Queen Mary to Resume Weekly Atlantic Runs
Southampton reports the Queen Mary, famed luxury liner, will resume weekly transatlantic service on July 31 after wartime refurbishments. Deck planking, paneling, and interiors have been restored, including a new cocktail bar and supper club, with the ship’s grand lounge and smoking room returned to prewar elegance.
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Mary
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Ship undergoes massive reconversion and trials
Hundreds of wire files were removed and renewed decks scraped rugs laid pumps generators and other equipment were replaced. The ship underwent a gigantic overhaul and is now in trial runs. At month end she will sail to New York to cheers and music.
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New York
Camels Pulled Plows in Alabama History Discovery
Alabama archival researcher Brannon uncovers 16th century camel use in state farming. Camels arrived during a Jefferson Davis backed experiment to test their value as draft animals for the U S Army. Reports note a camel post at Camp Verde Texas and later movements to El Paso and Bowie. Despite some success, mules outperformed camels, which were eventually sold to circuses or released.
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Alabma History Department
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Benjamin Woolsey
Selma
Savannah Republican
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Autauga County
John Steele
Mentor and Swindler Bet on Jamaica Race
Major Timothy Morgan, a longtime con man, coerces the narrator into betting on horse races at Jamaica. Morgan funds bets as a “lesson,” arranging outcomes and paying $65, then offers to settle for twenty dollars plus ten for expenses, claiming the ten dollars goes to a strike fund for pickets.
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Fort Worth
Midway
Socrates
Plato
Miller Huggins
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Jamaica
Morgan
Algernon
Mudder Machree
Dursan
Radio Race Results Inspire Delicatessen Parade
A reminiscence recalls a delicatessen where patrons tune in to daily race results. As horses finish, a matching number of pickets march outside, signaling the winner. The narrator jokes about using this method for a future loan negotiation with Eineland.
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Truman
Eineland
Copyficht
Billy Rose
Benes Proposes Eternal Czech Nazi Crimes Record
Prague AP report says President Eduard Benes urged Czechoslovakia to create an eternal public record of Nazi crimes. He favored a state museum housing documentary evidences to remind both Czechs and Germans of the thefts and atrocities, with a pledge to refuse compensation until Germans repay what they stole.
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Prague
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Sudetanland
Plays a Good Joke On Brother Joker
In Brockton Massachusetts Eugene B Carr prank called police claiming a neighbor kept an unlicensed dachshund puppy The dog belonged to his sister Alice Devine who lives next door She had given it to him before a police warning was issued about keeping an unlicensed canine.
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Brockton
Mass
Eugene B. Carr
Carr
Alice Devine
Grasshopper Outgrows Five Skeletons As He Grows Up
A grasshopper passes through five skeletons as it grows, discarding each as it becomes too small, illustrating rapid development and the shedding of old forms in the journey to maturity.
Firemen Sleep Through Mattress Fire in Hotel Room
Philadelphia report says William O'Toole, 43, slept through a mattress fire in his hotel room. Firemen doused the blaze outside his window, then returned two hours later when the mattress flared again, but he remained asleep. The article also notes a separate detail about a surface diamond near a mine being pried loose by the superintendent.
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Philadelphia
William O'Toole
O'Toole
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