Those Big Words on Mays Stand for Little Things
The piece notes how grand phrases about Mays mask small actions and includes a quirky roundup of language notes from a geographic names expert. It mentions post-war name spellings and examples from around the world, highlighting potential future map names and the ease of retaining native forms. A final line references a Peru forecast to yield 20,000 pounds of fish-net cord and 12,000 pounds of candlewicks this year.
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Saya Tsagaan
Velikie Lakhant
Huitenzorg
Nagpur
India
Ina
Meredith F. Burrill
Ofic Board of Geographical Names
Burrill
Rome
Roma
Venice
Vencala
Joe Green
Glusenpe Verdu
Peru
Radio Board Plans Hansel and Gretel Adaptation Feature
The Junior Radio Huard at Charleston will sponsor the last of the current musical picture series an adaptation of Hansel and Gretel on WOKY at 115 ppm Friday. Emma Lewis Thomas and Tommy Ziebald in leading roles with Mrs M J Toney and Mrs Hy L Babrock singing. Ziebald will play a piano score arrangement and Phil Voget will narrate. Planning committee includes Mrs Ziebold mushe Mrs Howard Cammack and others. Next series starts in February and an exhibit of student drawings poems sketches and notebooks will be held early next month.
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Radio Huard
Charleston
Hansel and Gretel
WOKY
William 0. Ziebald
Emma Lewis Thomas
Rommy Ziebald
M. J. Toney
Hy. L. Babrock
Ziebald
Phil Voget
Ziebold
Mushe
Howard Cammack
Silas W. Pickering
George Fremon
Robert Cassady
Guillotine May Execute 9 French Gestapo Men
Paris dispatch reports the guillotine may be used to execute nine French Gestapo members sentenced to death for collaboration with Germany during the Nazi occupation. The group includes Charles Bory and Heard Lafant plus seven others linked to murders kidnappings tortures extortion and robberies in political guise. The two youngest defendants were given life terms. Am a Kheder received life hard labor for collusion with Germans.
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Gestapo
Pahis
Charles Bory
Lafant
Germany
Lfe
Fdmend
Delehaye
Fresnes
Second Collaboration Court
Amar Kheder
Kheder
Ile
France
Pvt Jordan recalls brutal fight on Leyte Island in Philippines
Private William O. Jordan, son of Mr and Mrs W C Jordan of 901 Hanna Dr, describes a tense crawl up a hill on Leyte during WW II. He recounts a heavy machine gun burst at close range, bullets tearing grass, and his unit advancing to capture ridges towns bridges and corduroys while mortars and machine guns boomed nearby.
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Leytesland
William O. Jordan
W. C. Jordan
Hanna
Philippines
Pet. Jordan
Nutrition Meeting Postponed at Ruffner Hotel
A nutrition meeting planned for this evening at the Ruffner hotel has been postponed indefinitely. State health department and state nutrition committee sponsored the event. principal speaker Dr Walter Wilkins of the War Food Administration and others could not attend due to prolonged highways.
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Ruffner
State Health Department
State
Walter Wilkins
War Food Administration
Milk Output Per Cow Highest in 10 Years
Milk production per cow in West Virginia crop reporting herds averaged 187 pounds on Dec 1 the highest in ten years. The figure rose from 2.7 pounds last year while feed use and pastures aided output. November weather boosted overall feed from pastures and the November egg output reached a new record with 26 million eggs, while a local firm reported declines in other metrics.
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West Virginia Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Gen
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Three Held to Grand Jury on Liquor Law Charges
Three men faced grand jury action in municipal court on liquor law violations. George Edwards and G N Fart of 409 Lee St were held on $5001 bonds each for possession and sale of whisky and aiding and abetting, while W Chris Meadows of 1 Cayer Ct pleaded not guilty to possession of whisky and was jailed on a $500 bond. Mrs Qkey Wayne of 41712 Lee St and her husband faced charges of possession and aiding abetting with $100 fines and suspended one day in jail. A stray line notes a 1963 French pneumatic keyboard device.
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George Edwards
Lee St
G. N. Fart
W. Chris Meadows
Cayer Ct
Srut Gale
Qkey Wayne
Lee Sr
Bennetts Made Member of I Bombed Japan Club
Staff sergeant Dye Bennett, armorer-gunner, was issued two membership cards in the I Bombed Japan Club. The organization comprises combat personnel who bombed Japanese positions in their home territory in the Kurile Islands. He is the husband of Bernice Bennett of 220 Truslow Street, State.
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Set. Bennett
E Bombe
Japan’ Club
Dye Bennett
Japan
Homve
Kurile Island
Bernice Bennett
Truslow SL
Bennett Medalist Ties to Tomari Saki Raids and Pacific Service
Bennett earned Legion membership through raid participation at Tomari Saki. He served 13 months in the Aleutians and completed 24 combat missions for the Asiatic-Pacific ribbon, Kurite, bronze star. Auxiliary Plans Christmas Party at Mrs Byrne Given residence 701 Hunt Ave Friday at 30.2 im.
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Bennett
Tomari Saki
Aleutians
Brawley Post No
American Legion
Fragmentary 19th Century Diary Snippet on Ulcers and Pain
A damaged clipping references stomach ulcers indigestion and pain with garbled names Milas T Hilditeh and Napoleon noted as a conqueror turned victim. It hints at hosting roles and medical misery but yields few clear facts.
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Milas T Hilditeh
Hilditeh
Napoleon
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