Cebu Invasion and Refuge on Mindanao Fronts
A wartime memoir fragment describes Cebu’s fall and evacuation, with Bataan and Corregidor memories. It recalls American defenses, the burning city, and a dispersing naval group including Brantingham and Ensign Richardson. Japanese forces landed along the coast while leaflets urged surrender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cebu City
Bataan
Peggy
MTB
Philippine
Navy
Bulkeley
Mindanao
Brantingham
Camp
Camp X and a Japanese landing probe two islands away
The narrator describes street fighting, fires, and the holdout of a small Filipino force with limited ammunition while reporting on Camp X in the hills. Rumors of Japanese landings at Toledo emerge as a road from Toledo to Camp X appears on a Standard Oil map, prompting questions about why the route isn’t used.
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Camp X
Islands
Toledo
Standard Oil Company
Army
Slats Diary Chronicles Quiet Week in Hapless Town
Oliver Warren records Slats diary entries from Sunday to Wednesday. The pages describe a warm morning sermon about talking in sleep, a schoolyard BB gun or fishing debate, banker Miss Reddykash’s possible surgery, and a girl named Jane slapping him after he tried to comply with her request. The tone is informal and observational.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chireh
A. m
S. S
Etmerick
Peddykash
Ottomobeel
Jane
Thursday Geography Lesson Sparks Quiet Argument at School
A student recalls a geography class where the teacher asked the shape of the earth, answered round then square, notes a light argument over rights, and later reflects on forgiving the teacher as term ends. Saturday describes a fine afternoon with town activity and a theft at the drug store, mentioning Jane and Elsy.
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P. M
Jane & Elsy
Sady Founten
I & Jakes & Blisterses
Frederica Church Removals And Local Visits Report
Rev D E Wood preached in Frederica and Milford Neck last Sunday. The Taylor parishioners will note Caroline Charge split and Rev T J Turkington of Denton will preach here. Parsonage closing underway. Baltimore visitors and local hosts attended gatherings at Merriken and Slaughter homes. Willoughby returns from Baltimore for a stay. Christian Endeavor leader Dandy chooses mission topic. Helen Towers visits with Towers parents.
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D. E. Wood
Frederica
Del
Milford Neck
Wood
Caroline
T. J. Turkington
Denton
Ernest G. Schmeisser
Turbitt Slaughter
Baltimore
Manning Merriken
Cid. Kern
Myr
Ralph Meredith
Tuckaroe Neck
Reve
W. OH. Holbrook
Frances Bennett
W. S
Meat quality and mealtime habits in old dining guidance
The piece discusses how meat should be firm tender and well flavored with appropriate fat content, stressing good cooking as key to palatable meat. It outlines noon or evening dinner timings based on family convenience and notes children’s noon meals with lighter evening meals, plus foot bathing with hot salt water.
Home kitchen tips and techniques from a vintage guide
A practical collection of old fashioned kitchen tips. It covers foot baths with salt for fatigue, bread fry sticks and rings as salad accompaniments, careful fowl preparation and singeing, cream soup thickening without lumps, home rug washing without a machine, and a quick cheese biscuit recipe with grated cheese.
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Oliver XN
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the National Brewing CO
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Jamentowa
Parther
State Roads Commission
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Chesapeake
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ERRY
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Moore's Funeral Home
Denton, Maryland
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Sinclair Opaline
Sinclair Pennsylvania
Binelair Refining Company Cinc
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Agen
Sinclair Refining Company (Inc
G. D. Crouse
Spencer
June Walling
Red Corsetiere
Denton, Md
Basil Rathbone
Nigel Bruce
Sherlock Holmes
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