Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin by The Editor
An editorial notes Americans have grown taller and healthier over 50 years due to nutrition research. It contrasts U.S. diet access with global progress and cites wartime resilience. It argues Nazi aggression unites oppressed peoples and fosters brotherhood, with religion and shared humanity guiding postwar unity.
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America
Saya
Adolf Hitler
China
Britain
Egypt
Babylon
Rome
St. Paul
Boyle
Columbia University
Europe
Tome
Hitler
British May Send Troops to Russia
London reports a rising British aid surge to the western front with hints that British tanks may join Soviet forces against Germany. Disclosures mention possible imperial troops through Iran to aid Russia and staff conferences signaling early action as a German Crimea attack looms.
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London
Leningrad
Crimea
RAF
Gelion
Iran
Russia
Britain
England
County Woman Dies Thursday
Mrs. W. G. Budney aged 73, Hempstead county native, died at her Hope route 4 home Thursday about 4 o clock after a long illness. Survived by two daughters Mrs. C G Jarvis and Mrs. J L Anderson, four sons K G Dudney Sandifer Dudney Fred Bar and 2 W Barr, two grandsons Paul Dudney and Sam Dudney. Funeral services pending arrival of relatives.
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W.G. Budney
Hempstead County
Hope Route
C. G C. Jarvis
J. L. Anderson
K. G. Dudney
Fulton
Sandifer Dudney
Washington
Fred Bar
Ilinois
2. W. Barr
Atmarillo
Texas
Cotton Ginning Falls in Hempstead County This Year
Government census figures show Hempstead county cotton ginned to September total 280 bales, down from 392 bales a year ago. The drop reflects the lighter harvest this season, with prices and market conditions cited as contributing factors.
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Hempstead
Married screen stars puzzle matches couples from list
Devious caption outlines a Cupid style puzzle where readers must pair actresses with their married names. Names include Barbara Stanwycka McCrea Alice Faye Benny Deanna Durbin Gable Flower Parry Harris Francis Deee Coogan Dixie Leef Carole Lambert Taylor and Mary Livingstone. Crosby appears as a clue, with the solution on the comic page.
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Cupid
Barbara Stanwycka
McCrea
Alice Faye
Benny
Deanna Durbine
Gable
Flower Parry
Harris
Francis Deee
Coogan
Dixie Leef
Paul Z
Carole Lamberd
G- Taylor
Mary Livingstone
H. Crosby
Neutrality Act repeal urged in the Senate
Senator McKellar introduced a resolution in the Senate to repeal the Neutrality Act which bars arming American merchants and blocks entry to combat zones. Roosevelt indicated a possible revision or repeal next week. Critics warned repeal could be equated with war while supporters argued the law is unenforced and should be scrapped.
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Washington
Senator McKellar
D.-Tenn
Senate
Roosevelt
McKellar
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Woodruff
Congress
Woodrutt
Econgress
Doxey Wins Mississippi Senate Seat in Special Election
Jackson Mississippi reports Wall Doxey 49 leads Ross Collins 61 with 60 7 margin as most precincts counted. Doxey appears set to win the unexpired term of Pat Harrison and takes office soon after proclamation, serving until January 1943.
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Collins
Redeem Loan Cotton in Hempstead County Action
HW Earl King, chairman of the county AAA committee, says Hempstead County cotton from 1928 1939 or 1940 loans may be redeemed or sold for higher value. Producers must redeem by October 1 or equity buyers by 15 days after purchase. If not redeemed CCC will liquidate.
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S of
Hempstead
Earl King
King
CCC
Our Navy Fights and Wing First Great American Sea Victory
In spring 1779 the Bon Homme Richard, refitted as Duc de Duras, under Paul Jones fights off the Serapis near Flamborough Head. Jones leads a small, stubborn fleet, turning a rotting hulk into a naval breakthrough for the United States in a pivotal early victory.
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United States Navy
Navy
Tom Wolf
NEA Service
Due Doe Duras
Monsieur
United States
Bon Homme Richard
Duc de Duras
France
England
Paul Jones
John Paul
Jones
John Paul Jones
Alliance
Pallas
Richard
Irish Sea
Scotlland
Britain
Flamborough Head
Yorkshire
Scarborough
Richard Pearson
Aden
Pearson
Bishop Candler Dies Thursday in Atlanta
Bishop Warren Aiken Candler, a longtime leader in Southern Methodist church history, died at his Atlanta home after a 10 day illness. Family members were at his bedside as he slipped into unconsciousness for 86 hours. He rose from rural beginnings to senior bishop and spent decades in active church service, noted for wit, oratory, and writing.
