Flashes Of Life and Other Wire News
Mercury dropped into a toddler’s throat as parents tried to take her temperature in Seattle. The child Mercia Buchanan is hospitalized and the family notes she bit too hard. In Des Moines rabbits near victory gardens may be shot if a town bill passes, arguing gardens need supplement. In Wichita an IRS employee finds a rock with a note saying You’ve scalped me attached to a tax return.
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Mercia Buchanan
Marcia
Peter Rabbit
Des Moines
Victory Gardens
Wichita
Kan
Internal Revenue
Newfoundland Dog Rescues Spaniel From Ice Toll
A spaniel broke through ice twenty feet from shore at Cochituate Massachusetts. Firefighters were delayed, and a Newfoundland dog leaped into the icy water to seize the spaniel in its teeth and carry it back to safety.
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Mass
Cochituate
Messes
FASTEETH Pasteelth Teeth to Stop Plate Embarrassment
An advertisement claims alkaline non acidic FASTEETH pasteelth keeps false teeth secure. It promises comfort, prevents slipping or wobbling, and avoids plate odor. Readily available at drugstores with the slogan claiming real embarrassment ends.
Detroit Lawyers Answer Summons Of Booming War Factory Whistles
Detroit lawyers join wartime effort by staffing defense plants for inspection work. Harry Merrick, a Detroit firm member, works mornings in law, then dons painter gear to inspect at Detroit Steel Products Co. More than 500 lawyers volunteered, responding to the bar association president's appeal last April to aid manpower needs at war plants.
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Detroit
James Thrasher
NEA
Harry Trick
Fidelity
Grosse Pointe
Merrick
Harry Merrick
Detroit Steel Products Co
Bar Association
Association
Harry Merick
Lawyers Go To War Jobs In Detroit Factories
Merrick, a lawyer, joins 260 applicants placed with Ex cello and Vickers for airplane parts at Detroit plants. He works a 12 shift with courts easing hours and factory foremen accommodating. He is in a closed shop at Detroit Steel Products and notes unions initially balked but settled into support as others saw value.
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Taan
Ted
Excello
Vickers
Merrick
Detroit
Detroit Steel Products
Evening Radio Schedule Highlights March 14
NBC and CBS prime time lists feature debates on absenteeism, wartime education, and postwar reconstruction. Major programs include Vox on World War Broadcasts, Rex Stout and Easy Aces, theater and music with Dinah Shore and Lucille Manners, plus news and quiz shows.
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NBC
Fanny Bri Algrich
Bing Cre. Vallee
Joan Davis
Gildersleeve
CBS
Ransom Sherman
Major Bowes
Govs. Warren and Edison
Metropolitan Opera UG. S
Jan Garber
VSS
Busy Mr. Bingle
Afredo Antoning
F. Waring
OPA
Kaltenbosn
Warmonies
Lucille Manners
Earl Goodwin
Kate Smith
Dinah Shore
Berry Sisters
Willard Thumbs
Abe Lyman
Dale Carnegie
Tommy Riggs
Betty Lou
John Gunther
Bias
Gracie Fields
Bia
Alec Templeton
Paul Schubert
Elmer Davis
Abs
Faulkton Bago Team Honored At Dinner
Faulkton South Dakota honored the Faulkton Bago School basketball team and substitutes at a seven oclock turkey dinner Tuesday evening. Guests included Coach Hold and Supt. W. E. Cermak to celebrate the district tournament victory in Redfield.
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Faulkton
Mar
CL. Sievers
Faulkton ‘Bago
Coasch Hold
Supt
W. E. Cermak
Redfield
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Astatey
Hecor Ziemer
Tim Holt
Bonita Granville
Kemi Smith
Otto Kroger
H. B. Warmer
Irs
Col
Darty
F. Zanuck
Signal Corps
North Africa
Algeria
Milton Berte
Carlton
Wuus
Speareay
Bane - Me
Kensan
Desert Air Raid Shelter
Western Desert
Northwest Finance Co
B. A. Keiser
N. W
Fedei Rai Oaty Aeris
Brandi
Keplow Bros., Inc
Sioux Falls
RADIO
New
Dickeys
Boutonnieres
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