Overseas Mail and War Industry in Postwar Life
A wartime Pine Bluff note urges Sept 16 mailing of care packages to overseas personnel with tips on gifts and packaging. It discusses avoiding mail gaps, suggests books and magazines, home baked fruit cake in metal boxes, and asks for extra parcels to reach unknown soldiers. A South firm predicts limited postwar female industrial exit, arguing women are essential in heavy work and some roles, like radio tube production, require women’s precision. The piece also describes the Army rotation draw for 37th Division soldiers returning home, with vivid scenes of hope, nerves, and the lottery-like process as men await orders to return to the United States.
Beauty Parlor Girl In Greenvale Chooses Between Love And Freedom
In Greenvale, Billa Grey, daughter of a beauty shop owner Madalyn, faces social pressures as Cliff Bradshaw, son of the town’s wealthiest man, courts her. After an exclusive dance, she overhears town gossips disparaging her mother and contemplates her future while returning home to her modest living room and a mother who braids hair and dyes her own life.
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California Editors Cite Allied Victory Tempo In France
Circuit Rider California publishers urge focus on destroying German armies, not territory, noting rapid Allied advances toward Paris. Editors from San Rafael to Vallejo praise progress in Normandy Brittany and Brest, warn against distractions, and stress sustained pressure and unity at home.
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Orchids and Onions on Pronunciations by Radio Commentators
A reader alerts to mispronunciations by newsmen and radio voices when rendering foreign place names. The column laments errors in names like Dnepropelyovsk and Nizhneudinsk, notes Western listeners’ familiarity with San Jose and San Rafael, and urges better preflight rehearsal and accuracy in pronouncing common and uncommon place names.
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Dnepropelyovsk
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Your Birthday Today By Stella Tuesday August 15
Born today you have outstanding natural talents that can bring fame with development. You show determination and courage and likely rebound after failure. You value justice, reform, and discipline, with major work in literature or the arts. You temper anger by counting to ten and pursue personal plans with a magnetic, disciplined approach.
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