Photographer Captain Walls D-Day Landing Photos Saved
Captain Herman Wall of the Army Signal Corps photographed the Normandy landings at Omaha Beach before being severely wounded. Despite critical injuries, he insisted the pictures be sent to headquarters. His aid team and a special plane ensured fast delivery, and Wall later recovered in England. He is a former Hollywood photographer born in Milwaukee.
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Rambling Rhymster Humor in German Translation
A verse recounts Herman Schmidt telling a funny tale to his dry cronies. He notes the joke’s humor vanishes when translated into German, arguing the original humor is lost in other languages and that the tale’s charm rests in its language.
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Gay Gadgets and Sweater Salvage
A teen era guide suggests salvaging worn sweaters into sleeveless tops and cardigans, with tips on using back sections as waistcoats and fronts as dickies. It also mocks overdone fashion and offers playful rhymes and teen culture notes on makeup, curlers, and loafers.
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Red Cross
Blue Accents Highlight Evening Look in Mystical Ad
Gabrielle promotes deep blue mascara and blue eyeshadow to define lashes and eyes. A blue perfume adds Mystery and Charm. A dark blue lace dinner gown completes the Blues In The Night themed ensemble. Ledger Syndicate features.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Beauty of Sculptured Rocks Lures Thousands to Dells
The Wisconsin Dells area draws geology professors and about 100000 visitors yearly to study glacial formations. Highlights include Witches Gulch Stand Rock and Cold Water Canyon in the Upper Dells and Stand Rock Natural Amphitheater with nightly Red Men ceremonies in July and August.
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Champion Forgetter Leaves $27,200 in Taxi
In New York a cab passenger left a seat containing 272 one hundred dollar bills totaling 27200 after riding from Pennsylvania Station to Fifth Avenue. Police recovered the money and began claims process under local law with a six day deadline.
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Express Air Routes Must Be Modernized For Safer Skies
Civil Aeronautics Board member David E. Postle warns in Flying magazine that America's airways require extensive reconstruction at millions of dollars to handle postwar traffic. He advocates replacing jagged city links with two-way boulevards fed by local airways and upgrading traffic control to electrical boards as private and commercial flights surge toward 1950.
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Hound Dog Rescued After 10 Days in Cave Near Monterey
Old Drive, a famed reynolds county coon dog, was trapped ten days in a limestone cave near Monterey Missouri. Forty men and boys tunneled through the cliff to reach the animal and fed him with grease-soaked rags threaded on a pole.
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What to Do By Phyllis Belmont
A simple vacation can renew and revitalize tired war workers. Camp life or hiking trips are valuable where transportation is difficult. Camping out helps you return to work refreshed and in good trim. Wash up with soap and water before bedtime and keep clean for health and beauty.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Honest Wife Believed In Return Of Stolen Money
Tulsa woman recounts investing $2,000 in stock certificates years ago with a salesman who disappeared. Recently a stranger returned the funds in 20 hundred dollar bills, prompting Mrs. Roth to say the salesman must have had an honest wife.
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Ordnance Keeps Army In Trim In Normandy Front
Ernie Pyle reports on ordnance units in Normandy repairing all army vehicles and supplying ammunition. He notes 275000 catalog parts, 500 major items tracked, and crews with high skill and long hours, including older craftsmen from civilian life. He describes depot-style repair, casualty levels in bomb disposal and retriever units, and profiles a varied crew aboard LST No 392 with personal vignettes of Eddie Strucker and shipmates.
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Pershing’s Son Serves Aboard Ship In Army
On the ship a Captain Warren Pershing, son of General Pershing, serves in the engineers. He joined as a private at the start of the war and is described as tall, blond, and well liked. He avoids leveraging his father’s name and notes his father’s hospitalization at Walter Reed with a newly built penthouse on the hospital roof.
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Build a Budget Sofa from an Old Cot with DIY Slipcovering
The article describes turning an old cot into a smart budget sofa with a simple wooden frame and loose cushions. A wallboard or plywood backing can be used, and the back need not be doubled. It references a booklet titled BOOK 9 by Mrs. Spears offering full furniture transformations and spring repair steps, mailed for 15 cents.
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