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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1942
Page
7
Squash are very tender and easily injured by frost, so cover them in the field to prevent damage. Allow them to harden in the field and then harvest by removing from the vines without breaking the stems.
A vivid collage describes Fifth Avenue dog soap, Toscanini’s bow at a 57th Street shop, daylit Broadway, a Taft Hotel window binoculars scene, the Queen of 47th Street, and the Music Hall lounge. It notes wartime chatter, the kidnap scare in Westchester solved quickly, a nurse’s case and possible ten year sentence, gas rationing gripes, and a court-room shorthand anecdote amid city life snapshots.
A brisk, image-filled column sketches wartime Washington life in May 1942. It memories social scenes, traffic limits, Navy visits, and fashion notes through sharp vignettes of officials, cabbies, WAACs, a decorated commander, and Bowery misery. It blends humor with tension as the city adjusts to rationing and duty.
World War I records mark Alvin York with 132 Germans captured and Keith Elliott of New Zealand with 130 prisoners near Ruweisat in Egypt. Elliott led a charge after heavy tank attacks, single handedly took a machine gun nest, suffered three wounds, and handed over 130 prisoners.
The Plumbing and Heating Industries bureau reports Americans average 120 gallons of water per person daily and highlights bath room counts as a measure of domestic water use.
A historic claim notes that the eastern North American Indians occupied the region for centuries before the first white settlers arrived, with evidence indicating settlement shortly before the Christian era.
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