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Atlanta
Warren Aiken Candler
Chandler
Methodist Episcopal Church
A Thought What vant be cured mys be endured
A fragment echoes a Burton line about enduring what cannot be cured. The brief note hints at stoic resilience without additional context or details.
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Burton
W. J. Callahan to Pay $140000 to War Dept Staff
The W. J. Callahan Construction Company will disburse about $140,000 to employees on the war department project at the Southwestern Proving Ground. This is the largest pay period so far, following $105,000 last week and $89,831.05 two weeks ago. Payments will start Friday morning and continue through the day at the Proving Ground and airport sites.
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W. J. Callahan Construction Company
Southwestern Proving Ground Contractors
War Department
Croatia Zone Is Occupied by Italian Army Reoccupation
An Italian army force reoccupied a Croatian zone along the Adriatic coast between the Dalmatian coast and the Dinara mountains. A government communiqué said the move was made with the government’s consent as part of restoring order in the region carved from a dismembered Yugoslavia.
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Croatia
Yugoslavia
Hes Atong
Adviatig Sei
Dalmatian
Dinara Mountains
Masons to Confer Masters Degree at Whitfield Lodge
The Whitfield Masonic Lodge No 230 will confer a masters degree this day at 7 30 PM All members are urged to attend The 1850 census counted 25 191 876 residents in the United States
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Masons
Whitfield
United States
Treasury sets 6 percent profit limit proposal
Secretary Morgenthau announced that treasury experts were drafting a proposed bill to limit corporate profits to six percent. He said aides were converting the idea into legal language for presentation to Congress, preferring to present it as a tax bill to the Ways and Means Committee rather than as a price control measure.
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Washington
Treasure Morgenthau
Treasury
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Guernsey Opens Schools Amid Schedule Details
The Guernsey school will open Monday September 29 with students told to bring book cards at 8 30 am A teachers meeting is set for Friday September 26 at 3 pm The Guernsey negro school starts Monday October 13 The white school faculty includes Varney Holt principal Miss Lillie Belle Tuckey assistant principal and English teacher Miss Helen Hatch social science Miss Jarvis junior high Mrs Lee Hicks 5th and 6th grades Mr Varney Holt 3rd and 4th grades Miss Margie Houston second grade and Mrs Edna Bristaw first grade
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Guernsey
Margie Houston
Edna Bristaw
Hand to Hand Fighting Rages as Germans Press Kiev Front
German dispatches report brutal hand to hand fighting in Leningrad suburbs while Soviet forces claim tanks and cavalry drives push Nazis back six miles and recapture two villages. On the Gomel front Timoshenko’s, Voroshilov’s armies counter offensives seek to ease Ukraine pressure amid fierce city fighting.
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Associated Press
Leningrad
Marshall Semeon Timoshenko
Gomel
Smolensk
Kiev
Ukraine
Red Army
Klementi Voroshilov
Draft Calls to 15 Hempstead County Men
Fifteen Hempstead county men have been notified by the local draft board to report to Camp Robinson on October 7 for induction into the U S army under the selective service act. The draft list includes Andrew Jackson Harris and Thomas Martin Barber among others, with service numbers such as 2010, 2158, 2195, 2288, 2234, 238, 2394, 8-244, and 2504, reflecting the Bard white call for Hempstead. The names listed are Martin Harris, Bearden, Norwood Grey, Turner, Simpson, Waite, May, Montgomery, Glover, McLarty, Roberts, Log, and Log.
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Hope and Hempstead County
Camp Robinson
U. S. Army Service
Hempstead
Andrew Jackson Harris
Thomas Martin Barber
Mearl Alden Pickett
Leonard Ova Bearden
James Thomas Martin
Samuel Willis Norwood Grey
Frank Aubrey Turner
Jim Simpson
Jessie Roland Waite
Tommie May
Harvey D. Montgomery
Henry Lee Glover
Thomas Franklin McLarty
Roy Briant Roberts
Guy Henderson Log
Germans claim U boats sink 12 ships off Africa
Berlin reported that U boats off the west coast of Africa destroyed 11 merchantmen from a convoy of 12 bound for England. The sunk ships totaled about 78,000 tons despite destroyer escort. No precise attack location beyond the African coast was given, but stories from Vichy and Dakar suggest bases or preparations in French West Africa.
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Berlin
Africa
England
Vichy
Dakar
As & Getniay
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