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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1940
Page
2
In North Carolina mountains Lees-McRae College adds possum hunting to its physical education curriculum. Students must participate in a sport for graduation with hiking listed as an accredited sport and possum hunting described as hiking at night. The piece notes no PhD degrees are awarded for possum hunting.
The report surveys Romania's abdication turmoil in Bucharest with mass violence and escape into exile, alongside German and British air raids on English towns and Axis advances in Greece and Italy. It notes Greek resistance under Metaxas, and a potpourri of warfront narratives including Italian setbacks and Allied aid promises.
The article surveys U S finance for national defense, noting $24 billion issued 1914–18 with little return, and describes war credit requests from Britain. It covers credits to China, Burma road shipments of antimony, and a tense mix of diplomacy, neutrality acts, and naval clashes as Britain and Italy push for credits and arms.
Louis Tracy, a Ponca Nebraska barber and volunteer fireman, was shaving a customer when a fire alarm sounded. He left mid shave to help fight the blaze, then returned to finish the shave. The deputy fire marshal was the customer.
In occupied Norway many landslides struck six locations simultaneously cutting vital supply roads. German authorities alleged dynamite caused the slides. Meanwhile Tahiti, famed for its glamour girls of a dusky hue, has joined the Free French forces under De Gaulle.
A Ruth Wyeth Spear sketch outlines a woolly lamb craft using wire coat hangers bath towels wire and thread. The instructions describe forming a foundation inside a loop for the head and covering it, then padding the rest of the body to complete the figure.
The text reflects on internal griefs and how others would pity a person if their inner sorrows could be read on the forehead. It cites Metastasio and muses on outward appearances versus inner feelings in a compact philosophical note.
The quote argues adversity shapes character and that private opinion conquers public judgment. Thoreau suggests misery comes from not feeling hardship and that self-perception determines fate more than external views.
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