Reed Point News Tidbits From December Events
Reed Point items note a well attended sale last Tuesday and a thriving Christmas seal drive with 75 20 dollars raised. The community reports moving plans as families relocate and a basketball trip to Absarokee ends with a close score. A birth in Alpine Tex and illness news in Twin Bridges are recorded along with local shifts in housing and business property.
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Evelyn Myers
George Lamb
N. P
Missoula
Raleigh Brumfield
Jeanie Kay
Mary Ann
Judy
Bremerton
Wash
Brumfield
Kenneth Goddard
Bue
Orrestad
Reed Point High
Absarokee
Harry Schmitt
Old Carpenter Ranch
Jack Williams
J. L. Rash
Sergeant
Robert Mysse
Alpine
Tex
Sheryle Fay
Carl Eder
Earl Neihart
Doris Eder
Twin Bridges
Mont
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P. A. Huntley
Thompson Yards
A. W. Neumann
Neumanns
Susie Poundstone
Echo Smith
Raymon Smith
San Francisco
Calif
Western Union
Western Union College
Billings
Car Imlay
Imlay
M. VanCampen
Jane Albin
R. Cunningham
P. MeiKeith
Arthur Sibbit
Tom Hovland
Gus Westerhaus
O. L. Shutes
P Peterson
Masonic Lodge
A. P. Brumfield
W. M
George Berrie
S. W
Pleun Reohoal
J. W
Chas. Renfield
R. V. West
S. D
Thomas Deckert
J. D
A. E. Harsha
S. T
Floyd Perguson
J. S
H. H. Marlow
Tuter
Chas
Ekenfield
Chas. Kenfield
Virg West
Lorraine Schroeder
Ella Mae Agrimson
Louise McBride
Tax Legislation Delayed to Next Session
Washington December 18 The House approved a Senate backed resolution to adjourn the first session of the Seventy eighth Congress at the end of business Tuesday A second resolution fixes reconvening January 10 delaying final action on tax legislation the consumer subsidy program soldier vote laws and railway employee pay The adjournment passed 200 to 17 in the House
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Washington
House
Senate
Seventy Eighth Congress
Farodies and Poems by Jerome Williams
A small item advertises Farodies and Poems by Jerome Williams priced at 50 cents. The notice appears in a period advertisement page for literary works.
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Farodies
Jerome Williams
Holidays News and Local Updates from Big Timber
Local residents share holiday travel plans and returns from cities like Idaho Falls Tucson and Chicago. Military and civilian moves are noted with health trips to Mayo's Rochester Mayo's hospital stays and Navy and Army entries. Community events include church services ration notices and a Big Timber 33 Gardiner 17 basketball recap.
Allied Ace Air Attacks Aimed at Kavieng and New Britain
General MacArthur announced Allied forces repelled sixteen Japanese planes in three attacks on American positions in New Britain. Allied carriers sank two medium vessels and damaged a destroyer off Kavieng as part of ongoing offensive actions. A spokesman rejected a US report that MacArthur would soon return home. Soviet paratroops were said to be landing in the Baltic states ahead of a Red Army advance. A grand Allied command structure for the western invasion appeared possible with Eisenhower, an officer for the Mediterranean, and Marshall in a senior staff role.
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Aerican
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Kavieng
New Ireland
United States
MacArthur
Baltic States
London
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mediterranean
George C. Marshall
Bombers Strike Northwest Germany in Huge Allied Raid
London dispatch says hundreds of American heavy bombers and escort fighters hit northwest Germany on Wednesday for the tenth attack on the Reich’s shipbuilding and industrial area since November 1. Forty-five planes failed to return, and 25 bombers and fighters were lost in the extreme cold with temperatures down to 52 degrees below zero.
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London
Germany
United States
Fighth Air Force
Reich
Allied push targets Rome area strongholds under heavy attack
Allied headquarters report intense assaults by American and Canadian troops on the German defense line below Rome at San Vittore and Ortona. An announcement of capture was expected soon as combat continued Wednesday night. Russia’s First Baltic army advanced toward Vitebsk, capturing 20 towns and villages in their drive, with stockholm dispatches noting the progress.
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Algiers
Rome
San Vittore
Ortona
London
Russia
Vitebsk
Stockholm
Reduction in Official Travel Cuts Gasoline Use Across States
The Office of Price Administration reports 38 states and D C cut official automobile travel by 38 governments saving almost 6 million gallons of gasoline and 11 500 prewar tires in three months ending June 30 1942 Mileage fell 72 660 097 miles from the 1941 period with eight states meeting the 40 percent reduction goal led by Montana and Connecticut showing the largest passenger car cuts Pennsylvania logged the most miles saved at over 7 million
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Washington
District of Columbia
Office of Price Administration
Montana
Connecticut
Wyoming
Washingington
Pennsylvania
Canadians Break Into Ortona After Heavy Bombardment
Canadian troops and tanks pushed from two sides into Ortona on the Italian Adriatic coast and fought street battles with Nazi defenders within the battered town. A heavy artillery bombardment cleared mined approaches after a fortnight of German resistance.
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Algiers
Ortona
Latest Casualty Figures Announced
The latest casualty total for the U S armed forces stands at 131 098 with W S D Stimson reporting figures through Nov 30. Army casualties totaled 98 594 in all theaters including 15 334 killed 35 049 wounded 23 725 missing and 24 486 prisoners of war.
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Washington
United States
Stimson
Fifth Army
Italy
Want to Rent Modern Two Bedroom House Inquire Neer
Classified notice listing a two bedroom rental in Montana with contact Pio neer. Also includes several sale offers and wartime casualty totals with updates on soldiers killed wounded missing and prisoners.
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Pioneer
Live Stock Bill of Sale books at Pioneer office
A notice announces stock bill of sale books available at the Pioneer office for fifty cents each.
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Pioneer Office
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