Adair Family Website

The Office of Price Administration published War Ration Books.

Every American was issued a series of ration books during the war. The ration books contained removable stamps good for certain rationed items, like sugar, meat, cooking oil, and canned goods. A person could not buy a rationed item without also giving the grocer the right ration stamp.

Book Four was issued in later 1943. The book had 8 pages of 384 stamps in blue, red, green and black. The stamps were also lettered (A-Z). Green stamps were used along with blue stamps for foods such as juice, baby food, and bottled fruit.

This is number four issued to Marvin C. Kruse. Three pages remain.

I have retyped from The Times-Tribune (Grant City, Missouri) of 9 Aug 1933. These snippets appear in this order:

Fred Adair and family and Mrs. Mag Adair of Indianola came Saturday and visite[sic] until Sunday at the Earl Adair home in Redding.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Adair and daughters of Omaha came Saturday to visit relatives here.

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Adair of Colorado came Saturday for a visit in Redding and vicinity with relatives.

The Adair picnic was held Sunday in Grant City.

By all appearances, the visitors to Redding were here for the picnic on August 6, 1933.

Pages 2-4 of Bob Adair letter. Wrote about house at 507 So. 7th Ave, Faribault, MN, Audry, Dorothy, Pam Belcher, John C Adair, Alice, Bailey Reece, JW Adair, Wes Adair "mushstash"

George W. Adair passed away in St. Joseph

Letters from Sam & Jessie circa 1981. Lots of names mentioned including Orin/Norrine, Freddie, Marve, Linda

Family news stories published in The Times-Tribune (Grant City, Missouri) on 24 Apr 1946. Included is notice from Earl Drake while overseas. Following these stories is amplifying news article sent by cousin Diane.

This file links names to numbers on texting

from The Times-Tribune (Grant City, Missouri) 17 Apr 1940

Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 4, Number 2 (April 1966)

from The Times-Tribune (Grant City, Missouri), 15 Aug 1934. Second annual picnic of the descendants of the James A. Miller , Wm. Miller and H. T. Miller families which was held Aug. 9 when 130 relatives partook of the dinner. Dewey D. Adair and others were mentioned.