Capitol Stuff By John O'Donnell
Washington column surveys F D R fifth term talk and White House rumors. Notes Lord Halifax gift book for Roosevelt en route to the Soviet meeting, and Churchill’s English history reading as a benchmark in leadership and policy.
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Washington
D. C
F. D. PR
Churchill
Stalin
Black Sea
F. D. Eis
London
Iis
Wendell Willkie
White House
Pennsylvania Ave
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Lord Haiffax
Lord Halifax
MacMillan
New York
A. L. Rowse
Cambridge University
Lone Star State
Land of the
Soviets
Britain
Gibbon
Mahan
Fdr
Chopin Prodigy Denied by Paris Promoter
In a tense scene at Louis Pleyel's office Jozef Elsner insists Frederic Chopin be heard as a pianist and composer. Pleyel rejects the concert, citing overabundance of prodigies, yet Franz Liszt’s arrival hints a dramatic pivot as tensions rise over Chopin’s future in Paris.
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Faris
Josef Elsner
Ima
Lampresaris
Feral
Els
Amd
Frederic Chopin
Warsaw
Paris
Louis Pleyel
Jozef Elsner
Louis
Frederic
Monsieur
Tech
Jozef Misner
Elmer
Professor Elsner
Salle Monsieur
Jozef Blaner
Sasha
Louis Piegel
Prodigy ii
Louis Pleyeli
Pleyel
Louis Pleye
Jozef Eisner
Hunger and War in 1918 Echoes Guide for Allied Gulf
Wartime morale hinges on food shortages as Germany capitulated in 1918. Today Western Allies face floodwaters and battlefield stagnation as Canadian, British, and American forces push toward the Rhine while the Roer River barrier and Schwammenauer dam blowback complicate operations. Soviets claim Nazi power waning though hunger cripples the regime, suggesting starvation could hasten collapse.
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Germany
Rhineland
Kleve
Cologne
Pruem
Roer
Rhine
Schwammenauer
Aachen
Bobby socks blamed for colds and war time fashion
A city health officer argues that colds and lung diseases stem from scant clothing like bobby socks and bare legs. The piece mocks male reluctance to intervene, notes N ray tests and wartime shortages, and urges fathers to enforce warmer dress to protect health on the home front.
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St. Paul's
Biggest Convoy Demonstrates Allied Shipping Strength
Stats from a record convoy of 167 merchant ships bound for England illustrate the Allied escort efficacy and merchant marine effort. The one voyage carried over a billion tons of cargo including 10,000 trucks, with about 43 percent of the ships American, reflecting wartime dispersal and the builders behind the operation.
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Safery
England
Agai
Maqine
Forgotten Ally Urance Returns to War Effort
A read fragment describes an allied nation rejoining the war effort. Soldiers will fight alongside American and British forces as quickly as equipment arrives. The nation’s farms towns ports and rail links are under scorched battle, supplying western fronts. The piece notes exclusion of France from a postwar settlement and references a military official and an address.
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Britain
Artick
Germany
Generale de Cranlle
Air War Logistics Face Rapid Change and Surplus
Peter Edson notes that U S Army Air Forces planners face rapid aircraft tech advances and desert, Arctic, and high altitude experience gaps. Surplus materiel piles up in Europe as planes become obsolete before use. Only a budding logistical bible guides procurement, while many planes are not yet in action due to repair, transit, or crate shipping.
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U.S Army Air Forces Tactical Training Center
Orlando
Fla
AAF
Europe
United States
France Presses for Voice in Allied War Planning
The excerpt argues France deserves a seat at top level talks with the Big Three as the Allied leaders meet. It stresses France’s stake in Germany’s fate and its principled stance on postwar diplomacy, noting Paris’s stronger concern than the others about Hitler’s threat.
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Broauish
Enier
Germany
France
Hitler
Third Reich
Honor Roll List From Middleport High School
Middleport High School announces the honor roll for the third six weeks. Freshman recipients include Dorothy Chase and Jean Clark among others. Sophomores Jane Bailey and Sara Hartley. Juniors Mary Baker and Doris Barker. Seniors Susan Allensworth and Mary Gomer. plus Grade 7 Emma Jane Buell and Grade 8 Katherine Bachtel and others.
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Middleport
Middleport High
Dorothy Chase
Jean Clark
Harry Featherstone
Jonn Gilmore
James Haggerty
Katherine Kircher
Marilyn Knopp
Iris Palmer
Kenneth Sauer
Anna Singer
Lee Smith
Mary Louise Thomas
Colleen Waddell
Jane Bailey
Sara Hartley
Wilma Herrmann
Anna J. Howell
Madeline Johnson
Joan
Karr
John Kircher
Mildred Ohlinger
Virginia Schaaf
Maxine Smith
Geraldine Ward
Mit White
Mary Baker
Doris Barker
Dorothy Blosser
Martha Haggerty
Milton Smart
Susan Allensworth
Mary Gomer
Maxine Herrmann
Mary Lou Kelly
Marvin Murray
Mary Ohlinger
Emma Jane Buell
Tda Lee Hartley
Fred Hoffman
Sara Palomer
Sally Schaat
Katherine Bachtel
Carolyn Clark
David Diles
Rosemary Fisher
Mary Louw Smith
Frank White
Chesterhill News Notes roundup of local updates
Chesterhill residents share family visits and health updates as Ellsworth Hale recovers from a rear ailment. Farm sales shift ownership with Elwood Smith purchasing the former Starling property near Plantsville and taking residence on the Addie Shook farm. Families plan moves from Cincinnati and Columbus, while others address military, illness, and travel for guardianship, with notes on Mrs. Randall’s improving speech and ongoing quarantine adjustments.
