In this letter, Isabel talks about Bud staying a bit longer to help with the business. This business is Glick Shoes, a chain of shoe stores in PA and MD; the couple lives with his mother at this time. Below is the Frederick city Directory for 1946, listing Charles as the manager of Glick's Shoes on 212 N. Main St., and the image is the building as captured by Google in August 2022. The entrance to the upstairs apartment, 212-A, can be seen to the right of the photo.
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Maryland - White and Yellow Pages - Frederick County - /38 thru 1943/44. Maryland, - 1944, 1937. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/usteledirec05225/.
"U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), entry for Forney Chas B (Isabel) household; imaged in "U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995," database with images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com).
212 N Market St. Frederic MD. digital image, August 2022. "Google Street View". Google Maps (https://www.google.com/).
Citation: Glick Shoe Stores. “Shoe Horn.” Bonanza, n.d. https://www.bonanza.com/listings/Vtg-Glick-Shoe-Stores-Metal-Shoe-Horn/1358081179?.
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Notes – Handwritten letter dated April 8, 1943, two pages. Includes envelope, postmarked April 9, 1943, 7:50PM, from Frederick, Md.
In this letter, Isabel asks if Margaret's "income tax position is all finished" with the change in the regulations. A safe assumption is that Margaret worked in the Mill offices to help change over the paperwork necessary to meet the new tax regulations. Margaret would go on to work in the payroll office of the mill, as is noted in the 1950s census.
This article discusses the change that the Current Tax Payment Act, which was signed into law on June 9, 1943, put into how taxes were assessed and paid. This moved the payment system from a quarterly payment to a pay-as-you-go tax taken directly from each paycheck.
Citation: Higgs, R. (2007, December 24). Wartime origins of modern income-tax withholding: Robert Higgs. The Independent Institute. Retrieved March 16, 2023, from https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=2092
"On February 7, 1943, the United States instituted rationing of leather shoes to begin on February 9. Each man, woman, and child could purchase up to three pairs of leather shoes a year, using designated stamps in War Ration Book One, and later in Books Three and Four. To simplify the system, only six shades of leather were produced. However, the supply of leather continued to decrease. On March 20, 1944, the ration was reduced to two pairs of leather shoes per year. Shoe rationing continued until October 30, 1945."
Citation: Sarah Sundin. Today in WWII History, "Make It Do – Shoe Rationing in World War II." February 6, 2023. Retrieved March 28, 2023. https://www.sarahsundin.com/make-it-do-shoe-rationing-in-world-war-ii-2/
Citation: Bell, J. (2018, October 30). How a World War II shoe ration changed the way people shopped for Footwear. Footwear News. Retrieved April 5, 2023, from https://footwearnews.com/2018/fashion/trends/world-war-ii-shoe-ration-history-1202701289/
Citation: Sears. “1940 Sears Fall Winter Catalog.” Internet Archives, n.d. https://archive.org/details/1940-sears-fall-winter-catalog.