Reminiscences on Minnesota Campus Life by a June 1941 Graduate
Herschel Caplan fondly recalls campus days at the University of Minnesota. He describes dorm life, laundry mishaps, late classes, the Minnesota Daily, the student union project, campus traffic, post office checks, dances, the Dinky theater, Homecoming parade, Cap and Gown day, and memorial auditorium. He notes nostalgia for friends, memories, and the anthem Minnesota Hail Thee.
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Herschel Caplan
University of Minnesota
Minnesota
Delores
Dinky
Minneapolis
Memorial Auditorium
Amarillo ideas to improve city life collected in letters
A batch of reader submissions to the Globe-News Ideas Editor from Amarillo residents proposes practical and whimsical city improvements. Suggestions include tree care at East Tenth Avenue, shade benches by the courthouse lawn, seed exchanges to beautify Amarillo, a boulevard stop sign at Twenty-first Avenue and Merce Street, and public notices on improving crosswalk sightlines and theater lighting.
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East Tenth Avenue
Nina Griggs
Wilson Street
Amaill
Pauline Sanders
Boulevard
Twenty-first Avenue
Merce Street
Ernest Thrasher
Pierce Street
Amarillo
Polk Street
Marjorie Joiner
East Tenth Ave
Silk production shift boosts American machine use
Mulberry trees grow well in America and silk worms thrive but Yankee silk industry lags behind Japan. Much manual work by Asiatic producers is now done more efficiently by machines, many of which were developed by Americans.
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America
Yankee
Japan
Black market in defense metals raises theft and price fraud
An underground system for aluminum and related metals has grown in the defense material sector. Bootleggers target small manufacturers with unlisted offices, double set prices, and home smelting, drawing scrutiny from the defense headquarters priorities division as cases surface in Cleveland Toledo New York.
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Washington
Cleveland
Toledo
New York
New York City
Company X
Manners Quiz On Letter Writing Standards
A vintage etiquette item presents Qs on address forms for a young girl, envelope etiquette for self addressed mail, and tone in business letters. It includes authoritative answers from Miss Mary Ellen Smith to Mr John Doe to Dear Sir, and cautions against thanking in advance. The piece closes with Keynes on defense effort and the value of concise, neat letters.
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Mary Ellen Smith
John Doe
Bevin And British Unions Shape War Time England
London report on Ernest Bevin and Britain's unions under war pressure. Trade unions gain responsibility and social democracy while managing labor conscription powers. Workers adapt with discipline, creativity, and sacrifice, aiding transport, industry, and national defense amid fear of fascism.
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Dorothy Thompson
London
Ernest Bevin
Britain
Transport and General Workers Union
England
Bevin
New England
United States
A. V. Alexander
Labor Party
Admiralty
Bristol
Adolf Hitler
Dutch Resistance Stamp Theme During Occupation
Dutch resistance persists despite rapid conquest in 1940. Underground activity escalates with placards, V symbols, and carnations. The Netherlands rail system, commemorated on a 1939 stamp, suffers sabotage like split rails and open switches while fires rise nationwide. The country remains a hub for British intelligence with ongoing crackdowns. Stamp issues mention Kirghiz republic, Dominican Republic, Monaco, and Christo Boteff tribute releases.
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Amies
Netherlands
Europe
Rambling with Ernie Pyle Afton picnic tale and fence tale
In a rambling column from Afton, Ernie Pyle reflects on Americans preferring fence building to power, shares a late-night Muncie fence fiasco by E Pierce De Miller and Bill Craig, and recounts Rene Belbenoit’s Texas parole update. A highway patrol picnic near Stillwater prompts a humorous line-cutting driver tale as Brown & Bigelow rest invite a sweep of cars.
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Afton
Mina
Albuquerque
Muncie
Ind
E. Pierce de Miller
E Pierce de Miller
Indiana
Bill Craig
Mr. de Miller
Stillwater
Brown & Bigelow
Wisconsin
Five Minute Music Fatigue Solution Proven by Industry
Dale Carnegie cites experiments at Cluett Peabody Troy and Curtiss Wright where loudspeakers and canned music reduced fatigue, boosted productivity, and improved mood. He notes Beech Nut and Gertrude Ederle examples, urging workers to propose music programs, promising lasting energy and focus.
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Cluett, Peabody Company
Troy N. Y
Curtiss-Wright Airplane Company
Britain
Canajoharle
Gertrude Ederle
Trudy
Two Years of War See Germany United in Resolve
Berlin reports two years of war have not broken German will to victory. Average citizens tighten belts yet remain orderly with rationing keeping food steady. Car use falls as private automobiles shrink from wartime restrictions while civilians adapt by handling many tasks themselves.
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United States
Middle East
New Castle
England
Louis P. Lochner
Berlin
Russia
Germany
The Sun Is My Undoing by Marguerite Steen
A 1200 page Viking novel follows Matthew Flood a Bristol shipping scion through lavender romance slave trade swashbuckling voyages to Cuba Barbadoes Spain and back to Bristol as a blind old man. The tale ends with his tombstone and a dramatic discovery, framed by a Metropolitan Life Insurance Co report on war’s loss of young leaders.
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Anthony Adverse
Marguerite Steen
Matthew Flood
Bristol
Cuba
Barbadoes
Spain
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Report
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Globe-News
Nina Riggs
Our Ideas
Theourthouse Group
Four Ideas
Janice Dillon
East Fourth Ave
Ruth Sherer
West Eighteenth Avenue
Rock Island Tracks
Melvin Gardner
Alabama Street
Paul Mallon
Defense Headquarters
Priorities Division
OPM
Henderson Opacs
John Maynard Keynes
U. S
Odin
Tellurium
Royal House of Italy
S. R
Kirghiz
Dominican Republic
Columbus
Monaco
Prince Louis Oi
Bulgaria
Christo Boteff
Ernie Pyle
Shirley
Nore
Rene Belbenoit
Devil's Island
Texas
U.S
Dale Carnegie
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