Big yard sales today but only "home front" items found and brought home.

I picked up a full box of OPA ration tokens. I have seen these before as probably everyone's grandma's junk drawer had a couple of them in them. Red or blue coin sized composite tokens. I just never knew what they were. These were issued in WWII from 1942 to 1945 as change for ration books or ration stamps. They are evidently fairly common today and very reasonable if you wanted to collect them. 20 some different varieties of blue and around 30 varieties of red, just differences in labels from what I understand. The really cool thing however is that no one seems to have full, unopened boxes of them so this might be a rare piece. In mint condition.

Second thing I bought was at the same yard sale. A box of WWII newspapers from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, PA. Not a lot of monetary value to these but really interesting to go through. Looks to be primarily the front pages. Headlines from the top of the stack include "Yanks Rip 17 Jap Warships", Where Reds, Japs May Battle", "Yanks take Leipzig". It's also interesting that Germanicon news is included. "On Razor's Edge, Goebbels Whines" Obviously they followed the German newscasts but never really thought about the Allies reporting it. The price of the papers went up from 3 cents to 4 cents at some point during the war. A 33% increase, wow.