Spinning Tops and Nineteen Other News Snippets
A mix of brief items: Roberta Joyce Spinning Tops injures arm while rescuing a toppled top. Ames sees nails scattered in an alley and four found on a tire. Six pounds collected as a mother was killed by a police dog, while bottle babies head for Chicago. Photo notes include CFI shots on international sports, Greek and British troops on Crete, and Harry Hopkins’ White House portrait. Other items mention a Chicago boat show, Leahy’s France mission, and a convoy to Crete. Roads are opened in Worth county after a long repair trip by Supervisor Thompson and son.
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Ames
Sam Long
Chicago
CFI
Echo
Mueller
Indiana 4-H Boy of the Year From Adams County
S M Schwartz Elmer Nussbaum 20 son of Mr and Mrs Sam D Nussbaum Adams County Indiana named outstanding 4 H club boy of 1940 will attend the national 4 H club camp in Washington DC next June announced by Dr M M Smith Purdue University He has ten years in club work and previously earned a free trip to the National Dairy Show San Francisco on a dairy demonstration team He has participated in calf club carr club potato club and sugar bent club
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Echo Oy
S. M. Schwartz
Elmer Nussbaun
Sam D. Nussbaum
Adams County
Indiana
Washington, D.C
M. Smith
Purdue University
Nussbaum
San Francisco
Carr
Sugar Bent Club
Prodigy Kenneth Amada Performs for Moritz Rosenthal
Eight year old Kenneth Amada of Carteret School for Boys in West Orange N J reveals remarkable musical and mental gifts. Maestro Rosenthal says Kenneth surpasses his own achievements at the same age and educator George Hofe notes an IQ above 170. The report pairs a second image map noting Ireland's wartime alert after Dublin bombing increases tension.
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New York
Kenneth Amada
Carteret School For Boys
West Orange
N. J
Moritz Rosenthal
Rosenthal
Kenneth
George Douglas Hofe
Hofe
Libya Australian troops smash through Italian lines
Libyan and Australian forces continued offensive actions breaking through Italian defensive positions. Casualty reports are unconfirmed, with communications limited as frontline operations progress.
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Libya
Narberth Pilgrims Photographed En Route to NYC
A group of foodfor-Europe pilgrims walking from Lancaster to New York City to dramatize wartime starvation along the highway are photographed here. The travelers include Larry Gara and others, drawn from Narberth, Pennsylvania.
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Narberth
Ing
Lancaster
New York City
Larry Gara
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Wabbs
Corydon
Sima
Iron Guard
Antonescu
Michael
Hansen
Buchart
Rumania
Fabricus
Crete
Greece
Italy
Norfolk, Va
Washington, D. C
Harry Hopkins
White House
President Roosevelt
London
Ely
Minn
M. A. Kolin
Marie Sarkipato
North Woods
Navy Pier
Wm. D. Leahy
France
United States
Vichy
Patricia Stewart
Ann Howard
Worth County
L. J. Thompson
John
Thompson
Bunny Bottle Babies
Romania
Admiral Leahy Enroute
Hopkins
The
Elgin Echo
Bos
Eire
Germany
Ireland
England
Dublin
0. S
North Carolina
Wees
Simultan
Midlands
Britain
Bardia
Middle
Europe
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