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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1944
Page
7
Senator Taft criticized the War Department for a propagandistic system guiding soldiers to vote. He said the department sought to influence opinion through post exchanges and information channels, while supporting amendments authorizing sales yet opposing full repeal. He warned of a government grip on soldiers’ thinking akin to total control.
Dorothy Dix answers readers about furlough visits from servicemen, overbearing friends, and preserving private time with families. A wife complains about her husband forgetting anniversaries. Dix mocks the moral hazard of overbearing interruptions and suggests subtle boundary setting. Office notes: Great Lakes graduates proceed to sea or shore duty after specialized courses.
Grover C. Shelley of Fort Bragg North Carolina has been promoted from corporal to sergeant. He is the son of Mr and Mrs R G Shelley of Headland route two.
Summer heat causes heat rash prickly heat and mosquito bite itch. Mexsana medicated powder offers relief for burning itching and sunburned skin. A forty year old favorite used by mothers to calm babies and prevent rashes with common relief ingredients. Greater savings in larger sizes.
Three hundred prisoners of war are quartered at the Haag Show Grounds in Marianna under First Lieutenant Bourke E. Langham of Mobile. They will work at 7 pm on Tuesday August 15 to aid in harvesting peanut crops in Jackson county, aiding farmers amid a record 75 000 acre harvest area.
A curve on DB. S. Highway 290 west of Austin was named Gilchrist Curve after Gibb Gilchrist former state highway engineer and now president of Texas A and M college The district engineer relocated the highway but Gilchrist urged keeping the long S curve because it skirted two hills and the scene was too beautiful to remove
An illegible OCR ad fragment references price points 10c 25c and 50c with mention of 25 years. It touts a money back guarantee and daily service or supply. Names and specifics are garbled but suggests a consumer product or service offer with terms and a restitution promise.
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