Army private pay equals seventeen hundred dollars a year
OWI and lawmakers estimate the lowest paid private in the U S Army earns about 1 700 annually. The breakdown includes 50 monthly cash pay, 600 for food, 120 shelter, 170 for equipment, 100 for medical care, and savings for life insurance, cigarettes, laundry, and other costs. Additional benefits cover tax exemptions, free postage, unemployment protection, job reinstatement, civil preference, family health needs, and postwar medical care and pensions.
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Washington
Office of War Information
OWI
Patman
Texas
War and Navy Departments
Veterans Administration
United States
Congress
American Red Cross
Hawaii
Unread Note Behind Teacher Absence Raises Questions
A student asks why a teacher was away and the reply cites an unread note. The exchange highlights communication gaps in the school setting and potential implications for classroom attendance. The article emphasizes the need for clear messaging to prevent future confusion.
Cavalry Recruit Delays Mount With Clever Reply
The recruit is told to bridle and saddle a horse. Ten minutes later the sergeant-major finds him holding the bit near the horse's head and asks what he's waiting for. The recruit dryly answers that he is waiting for the horse to yawn.
A collection of humorous vignettes and quips
A varied set of short jokes and cartoons features lively dialogue and social observations. Uncle Joe shares a resigned humor about life and inevitability while a cookery student and a boy tease each other. Tiny gags cover bigamy, insults, kisses, and telephone etiquette with a late 19th to early 20th century flavor.
New Insecticide Law To Protect Buyers
COLLEGE STATION Texas measures new labeling rules for all agricultural insecticides and fungicides sold in the state. The law bans adulteration and misbranding and requires printed statements of minimum active ingredient percentages and maximum inert ingredient contents on each package.
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College Station
Texas
The Spice of Life and Odd Bank Banter
Humorous clippings feature a doctor warning Mrs. Brown about her husband and a farm spokesman declining land with hogs to buy. A bank spillover has a bride seeking withdrawal accounts, while a country lad learns about bananas and trains in a wary tale of a single bite leading to blindness.
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Bride
Student Nurse Quips About Exam Fear
A student nurse jokes to an instructor that every examination in the subject feels like an American aviator facing a zero score. The exchange plays on fear of failing and exam pressure in clinical education.
Texas Men Visit Arkansas Farm Offer
Two Texas men visited a near White River tract in Arkansas offered by a real estate man. They noted mud marks on trees suggesting flood risk. The agent claimed the land never overflows and that hogs rub mud from their backs. They returned to the hotel to decide.
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Texas
Arkansas
White River
Little Willie Returns to School After Forgetting Note
After two days away Willie returns to school. When asked why he did not bring his mother's note he says he forgot it. The teacher continues with a firm reprimand.
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Willie
Dentist Offers Slow Extraction Price Quip
A humorous exchange in a 19th or early 20th century paper shows a patient asking about tooth extraction costs and a dentist replying five dollars. The patient complains about speed, and the dentist wittily offers to extract it very slowly.
Navy ships and huge flagship kitchens and autos
British sailor notes the flagship is so large the captain travels by auto around the deck while a Yankee soldier counters that their flagship kitchen is even larger. The exchange highlights the humor about scale of naval vessels during wartime.
Cook Checks Irish Stew In Submarine For Doneness
A cook inspects the stew aboard a submarine to confirm potatoes and vegetables are tender. The scene highlights kitchen duties at sea and the crew’s standard meal preparation procedures.
Partnership Ends as One Surrenders to Death
In a long running tale of two ex-sailors once partners for thirty years, one man lies dying and confesses swindling thousands. The survivor coolly replies I poisoned you as the bond dissolves. A series of quips follows from various characters including a Yokohama earthquake memory and a street corner humor vignette.
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United States of America
Office of Price Administration
Armed Services
Army
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Pig Theft Trial Ends With Acquittal
Jim faced a pig theft accusation and hired a lawyer who secured acquittal. Later the lawyer pressed him alone to confess claiming the theft, but Jim admitted doubt after the lawyer’s discussion, saying he no longer believed he stole the pig.
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Jim
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