Wartime ration notices and War Production updates
Gasoline and sugar stamps remain valid through January 1944 while brown and green stamps cover meats fats processed foods and flour. OPA supports flour parity pricing with subsidies, upholds authority to restrict rationed trade, and lifts home slaughter limits to February 1944. War Manpower backs farm off season work and equipment sale limits to aid farmers, while unemployment funds and paper conservation drive national efforts.
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East Coast
War Food Administration
War Manpower Commission
Selective Service Boards
War Production Board
OPA
Brothers Stage Cotton Boll Pulling Contest Near Plainview
Bruce Rigler 17 won a cotton boll pulling contest with 1360 pounds, Allan Rigler 1311 pounds, totaling 2671 pounds in 10 hours on J. E. Rigler’s farm. Father paid $1.50 per hundred, total $40.65, noting the field yields almost a bale and a half at three-quarters bale per acre.
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Plainview
Bruce
Allan Rigler
Allan
J. E. Rigler
Rigler
Slayer’s Rifle to Fund Glass Eye in Florida Case
In Tampa, a rifle used by Joseph H. Wargo in his June 28 wife killing is to be sold to raise money for a glass eye. Sentenced to life, the court ordered the weapon turned over to his attorney A. Pickens Coles, who plans to have relatives sell it for the eye. Witnesses testified at the trial.
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Tampa
Fla
Joseph H. Wargo
Wargo
A. Pickens Coles
Man Faces Charges Describing Domestic Attack And Injury
A man reports beating his wife with a public safety item and injuring her, including striking her eye, in a violent incident described as self-inflicted during the encounter.
Estimated gold since America's discovery dwarfs a 38 foot cube
The article states that roughly 30 720 tons of gold have been produced since the discovery of America and this amount could fill a 38 foot cube. This emphasizes the vast scale of early colonial gold output.
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America
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Mr. Jones
WPB
Whitewright Lumber Co
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