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Oberski & Schefka
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The book below, issued to my mother, Irene R. Oberski, originally contained 8 sheets with 48 stamps on each sheet. Three sheets of stamps from this book were used. There are 5 sheets still attached to the book with all or some of the stamps still remaining, they are shown below. - Click on thumbnails to get a larger picture
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Rationing On April 11, 1941, the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply (OPACS or OPA) was established. The following table shows the rationing time line.1
1 Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates - tenth edition (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1997) Government-controlled rationing in the U.S. began in December 1941, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Automobile tires led the list of items rationed, which by war's end included automobiles, typewriters, bicycles, stoves, leather and rubber footwear, coffee, sugar, canned and processed foods, meats, fats, gasoline, fuel oil for home heating, and coal. Rationing was undertaken in conjunction with an extensive program of price controls, rent controls, and other restrictions. It was accepted as necessary by most Americans, although violations did occur, and a black-market, or illegal, trade existed in some items. At the end of the war in 1945, rationing was generally eliminated.2 2 Funk & Wagnalls Multimedia Encyclopedia Church Records Below is a St. Mary's Church receipt book that belonged to my father, Roman Oberski. It appears that each family was assigned a pew (my father's was #89) and a annual fee was charged.
Land Records Provisions of the act of Congress, of August 4, 1854, "to graduate and reduce the price of the public lands to actual settlers and cultivators", prompted many settlers to purchase land. The land was purchased for 50 cents an acre and paid for in gold.
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