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From: Nan & George Wolf <>
Subject: Re: ARCRAWFO-D Digest V00 #87
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 05:19:52 -0400


Fran wrote:

>I have the news papers until September 1862 at which time, the paper
shortage caused the newspaper to discontinue until the war was over. But I
do
have the Fort Smith New Era which was started about that time and it has
lots
of Crawford County information.<

Fran:
I hadn't thought about types of shortages during the war. Having gone
through WW II with ration books I should have realized something of the
sort. I was 8 yrs old when Pearl Harbor was bombed and 12 when the war
was over. I remember taking our bacon grease, etc. to the butcher shop in
tin cans which was somehow used to make explosives in the war effort. And,
we had a scrap metal drive with empty cartons sitting at strategic places
in our town of 200. I remember being very proud but very sad when I put my
metal play dishes and pans into the carton in front of the drugstore..

Regards,
Nan

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