Roadside Park Opens Near Charleston With Picnic Facilities
The Charleston Gazette promoting wartime morale urges readers to enjoy short trips to roadside parks. It highlights a Kanawha boulevard location east of Charleston offering 51 picnic tables, 10 fireplaces, four fountains, restrooms, playgrounds, and parking for 80. A caretaker maintains the site opened last season with thousands visiting. the piece asks readers who values the park to oppose closing it.
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Charleston
Kanawha Boulevard
Kanawha City Bridge
First in West Virginia June 7 1943 notice
Fragmentary archival notice from a West Virginia paper dated Monday morning June 7 1943 credits Associated Press dispatches and lists Cherlevion post office with entry as second class mail.
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Arsonea Pra
Vnca Srey
Hettin
Poat
Cherlevion
W. Va
Clase
West Virginia
A Thought For Today From Victor Hugo Quote
A nineteenth century wise saying envisions a future where war, hatred, borders, dogmas, and death fade away. The speaker expects humans to aspire to a higher ideal, imagining a great country, a united earth, and a vast hope surpassing present divisions.
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Aatred
Victor Hugo
Government War Plants Investment Is Itself a Profit Venture
A critical analysis of the 14 billion dollar Defense Plant program reveals the government will earn income from war plants through leases and rent tied to sales. The article questions postwar ownership, potential monopolies, and the fate of plants, warning of political shifts affecting repayments and private takeovers. It highlights Jesse Jones as key figure and notes schemes to retain or privatize assets after hostilities end.
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Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Jesse. Jones
Defense Plant Corporation
Jessee
Postwar planning debate splits Republicans over world aims
The piece condemns Gov Bricker and Sen Taft for resisting broad postwar aims and argues the Republican advisory committee on postwar planning undermines constructive planning. It says the move is an anti planning coup within the party and warns that Republicans must decide if the board will craft a world plan or block planning. News commentary frames Bricker Taft Harrison Spangler linkage and Republican flaws.
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Gov
Bricker
Ohio
Jess
Sen
Taft
Harrison Spangler
National Republican Advisory Committee
National Republican Organization
Republicary
New York Herald Tribe
Postewar World
Republican Party
America
USO Camp Shows Mobilize 350 Offshore Performers
Damon Runyon reports USO camp shows through Lastfogel employ about 350 offshore performers and 1500 in the United States to entertain American troops. Offshore units reach Europe Africa and the Caribbean, with efforts to schedule monthly shows at camps nationwide. The task is 24 hours a day, with Lastfogel guiding 22 industry reps and Hollywood pledges of six weeks of work.
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Lastfogel
USO
United Service Organization
United States
Europe
North Africa
Caribbean
Newfoundland
Alaska
Panama
South
Patitle
Joe E. Brown
Army
Navy
Jon
Bill Dover
Lastlegel
Hollywood
Roadside Parks Benefit Neighbors In Local Outings
State Road commission faces criticism for opening roadside parks this summer arguing few travelers justify the cost. The piece contends parks are popular with nearby residents, require little driving, and offer healthy, attractive spots for picnics and neighborly gathering.
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State Road Commission
Nesbit Ration Tales at White House Mayhem
Washington Merry-Go-Round reports on Mrs. Nesbit, White House keeper, juggling ration points for visitors including Presidents from Bolivia and Czechoslovakia, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, and British guests. The piece mixes satire with wartime rationing woes and White House routines.
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House Matianing Ars
Henrietta Nesvnt
Ford
Chiang Kai Shek
White House
May
Bolivia
Czechoslovakia
Lieberia
Great Britain
Madame Chiang
Nesbit
Roosevelt
Buttering Swedish Bread
London dispatch from June 1 describes an American press party in Sweden, praised hospitality, and details about navigating Sweden’s location under German blockade. The writer notes limited flight routes, weather delays, and a near encounter with German airspace while leaving.
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Ondon
London
Sweden
Shangri-La
England
Leslie Howard
Lisbon
North Sea
Erith Isles
Swedes eye postwar air link to Moscow via New York
Raymond Clapper notes Swedish pilots and financiers backing a postwar pan continental air service. Capt. Karl Lindner leads five to fly blind with instruments for a Swedish mission now in America. Sweden aims to connect New York, the British Isles, Sweden and Moscow with reciprocal cooperation with Pan-American and Allied lines.
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Karl Lindner
America
North Atlantic Air Line
Air Nine
Germany
New York
British Isles
Sweden
Moscow
Hey
England
The Long View on Dangerous Political Doc Line
An editorial warns against a dangerous theory dismissing scholars and dreamers as impediments to progress. It recalls Europe’s fate, cites Nazi Fascist disintegration, and stresses vigilance against returning to old orders. It lauds youthful thinkers shaping social and economic reform.
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United States
Washington
America
Europe
No title in this fragment but a wartime plea for progress
Leslie B Bain argues against anti reform forces hailing a shift from old ways and warns of a deliberate campaign to derail postwar plans. He condemns cynical propaganda, urges faith in a just order, and cautions that clinging to the past risks civilizational decline and darkness.
Miners and wartime struggles prompt readers notes
Readers urge miners and citizens to back the war effort, arguing coal is essential and miners should work despite strikes led by a puppet king. A letter critiques rationing for babies as a wartime manpower solution, suggesting drastic measures to end war and avoid postwar courts.
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Editor Gazette
John L
Guy
America
Eculor Gazette
L. D. Wintzen
Australian longshoremen and wartime labor tensions
In Stead argues that Australian longshoremen would refuse to unload military cargo under rain, citing CIO union publications The Voice and The Pilot. The letter from Major HOR Herrung praises American crew cooperation, while Australian concerns over heavy gear and smok e breaks are noted. Gen. MacArthur reportedly approved soldier labor limits.
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AN Francisco
Curtin
The
Voice
Marine Cooks and Stewards
Pilot
Joseph Curetan
National Maritime Union
CIO
Knights of Labor
T. Healy
Australian Waterside Workers Federation
Healy
Australia
Jongshoree
Arry Brit
Longstoremen
Fragmentary political quip notes and oddities
The text presents a garbled mash of phrases about predicting the world, a desire to police the works after a mousetrap incident, local Jet Springs food ambitions, a grand restaurant with a tiny cash register, charity starting at home, and Central Africa tribes needing white flour. It reads like fragmented, nonsensical OCR with no clear, coherent news event or identifiable individuals.
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Sumner Welles
Adolf
Jet Springs
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Michigan
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John Te
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Washighn
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Haly
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Fale
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