Notifying the Next of Kin in Civil War Era Style
A messenger boy delivers a telegram to a father stating his son is wounded overseas, marking the start of casualty reporting. Medical teams evacuate the wounded while division adjutants send casualty rolls to Washington, with reports routed to Bernice Webb in Virginia.
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Harold Meckulch
Kingstown
Ohio
Cen
Washington
Bernice Webb
Lloway
Essage Center
Casualty notices and messages from kin transmitted
After verification of casualty status, notices are sent to the record section where the kin addresses are kept. Pvt. Zenon E. Trasewick receives a cheer from his mother via the wounded status section.
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Pvt
Zenon E. Trasewick
Language guides issued for six more tongues to aid soldiers
The War Department announced six new language guides for Spanish Portuguese Russian Greek Japanese and German supplementing Chinese French Italian and North African Arabic guides. Each pocket book pairs English terms with translations and phonetics and uses phonograph recordings for pronunciation guidance.
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War Department
United States Armed Forces Institute
Madison
Wis
South America
South
Central America
Mexico
Caribbean
Brazil
Union
Nation’s Camp Fire Girls Aid War Effort Across U S
Camp Fire Girls join WACs WAVES SPARS and Marine women in war service. During March they will celebrate their 32nd birthday with community council fires and share the program week from March 12 to 19. They aid nursing shortages, make ceiling price booklets, train as hospital aides, and supply knitted goods for soldiers while teaching home crafts.
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Wacs
WAVES
SPARS
Marine Corps Women’s Reserve
Camp Fire
OPA
Diy room decor ideas and light jokes from a vintage feature
A playful guide offers cheap DIY room decorations using common items like a wooden box hung as a shelf a bulletin board and a tattered paper basket transformed with magazine pictures. The piece also shares juvenile G I jokes reflecting teen humor of the era.
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Bulletin Board
Jap Control of Quinine Met by Experimenters
Malaria fighting hinges on quinine as the best remedy and the fight against the Anopheles mosquito. Japanese advances severed East Indian supply, but the US has stockpiles and is pushing experimental plantings in Central America to produce substantial quinine soon.
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New Guinea
Guadalcanal
United States
Middle America
What to Do By Phyllis Belmont
A parental advice column urges firm consistent discipline for sulking children. Do not relent out of pity, instead punish wrongly and model a sunny disposition to guide behavior.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Small Firms Help Arm War Effort With Conversion to War Work
The Remington Arms study highlights how small plants and businesses across the country retooled to supply war needs. Frank Ryder in New York converted his ice box plant to ammo packing cases, C W Woolworth in Pennsylvania pivoted to automated tools and armor piercing cores, Arthur H DuGrenier retooled vend machines into tool making, and Danbury Hat maker Frank H Lee transformed into a tool shop. The aim was not profit but enabling victory through diverse industrial capacity.
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Remington Arms Company
Frank Ryder
Cobleskill
N. Y
Remington
C. W. Woolworth
Lititz
Woolworth
Herman Drach
Arthur H. DuGrenier
Frank H. Lee
Danbury, Conn
James N. Greene
Lee
Skin care routine for lasting coolness and cleanliness
A vintage skin care guide prescribes washing with a soap emulsion, rinsing with cool water, and finishing with cream lotion, liquid powder, and face powder. It promises a clean, cool feel that lasts for hours.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Betty Smith Enlists for Foreign Service with Red Cross
Miss Betty Smith pursues overseas Red Cross service following family military service. Her father fought in World War I and her brother serves in the U S medical corps in New Guinea. Mrs Lawrence Smith, her mother, heads the American Legion Auxiliary. Mr Smith is a Wisconsin congressman.
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U. S. Medical Corps
New Guinea
Betty Smith
American Red Cross
Lawrence Smith
American Legion Auxiliary
Smith
Congress
Wisconsin
Last of Warsaw Jews Interned Reported by Telegraph
The Polish Telegraph Agency says the final 25 000 Warsaw Jews were shipped to Buchenwald near Hanover, Germany, leaving 15 000 in the Polish capital after the Warsaw ghetto battle. Before the war Warsaw housed about 300 000 Jews, a third of its population.
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New York
Warsaw
Bernebostel
Hanover
Germany
Warsaw Ghetto
Dentist Reels In Extracted Tooth From Fish
DES MOINES IOWA Dentists get in a rut too. Dr T G Wheeler could not escape the extraction business while fishing. He hooked a large fish, fought it, and reeled it in only to find the hook embedded in a tooth that had been extracted from the fish's mouth.
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Des Moines
Iowa
T. G. Wheeler
Quality of Baby Pants Draws Flood of Kicks
Washington reports the Office of Civilian Requirements receiving many complaints about wartime baby pants. OCR survey director Austin Grimshaw told a fashion group that 70 percent of national survey complaints concerned the material used as a substitute for rubber.
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Washington
Office of Civilian Requirements
Austin Grimshaw
OCR
Play Frock Pattern No 5600 with Baby Duck Appliques
Description of a children’s pinafore play frock pattern No 5600 featuring yellow and brown baby duck appliques. Includes sizes 2-3-4 years and finishing directions. To obtain complete pattern and directions, send 16 cents plus name address and pattern number to Home Needlework 530 South Wells St Chicago.
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South Wells St
Filibuster History in the U S Senate Since 1917
The article notes about ten attempts to halt a bill by prolonged speech after the 1917 cloture rule. It cites a 1942 episode where the speaker spent most time reading from a mail order catalogue and other readings from the Bible and a bartender’s guide to try to stall legislation.
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U. S. Senate
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