Iowa Hills Jungle Training For Navy Preflight Cadets
Ottumwa reports Navy preflight cadets conduct three day survival hikes in Des Moines river hills to learn wilderness living skills. Training inspired by Pacific war lessons. Cadets led by Lt. (jg) Billy Hubard practice fishhook making elm bark line gathering edible wildlife and shelter construction from parachute.
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Ottumwa
Des Moines River
Wapello County
U. S Navy
Navy
Billy Hubard
Sculptor Whittles On Scraps Of Wood
Mary Cole reports sculptor Ethel Schochet crafts wooden pieces from non traditional materials like ebony keys and shoe lasts. Her works include a three inch primitive figure from piano keys and an eight foot piece from rough construction wood. She often works ten hours daily and carries wood and a knife on visits. Also notes a survival hike course with Navy supplied steak dinner as a bonus.
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Miss Schochet
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis
Miss Schocher
Navy
Cleveland Library Accepts Rare Peerless Automotive Volumes
James Bohannon, former president of Peerless Motor Car Corp, donates a Peerless collection to Cleveland Public Library. The gift makes the library the largest source of automotive history with about 770 volumes dating to 1896 from Horseless Age, plus a complete Motorwagen file and British French and German periodicals.
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Cleveland
James Bohannon
The
Peerless Motor Car Corp
Cleveland Public Library
Motorwargen
Repeat Marriages More Common Among Women in Cleveland
In Cuyahoga County, a study of 1,200 January marriage licenses shows women marrying again more often than men. Of 602 repeat marriages, 317 involved women and 285 men. 317 of the people with prior marriages were women, with comments from Common Pleas Judge Samuel H. Sibert on widows and marriage psychology.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Greater
William Jenka
Common Pleas
Samuel H. Sibert
Domestic Relations Court
Sandpoint offers $5000 reward for 25 pound trout
Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce in Idaho offers a 5000 dollar reward for evidence of catching a 25 pound rainbow trout from Payette Lake in southern Idaho. The group urges southerners to claim the giant lake monster in Pend Oreille, insisting the big trout rests in north Idaho.
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Sandpoint
Ida
Air Mail Dominated By Social Letters Survey
New York AP report shows United Air Lines found social correspondence makes up about two thirds of air mail in 11 cities. Social letters are 7 percent before noon 69 percent in the afternoon and 45 percent at night. Overall social air mail totals 65 percent with business at 35 percent.
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New York
United Air Lines
Electric eye counts 10,000th visitor at Florida museum
In Gainesville, state museum directors measure visitor impact after moving relics from the University of Florida campus to downtown in 1937. An electric eye recently recorded the 10,000th guest at the new site, signaling growing public interest.
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Electric Eye
Gainesville
Fla
Florida
State Museum
University of Florida
Students Dramatic Mind Quirks At Lee High School
In Jacksonville Florida Prof Le Roy MacGowan teaches a mental hygiene course that dramatizes quirks of the mind. For half term students test self adjusting and self control methods and measure behavior with a one to five scale.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Leroy MacGowan
MacGowan
Lee High School
Taney
Not Going to Agree Over Rating by Both Sides
A brief line notes that neither side will concede their own overrating of themselves. The remark frames a confrontation over perceived self worth. The quote implies clash between parties and mutual overconfidence without specifying individuals or events.
Thief Compromises Indianapolis Wallet Theft
Police search for a pickpocket after Purdue University student Don Monsoz reported a stolen wallet in Indianapolis. The incident notes a swift, targeted grab as the man slipped away through crowds. Investigators urge anyone with information to come forward.
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Indianapolis
Purdue University
Don Monsoz
Next Mall, Monsen Driver’s License Incident
A brief item notes a theft or loss event involving a Monsen driver’s license and a billfold, with references to an identity card and a $10 bill. The fragment suggests an incident at a mall and mentions Re. rebrmga, likely garbled names, with minimal readable details.
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Nava
Ecard
Green corn travel distance and fresh retail concerns
A brief note discusses green corn potentially traveling up to 3600 miles by air and mentions freshness at retail points. The item suggests supply chain or freshness considerations for distant shipments and retail availability.
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Iowa Hills
Navy Air School
Praternity
Woodmen
Woodmen Society
Woodmen Life Insurance
Woodcraft
Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society
Omaha
Nebrasea
Z. M. Solland
Dothan
W. Yeoman
Ashford
W. C. Bell
Blecomb
Whittles
Mary Cole
Faribault
Minn
Ethel Schochet
North Coast Lines
Seattle
Wash
Portland
Oreg
Duwamish River
NEA
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Atlanta
K. L. Negley
Paul Mose Wright
L. B. Watson
Cleveland Library
Alanatnua
Efufaula
Ozark
Enterprise
Yeargan - Powell Venetian Blind Co
P. O
Als
Mt. Meigen Rd
Montgomery
Ment
Southern Termite Co
J. Maas
Mgr
J. J. Harris
Glynn Jones Co
J. E. McGinn
Mar
J. C. Harris Roofing Co
Troy Ph
Aterica
Tess
Mye
Hawthorne
Warde
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