Ruth Woodson Meets Kind Stranger on Westbound Bus
Ruth Woodson travels from New York toward Buffalo on a big bus with a helpful fellow passenger, Mrs. Tillie Cogly. The two discuss work for outsiders, the Girls' Industrial League in Pittsburgh, and Ruth decides to visit Niagara Falls and then aim for Pittsburgh, budget allowing.
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Betty LA
New York
Ruth Woodson
Ruth
Buffalo
Huntington
Mrs
Tillie Cogly
Mrs. Cogly
Pittsburgh
Girls’ Industrial League
Mrs. Roosevelt
League
Mrs. Oogly
Niagara Falls
Niagara
Black Draught Promotes Health Says Missouri Man
A Gatewood Missouri resident, W F Pulliam, praises Black-Draught as a reliable vegetable medicine. He credits it with maintaining his health, preventing bad sick spells, and aiding digestion after overeating. The note suggests laxatives for constipation at its root.
God of Old Horizontaal The twin of Artemis
Puzzle highlights clues and answers about mythic figures and everyday terms across a vertical and horizontal crossword style grid. It lists ancient gods and related words including jockey, Slovak, seral labels, and tools along with an answer to a prior puzzle.
Military Highway Route Sparks Debate Among Alabama Cities
In October a convention in Nashville gathers supporters for a proposed fifty wide Military Highway from Muscle Shoals to Nashville and Birmingham to Mobile. Advocates push Muscle Shoals to Russellville Haleyville to Ingham and widen the Nashville to Muscle Shoals segment to handle current traffic. The road would link nitrate production at Muscle Shoals with Birmingham steel and bring bread and meat supply to Nashville in wartime.
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Ta' ‘Neshvill
John H
Nashville
Praslumbia
Muscle Shoals
Maile
Wheeler
Decatur
Rmingham
Alabama
Russellville
Haleyville
Ingham
Great Steel
Birmingham
Mobile
Enrollment of CCC Now Completed in Southern Area
General Ven Horn announces completion of the expanded Civilian Conservation Corps enrollment in the 1st corps area. From July 1, 40,686 persons have enrolled across eight Southern states including Alabama Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi South Carolina North Carolina.
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Atlanta
Sept
Scala
Ven. Horn
1 H Corps
Civilian Conservation Corps
Nily
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Ruth Hitchhikes to Cleveland After False Pittsburgh Lead
Ruth travels by bus with Mrs. Cogly to a small town where a misdirected lead about a Girls League causes alarm. A Cleveland destination is confirmed at the station as townspeople discuss the next bus. Ruth anxiously awaits a ride to Cleveland while the bus halts.
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Buffalo
Land's - Sake
Soe
Ruth
Mrs. Cogly
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Speake School Opens September Ninth in Lawrence County
Speake school on Danville Route 2 in Lawrence County is complete and ready for opening on September 9 with about 400 students expected. Begun in mid July the district school has nine rooms an auditorium and is a state aid building. The faculty includes Mr Wallace Miss Edith Murch Miss Iola McCulloch and Mrs Black.
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Danville
Lawrence County
Enon
Seton
Willie Wallace
Edith Murch
Iola McCulloch
J. T. Black
Church Night at Westminster to Feature Prayer and Music
Westminster Church announces Church Night with prayer Bible study and praise. At 8 15 pm all music lovers meet for a period of music. Choir members are urged to attend for special music with emphasis on music this year.
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Eatminster
Birthday Dinner Honors Mrs. Erwin Orr
On September 1 relatives of Mrs. Erwin Orr from Mariselle Route 1 gathered for a birthday dinner. Mrs. Orr, an invalid for months, expressed thanks for the useful gifts and money from a recent ice cream supper that helped fund a wheelchair. Attending were Mr and Mrs Wert Free and family, among others.
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Erwin Orr
Mariselle
Orr
Cotton Market Has a Steadier Opening
New Orleans Sept. 4 Wetter cables and reports that sections of the cotton belt faced threat from the Florida hurricane spurred light buying. Active options gained a couple of points as Liverpool prices opened higher with October at 1029, December at 1092 and May at 1041. A private crop estimate pegged potential yield at 12,000,277 bales and crop conditions at 64.6 percent of normal.
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New Orleans
Liverpool
Young Surveyor Faces Death High on BC Mountain
Paul Cardoni, a young surveyor with a northern mining camp party, is trapped about one thousand feet up a northern British Columbia mountainside near Fort St James. Rescue attempts were halted by darkness. another effort was planned to reach him with lower ropes. The remote camp lies over 300 miles northeast of Prince George.
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Calgary
Alta
British Columbia
Paul Cardeni
Cardoni
Fort St. James
Prince George
B. C
Call to Recruits on the Island of Malta
The government calls for volunteers for a passive defense service in Malta. Recruits will learn first aid gas decontamination and rescue, then join the reserve. Malta, a British possession in the Mediterranean, is a strategic naval point with reinforced defenses as Italian forces move to East Africa via the Suez Canal.
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Island
Malta
Sues Canal
East Africa
Paramount Studios Fire Damages Props at Hollywood Lot
A slow burning blaze in Paramount Studios property building caused thousands of dollars in damage. Firefighters stopped it before reaching the studio arsenal valued at 85 000 dollars containing guns ammunition and fireworks. Several hundred extras aided six Hollywood fire companies in the effort.
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Hollywood
Calif
Paramount Studios
Studio Arsenal
Creatives Rise and Fall Across Early Periods
The fragment discusses how creativity appears steady until a volume drop over time. It mentions a range of creators from a 12 year old poet to two 14 year olds, plus a mathematician inventor and an astronomer who is also a chemist at 16, highlighting varied ages.
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Aha
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Hims
Gibbon
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Lae
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