Thanksgiving Menu Keeps Traditions Alive With Substitutes
A wartime reader guide suggests a complete Thanksgiving menu including oyster cocktail roast turkey stuffing candied sweet potatoes and cranberry mold. It gives step by step stuffing preparation cooking times and temperatures and offers substitutions such as duck chicken or veal with brown gravy for the main course and steamed fruit pudding or pumpkin pie for dessert. The piece notes sharing dinner with boys from a nearby camp and mentions variations using citrus salads fruit cups and seafood cocktails.
Final Rites Held For Smith Child
The funeral for 11 month old Keith Sherrill Smith, son of Harold S. Smith and Ennis Priddy Smith, was held at Main Street Methodist Church in Thomasville. Rev. Lee F. Tuttle led the service with pallbearers Eddie Branson Joe Don Branson Elwood Ingledin, and music by Frances Kratz. Interment followed at City Cemetery.
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Thomasville
Keith Sherrill Smith
Harold S. Smith
Ennis Priddy Smith
Main Street Methodist Church
Lee F. Tuttle
Eddie Branson
Joe Don Branson
Elwooding
Frances Kratz
One Minute Test and Horoscope Bits
Grab Bag item presents answers to short quiz questions about army officer ranks ARP and G from wartime guidance. Includes etiquette hints and a whimsical horoscope advising daily actions and a bond purchase for income.
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A.R.P
War Department
General Staff
Ration Roundup and Food Stamp Details
A wartime notice lists ration stamps and validity dates for meats fats processed foods sugar shoes gasoline fuel oil and related coupons. It notes stamp valid periods through December and January, with regional variations and quantities. The piece ends with a light jab about children playing with ration tokens straining family life.
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Rocky Mountains
Far East
New Jersey Pugilist Leads His Own Front-Line War
Danial De Luce profiles 23-year-old Lt. Jack Kennedy of New Jersey, commanding a Canadian assault troop in Italy. He fights daily in the mountains near Poenza, earning the nickname the non stop Jersey bounce as he and 60 men conduct rear attacks and patrols amid blown roads and mule trains. Kennedy plans to return home after the war to marry and run a gas station, while earning a light heavyweight boxing title on a voyage to England.
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Daniel DE Luce
Eighth Army
Italy
New Jersey
Scotland
Jack S. Kennedy
Kennedy
Jersey
Potenza
W. W. G. Darling
Toronto
Ontario
J. I. Innes
Uni States Army
Dean's Pills Advertises Kidney Relief
An old newspaper ad touts Dean's Pills as a solution for tired kidneys and backache. It claims minerals and waste are flushed from the blood and urges readers to consult a doctor for relief used successfully for 40 years.
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Nature
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AP Food Editor
Alexander George
Opp
Switzerland
Turkey
OPA
Smith
Military Intelligence
Shenstone
Belk - Stevens
New
Bibles
Belk-Stevens Company
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