Wartime rationing and relief measures update
Government wartime guidance covers stamp validity through March and May 1945, ration adjustments including single 10 point stamps, and changes to gas coupons and edible goods. It notes income tax deadlines, selective service review for younger registrants, care for nearly 200000 babies, serialised gas coupons, and OPA actions raising retail prices for jars while increasing releases of dried fruits and other staples.
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East Coast
OPA
Aircraft Production Board
Thousand Family Expands With Newborns In Liverpool
The Liverpool Evening Express reports a birth in the Martin Thousand family, bringing total to three Thousand daughters and three Thousand sons. The mother asks about the corporal’s role as he reportedly restricts potato peeling to him alone, reflecting a lighthearted family note about favors and affection from a soldier.
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Martin Thousand
Liverpool
England
Evening Express
Jokes and Quips From A Rural Irish Foreman
A humorous slice shows an Irish foreman berating a sleepy worker with a spin on laziness. A maid explains chronic lateness due to a windup clock and alarm that fails because she sleeps through it. An announcer and a puzzled junior finish the light set with playful lines.
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Susan
Priceless Cat and Saucer Story At Sam Cohen’s Shop
A shopper recalls buying a cat for five dollars and attempting to take the antique milk saucer with it. Sam Cohen refuses to part with the saucer, explaining that from that old saucer he has already sold 139 cats.
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Sam
Jules M. Smith
Tax lien foreclosure on Lula McCarty parcel in Tioga Tioga case
City of Tioga files suit to foreclose on a 135 by 306 foot lot in Van Zandt addition Grayson County Texas for delinquent taxes from 1931 to 1942 totaling multiple small amounts. Lula McCarty is deceased and unknown heirs are defendants with Tioga ISD Grayson County and Texas named as parties. Court sets January Term 1944 in Grayson County for remedy.
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Lula McCarty
Tioga
Texas
Towit
Grayson
State of
Buck Creek
John Fizer
van Zandt
J. A. Mothershed
W. R. Parks
North Main Street
Lee Richardson
Richardson
Sherman Street
L. G. Smith
J. H. van Zandt
Grayson County
15Th Judicial District Court
Sherman
City of
Tioga Independent School District
State of Texas
S. V. Earnest
Inez Steed
Strange Disappearance and a Wry Train Joke
A German at a Dutch station finds his luggage missing after washing hands, joking with a Dutch workman who shares a Cologne station tale where the platform and station vanish. A farmer deflects an auto salesman by noting he still pays installments on the car he swapped earlier.
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Netherlands
Cologne
Night Signal Sparks Daredevil Box Car Jump
On a stormy night a trainman dropped his lantern and a passing man returned it to him atop a box car. Moments later the engineer challenged the ground-to-top jump, and the scene set for a risky stunt.
Small town misfit recruits as bee song echoes
In a quiet town a sergeant questions a reluctant recruit about hearing reveille. The recruit laments his lack of marching knowhow while a visitor muses on bees and a familiar nursery line, highlighting village charm and humor.
Witty snippets on parenting and guards on swimming
A collection of short quips about parenting humour. A father mentions insurance as a caveat to swimming for his child. A line asserts that mothers and fathers nurture, while a remark contrasts girls today with those of forty years ago, noting caution about change.
Putty Peach Pie Joke Splits Dinner Plans
An exchange between a customer and waitress jokes about pie flavors with a punchline that the peach pie tastes like putty. A mother scolds about cooking a squad as Junior brings one home for dinner in a humorous domestic vignette.
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Hilda
Junior
Also Mentioned on This Page
Office OF War Information
Agriculture and Industry
OPS
Kreager
U. S
Baby
U.S
United States Department of Agriculture
Kreager Hatchery, Seed & Feed Co
W. Houston
Bill
Mr. Farmer
Pine
Whitewright Lumber Co
Pearl Harbor
Peg
New England
L. LaRoe & Co
Lone
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