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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1943
Page
6
A garbled OCR text discusses British and American humor, joke styles, and comedians. It references Block Rochester and various names, noting differences in jokes and audience tastes. The piece touches on puns, songs, and light insults within a fragmented commentary on humor.
Fragmented text discusses learning humor and jokes amid cross cultural truisms. It mentions Americans and Brits and a projected English hour to teach humorous style, with examples of jokes about milkmen and a mink coat.
Ten year old William Bonner Roosevelt, grandson of the President, tripped over a .22 rifle and it discharged, killing 11 year old Lewis Hutchison in Ardmore. Autopsy shows bullet hit lung and liver. Inquest planned. Billy released to his mother Mrs Elizabeth Donner Winsor. Also, Aviation Cadet Billy Hall to Morton Air Academy for primary flight training after pre flight at Santa Anna.
The three eastern Manchurian provinces are said to hold vast coal deposits including 20,000,000 tons of anthracite, 2,792,000,000 tons of bituminous coal, and 128,000,60 tons of lignite under Sianchurian Co. disclosures.
M L Long aged sixty four died at Assome on Dothan route one after a short illness early yesterday. Surviving are his wife four daughters two of Phoenix City and one of Dothan plus three more, seven sons, nine grandchildren and three brothers. Funeral arrangements by Ward Wilson will be announced on arrival of sons in service.
In Dothan area the United States Employment Service reports a slackening in military construction jobs as 1 974 people were referred to work during 1942 and the first months of 1943. Dennis, manager, notes most placements are in agriculture, fertilizer, textile, shipyard, and other construction sectors. The Dothan office covers Houston, Henry, Geneva, Dale, and Coffee counties.
Brig. Gen. Asa Lo Singleton 66 former U S Army retired died at Fort Benning hospital after a long illness. A native of Taylor County Georgia he led as superintendent of Manlius School in New York after retiring in 1940. He enlisted as a private in the Spanish American War and rose to command at Fort Benning and the infantry school, earning the Distinguished Service Medal and the French Legion of Honor during World War I. He married Marghet Wright of Warm Springs Georgia and resided there after leaving Manlius School.
Sergeant James A. Tindell, son of Mrs A V Tindell of Cottonwood Route 2, has graduated from the Bombing and Gunnery School at Wendover Field Utah, announced by the public relations office. A Rehobeth High School alumnus, he joined the Army last September and was stationed at Lowry Field Denver before this transfer. The Nazi party was organized in November 192...
Stockholm dispatch recalls a Danish student who signed letters to police as Henry promising not to be caught after a comely woman is found choked. His typewriter defect led to arrest, confession, and reveal that he wrote a short story foretelling the case for a Danish weekly, ending with his own death instead of capture.
A late December crash in Tennessee involving an Army transport killed 18 soldiers as their truck veered off a bridge railing and down an embankment. Several injured were rushed to hospital while investigators reviewed driver error and roadway conditions.
An advertisement touts a lemon juice remedy for rheumatic pain and an arrangement with a druggist offering a money back guarantee. The text promotes Bu-Ex Compound sold by druggists and drug stores, with promises of rapid relief and repeated daily doses.
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