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Elwood Smith
Mary Dean
Charles Gibbons
Toledo
Lenore Gibbons
Gibbons
Russell Wood
Dodge City
Kans
Nellie Wood
Marie Wood
Eva Randall
Strode
Mera San
Wayne
Jeane Carnenter
Abe
Amesville PTA Moves Meeting and Local Events
Amesville notes push back PTA to Wednesday February 14 with short high school play Henry's Mail-Order Wife. Final Ames-Bern basketball vs Corning at Ames High Feb 15 7 30. County tournament in Athens Feb 19 20 21 22. Conservation Club Feb 12 at high school. Eastern Star initiations Feb 13. Hamilton family quarantined for scarlet fever. Mrs Annie Smith ill two weeks with little improvement. Miss Mary Parmiter away at Curtiss Wright before nurse training at Grant Hospital Columbus. Grange awarded Third and Fourth degrees to Herron Benedum Gaston Dishong Anne. Program included patriotic songs poem Lena Starlin talk Rev Tenney Washington Lincoln, Grandpa's Valentine Sally Robinson My Ideal Man essay Henrietta Glazier US Presidents Q&A. Bible presented by late R G Bradley. Ice cream wafers coffee by Juvenile Grange. Donald Wolfe and Jack McLaughlin added to Navy Honor Roll. Richard Bailey visited father George Bailey. Giles, Sharpsburg area to celebrate golden wedding Feb 13.
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Amesville
PTA
Henry
Cornings
Ames-Bern
Athens
Conservation Club
Eastern Star
Homer Hamilton
Annie Smith
Mary Parmiter
Curtiss Wright
Grant Hospital
Columbus
Amesville Grange
Mary Herron
Eva Benedum
Glen Gaston
George Dishong
Keith Dishong
Dow J Anne
Lena Starlin
H. M. Tenney
the Grange
Washington and Lincoln
Sally Robinson
Man
Henrietta Glazier
United States
Denzel Robinson
Louise Kinz
The
Grange
R. G. Brawley
Juveniie
Donald Wolfe
Jack McLaughlin
Richard Bailey
George Bailey
Lancaster
Gernelda
Marriage party plans and local social notes
A brief social column notes a 10 year and 20 year milestone gathering as Mrs Blaine Goldsberry and Mrs pow S Grones depart for a Florida East Coast trip with chaperones listed. A daughter Barbara Marie Banks returns from Grant Hospital Columbus. Earlier item mentions oil and gas drilling plans near West Athens and visits by Crystal Simms and Mrs Bush Nor Dana’s Columbus trip.
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Blaine Goldsberry
Pow. S. Grones
Florida
Miami
Farm Beach
Clarke Eb, Williams
Barbara Marie
Grant Hospital
Columbus
Elementary Honor Rolls Are Listed POMEROY
Forty four pupils at Sugar Run Elementary School earned places on the honor roll for the third six weeks grading period announced by Principal Miss Emma Seitz. The list names students across seven grades with multiple pupils per grade and notes Rose Hill as a separate honor roll segment.
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Eugene Willoughby
Earl Bitters
Edward Bowen
Don Dailey
Jack Leifheit
Helen Givens
Marianne Peoples
Rose Hill
Mary Wheeler
Mary Edna Hilligas
Frances Evans
Lena’ Mitch
Marilyn McIntosh
Barbara Still
Harold Hysell
Dave Davis
Sue Ann Clark
Margaret Bruch
Kathryn Landers
Robert Landers
Alva Clark
Jean Matson
Wanda Wheeler
Verna ‘Osborn
Bobby Still
Lawrence Napper
Patty Jesse
Eddie Ball
Funeral Held At Lottridge For Mrs. Leroy Boggs
Funeral services conducted by Reverend C R Hoskinson at the M E Church in Coolville honored Mrs Leroy Boggs with a large gathering of relatives and friends. Six grandsons served as pallbearers while relatives from Clarksburg Belpre and Parkersburg attended. Rev DeVause Snyder hosted revival guests Miss Conah Gaston and others shared in the family reception afterward.
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A. L. McBee
Gale
Jack
Robert H. Smith
Clarksburg
W. Va
Catheryn Young
Akron
Myr
Raymond Boggs
Belpre
Haymond Boggs
Parkersburg
Laura Marilyn Boggs
Athens
Rosa Evil
Sizer
Martha Longfellow
Spencer
Ida Philips
Elizabeth
Margie Philips
Billings
Hoyt Evitsizer
Elizabeth Derricks
Charleston
Oliver Boggs
G. W. Boggs
Reedy
DeVause Snyder
Millfield
Carrie Gainer
Mike Miller
R. M. Alien
Earnest Howard
Walter Greiner
Harold Greiner
L. A. Townsend
Hunger May Bring About Collapse of Germany
War Today notes that Allied offensives press two German communications hubs while Red Army advances threaten Berlin. British experts warn famine could reach autumn levels, with 16 million tons of food lost to Russian advances and refugee flows, risking morale collapse as the Nazi fight to finish persists.
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Germany
Dewitt MacKenzie
United Nations
Kleve
Pruem
Reich
Moscow Radio
Berlin
Beer supply cut by 12 percent under WFA order
Washington reports the War Food Administration announced a 12 percent reduction in malt allotments for brewers from March 1 to August 31, likely reducing beer output and prompting formula changes to stretch malt supplies. Officials said the move aims to conserve malt during wartime.
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Washington
War Food Administration
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