Wartime rackets grow as new and old frauds surface
The Northwestern National Life Insurance Company warns of growing wartime frauds in Minneapolis and nationwide. Phony war charities and refugee benefits skim funds, bootlegger schemes sell worthless tires, fake cleaners refill extinguishers, and quack doctors offer forged birth certificates. Consumers should vet appeals, avoid rush purchases, and give only to reputable agencies.
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Minneapolis
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
Quack
Wanted seed and farm goods advertised in paper
Farmers are urged to use the Wanted column to sell seed, calves, pigs, eggs, butter or other goods. Ads run once or several weeks, stopping when items sell. The piece notes a wartime joke about two Negroes discussing readiness to fight.
Canadian truckers risk life in Alaska highway build
Trucks haul supplies along a 36 hour Dawson Creek to Fort Nelson run while crews live in coffin like cabs and work through frigid conditions. Builders use bulldozers caterpillars graders and drag lines to widen a narrow pilot road into a lasting continental defense link between the United States and Alaska.
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Dawson Creek
Fort Nelson
Felix Murawski
Oklahoma City
U S
Alaska
War Rationing and Production Update Across Allied Efforts
Preliminary figures show 122 million people registered for sugar rationing about 91 percent of the population with nearly seven million refused War Ration Book No 1 for holding more than six pounds of sugar. War Production Chairman Nelson warns emergency coal rationing unless storage capacity is utilized. Production and Conversion notes shipyard output rising with Chicago District set to surpass WWI pacing and 36 merchant vessels delivered in April while 51 launched that month. WPB forms a Service Branch to coordinate 3 million service institutions as income payments reach a record 106 billion dollars annually. The Navy reports Coral Sea actions with 21 Japanese ships sunk or damaged and Gen. Enduring attacks on trade routes. Army and Selective Service outlines Army Specialist Corps with new pay scales and offensive aviation strips under way on Atlantic Seaboard. Navy expansion targets and training centers announced with a move toward 500,000 Navy personnel by mid-1943 as tariffs and price controls tighten.
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Nelson
War Department
Chicago
Japan
U. S. Army
Department
Navy Department
Coral Sea
U. S
U.S
Tokyo
Pearl Harbor
Atlantic
Army and
Selective Service
Army
Atlantic Seaboard
Production controls limit everyday goods and cocoa grinding
The orders prohibit items after July 3 including waste baskets fountain pens flash lights electric razors cash registers and baking pans with glass container designs limited to existing mold equipment. The standardization aims to raise container production by 30 percent and avert a tin can shortage. Cocoa bean grinding for May and June is cut to 70 percent of last year’s level.
U S War Spending Surpasses All Prior Government Outlays
The piece notes that current war spending is surpassing all Treasury outlays from Washington to Pearl Harbor. It cites a weekly cash pace near 1 billion dollars and compares past war costs under Lincoln, McKinley, Wilson and earlier totals, highlighting unprecedented scale.
Hints For The Casewife Practical Kitchen Tips
The text offers daily kitchen guidance such as storing eggs on the lower refrigerator shelf at about 40 degrees Fahrenheit and refrigerating drained liquid from canned vegetables in a tightly covered container to preserve vitamins. It also suggests using light brown sugar on breakfast cereal and cleaning utensils by soaking them promptly after use.
Quick care tips for wooden salad bowls
Advice on preventing warp from greasy foods. Wash wooden salad bowls in warm water and never soak them. Dry promptly and store in a cool, dry place to maintain shape and avoid damage.
Secrets Revealed in Shy Confrontation
A dialogue scene unfolds as he confesses self doubt to her and she replies with a teasing comparison to her family. The exchange hints at underlying affection and social expectations.
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Whitewright Lumber Co
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Sherman, Texas
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William McKinley
Spain
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Woodrow Wilson
Wilfred
L.laroe & Co
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