Barbs and Banter from a World War II Echo
A collection of short, wry quips and anecdotes from the wartime home front. Jokes touch on military life, New York fires, bureaucratic bans, and social misreads, with a Washington congressman, a waiter, and a punchy line about cooking and hardship.
Local social notes from Hope area residents
McCaskill and Hinton family visits in Hope and Billstown are reported. Several Arkansas residents including Eley Hood Wortham Anthony McCaskill present relatives in nearby towns and Oklahoma. Mrs. Cox from Little Rock visited Gentry family while Ruby Jean Hood and others spent Saturday in Hope.
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Claud Hinton
Hope
J. O. Harris
Harris
H. B. Eley
Billstown
Bill Hood
James
Texarkana
Dora Wortham
Grace
J. W. Anthony
Murfrees
Boro
G. W. Anthony
Anthony
Chester McCaskill
Monnday
Orville Wortham
Grecia Ann
Oklolowa
Neland
Ruby Jean Hood
A. B. Cox
Little Rock
J. B. Gentry
Cornell student body mirrors world in microcosm
UPI reports Cornell University in Ithaca New York lists a diverse student body including one genuine American Iroquois student and natives from 46 foreign countries with 27 each from China and Canada and 27 from Puerto Rico.
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Ithaca. N, Y
UPI
Cornell University
China
Canada
Puerto Rico
10 oClock Scholar in Hagerstown
A physician during a routine exam questioned a registrant about schooling and learned he had only gone about a half mile. The humorous exchange highlights the boy’s limited education in Hagerstown Maryland.
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Hagerstown
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