Army Outlines New Character Guidance Plan
Army leaders announce a definite character guidance program under Secretary Royall to foster home, family, and community influence for better citizens and soldiers. Chaplains lead the moral welfare effort with qualified advisers, backed by exchanges and services offering recreation, libraries, music, arts, tours, clubs, and theater.
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U. S. Army
U. S. Air Force
la Crosse
Army
Kenneth C. Royall
Royall
Secretary of the Army
Special Services
Army and
Air Force Exchange Service
Air Force Motion Picture Service
Red Boy Derby contender dies centuries earlier
A horse named Red Boy who ran as a three year old in the 1996 Kentucky Derby died in December 1944 at Council Bluffs Iowa.
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Red Boy
Council Bluffs
The Typical New Englander Is An Underwhelmed Man
A Visitor from Portsmouth notes New Englanders are talkative, independent, and self-sufficient. He contrasts their humble pride with big city boosterism, sharing a tale of a descendant seeking back pay from 1812 naval service and praising a determined New England woman as embodying regional spirit.
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Portsmouth
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Captain Kidd
France
National Treasury
Washington
New England
Army Seeks Qualified Musicians for Army Bands
The Fifth Army area seeks experienced musicians for Army bands. Applicants need at least three years in an organized band, knowledge of intervals and notation, and can play clarinet, trumpet, saxophone, tuba or other listed instruments. Openings at Camp Carson Fort Riley Fort Sheridan and Fort Leavenworth with local recruiting stations in Viroqua Sparta Tomah Black River Falls Prairie du Chien and La Crosse.
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John F. Sills
Camp Carson
Colo
Fort Riley
Kans
Fort Sheridan
Ill
Fort Leavenworth
Army and
Air Force
Viroqua
Sparta
Tomah
Black River Falls
Prairie du Chien
South Fourth Street
la Crosse
Bumpers Move from Novelty to Integral Car Feature
Early 1900s experiments show bumpers appearing on automobiles with limited use. By the mid-1920s bumpers were on both front and rear of many cars. By the 1930s they were widely regarded as an essential part of motor vehicles.
Youth Hearing Breakthrough Helps Deaf Boy Gary Lang
In Manchester Connecticut Gary Lang six receives a custom hearing device built from skull waves after being born without ears. His mother faces medical costs as a fund grows to cover his surgeries hospital and education. In Madison Wisconsin state officials warn a shortage of instructors limits Wisconsin’s veteran training program. Twenty five full time instructors could be added now with available candidates. The U S Veterans Administration funds total over two million dollars to date. The agriculture board seeks to raise a separate grant from twenty five thousand to seventy five thousand dollars to expand programs in high schools and vocational schools.
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Gary
New York
Irving J. Schachtel
Schachter
Mary Lang
Schachtel
Manchester
Madison
Wis
Glen Consin
State Board of Adult Education
University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture
River Falls
Platteville State Teachers’ Colleges
Take Recruit Navy Training Take Recruit Navy Training
Two La Crosse men John D. Thrailkill and Gerrald Thomas Pittenger are undergoing recruit training at the Great Lakes naval training center. The course covers seaman ship navy customs terms basic ordnance gunnery signalling and navigation with assignment to fleet units or service schools after completion.
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la Crosse
John D. Thrailkill
USN
Loyd A. Thrailkill
Loomis Street
Gerrald Thomas Pittenger
Ibert Pittenger
Wood Street
Naval Training
Great Lakes
Ill
Eleanor Roosevelt Birthday Noted Across Years and Roles
The text highlights Eleanor Roosevelt born October 11 1884 in New York City. It recounts family losses and early life, mentions her dancing with Franklin at Oyster Bay, and notes her roles as First Lady teacher social worker and U N delegate. It also states pawnbrokers operated in China 2000 years ago.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
New York City
Eleanor
Franklin
Uncle Theodore
Oyster Bay
U. S
Ted
U.S
The
NORITO Promises Quick Relief for Muscle Aches
An advertisement touts NORITO as a fast solution for fatigue and muscular pain. It claims a special formula and urges readers to try NORITO, offering a money back guarantee if three days do not relieve severe symptoms.
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Norito
Construction projects in Japan announce housing and nonresidential totals
A recent man in Japan details construction activity with 34,209 dwellings and 15,521 nonresidential spaces. The report also cites combined dwellings totaling 7.5 and 7508 units as part of the ongoing development landscape.
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Japan
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