Yanks Grow 1800 Acre Garden On Guadalcanal
On Guadalcanal Lt. Walter B. McKinney heads an 1800 acre farm turning jungle land into a vegetable producer likely worth over 11 million dollars at GI prices. The project supplies hospitals and garrison troops with radishes peppers pineapples and watermelons while employing native labor and mechanical planting with diesel irrigations overcoming frequent rains.
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Elmont Waite
Guadalcanal
Solomona Islands
States
Tropics
Red Cross Calendar Seeks Volunteers and Classes
Registration for the Blood Bank runs September 25 with appointment hours. Mobile unit visits Lawrence October 2 and 4. Departments list sewing knitting dressings and bandages and a canteen class enrollment. Nutrition home nursing first aid and other courses to be organized upon demand at the local Red Cross office.
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Lawrence
Central Building
Red Cross Office
Red Cross
Church Meeting Attends Kansas Christian Conference at Coffeyville
The Rev. Warren Hile pastor of First Christian Church leads ten delegates to the annual Kansas Christian Churches convention in Coffeyville from Thursday through Saturday. Rev. Hile speaks at the men’s session Thursday morning. Dr. R. H. Miller of St. Louis, editor of the Christian Evangelist, will address the gathering after a career at Independence Boulevard Church Kansas City and National City Church Washington. Other speakers include Dr. Claude E. Hille Tulsa Virgil Sly Unified Promotion Indianapolis Dr. Eugene S. Briggs Phillips University Enid and Faye Livengood a Hutchinson native.
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Warren Hile
First Christian Church
Christian Churches of Kansas
Coffeyville
Hile
R. H. Miller
St. Louis
The
Christian Evangelist
Miller
Independence Boulevard
Kansas City
National City Church
Washington, D. C
Claude E. Hille
Tulsa
Okla
Virgil Sly
Unified Promotion of
Indianapolis
Eugene S. Briggs
Phillips University
Enid
Faye Livengood
Hutchingon
Convention Focuses On Four Year Dedication Theme
The gathering aims to unite Christian leaders across India with a program featuring prominent pastors. An estimated 1,000 delegates from 265 churches, representing more than 83,000 members, are expected to attend.
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India
Christian Churches
Lawrence marks 90th anniversary with legacy of town layout
Exactly 90 years ago on September 25 1864 Lawrence was laid out by A D Searle and three partners. The town’s founders envisioned schools a college and a state capitol while planning streets parks and a capitol hill district. The original survey covered far more land than the nucleus later developed and later was trimmed by boundary disputes.
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Lawrence
A. D. Searle
Mt. Oread
Searle
Massachusetts Street
14Th Street
Louisiana Street
Delaware Street
South Park
LaFayette Park
Hamilton Park
Washington Park
Franklyn Park
4Th
15Th Streets
Capitol Hill
Dread Mount
Mason
Jay
Penn
Quincy
U. S
Office of Register of Deeds
Topsy
Ministers invited for interdenominational conference at university
A one day interdenominational conference for all state ministers will be held in early December under the University of Kansas auspices as part of Religious Emphasis Week. Date to be announced later. Committees for speaker, program and publicity were named.
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University of Kansas
Campaign With No Holds Barred Enroute to Oklahoma City
Governor Thomas E. Dewey enters Oklahoma City for a major speech pledging unvarnished candor on Roosevelt’s record. He and his campaign push hard in a rough new phase, clashing with Roosevelt’s rhetoric while Dewey trains focus on candor and counter statements.
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Oklahoma City
Dewey
Thomas E. Dewey
Oklahoma’ City
Roosevelt
Hitler
Belen
N. M
New York Stat
Herbert Brownell Jr
G. O. P. National
New York
Vacumatic device cuts gasoline use for rationed drivers
Nationwide report shows motorists saving up to 30 percent by installing a Vacumatic automatic carburetor device. The firm Vacumatic Co. of Wisconsin offers the system and distribution details to interested readers who write or send their name and address.
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Vacumatic Co
St. Wauwatosa
Wisconsin
Ady
Radio coverage of Oklahoma City speech sparks political maneuvering
Praised Brownell for his statement and urged wider radio coverage of the Oklahoma City speech. NBC planned to carry it at 9 p.m. Central Wartime also slated. Blue network reportedly would carry as well. Republicans look to win in a Democrat stronghold with Kerr as keynoter while Ed Moore accuses New Deal. Supreme Court recess ends in Topeka with resumed hearings after summer break.
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Brownell
Oklahoma City
NBC
Clovis
N. M
Robert S. Kerr
United States
Ed Moore
Congress
Vet veterans to get help from state home after war ends
Topeka Kans Sept 25 The end of World War II will bring nearly 200000 discharged veterans to Kansas and the State Soldiers Home at Fort Dodge will aid their return to civilian life Board of managers secretary Bert A Hedges said the board is laying groundwork for a comprehensive program including new workshops expanded training and aid to partially disabled veterans who may be unemployed in the postwar period.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Fort Dodge
Bert A. Hedges
Wichita
Hedges
Hedges Land Seeks Authority To Use Unused Funds For Plant
Board proposes to use unused funds for projects including a food processing plant for produce from the institution. It requests legislative authority to fund endeavors such as farming dairying poultry and other jobs and would admit veterans as temporary residents to train in these skills.
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Athens
Marriage Licenses Sued By Probate Judge Wilson
Probate Judge J B Wilson sues three marriage licenses at the Douglas county courthouse on Saturday seeking enforcement of licenses and related legal action in the county court house.
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J. B. Wilson
Douglas County Court House
Nine couples mentioned in mixed names and places
The fragment lists three couples James Dirk and Ida Grant, Horn of Lawrence, Howard P Hartman of Washington NIH, Ruth Bele of Philadelphia, Pat and Donald E Welton and Flora Thrasher of Ottawa. The note adds a curious line about the charmingbird being the only bird that can fly both backwards and forwards.
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James Dirk
Ida Grant
Horn
Lawrence
Howard P. Hartman
Washington
NIH
Ruth Bele Philadel Miiia
Pat
Donald E. Welton
Flora Thrasher
Ottawa
How to Hold False Teeth Firmly in Place
A concise ad copy promotes FASTEETH powder to stabilize dentures. It promises firmer, more comfortable retention without taste changes or gum irritation and claims it neutralizes plate odor. Available today at any drug store.
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McKinney
Anta
K. U
Edwin F. iPrice
H. E. Chandler
Mra
Calvin ‘VanderWerf
Harry W. O'Kane
Harry H. Sisler
L. C. Woodruff
Rs, Tait
George R. Rinehart
H. G. Barr
Oklo
Greyhound
Supreme Court
Kansas Supreme Court
Speciaien
HANNA
Gibbs Clothing Company
Mark Twain
Gibbs
Fa Ile
the Gibbs Clothing Company
Manhattan
Salina
Europe
Sunflower Ordnance Works
United States Employment Service
Highway 10
DeSoto
Imuat
Vermont
Jimmy Bradfield
M-G-M
Margaret Obrien
Charles ‘Laughton
Robert “Young
Panier
Sport Scope
Sports” and
Zolor Cartoon
Kitty O’day
Don Ameche
Dana Andrews
William Eythe
America
Donald Duck
Bing Crosby
Tonite Ruzspay
Amy Terry
Onan, Walker J
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