Pronunciation quirks in American speech noted
A Jefferson City newspaper column critiques radio announcer mispronunciations and dictionary updates. It cites common errors in route and ration, stresses on adults and al Jies, and mentions Webster’s shifts from bureau to burocktasi. It discusses sedate changes in English usage and pronunciation among educated Americans and senators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stutdio
buRocrasi
Bureau
Senate Finance Committee
Webster
Stoddard
Tical
Nic cal-Liope
Churchill Sees All Out Air War As Shortening Tool
Prime Minister Churchill endorses continuing the full air offensive on Germany as the main weapon to shorten the war. He warns against over optimism despite heavy damage to Germany’s war production and aviation sectors, noting fighter output cut by about 70 percent and most German fighters now opposing Allied raids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churchill
Germany
Hitler
London
War policy and global fight on all fronts in wartime notes
President Roosevelt pushes veterans preference in federal hiring and seeks wartime powers to designate jobs for veterans. The writeup covers Allied advances in the Pacific and Italy, Soviet advances, and heavy Allied air raids on Germany. It questions strikes during war and praises Dorothy Thompson and local figures recovering from illness while urging Missouri to meet draft quotas amid global conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Congress
South Pacific
Italy
Russia
Germany
Contouring boosts yields on Missouri slopes study finds
County Agent Clyde Brown reports over 200 Cole County farmers used contour farming last year. A Missouri multi county study shows yield gains up to 22 percent on steeper slopes, with reduced erosion and better corn stands when contouring around the slope, and more experiments planned for 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cole
Cole County
Clyde Brown
Missouri
Missouri College of Agriculture
Soil Conservation Service
Brown
Hill to Continue President of Missouri War Chest
Robert E. Lee Hill of Columbia will remain as president of the Missouri War Chest Inc during 1944. He was re elected Monday at a planning meeting for a nationwide drive to mobilize war relief and combined agencies. Edward D. Dail was re appointed executive director the 1944 quota not yet set. Other officers elected include Edwin J. Stark Norwin D. Houser W Perry Sharp R B Price and Lee Bouldin secretary. Gov Forrest C Donnell named honorary president and Dwight Bedell Foster McHenry Edgar M Eagan R W Brown were named to the board of directors. Bedell has been secretary the past year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Lee Hill
Columbia
Missouri War Chest, Inc
Hill
War Relief
Collior
Imade
Will
Jouri
Edward D. Dail
Edwin J. Stark
Louisiana
Norwin D. Houser
Perryville
W. Perry Sharp
Joplin
R. B. Price
Lee Bouldin
Springfield
Forrest C. Donnell
Dwight Bedell
B. B. Dunn
Edgar M. Eagan
R. W. Brown
Foster McHenry
Jefferson City
Edgar M Eagan
Pre-Invasion Warnings Mean What They Say
London report notes a Supreme Allied Command spokesman urged French listeners by radio to heed pre invasion warnings as they are literal and accurate. He warned against reading between the lines and stressed the warnings mean exactly what they say.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Supreme Allied Command
France
Day and Knight Apply for Seattle Marriage License
Walter J. Day and Agnes Knight applied for a marriage license in Seattle on February 28. The couple filed the request at City Hall, initiating the formal process for their wedding.
Woman Paroled After Check Fraud Case Involving Divorces
A 19 year old woman, Verda Belle Pearon, saw a felony charge reduced to a misdemeanor and was paroled on March 10 after serving about 30 days of a 60 day sentence. In a related session, Judge Hollingsworth granted two divorces and adjusted alimony for Jewell Latham due to remarriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verda Belle Countryman
Pearon
Countryman
E. T. Eversole
Eversole
Pearen
Frank Hollingsworth
Curjtis Quimby
Walter Simpson
Hollingsworth
Quimby
Charles W. Miller
Sponey Ann Miller
Warren Hull
Frances Hull
Jewell Latham
Donald Latham
Chester Harris
Latham
Decorate Lt Pete Nacy In England In Wings of Honor
Lieutenant Pete Nacy has been decorated for outstanding service with a Mustang Fighter group in the European area. He is the son of Mr and Mrs R R Nacy of Greenberry Read and has been overseas since early fall. His unit is led by Lt Colonel James H Howard of St Louis, a noted former Flying Tigers commander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pete Nacy
Nacy
R. R. Nacy
Greenberry Read
James H. Howard
St. Louis
Flying Tigers
Pearl Harbor
France
Germany
St. Peters School
Georgetown University
Air Corps
San Francisco
California
Howard
Harvey Howard
Missouri Commission For the Blind
Only 5 Feet But He’s In the Navy
St Louis dispatch notes Rubin Shenberg, repeatedly rejected as 59.5 inches tall, finally measured exactly five feet after advising officials he should be examined at Jefferson Barracks. Gen Hershey approved the move and Shenberg heads to the navy after the check.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Rubin Shenberg
Shenberg
Louis B. Hershey
Hershey
Jefferson Barracks
Navy
Democratic State Committee Sets March 20 Meeting
The Democratic State Committee meets here at noon on Monday March 20 to select a time and place for the state convention where delegates to the national convention will be chosen and votes apportioned. Mrs Henry Clay Chiles of Lexington issues the call in chairman absence. a new chairman may be chosen with R R Nacy named as possible successor. Missouri is allotted 32 national votes with 26 district delegates and six at large. at large may divide ballots, potentially sending up to 12 delegates, with alternates possible for each delegate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic State Committee
Henry Clay Chiles
Lexington
Walter G. Stillwell
Hannibal
Pacific
Stillwell
Chiles
R. R. Nacy
Missouri
Chicago
Opium Smuggling Uncovered in Chinese Market
A Chinese man trying to buy provisions for a wedding feast was refused a large fish. Police monitored the market and saw the dealer navaigate sales to a specific man with a basket. The fish allegedly contained tons of opium hidden inside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Markets St Louis Produce Price Summary
ST LOUIS Feb 29 AP Produce Eggs 34.5 cents 46 lb avg U S standards 31.5 current receipts 29.5 Poultry Hens 23.9 Leghorns 23.9 Roasters 27.4 Fryers 27.4 Broilers 27.4 Leghorns under 2 lbs 27.4 Leghorns over 2 lbs 23? Ducks 25 white 24 dark 24 Young geese 24.9 Turkeys young under 18 84.9 18 to 22 33?4 over 22 32.4 old
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
U.S
Kansas City
Chicago
Farm and market price roundup from multiple exchanges
Kansas City and Chicago market notes report prices for eggs butter cheese and poultry. Livestock at National Stockyards and Kansas City show higher hogs and steers with steady to higher lambs and cows. regional prices include beef, veal, and sausage bulls with range figures for various weights and grades.
