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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1944
Page
8
Local items recall service members visiting families and sending Christmas remarks from camps in Florida California and Texas. Notes mention Lieut Curtin Tate Pvt William Terrell and Pvt Elizabeth with transfers and letters home from Australia and Indianapolis. Army and air force families share holiday greetings and hopes for the war’s end.
Readers urged to clip and save a page titled The Year In Review summarizing 1943 world war progress and domestic events. The piece promotes preserving the page for reference, noting trends in war fronts, politics, and business, with many personal notices and local scenes included.
Bruce McCarty recounts a visit to Mecca’s ancient ruins and a ruined mosque turned church by the French, noting white marble columns, tiled interiors, and a fountain. He contrasts opulence with squalor in the old town, describing filth, disease, and the precarious life of vendors, beggars, and children amid narrow alleys and gullible pilgrims.
In the South Pacific, Mess Sergeant Carter of Pink Hill North Carolina fired on two Japanese dive bombers while tending a galley. He briskly resumed baking corn bread after the raid, saying a North Carolina man should not be interrupted while cooking.
In Quebec Province a census of old age pensioners shows no centenarians on the provincial list. Only two are reported at 101 and five at 103, with a handful others near the century mark amid the 3 million population context.
Sir Kenneth Lee of the ministry of supply was struck by a US army ambulance and severely injured. While hospitalized he learned an army claims officer sought faster settlement of damages and sent a message offering his injuries as a reciprocal contribution to the United States. The report notes illness and other personal notices amid a garbled wartime column.
Dr A S Tjaden C H I R O P R A C T I C Clinic advertises true condition assessment and micro DS nameter examination. It claims specialized treatment for asthma digestion piles stomach rheumatic issues kidney liver female disorders prostate heart skin and adhesions with a truthful statement on recovery chances. New location old McCarty Homestead Eagle Lake Texas.
A partial hospital and community note lists Laughlin Hospital patients including Mr Medtut and Mrs J B Alton plus several others by city or last name. The item also mentions Universal Motor Company toy discounts and holiday sale chatter with references to local families and visitors.
Milton J. Campbell deputy collector in the Internal Revenue Service for Fort Bend Wharton and Colorado counties spoke to Rotary members in Richmond His remarks outlined the subject and the audience was urged to attend a full citizenship address Monday January 24 at 730 pm in the high school auditorium Rotary visitors included Dr K Klein W H Gemmer Vance Porter Velma Harris Vivian Assery from San Antonio and local residents Mr and Mrs dh AL Dupree and daughters joined relatives for the New Year holiday season in Richmond
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