John Merrick Liberty Ship Launch Marks Progress in North Carolina
After exercises by the Governor, the Liberty Ship John Merrick will be launched at Wilmington. The biography extols John Merrick, a Durham barber and founder of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, as a visionary leader who helped build a multiracial economy in the state. The piece links his legacy to race relations, noting the Detroit riot and urging continued white and Black leadership collaboration despite dangers and setbacks.
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North Carolina
John Merrick
Wilmington
Durham
Charles Spaulding
Dr. Moore
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
Saturday Evening Post
South
Detroit
America
The Good Soldier of Jesus Christ in Paul’s Letter
A theological meditation on Paul’s guidance to Timothy. It links spiritual discipline to the imagery of a Roman soldier, urging steadfastness, readiness, and fidelity to God’s cause. It frames Christian endurance as strength through grace and mission.
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Jesus Christ
II Timothy
Timothy
Christ Jesus
Paul
Christ
Apostle
Tarsus
Theirrmor
Jesus
Thoughts on War Time Life and Public Duty Voices
Local residents and officials weigh war time rationing taxes and civil duties. Citizens discuss gasoline shortages taxes CPA taxi rules and doing one’s part in war production while praising civic programs and the Red Army.
How Russia Handled Syphilis
A U S Navy doctor notes Soviet venereal disease control, praising education and coercive treatment. The piece outlines Russia's 1917 to 1937 program: blood testing, compulsory treatment, prostitution rehabilitation through proflactoria homes, work, and social integration, aiming to reduce prostitutes and curb syphilis.
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Eugene Doroshenko
Red Army
Air Force
Irwin ‘. Norman
U. S. Navy
Quentin Reynolds
Uncle Sam
Norman
Russia
U.S.S.R
Ing
Moscow
Thought and Verdict at the Table of Betrayal
A devotional fragment references Jesus speaking at the Last Supper about betrayal. The verse from Mark 14 18 is cited alongside a memorial line to God country and friend attributed to Vaughan. The text blends biblical quotation with a commemorative motto.
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Jesus
Mark
Vaughan
A Londoner in New York on Broadway War Year Reflections
War correspondent Thomas Edward Healy describes visiting New York after years covering Africa and the Middle East. He recalls FBI interviews for aliens, contrasts New York with London and Paris, notes prices, fashion, and nightlife, and muses on shared citizenship after the war and the resilience of everyday beauty in peacetime. Healy also meets figures like Duke Ellington and Walter Winchell, and reflects on the ironies of freedom amid wartime strain.
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New York
Thomas Edward Healy
London Daily Mirror
Healy
Alexander
Burma
Montgomery
Egypt
Tunisia
Paris
Churchill
Wavell
United Nations
USA
Germany
Liberty
FBI
Libya
Tripolitania
London
Jack Benny
Una Merkel
Billy Rose
Walter Winchell
Winchell
Copacabana
Eighth Army
Eddie
Leon
Berlin
Wintergarden
America
Britain
Fifth Avenue
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High Point Enterprise
J. P. Rawley
R. B. Terry
H. A. Cecil
Mgr
D. A. Rawley
Robert Thompson
Associated Press
High Point
N. C
John Budd CO
Lexington Ave
N. Y
City
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Church of the Ephesians
Rome
Nero
Earth
Lee Gibson
Internal Revenue Department
H. W. Baker
Bronxville
CPA
J. F. Jones
Ben Newby
Europe
M. W. Nash
Congress
Alfred L. Bulwinkle
J. G. Doggett
Scout Council
Kimrey
Adm
William F. Halsey Jr
U. S
South Pacific
A. H. Sulzberger
New York Times
Enterprise
High Point, North Carolina
Herr Goering
Toronto
Broadway
Sydney
Piccadilly
Bank of England
Stork Club
Hurricane
Duke Ellington
Liddie
George Lait
Africa
George
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