Spirit of First 4th Will Give New Note to Independence Day
Charles A. Singler recounts how Jefferson wrote the Declaration, the signing danger, and the Liberty Bell’s symbolism. He notes the 1776 spirit guiding America through war and the 1940s war era, as the Fourth of July becomes a call to training camps and renewed resolve.
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Boston
Salem
New Republic
Justice Marshell
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Winding down the Fourth amid war rationing and tribute
Amid wartime constraints the Fourth of July gains a global scope yet narrows in practice. Rationing curbs travel and fuel use while boosting homegrown effort and munitions work. Soldiers abroad, international camps, and naval ships will mark the day with tribute rather than crackers.
Waner Brothers Hit Milestone and Baseball Echoes
A 1941 season snapshot surveys American and National leagues with Yankee dominance looming in the American and Philadelphia’s fate in the National. It recounts Paul Waner’s 3000-hit milestone, earlier stars like Cobb and Wagner, and the Waner brothers’ corn cob hitting roots. It notes Ray Lamanno’s arm injury history and Cardinals’ purchase of Sam Narron as part of a broader rosters outlook.
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Sam Narron
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Grover Cleveland Alexander
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Geography gains urgency as war spurs public interest
Johnson E Fairchild of Cooper Union urges Americans to study geography amid global conflict. He notes how war highlights geography's relevance to supplies and home life and criticizes U S education for sidelining the subject. He cites German schooling with vivid maps guiding children from kindergarten onward.
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Johnson E. Fairchild
Cooper Union
Peace Plan Tied To Lend Lease As War Ends
A Washington pundit argues the lend lease program doubles as a blueprint for postwar peace. The plan links cooperative trade and liberal commerce to freedom from want, aims to deter economic causes of war, and seeks to split enemy publics from their regimes with promises of broader prosperity. Rags II the army dog heads to follow troops to Australia and beyond.
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White House
Goebbels
Hitler
Military training drives safety regions and war production goals
Ayuty by Bankhage notes that over the past 42 years more than a million motor vehicles have been produced in the country. The nation plans to train two and a half million people for war production next year to match the record of the last two years. Only four motor vehicles were registered in 1995. A nationwide safety in military flight program will divide the country into ten safety regions with regional directors to promote safe flying habits.
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Federal Explosives Control Act
Paul Waner
Paso Robles
Calif
Pittsburgh Pirates
Waner
Ty Cobb
Georgia Peach
Tris Speaker
Honus Wagner
Eddie ‘Vollina
Napoleon Lajoie
Cap Anson
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H Street
Washlington
D. C
Rose Walt
United Nations
Hull
Congress
America
Joba
New Ideas on Homemodens and Oriental Rugs
A vintage note discusses homemaking crafts focusing on the decline of imported Oriental rugs after the Revolution and the rise of hooked rugs from old clothing. It describes scroll borders, flower motifs, and pattern tracing with wax crayon. Readers can copy curves from sketches and clip a diagram for scroll patterns.
Diverse backgrounds join the New York Stock Exchange roster
The NYSE roster features members from varied trades including an undertaker, jockey, explorer, magician, prize fighter, army general, baseball player, vaudeville dancer, and a night club singer. An ordained minister, Reverend Chester Roy, bought his seat in 1929 and still preaches at the Church of the Second Advent in Eatontown New Jersey each Sunday.
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