Twenty Years Ago Ag Taken From Journal Piles Muy fenes
Selections from a Corry newspaper note a sudden strike at the U S Ferilalor Corry plant with molders and helpers walking out this morning. Community plans include a cemetery association and a three day teachers schoolroom program led by Miss Prancis Haire and Supt Hemstreet to promote physical and recreational work in Corry schools.
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U. S. Farilalor Company
Corry
Prantis Haire
Community Service
Hemstreet
Tropical Fruits Grow Scarcer As Shipping Difficulties Mount
Wartime shipping problems reduce tropical fruit imports and raise prices. Bananas, once plentiful, face a 40 percent or more drop in imports as banana steamships shift to war materiel. Central American supplies struggle to reach the United States while pineapples may rebound with canned stocks growing. Olives stay fairly available but shipments from Spain drop. California alfalfa harvests ease some pressure on tropical fruit shortages amid huge domestic production.
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Alexander George
Wide World
Washington
Brebanana Steamships
Tropics
Alexander the Grant
Valley of the Indus
B.C
Alvilian
Honduras
Guatemala
Panama
Mexico
Hawaii
Pevanse
Pacific
Spain
Calfornia
Reaction in Germany to U S War Declaration and Second Front Fear
An analysis quotes Sir Stafford Cripps noting German unease as Britain and the United States push for a second front. The piece predicts a near-term shift from nervousness to offensive action as two fronts close on the Nazi regime, with Germany pressured by Allied advances toward two strong fronts.
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Germany
Hillier de
United States
Sir Stafford Scripps
Southwest China’s hill tribes resist Japanese invasion
In southwest China the Maso and Talo hill peoples predate Han Chinese presence. They raid Chinese valleys, but Chinese tribute stabilizes relations as Japan advances. The tribes practice separate religion and picture-writing, including a swastika symbol.
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Burma
Yumen
Examos
China
Southwest
Hitler
Tunnan
War crimes and killing attitudes across Axis powers
The text contrasts German and Japanese killing practices, noting indiscriminate slaughter as faster among the Japanese due to racial attitudes, while Germans under Hitler are described as hardened yet compliant to savage orders. It references civilian mass killings, fear as a motive, and mentions vast wartime costs and looting by Axis forces.
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Hitler
Europe
Trea
Penis Kian
Burl Broder Leads Debate on Amnesty Termtime
A fragmentary report notes Burl Broder, a figure associated with the Domephlish party, presenting a poetical vision urging divine spirition and a future government policy. Ms. Boowder is mentioned in connection with the discussion and a public audience.
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ARS
Amnesty
Domephlish Party
Divine
Spirition
Boowder Bineeli
Barriers to the War Effort Face State Law Roadblocks
War time friction grows as thousands of state laws on trucking loads weights and operating rules impede defense transport. Leaders warn reform is needed or the federal government will act. Along with transport constraints, housing, licensing and labor rules threaten 1942 war production and raise prices.
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Uncle Sam
Tbe
Peave
Tucker
Panama
Joseph B. Eastman
Defense Transportation
Washington Conference of Governors
Zoy
Hanper
Browder
Bassman
Eaner
Daily Quiz: Can You Answer Seven Of These?
A reader challenge listing ten quiz prompts from a classified column. Questions cover world cities, OPA administrator, an author pen name, ancient Rome, meter on earth, currency paper legality, bayonet weight, Python venom, vacuum operation, and the Tropic of Capricorn.
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Berlin
Tokio
OPA
Office of Price Administrtion
Ethel Vance
United States
Equator
Fractional facts from a curious wartime jumble of figures
A garbled clipping claims US families waste 100 pounds of paper every ten weeks and links this to wartime uses such as shells and carrier cartons. It oddly notes a Florida town circus aiding patriotism by relocating to make room for machine tools, then a Michigan dog pulling toward fish in sight of its master.
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United States
Florida
Wine Tor
Caesarean origins myth and 1937 women in legislatures
The piece debunks the Julius Caesar myth about Caesarean births noting earlier Roman history and the true basis of the term. It discusses the practice’s safety gains for mothers and infants and reflects on Philadelphia as a temporary U.S. capital era. It cites that in 1937, 140 women served in 35 state legislatures.
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Julius Caesar
Pliny
Caesar
Julius
Philadelphia
United States
Washington
United Stat
Clothing rationing in Switzerland delays purchases for newcomers
Factographs note that Switzerland imposes ration tickets for clothing. Without a ticket, residents cannot buy shirts, shoes, salt, overcoats, soap, or shaving cream. A newcomer named Bloeo must reside in a Swiss city for three months to receive tickets enabling clothing purchases. Then it mentions dancing as a required course at the U S West Polini Military Academy.
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Switzerland
Bléo
U. S. West Polini Military Academy
Australia Declares 150 Years Of Dominion Status
Fragmented OCR shows Australia described as Deen set eq for 150 years with a dominion status and federal structure. Mentions a parliament with senate and house, plus references to a United States battle or event and automotive smoke related to Jesu powder.
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Australia
Senate
API House of Representative
United States
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