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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1940
Page
3
The Jemez governor George Toledo argued that young Braves studying medicine men are theological students and thus deferred from draft. Adj Gen R C Charlton contends the priests of native religion are essential to the Pueblo's well being. The piece notes a myth about sharks never needing to turn on their backs when seizing prey.
Eldon churches schedule cantatas, plays, and special music for Sunday to tell the birth story. About 309 participants, including 25-voice Baptist cantata, Christians’ “Star of Hope,” and Methodist “The Babe of Bethlehem,” plus soloists and mixed choir pieces. Dorcas class elects new officers. funeral for five year old Robert Strange. hot lunches served to 150 students. Kansas sees 52 percent rise in August home building.
A Bristol police mystery seeks a ten inch square blue patch from Patrolman Frank Day’s overcoat after it was stolen and found in a second locker with holes. In Greensboro a blacksmith dodges jail by proving essential to the community as customers plead with the court. Portland witnesses a woman strike an onlooker with an umbrella in a crowded street. Kansas City stagehands rescue Miss Jeanne Madden from a mouse during a dress rehearsal as the orchestra plays. In Wausau a hat is recovered from the ice by a Milwaukee couple using a fly rod against heavy winds. McCool reports three sows producing a growing pork surplus with pigs piling up before Christmas. Bailey’s Island features a dog winning a lobster fishing license for its owner Elroy Johnson. Camels on a circus lot strip thistles before hay.
Senator Bennett Clark, an isolationist Democrat from Missouri, urged a special two annual tax to aid Britain in World War II as part of a separate budget for British relief. He questioned Roosevelt’s underwriting plan and warned Britain may not repay debts, while noting June 15 and December 15 dates tied to Britain’s debt and the Boston Tea Party anniversary. In London, pirates dropped a bomb near three ships, flooding decks with hundreds of fish, leaving crews with two days’ rations on one vessel.
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