Quartermaster and Transportation Services
Signal Corps
Corps of Engineers
Navy Department
Department
WAAC
Attu Island
Aleutian Archipelago
Kiska
U. S. Army
British Isles
Haile's Greenhouse Seeks Buyers For Flowers And Plants
Flower stock including cut flowers and bedding plants now ready for your yard at Haile's Greenhouse. Hardware and hardwareman Manning & Meadow offer riding cultivators priced from 10 to 20 dollars. Plumbing service offered by G W Ford with minimal call. The Sun advertises bulk salesbooks available by the dozen or case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haile
Manning & Meadow
Farmall
G. W. Ford
Sun
Battle of Midway Sinks Carriers and Planes, Navy Reports
Lexington, the destroyer Sims and the tanker Noeshled were involved as major ships in the Midway battle. Two of the largest enemy aircraft carriers were sunk along with two other medium carriers and at least 250 Japanese planes were destroyed, the Navy said.
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Lexington
Sims
Midway Island
Navy
Recipes for sugar and coffee substitutes dated 1845
A Texas newspaper note details 1845 recipes found by Corinne Wilson of Teague in UT class research. Artificial sugar combined brown sugar water honey cream of tartar and rose essence boiled in brass with egg white and more honey, plus slippery elm bark optional. The coffee substitute mixed okra seeds with real coffee claiming the okra is indistinguishable from Java.
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Austin
Texas
Corinne Wilson
Teague
University of Texas
Southwest
National Register
Do You Possess A Junk Pile
Advice urging daily mental uncluttering by discarding worries fears anxieties envies and hatreds. Encourages a nightly routine of removing disappointments to improve daily progress.
Letting Go of Grudges for a Strong Character
The passage warns that harboring grudges and malice drains over half of our vitality. It argues that carrying mental enemies, handicaps, losses, worries, and trials reduces energy available for success, urging readers to shed such burdens to build a better life.
Divorce Petition Filed in Grayson County Texas
Mary Lou Markey sues for divorce from David R. Markey on grounds of cruel treatment. Court summons directs presence by July 27, 1942 before Judge in Sherman Texas. Case No. 49008, filed June 10, 1942, issued June 15, 1942.
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A. D
District Court of
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Texas
Mary Lou Markey
David R. Markey
W. R. Henderson
Pauline Wiggins
A Time For Everything Junior
A fragment shows a child exclaiming that a big truck ran over his father while a mother dismisses the incident as she eats. The dialogue reflects a domestic scene with abrupt, dark humor.
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Junior
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Board
Office of War Information
Elmer Davis
Office of Facts and Figures
Office of Government Reports
Foreign Information Service
Division of Information
Office For Emergency Management
U.S. War Bonds
T. W. Ayres & Son
War Dept
Navy Dept
T. W. Ayres & Son Gossard
Star Credit Company
Grayson County State Bank
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mer
Travis
P. S
Yeager
Sinclair
Rexall
Palace Theatre
Tex
Frank Mitchell
Jungle Girl
Jane
Jane Wither
Young America
Jane Darwell
Lynne Roberts
William Tracy
Robert Cornell
Roman Bohnen
Twentieth Century-Fox
Paulette
Paramount
Ray Milland
Roland Young
Margaret Hayes
Edward Norris
Albert Dekker
Cecil Kellaway
Harry Tugend
Sidney Lanfield
Joe
Jake Girl
Broadway
Tripoli
King’s Row
Song of the Islands
Captain of the Clouds
Roxie Hart
Rio Rita
Son of
Fury
Andy Hardy
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