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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1943
Page
4
San Francisco notes Vigilanes committees in San Francisco and Canada linked to Daniel Boone meeting Kentucky in 1768. Report mentions historical meeting and late 18th century frontier contacts with Native Nations referenced.
Lucie Kinsolving recalls wartime duties with the Red Cross in Africa and Europe. She describes aiding soldiers, managing clubs in Oran and Algiers, hospital support, and the daily adjustments of Red Cross volunteers amid war conditions. The piece highlights morale building, cultural exchanges, and soldier gratitude during World War II.
Fragmentary OCR note from La Nous quotes a bemused line about folly and complaint. The readable portion hints at a tongue in cheek critique but lacks coherent context or identifiable events, people, or places for a full summary.
Framingham recruiting station announces eleven new ratings in the SeaBees expanding the Construction Battalion to 84 specialized jobs. Chief Officer George Gordon says the vacancies must be filled to speed up victory as skilled tradesmen ages 17 to 50 are sought from surrounding communities.
An old notice urges those skilled in above trades to visit Framingham Navy Re-Teetie Station at the Post Office Ingas. The station operates daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., except Sundays.
Dr Howard H Russell veteran anti liquor advocate predicts national move toward prohibition. He cites local option drives spreading from city to county and cites churches and reformers as driving forces. He says the country will be dry by 1960 and he will live to see it.
The narrative recalls Smitty and fellow GIs repelling a midnight Japanese river crossing. A machine gun keeps firing until a grenade ends its run, injuring Smitty and others. He is later taken to base hospital blinded in one eye and wounded in the other after allegedly firing on roughly 200 enemy soldiers.
A fragmented quiz offers multiple choice items on vocabulary and general knowledge including flowers geography and civics. It includes garbled options and misprinted letters but presents an instruction to indicate answers, check accuracy, and tally a score.
In military jargon slam man refers to a soldier on detail and slam burner denotes the cook, with both terms describing distinct duties within Army routine.
The writer vents about Michael Nee and the registrar of voters in a rambling, humorous tirade. He riffs on citizenship law and Newton era anecdotes, musing on fame, baths, and local gossip while lamenting a town as a “total loss” if Michael leaves.
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