Category: Children

  • Medicine: Baby Boom

    The U.S. birth rate has hit a ten-year high in 1941, with an estimated total of 2,500,000 new babies. Every minute during the year, more than four babies were born. Such was the summing up of the U.S. Census Bureau last week. Reasons for this increase, which represents a gain of 140,000 babies over the…

  • Bunny Mask

    Source: “Bunny Mask.” Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 29 Mar. 1942, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/hawaii-tribune-herald/127249501/

  • “Bunny” Mask

    Source: “”˜Bunny”™ Mask.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 4 May 1942, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/127251585/

  • Downtown District Evacuation is Urged

    Source: “Downtown District Evacuation Is Urged.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 4 June 1942, p. 5. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/128053544/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/128053878/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/128053809/

  • Thousands Get Bunny Masks On First Day

    Source: “Thousands Get Bunny Masks On First Day.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 5 June 1942, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/127248302/

  • Boy Scouts Urged to Help Collect Material In Citywide Canvass

    Source: Peet, William. “Boy Scouts Urged to Help Collect Material In Citywide Canvass.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 17 June 1942, pp. 1”“7. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/137093003/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/137093141/

  • Voices of Household Folks

    Source: “Voices of Household Folks [What Should I Tell My Children About War?].” The Household Magazine, Sept. 1942, p. 13.

  • Can Women In War Industry Be Good Mothers?

    Source: Hohman, Leslie B. “Can Women In War Industry Be Good Mothers?” Ladies Home Journal, Oct. 1942, pp. 100”“101.

  • Employment In War Work of Women With young Children

    Source: “Employment In War Work of Women With Young Children.” Monthly Labor Review, Dec. 1942, pp. 1184”“1185.