Local Social Notes Highlight Mt Pleasant Area Visits
Saturday and Sunday visits feature Mr and Mrs Claud Hartman of Mt Pleasant, Mr and Mrs John Hartman of North Arthur, and Mrs Florence Lytle returning from Detroit. Guests include Henry Hall, Leo Brown family, Bonnie Lee Witbeck birthday party, and multiple travel to and from Clare Alma Beaverton Lansing Pontiac Mid land and Ewart. Corp Arnold Brooks and Gwen Dible wedding noted with Camp Rucker Alabama assignment.
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Claud Hartman
Mt. Pleasant
Milla Bostian
Clare Hospital
Henry Hall
Big Rapids
George Wisler
John Hartman
North Arthur
Ernest Green
George Brown
Alma
Leo Brown
Florence Lytle
Detroit
Albert Myers
Robert Myers
Mr. Pleasant
Jack Bouchey
Marvin Witbeck
Bonnie Lee
Lon Hoffmeyer
New Arrivals At Blystone and Kennedy Homes
Mr and Mrs Norris Blystone announce Linda Lee a eight pound daughter born at 6:00 Thursday morning December 10 Mrs Blystone daughter of Dr and Mrs F Sanford Mr and Mrs Durward Kennedy announce a baby daughter Helen born Tuesday afternoon December 15 weighing six pounds at birth at their home
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Norris .Blystone
Linda Lee
Community Notes From Flint and Nearby Towns
Frank Nash of Flint spent the weekend at home. Rev. A. J. Brower of the Belgium Congo visits the Rev. Redman home this week. Mrs. Arlie Clough of Bay City visits her parents Mr. and Mrs. Dee Robinette. Mr. and Mrs. John Markell and family in Pontiac. Mrs. Barney Rainwater shopped in Bay City. visits husband. Rev. Earle Redman attended the Grand Rapids Bible Conference. Rev. and Mrs. Roy Munger of Midland with Mr. and Mrs. Treston Bonham visited Bonham parents in Pontiac. LaVerne Fay and Maxine Hanel with grandparents went to Alma for funeral services of Mrs. Ted Hanel at Moody Funeral Home.
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Frank Nash
Flint
A. J. Brower
Belgium Congo
Africa
Charles Bonham, Jr
Pontiac
LaVerne
Fay
Maxine Hanel
Albert Reed
Alma
Ted Hanel
Moody Funeral Home
Shepherd Cemetery
A&P Employees to Receive Added Compensation This Christmas
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company announces $1 4 million in extra pay to all A and P employees with six months service or more nationwide. The plan, approved by president John A Hartford, mirrors last year's distribution and will be issued before Christmas.
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Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
John A. Hartford
New ODT ruling reduces paperwork for truck fleets
Office of Defense Transportation announces amendment to General Order No 21. Fleet operators will submit weekly fleet mileage load and gasoline use on the master certificate, while individual trucks only require inspection reports on the sub certificates. Earl Wathen, ODT district manager, made the statement Monday.
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Office of Defense Transportation
Earl Wathen
ODT
Wathen
Youve Met One A Snob Who Shuns Gentle Humour
A compact reflection defines an intellectual snob as someone who feels mentally superior to peers. It borrows Abe Martin’s line that education is fine only if it does not become obnoxious. The piece mocks pretentiousness with wit and a timely quip.
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Abe Martin
Steel output tops Axis in 1941 wartime surge noted
The War Production Board reports U S steel production in 1941 reached 82 927 557 ingot tons and is estimated to hit 86 million in 1942 while Axis output stood at about 74 million ingot tons. About 15 percent goes to direct war use with 80 percent of steel delivered at ratings A 1 A.
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Washington
United States
War Production Board
Iron and Steel
Europe
David F. Austin
Iron and Steel Branch
Austin
Pearl Harbor
Lights and laughs in wartime New York columns
A wartime column notes a Hotel Paris blackout causing a crowded lobby and a jumper mailed from a grateful son. It recounts Gwen Dew’s Hong Kong siege memories, a Delmonico open house shoe swap with a submarine commander, and light vignettes on war time street life and long bank inactivity lists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gwen Dew
Detroit
Hong Kong
Madison Avenue
Delmonico
LaRue
Hairdresser from Omaha Aims to Scalp Hitler
Salvatore Consentino a Omaha born beauty shop hairdresser who served in the Italian army and now plans to join the American army declares he wants a chance to scalp Hitler. He says he would like to scalp him and his brothers may be on the other side.
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Omaha
Salvatore
Sammy
Consentino
Hitler
Italy
Ethiopia
Albania
England
Buddies of 1918 Meet in Sacramento Defense Site
Deputy sheriff Vernon Hollinshead and former comrade Manuel Maciel, both buglers in the Seventh Division’s 247th Field Artillery, recognize each other at a California defense project entrance after decades apart from wartime service in France.
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Sacramento
Calif
Vernon Hollinshead
California Defense
Hollinshead
Manuel Maciel
France
247Th Field Artillery
Beach Umbrella Helps Thieves Rob Store in Philadelphia
A Philadelphia burglary uses a beach umbrella as a screen outside a shop. Crooks cut a door panel and entered the store stealing a radio school supplies candy and cigarettes before fleeing. The umbrella was borrowed from a lawn in front of the shop.
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Philadelphia
Boys Turn Scrap Rubber into Daily Find at Curve
In the village of Antwerp New York police spotted boys gathered at a road curve leading to a military reservation. They collected up to five pounds of scrap rubber daily torn from armored vehicle treads as they raced around the bend.
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Antwerp
N. Y
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Lansing
Tony Rade
George Gibbs
Army
Carson Harvey
Farwell
C. D. Harvey
Jenny Long
Beaverton
Goldy Cascaddan
Leo Neff
H. J. Ballard
Leslie Markell
Priest Stevens
Ralph Stevens
Theda Hall
Arlene Howlett
Ernest Beale
Albert Hodson
John Ruby
Higgins Lake
L. H. Thompson
Edward Dusso
Art Sisco
Long Lake
William Bowler
Mona Jean Harvey
Phyllis Frey
Mona Rae Johnson
Saginaw
Treston Bonham
Roy Munger
Midland
Bob Roth
Baby
Harrison
William Wilson
Wheaton Avenue
H. C. Cudney
Ypsilanti
Gordon Speer
Clayton Jackson
Whitlock
East Fifth Street
B. C. Bruce
Ralph Shoemaker
Chris Seiter
West Branch
William Seiter
James Whittmer
Lawrence
Charles Bonham
Charles
Ernest Nunn
Corp
Arnold Brooks
Gwen Dible
Hartford
Art Damoth Agency
McEwan Street
Clare, Michigan
Clarified Bakery
A&p
North Star Grocery Company
Bird’s Eye
Ailaxis
U. S
Lights of
New York
L. L. Stevenson
Hotel
Paris
John Garrison
New York City
Manhattan
Park Avenue
Forty-ninth Street
Keenan Wynn
Jatte Froman
Ezra Stone
Jackie Kelk
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Vampler
Poris
Ame
Shulton
Coty
Max Factor
Houbigant
Leatheric Review
Chen-Yu
Remington Rand and Schick
Eversharp
Houghton Drug Store
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