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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1940
Page
5
With the 35th Division at Wahkon Minnesota the paymaster brings cash for three weeks of maneuvers. Wages range from 21 dollars for privates to over 400 for officers. Total payouts top a million dollars as soldiers stash earnings back home.
Miss Nora Siler left Friday for Hutchinson after visiting relatives and a 29000 mile journey with Elma Hamill and Marguerite Kyle. The tour covered Columbus Berea Ky Knoxville and Nashville seeing mills quarries Great Smokies Vanderbilt estate colonial Wil liamsburg and D C. They traveled through Canada and the Gaspe Peninsula. Thirty tuna were sighted and the party returned via Port Huron. She will enroll at Hutchinson Junior College next Friday.
Japanese warplanes renewed heavy bombing of Chungking, the Chinese central government capital, after 48 hours of quiet. The government considered orders to remove cranes except for high officials amid wartime measures.
Dun and Bradstreet reports a moderate quickening in business with signs of higher activity in retail, auto production, and utilities. The survey notes gains in commodity and security markets, with prices rising from recent lows as fall merchandise moves into stores.
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