Tomorrow Fair Winifred Halsted Prriakt 1943
Witty story unfolds as Kitty Bishop visits her brother Ben Graham to recover from a painful divorce. She schmoozes with Hullent Mac MacGregor, confronts failed writing, and debates motives with Mac as April weather shifts mood. Kitty seeks meaning amid romance and artistic doubt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winifred Halsted
O Prriakt
Winifed Halsted
REA Service, Inc
Wityy Bishop
Ben Graham
Peg
Collins Bishop
Lawyyer
Kitty
Hullent Mac MacGregor
Kena
Senton
Mas Seall
Livestock market report with varied hogs cattle and calves
Salable hogs total 1 25 000 with weights 200 to 330 lbs mostly top prices 13.90 sparingly good and choice 170 to 190 lbs. Cattle and calves: salable 9 000 cattle 1 000 calves with steers and yearlings at 13.25 to 13.75, stockers 11.00 to 13.00, vealers 13.00 to 15.00. cows and bulls strong, bulls scarce. salable sheep 5 000, lambs around 15.25, Montana stockers shown. Chicago grains: wheat and rye dip on late trading, May wheat 1.70, July 1.6875, rye May 1.27125, oats May 0.80, barley May 1.22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East St. Louis Livestock National Stockyards
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
WFA
Montana
Chicago Grain
Chicago
M& To
Stock market slips as steel and rail shares drag others
Financial news reports a orderly retreat in New York stocks with declines across sectors after steels and rails led the pullback. Industrials failed to hit new peaks, prompting profit-taking and cautious bets ahead of potential war developments, with the 60 stock average down and liquidations rising. In the fiction excerpt, Kitty and Mac navigate tension and closeted longing as they prepare for a possible parting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Associated’ Press
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Atlantic Coast Line
Great Northern
Douglas Aircraft
United Aircraft
Eastern
Commodities and stocks slip in morning trading
Market notes show declines as grains and cotton weaken in early session with mixed recoveries later. Oil, sugar, and paper stocks drift. index activity listed with 276,080 shares turning over versus 320,695 the prior day. Names cited include Park Tilford Western Union American Distiller Pepsi-Cola Sea Roebuck Allied Chemical Cuban Atlantic Sugar Cities Service Electric Bond and Share St Regis Paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aix Lines
American
Estate letters probate and trustee sale notice
Notice concerns letters testamentary granted February 21 1944 for Mary Emmerson estate in Coles County Missouri and a trustee sale March 15 1944 for Jefferson City real estate, plus annual stockholders meeting of Jefferson City Cemetery Company Riverview on March 8 1944 at 308 Monroe Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eees
Fred Harenstein
Probate
Cole County
Missouri
Vami
William Neighorn
T. L., Parrish
Marth
Harley Gay
McCasland
Probat Court
Probate Court
Dolly McCasland Whitley
Kansas
T. L. Parrish
Eda Tanner
Barrish
Isbal
Mary Emmerson
Coles County
America Stinson Cole
Adams St
John A. Hanenkamp
Padle
Allen
Lucille Strobel
O. F. Crookshank
Mar- Suerite
Jefferson
Mutual Building and Loan Association
City of
F. Crookshank
High Street
Jefferson City
Monroe Street
Misouri
Henry de Wyl
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Frank G. Harris
Karces City
Rome
Dorothy Thompson
Republic
Frank Canada
State Capitol
Moscow
Kiev
Argentina
Finland
Adres
Cole Co
State War Chest Group
England
The
Northern Twins
Chicago Livestock Chicago
Mac
Noac
Jfed Fox
Florida
Randall
Mag
STTV
Mrs. Reynolds
Reynolds
5Rd Ward
Robert Dore
Legal S
Parrish
Maggie E. X Hanenkame
Mark
T. L. Parrigh
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