Poultry Health Check Suggested For Fall at A and M College
Dr W A Boney of the A and M College Extension Service outlines steps for renewing poultry health this fall. Clean housing first then spray with anthracen oil solution, remove dirt floors, add clean earth, and use litter like corn shucks. Treat infestations with fluoride dusts, sulphur, and rotenone or derris. vaccinate young birds for fowl pox using feather follicle method. cull light or gray eyed birds. provide green feed granite grit and oyster shell to strengthen shells.
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Boney
Queen the birddog nurses five pigs for war effort
In Athens a dog named Queen cooperates fully with the food for victory program. After giving birth to ten puppies, her owner Mrs. Johnnie Berry kept five piglets and Queen nursed them for five weeks. The five pigs grew to about 75 pounds each by three months.
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Athens
Johnnie Berry
Trinidad
Queen
Hints For Housewife Wartime Domestic Tips and Tricks
Air moldy closets with an electric fan and dissipate moisture with a burning lamp. Hulls from lima beans make soup when sieved. beans taste in the broth. Wartime jar rings use inelastic reclaimed rubber. stretch them as little as possible. Grape juice frosting mixes with confectioners sugar. Fiber brooms last longer but cost more and can be washed. Clean brooms by hanging. blow out dirt with a hand pump. Paint leaking garden hoses with roofing paint. Add kerosene to soiled linoleum wash pails. Save large onion portions by keeping the root. Iron rayon fabrics while slightly damp for best results.
Increase in Sugar Allowance Urged
New York sugar brokers Lamborn & Co assert sugar allocations for industrial users can be raised immediately while rationing for industry continues until the war end. They estimate a 2,010,000 ton carryover or earmark for the country on December 31 and project 1944 production at 8,000,000 tons or more if restraints are lifted on primary U S supply sources.
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New York
Lamborn & Co
United States
Familiar Ground Guide Captures Timeworn Castle Quirk
A guide notes the castle has stood 300 years with no stone altered or repaired while a tourist jokes about sharing the same landlord they have. The exchange highlights enduring surroundings and a wary, amused view of upkeep.
Civilian Air Spotter Posts Cut to Emergency Reserve
The War Department ordered the 7500 observer posts and 43 filter centers of the civilian air raid warning network to operate only a few hours per week. About 600000 ground observer corps members are affected as the system shifts to alert status amid a calculated risk of enemy air attacks. General H H Arnold announced the change while President Roosevelt cautioned against viewing it as demobilization.
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Washington
War Department
Gulf
Ground Observer Corps
Aircraft Warning Corps
H. H. Arnold
Roosevelt
Gas Tax Receipts Fall in Texas as Sales Rise
Texas motor fuel tax receipts for September totaled 4,314,723.53 dollars, down from both August and September 1942, according to State Comptroller George H. Sheppard. August receipts were 4,574,003 dollars and September 1942 receipts 4,671,753.43 dollars. He noted higher gallon sales in August but lower tax collections due to fuel largely going tax free to Government buyers.
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Austin
Texas
George H. Sheppard
Sheppard
United States
Funeral services set for Mamie Wands aged 53
Funeral services were to be held today for Mamie Wands 53 with friends and relatives choosing to buy war stamps instead of flowers for the service reflecting wartime community support.
Hartley County Treasurer Mrs Wands Funeral Planned
The funeral for Mrs. Wands, longtime Hartley County treasurer, will be held at the high school auditorium. She has a son in the Air Corps stationed at Buckley Field, Colorado.
Naples Rich War Prize
Naples Italy, third largest city and second largest port, is a wealth and culture hub since ancient times. The piece frames Naples as a strategic prize in wartime terms, highlighting its economic and cultural significance within Italy and the broader theater of war.
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Naples
Italy
Want Ads and Classified Notices Curtain Sherman Item
Want ads show cattle for butchering from Pascal Farley and a five year old mare with mule colt for sale by Paul Caylor. Flowers for all occasions via Mrs Allen T Short agent for Hannahs. Electric wire for sale. Real estate buy and sell notes by Tom Barbee. Auto loans and finance offer by Auto Finance Company F W Creager manager Sherman Texas.
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Paul Caylor
Allen T. Short
Hannah's
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
Travis
Sherman
Butane Gas Eligibility Expands for Denison Shoppers
Butane tanks stoves and hot water heaters are now available to many food producers poultry raisers and defense workers with quick approval. Foster's Butane in Denison Texas invites customers to visit and view their large stock ready for installation.
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Foster's Butane
Denison
Texas
Naples City by Naples Bay on Vesuvius Slopes
Lying on the shores of Naples Bay south of Rome, Naples sits like an amphitheater on Mount Vesuvius. Its broad harbor is one of the world’s finest and can accommodate the largest ocean liners. Naples is a key industrial and trade center for Italy with hinterland farmland and a population of about 3.87 million before the war.
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Naples Bay
Rome
Mount Vesuvius
Campagnia
Italy
Naples
Genoa
Sergeant ends drill with memory of wooden soldiers
A military sergeant pauses after an hour of drill to tell recruits a childhood tale of wooden soldiers, recalling a poor little boy as part of a reflective moment. The anecdote marks a softer, human note in a stern training environment.
Wooden soldiers vow returns after charity talk
A narrator recalls giving away wooden soldiers after a Sunday school sermon on charity, then regretting the loss and hearing his mother promise they would be returned someday, calling the audience foolish in a colorful rebuke.
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Charity
Bertie
Subtle Approach in Search for Writing Talent
A fragment presents a speaker teasing Miss Withers about her writing prospects and joking about disposing of a typewriter. The line hints at doubt and flirtation in a social exchange, suggesting a light, witty moment from a period piece.
Showman Buys Half Interest in Pink Elephant Show
A Texas drunkard hired a hall and charged 25 cents to see a zoo with pink elephants. Customers complained of empty walls. The sheriff arrested him but bought a half interest after sniffers were taken for $600. Sun Want Ads promote economy.
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Texas
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Thackery
T. W. Ayres & Son Gossard
Pascal Farley
M. B. Hasty
Calvin Raley
Tom Barbee
Kingston Drug Store
Rexall
Sun
K. Wolens
Kavolens
Ernest Lilley
Denison, Texas
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