There Will Be Weeping and Cussing Over Reckless Driving
McCamey News editorial warns Alpine readers about dangerous speedway driving on city streets. It notes drivers hug left curbs, speed through corners, and risk serious injury or death to pedestrians and residents. The piece urges citizens to act before tragedy strikes.
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Rongornet
MRSC
Wood Society Balto Aln
Alkire
Port Davis
Vada Stone Marathon
Rower County
Davis Mountain
Ani
Brewster
Bert Davis
Presidio Courcien
Alpine
Tenis
Congress
McCamey
Victory Gardens Aid Fight Hunger At Home
Wartime era appeal urges use of Victory Gardens to ease global hunger. Emphasizes home gardening as exercise and budget balance, noting millions starve in Europe and Asia while local families can grow and preserve food.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vietroy Gardens
Pea
Department of Agriculity
Electrici
Europe
Asia
LaGuardia Urged To Step Down From UNRRA Role
The article questions Fiorello LaGuardia's ability to lead UNRRA while juggling other duties and criticizes him for deriding Herbert Hoover's famine relief plan. It argues his political ambitions may interfere with the agency's life-and-death mission to feed the hungry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UNRRA
Fiorello LaGuardia
Senate
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
World Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
LaGuardia
Hoover
U.S
Truman
Flont
Unrila
The
United Nations
Mr. LaGuardi
Mr. Hoover
Mr. LaGuardia
Methert Hoover
Relief Authority
Labor satire on housewives pay plan stirs political debate
A caustic UK diary column mocks a proposed state payment to wives, exploring implications for unions, wages, and politics. It questions basis of pay, apprenticeship, and tax effects while lampooning Attlee era debates. The piece ends by noting risks of political backlash and moralizing.
Snapshots from a Busy Harbor Crew Card Scene
In a bustling port setting, an employer advertises for a strong boy and a scene unfolds with applicants outside the door. A recruiter jokes about handling the bill as one applicant claims to have finished off nineteen competitors. The dialogue shifts to shipboard banter and sea terms.
Not So Hot One Cols Monn Front World War I?
A garbled war era column recalls messages from a trainee courier and a salesman on his first trip, detailing a careworn exchange of news and a dinner invitation, then shifts to a Detroit firm employing 8,000 to clean plants and manage papers and floors.
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Amtri
Ely
Bath
Detroit
McCamey Plans Three Day June Celebration
McCamey will host the 1946 George B. McCamey celebration on June 14 15 and 16 with a two day bathing beauty contest and regional judging. Contest entries are invited from Marfa Alpine Fort Stockton Midland Odessa Big Spring Monahans Crane Iran Rankin Big Lake Ozona San Angelo and Sanderson.
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McCamey
George B. McCamey
James Carll
Fort Stockton
Miss McCamey
Land
Orchid Plastics For Ladies Bloom In Fabricated Flowers
A fragment notes manufacturers crafting plastic orchids for ladies, priced at $10, with production beginning at a West Coast veteran hospital as therapy. Also mentions a religious view by Earl Stribling and a quote by George Matthews Adams.
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Manufactugerers
West Coast
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Johnny
5Th Street Package Store
John T. Lewis
N. Sth Street
Curtis B. Gross, Realtor
Twin Sisters Mountain Range
Curtis B. Gross
Big Bend Abstract,Company
Golden Gloves
Midland ‘Army Atobese
James Car
Eral
Bill Moore
Bilton Bryant
8. Slaughter
Gaylan Haring
Canl
Concesons
Earl Stribling
George Matthews Adams
Alpine Lumber Co
TLE
Ritchey Brothers
Marathon
Texas
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