Russian Town Names Have American Equivalents
A language professor at Eastern University explains how Russian town names translate or map to American place names and meanings. He cites examples like Rovno Illinois as a red Tolpin joke on language, noting town, city and village variations and the difficulty of pronunciation. In Ambridge Pennsylvania a man sustained a scalp wound requiring 188 stitches after a drunken brawl where milk bottles were used, dismissing intoxicants as the cause.
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J. G. Tol
Estern University
Tolpin
Rye
Orel
Illinois
Prairie
Ville
Stalin
Lenin
Leningrad
Ambridge
Avalon man reunites with Irish family after 15 years
Francis A. Kirk of Avalon is reunited with kin in Bainbridge County Down Ireland after leaving home 15 years ago. Kirk is serving with an ordnance company in Northern Ireland.
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Avalon
Francis A. Kirk
Bainbridge
County Down
Ireland
Kirk
Wit Ordnance Company
North Ire
Chester officers turn cowboy to rope calves in truck incident
In Chester Pennsylvania a group of policemen chased and lassoed calves that escaped from a truck when its gate opened. The animals tangled in streets as onlookers watched the unusual scene unfold.
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Chester
Horizontal chison king utensil main coin river
A fragmented word puzzle lists horizontal and vertical clues with scattered phrases. It references river in Germany and various items like a garden flower, grape, and symbol for selenium, indicating a crossword style puzzle from a King Features Syndicate distribution.
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Ison
Nce
Germany
Ireland
Credit Pool Planned To Aid Industry
Two St. Louis bankers drafted a plan for a half billion dollar national credit pool to supply venture capital for new firms and aid postwar reconversion. The pool would back private enterprise, spread risk, and provide expert financing and advisory support to small and medium businesses.
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ST. Louis
Henry J. Kaiser
Herbert F. Boettier
John W. Snyder
First National Bank of St. Louis
Boettler
Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Sergeant Says Second Front Will Be Tough
Sergeant Donald William Crossley, a Wellsburg native and U S Army Air Forces Flying Fortress tail gunner with 250 combat hours, says German defenses in France and the low countries will make any invasion costly in lives. He notes heavy flak and anti aircraft fire, pillboxes, and German fighters as major obstacles for Allied forces. Crossley, a 23 year old Cambridge patient with 12 downed Germans and 3 Eserschmidt claims, recalls the Keil air battle and long service in Europe.
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Cambridge
INS
Germany
France
Europe
England
Tech
Donald William Crossley
U. S. Army Air Forces
Crossley
Wellsburg
W. Va
Low Countries
Hamburg
Hanover
Keil
Emden
St. Nazaire
Abbeyville
Paris
Lorient
United States
Pittsburgh Poultry Club Meeting Postponed After Hype
Pittsburgh officials boasted of a National Poultry Club convention coming to the city but a tip led to uncovering a postponement. The bureau had advertised the event extensively before learning of the delay.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Pittsburgh Convention and Tourists Bureau
National Poultry Club
Fortunes and memories linger in echoed remarks
The fragmentary notes mention Winchell Gee as a fortune hunter, an anonymous soldier recalling exhausted feet from memory, Raymond Moley balancing a family tree on his nose, Charles Rawlings describing clouds snagging on cliffs, and Cissy Haas mispronouncing a party.
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Gee
Raymond Moley
Charles Rawlings
Cissy Haas
Wanted Colored Maid for General Housework on Lot
Help wanted notice seeking a colored maid for general housework with capacity to earn good wages. Preference for someone willing to stay on the premises and obtain a health certificate. Contact Lou Shoppe, 11 Mae Tree.
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Bath
Parkway
Mae Tree
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