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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1943
Page
3
The 1943 Caroline High School seniors draft playful bequests, listing classmates and teachers in humorous will clauses. The issue highlights senior portraits, faculty roles, and school news, with notes on posts, performances, and upcoming events.
Sunday notes mock a boy Jake as dumb and a dime given to heathens, Ice Cream soda and a druggist. Monday quotes a paper about a man with nine wives and insanity, Pa jokes on a cedar eye man. Tuesday editor’s rebuke over bonebeds, family curiosity over 102. Wednesday dames smoke cigarets driving attraction, Tono Jane and Clay noted. Thursday a school prize for math, sixtytwo is the sum. class ponderings on Jane, Tom, and female figures.
A fragmented plea describes Saturday as a day of rest yet filled with schemes to keep children busy. The narrator mentions independence, war, and Napoleum inspired calls for liberty, claiming guidance from a mother and conflicting expectations about activities like baseball, roller skating, and fishing.
Hollywood pair Chester Lauck and Ned Goff known as Lum and Abner appear in a two week live action run. They headline at the Detonia Theatre Saturday May 6 with a second feature and third comedy from Ozarks producer William Wotion for RKO Radio. Also showing Journey for Margaret with Robert Young and Loraine Day at Centema Theatre May 10 and 11. An American patriotic film At the Front airs at Dentoma Theatre May 10 and 11.
Fibber McGee and Molly with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy present Hue We Go Again on Thursday and Friday May 13 and 14 at Dentoma Theatre. The radio teams deliver another gaiety filled night praised as among the season’s funniest offerings.
County Agent G. W. Clendaniel urges immediate protection of strawberry crops from the strawberry dipper. Observers on the lower Shore report rising pest numbers and numerous eggs in clipped buds. Apply 85 percent sulfur and 15 percent lead arsenate dust at 30 rounds per acre, and stop three weeks before picking time.
V-Mail letters show careful filling of forms leading to fewer misdirections. They are addressed clearly and legibly, reach destinations quickly, please mail clerks, and rarely bounce back. In a few months over 10,000,000 V-Mail letters have been sent.
The Navy campaigns ashore and afloat for greater use of V-Mail, establishing No 1 priority and setting up portable V-Mail stations. A Navy post office reported a day with only misdirected letters and no V-Mail, while other days saw V-Mail among mail. Posters urge Armed Forces personnel to use V-Mail now as the Navy stresses it must go through, on par with ammunition.
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