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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
5
Local and personal items list Edith Beebe staying in Toledo with her niece, and numerous visits and travels among Carey area residents. Guests include Charles Baxter and the Osborne duo in Everett, and many others from Findlay, Upper Sandusky, Marion, and Akron. Military updates note Jack Tean’s arrival in France and Putnam’s combat badges.
Local notes list community visits and brief family updates from Carey township. Mentions Trubey’s Restaurant dinner, visits by Ruth Restman Ella Walter, and various relatives traveling to Findlay Toledo Fort Bragg Brooks Field and England through wartime postings.
Tech Sergeant Carl R Thomas 23 of Findlay is missing in action in France since July 11. He served with the antitank group of the 4th division overseas since January. Relatives fear he may be a prisoner of war in Germany amid unconfirmed agency notes and a Toledo photo rumor.
For 15 years Ohio anglers returned tags to the fish management section. W YP Heimann and partner Willard Bower caught an 18 inch channel catfish near Buckeye Lake that was tagged June 12 1934 near Edgewater Beach. The fish was at least seven years old, a five year tag plus the original tagging age, setting a long standing Ohio record.
Arden Dunlap visited in Tiffin on Monday afternoon with Mrs Felix Lab and daughter Low. They spent Monday to Saturday in Akron with Mr Lab who is employed there. Miss Louelle Stall and Miss Norma Gibeon plan an indefinite stay in Los Angeles, visiting Miss Stolls uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Frank Miller. Mr and Mrs Paul McNutt and children Kathleen Donald and Fler. Jane of ueaur Sycamore and Mr and Mrs Merrill Ritter and Mrs Lillie Karr of south of Carey visited Mrs J J Stoll and Mr and Mrs F M McDeonald Saturday evening. Mr and Mrs Weldon Bright and children Janet and Charles and Mrs Richard Barchent and son Richard of Findlay and Robert Bright home on leave from Great Lakes Ill were supper guests of Mrs Nora Rangeler and Mr and Mrs Clarence McCormick and children Monday evening. Typewriter periods adding machine ribbons any make machine at The Carey Times.
A Treasury notice urges saving through U S War Bonds to fund domestic purchases after the war. It notes refrigerators are scarce as plants switch to war material, and pledges four dollars back for every three invested at maturity. It promotes payroll savings plans with a call to exceed ten percent.
The Ohio Department of Highways and the Federal Public Roads Administration conduct field tests on highway sign lettering using 36 signs along a route in Franklin County. Observers, including men and women, read signs at 25 mph to measure legibility of different letter heights and spacing.
Mr and Mrs William Ponting hosted Sunday guests with Defiance relatives as news arrived that Pvt Oliver H Mullholand 37, son of Henry Mullholand, had died of wounds from Guam. Muriel Mullholand, a WAVE in Washington, discovered the notice in casualty lists and rushed to Defiance to tell grieving parents.
A vintage quotation urges facing weakness directly with a call to action. It questions running away and champions immediate confrontation as the path to survival and strength.
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