Alpine Avalanche announces local news and notices in Texas
In Alpine Texas the Alpine Avalanche outlines its mission to publish county and state news and invites corrections. A Wake Up America editorial urges unity and vastly increased production to meet wartime needs, criticizing wartime profiteering and labor policies while calling for action to support national defense efforts.
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Tarowster
Alpine
Davis Mountains
Big Bend
Texas
United Stat
France
Donald Nelson
More Ships Needed To Meet World War II Demands
War Production Chief Donald M Nelson warns bottlenecks and red tape slow ship production vital to sending tanks guns planes and manpower to Australia India and Britain. He cites shipping shortages hindering aid to Russia and the Atlantic battle while noting strong support from Patrick Murray and William Green as 1942 expectations shift toward higher output.
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Donald M. Nelson
Faw
United Nations
Java
Australia
India
Russia
Hitler
Great Britain
Nelson
Philip, Murray
William Green
Proposed Tax Bill For Middle Class Nest YES NOW
The Treasury proposed tax bill would double income taxes in the middle bracket and raise many commodity and excise taxes. Many feel it does not go far enough into lower-income brackets and support is growing for a general payroll tax and possible forced savings system to secure tax revenue.
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Treasury
Rural News Reflections On Editor And Nation’s Way
In Frankenmuth Michigan The Weekly News editor Edmund Arnold notes a shift from war headlines to everyday civic life. He stresses recording local happenings from births to harvests as nation’s tale grows from soil and a future of peace or war. Ben Franklin quote on social tact cited. WPB labor chief Sidney Hillman reports 20,898 lead workers and supervisors trained to guide 1,800,000 wartime employees across 938 plants.
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Frankenmuth
Michigan
Edmund Arnold
Gras
Frank
America
Hitler
Mussolini
Sidney Hillman
WPB
Heart’s desire and digressions in a Rolls-Royce chat
A playful exchange contrasts a woman’s insistence on a Rolls Royce with a tease that she may never own one. A worried telephone subscriber complains about a month of service neglect while an Irish official recalls attempting a ring to solve the issue.
Fractured dialogue on color and family tensions in old report
A brief, distorted dialogue fragment shows two young colored boys trading insults and family jabs, with reference to a Mammy and a remark about washing. Hambone and Sambo are cited, while Pappy is said to be in jail, suggesting a rough social vignette from a past era.
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Sambo
Hambone
Vigilance Pays and a Fashion Gap on the Links
In a humorous aside a golfer notes a present-day young woman’s outfit, provoking a quip about parental roles. The conversation shifts to a mother revealing she is not the daughter’s father, but the parent, as the exchange ends with a jest about fashion and propriety in public.
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Eno
Flying officer jokes at Pyramids and a barmaid flirt
A young flying officer near Egypt jokes about navigation inside St Pauls Cathedral. A British barmaid flirts with a private, inviting a kiss before he drinks the corporal’s beer. Also notes the US Army ended shooting executed soldiers around the Civil War era.
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Cve
Egypt
Great Pyramids
St Paul's Cathedral
California Cattle Market Shifts as Feed Shortage Bites
Unsatisfactory feed conditions across California drive movements of cattle to market including many breeding cows and heifers. Grass cows on the market vary in flesh with fat cows selling 9.50 to 10.00 per cwt and fair flesh cows at 8.25 to 8.50 as hay and concentrates costs rise.
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California
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Los Angeles Union
Match for General Houston in fiery Texas woman with oxen
A vivid account recalls a bold Texas woman at Grace's crossing on the Brazos who lent oxen to pull Houston's army cannon through mud then reclaimed them. She confronted the general, cut the tether, and rode off with her team after a dramatic exchange.
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Texas
San Jacinto
Houston
Robert Hancock Hunter
University of Texas Library
Grace
Brazos
Harrisburg
Nacogdoches
Mann
Rohner
Hunter
Rover
Les
Lady Holt
Fragmented vintage items list with scattered facts
A garbled set of historical references covers England France war timelines Polynesia to Melanesia and Meconesia, a 40.27 mute figure, Louise Phillippe 1848, Balsa wood, Tibet Chu Chi, Daimler 1885, and various materials including Coke graphite tar oil dyes perfumes and gemstones like diamond ruby sapphire emerald.
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England
France
Polynesia
Melanesia
Meconesia
Louise Phillippe
Tibet
Gottlieb
Most Valuable Stamps For U S Collectors
Old US departmental philatelic issues command high prices in the market. The stamps of this country, as a whole, are regarded as highly valuable by collectors.
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United States
U. S
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