Life of German Women Amid Air War and Shortages
A Berlin based wife of a neutral diplomat recounts daily life under Allied bombardment. She describes clothing shortages, strict police scrutiny of attire, bartering for cosmetics, scarce shops, and the burden of food and soap shortages. She notes high wages yet meaningless money and pervasive scarcity in Berlin and other German towns.
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London Daily Mail
Stockholm
Germany
Berlin
Kurfurstendam
Life in wartime Germany from a U.S. correspondent
A travel style diary describes daily hardships in Berlin and other cities. The piece notes shortages of soap hairdressing delays air raid interruptions and scarce coffee meat and butter coupons. It mentions queues for theatres cinemas and beauty services and a shift in leisure due to war.
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Germany
Adlon
Eden Hotel
Berlin
German wartime living and humor from Bodensee to Berlin
A field notes column contrasts German home life under war with scarce resources and crowded flats near Bodensee. It details rationed rooms, shared chores, and uncomfortable furnishings, then shifts to women’s war fatigue and a comic anecdote about Comanche Indians and a joke about prohibition era near beer.
Court action seeks partition and sale of Grayson County land
The case No. 52389 in Grayson County requests a receiver to sell described land on Iron Ore creek and distribute proceeds to plaintiff Early Hill and numerous defendants including James Hill, John Hill, Nancy Foster, Laura Foster Scott, Bella Foster Smallwood, Cecilia Hoyt, and others. The petition, filed November 4 1944, argues the property cannot be partitioned and seeks court appraisal, sale, and proportionate distribution of proceeds. Issued May 2 1944 in Sherman Texas.
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State OF
Texas
Mattie Foster Carter
Jack S. Foster
Addie Foster
A. D
District Court
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Early Hill
James Hill
John Hill
Nancy Foster
Laura Foster Scott
Bella Foster Smallwood
Cecilia Hoyt
Ben Foster
Sallie Osborn
Ter
Nam
State of Texas
P. C. Martin
N. W
C. C.binkley
J. P. Dumas
Brune
Martin
P. O
N. E
Brune’s
S. V. Earnest
Nang Drake
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Paris
Vienna
Gestapo
America
Boyce House
Frau Goring
Frau Ribbentrop
Bodensee
Constance
San Angelo
Glen Earnheart
Whitewright, Texas
Sherman Farms
A. V.creager Company
Whitewright Lumber Co
Whitewright
Flinthote
LaRoe
L. LaRoe & Co
Tom
Frank
Jim
Conference of Alcoholic Beverage Industries, Inc
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