Britons Flee Blitz Find Life Beneath London Streets
Thousands of Britons forced underground by the Blitz endure a mole like life in London subway tunnels and huts. Tube dwellers shelter at stations such as Liverpool Street, carrying salvaged possessions and adapting to a surface world feared by many, with romance and routine persisting underground. Meyer Moses, a shelter warden born in Bagdad, oversees one of the larger stations.
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Charles Chamberlain
London
Liverpool
Cheerio
Subway
Meyer Moses
Moses
Bagdad
Shelter Warden Found Love After Blitz Bond
A man who spent three years living in subway shelters during the 1940 blitz recalls selling clothes on the street and joining the underground after bombs hit. He later became a nonprofit shelter warden and found happiness with a wife he met in a station bunk, calling fate kind and expressing willingness to endure another blitz.
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Moses
Will
Punished by Eggs and a Frenzied Cravat Tale
In 1481 France a person convicted of selling bad eggs was set in the pillory and eggs tossed by children. The Steinkirk cravat was born from hurried French officers at the battle of Steenkerque in 1692 when cravats were twisted in haste.
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France
Steinkerque
Penton Heads Veterans Informational Center Committee
M A R I A N N A Florida M E Penton service officer of the American Legion was named chairman of a committee to establish a Veterans Informational Center the first of its kind in Jackson county and one of 25 statewide John H DeVane secretary with others including Mrs Marian Harrison C Davis Turner Albert Logan and Fred Kingly as members The group met with about 50 attendees led by local officials and military personnel from Marianna Army Air Field and the Red Cross American Legion and the chamber of commerce were represented
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Marianna
M. E. Penton
American Legion
Jackson County
Florida
John H. DeVane
U. S
Marian Harrison
The
American Red Cross
John T. Manor
R. B. Meserve
Marianna ‘Army Air Field District
Veterans Aide Centers Planned Across Florida
United Service Organizations aims to aid returning service men with rehabilitation, re employment, readjustment, and vocational help. The program will provide round the clock access with qualified officers to interview and support veterans through draft board re employment committees. Centers are planned in Tallahassee Panama City and Pensacola with further expansion to six counties.
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United Service Organizations
DeVane
Armed Forces
Nedham
Tellabstsee
Panama City
Pessacola
Sis County
Gests
Mr. DeVane
Machinery and rate of the human body discussed in pap era text
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss machinery and the rate of the human body with reference to power and measurement. The text mentions Dan EL T6ONGG and a yearly timeframe, but context is unclear. The readable parts suggest a technical or comparative discussion rather than a narrative event.
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Nlee Mul
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