MPs And Band Women Shine In WAC Camp At Fort Oglethorpe
NEA correspondent Rosellen Callahan spends a week with the Third Training Center unit at Fort Oglethorpe where 42 band members and 80 MPs live on post. The article describes daily routines, discipline, training, and the blend of musical and military duties, noting praised leadership, tough schedules, and boasts about performance and drive.
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Rosellen Callahan
NEA
Fort Ae Ga
Hobart B. Brown
Roosevelt
Washington
Fort Oglethorpe
WACS
Corp
Betty West
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Aux
Vernajean Wikstron
Chicago Women’s Symphony
Afce
Agnes Powers
New York
Yvonne Bennington
Philadelphia Women's Symphony
Marjorie Pickett
Mason City
Iowa
Sgt. Pickett
Mason City Band
Women's Symphony Orchestra
Fort Myer
WDOD
Chattanooga
Tenn
Women Help Harvest Big Wheat Crop in Kansas
In Pretty Prairie Kansas two farmers hired Mrs Venore Voran and Mrs Dottie Watson to help harvest 720 acres of wheat. The war wives worked 12 hours a day driving a tractor and loading wheat to market. Their effort comes as the region ships 2 217 cars of grain to Kansas City the largest post Fourth of July run since 1941.
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Pretty Prairie
Kas
Kansas
University
New York
West
Venore Voran
Dottie Watson
Downsville
North Africa
Homer
L. A
Kansas City
Quiet Hours and War Notes From W A Bivins column
A light nostalgia piece by W A Bivins laments noisy newsroom life and imagines quiet river rambles while tying to wartime realities. It contrasts calm moments with war driven shortages, noting Florida crop rot, rising meat prices, and scarce transportation, then salutes freedom's value amid hardship.
Doan's Pills Offer Sleep Relief From Tired Kidneys
Physicians warn kidney fatigue disrupts sleep as toxins linger in the blood. Doan's Pills, claimed effective by millions for over 40 years, are advertised to flush waste from the kidneys and ease backache swelling and fatigue.
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Doan
Bathing Cap Saves Girl When Hit By Lightning
In Cheyenne Wyoming Ruth Harris fifteen was struck by lightning while riding for the mail in a rainstorm. A rubber bathing cap on her head insulated her from the bolt as the horse was electrocuted and fell. She was trapped beneath the horse for hours before her mother found her and she recovered with injuries.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Ruth Harris
Alfred E. Harris
Ruth
Peace of Etowah reunites with long lost daughter after war
In Etowah Tennessee a Navy veteran returning from overseas learns his daughter, lost for 25 years, has died and discovers he is grandfather to a six year old boy. A Pensacola woman had searched for him through civic clubs and connected him to his lineage.
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Iir. Church
Emerywood
Florida
Georgia
Sandhills
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Uncle Sam
High Seas
London
Trafalgar Square
England
Etowah
Tenn
Pensacola
Fla
U. S. Navy
Tennessee
Glynn T. Richards
Peace
Checkers Master Fischer Sees War-Era Players Superior
Private Harold N. Fischer of New York recalls soldiers from the last war as better checkers players than those today. He toured army camps as a prodigy, later becoming a three time national champion, and he explains the professional method of thinking two to three moves ahead to win.
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North Camp
Polk
Harold N. Fischer
New York
Maine
Mississippi
Fischer
Natives Go American at Helena Club Dance
Pvt. Joe H. Longmire reports in Helena that native girls on the South Pacific isles wore bright formats and danced in American style at a C club dance with soldiers, reflecting Hollywood influenced attire and ballroom formality.
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Helena
Mont
Hollywood
South Pacific Isles
Joe H. Longmire
Longmire
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