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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1945
Page
5
A collage of wartime quips and scenes from shipyards to churches. Jokes about shaving, christenings, and dancing in a social tapestry feature locals like Reverend J W Griffin, a Scottish farmer, Irish accounts, and Marines bragging about outfits. The piece blends jokes, mishearings, and light reflections on daily duty and faith.
Humble plans a football broadcast Saturday October 21 featuring three Southwest Conference games and an intersectional match. Navy Sunday tribute asks the public to send flowers to designated Pensacola Mobile Corpus Christi ports, to be placed aboard ships before sea release.
Ben Christian played at Firemen's Park Sealy on October 21 as the Sealy firemen hosted their fifth dance. An average tally showed ninety dozen hamburgers and hot dogs used across four events, with three hundred cases of bottled drinks consumed. Tad Sey started visiting, while Mr and Mrs Frank Rankin and children of Texas City were Sunday guests of H J Hutson and sons.
Recommendations to Congress by the post office department and the public building administration include a new post office for Eagle Lake at about 85000 dollars as part of a 35 million Texas building project. Also listed are 85000 dollar buildings for Weimar Eagle Lake and Sealy with approval pending in Congress.
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