Army humor and Dollar Dollar tales from Red signal company
A wartime vignette recounts Pfc. Silver Dollar and Private J. P. Morgan in Middle Tennessee Army maneuvers with jokes about salaries and nicknames. Dollar, a traveling salesman in California, shares his odd moniker lore and sales prowess, while Morgan notes local humor about being among few with his initials. The piece shifts to May 21 1893, Gay Nineties journalism on the Golden Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Anthony in Logan with Dora McFall walking to the pulpit for the ceremony.
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Red Signal Company
Middle Tennessee
Pfc
Silver Dollar
J. P
Morgan
J. P. Morgan
Dollar
Pip
Howard Street
Redwood
Calif
William
Dollar Bill
Silver
Busines
America
Partanburg
S.C
Charles Anthony
Hocking
Dora
Robert McFall
Haydenville
Logan
Gordon
Mighty RAF raids hammer Dortmund and other war theaters
A massive RAF air attack on Dortmund dropped over 2,000 tons of bombs, targeting rail and canal hubs, with continued strikes on Italy and Pantelleria. The operation marked a resumption of mass raids after favorable weather, echoing Churchill’s wartime note on bombing Germany to force capitulation.
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Berlin
United States Congress
Germany
Zeebrugge
Belgium
Allied ships sunk since Pearl Harbor rise to 659
The Associated Press reports that three U S merchant ships and a Greek freighter were sunk, bringing total announced Allied and neutral merchant losses in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor to 659. American merchant sinkings in the western Atlantic reach 266 according to AP tabulation.
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Associated Press
United States
Atlantic
Pearl Harbor
Levee Breaks Spark Massive Midwest Flood Evacuations
Levee failures along a long stretch of the Mississippi flood large parts of Missouri and Illinois. Wolf Lake levee breach west of Wolf Lake and other breaks threaten Cairo and surround towns, evacuating thousands and inundating tens of thousands of acres as Mississippi riverlevels rise to historic highs.
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Middle West
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Illinois
Muddy River
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Office of Civilian Defense
Alexander County
Ohio River
Cairo
Claryville
Perry County
Belgique
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Menfro
Ste. Genevieve
St. Marys
Mississippi
St. Louis
State Auditor Finds $5,664 Short in Treasury
Columbus Ohio May 24 State Auditor Joseph T Ferguson reported a formal discovery of a 5664.46 shortage in the state treasurer office The report names Benjamin F Russell an assistant cashier in the State Treasurer office as responsible for the shortage and says responsibility has been fixed by an official examination completed.
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Columbus
Joseph T. Ferguson
Ferguson
Benjamin F. Russell
Wreck on Pennsylvanian Rail Line Kills 14
A Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train carrying nearly 1,300 vacationers from Atlantic City to New York derailed on a curve near Delair New Jersey, killing 14 and injuring at least 89. In Cam den two hospitals, nine bodies were identified or identified later, including a mother and child. unknown causes tied to the wreck remain.
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N. J
Pennsylvania Railroad
Atlantic City
New York
New Jersey
Camden
H. Bohr
H. N. Becker
Louis Schapiro
New York City
Pennsylvania
Wife of Taft to be buried near him
The body of Mrs. William Howard Taft, wife of the 27th President, will be buried beside her husband in Arlington National Cemetery. Friends credit her as the political mentor who urged him toward nomination and election, and she later saw him become Chief Justice. Her son Robert Taft would later serve as Ohio senator.
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Washington
William Howard Taft
United States
Arlington National Cemetery
Taft
Robert Taft
Ohio
Oil man and racing fan dies in auto wreck
E. F. Woodward a veteran oil field roustabout who built a large fortune and became a prominent racing stable owner died in a collision with a train in Hondo Texas. His wife perished in the same grade crossing crash last Saturday night.
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Hondo
Tex
E. F. Woodward
Akron Plants Resume Work Amid Rubber Strike
Production restarted at two Akron rubber plants as CIO United Rubber Workers report 3,000 Goodyear workers back today and a picket line partly easing. Firestone and others still idle. wage dispute over War Labor Board three cent raise vs eight cent panel recommendation cited.
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War Labor Board
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
General Tire & Rubber Co
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
B. F. Goodrich Co
William S. Vaught
CIO United Rubber Workers
Goodyear
Vaught
Goodrich
Firestone
WLB
Largest Coffee Ration Yet Slated For June
The Office of Price Administration announced the next coffee allotment will be the largest since rationing began. Stamp No. 24 valid May 31 through June 30 provides one pound of coffee for 30 days, a boost due to higher green coffee supply. OPA also allowed Louisiana sugar refiners to serve deficit areas in western New York and western Pennsylvania.
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Office of Price Administration
Prentiss Brown
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Louisiana
New York
Pennsylvania
Gulf
Japs Claim Sinking of U S Destroyer
Tokyo radio said Imperial forces sunk one American destroyer and damaged six other ships in the Aleutians since May 12 as U S forces attacked Attu. The claim lacked Allied confirmation and listed a battleship two cruisers a destroyer and two other unidentified ships as damaged.
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Tokyo
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Aleutians
United States
Attu
Associated Press
Yanks repulse raid on Attu in Aleutians
Five of 16 Japanese twin engine bombers were shot down by U.S. fighters Sunday during a raid on Attu. One U.S. fighter is missing and another was shot down in the defense. The attack followed a Saturday raid by 15 bombers. ground fighting on Attu continues with Japanese forces entrenched in the hills.
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Navy
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Kiska
Dissolution of Red Comintern Seen as War Change
Moscow's move to dissolve the Comintern signals a potential shift in global politics. The pact with anti-Communism has framed Axis aims, and Hitler faces a strategic setback as Berlin and Rome react with surprise to Moscow's weekend announcement. The long term effect remains uncertain but could isolate Germany and Japan.
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New Gasoline Shortage Claimed by DDT
Washington reports a drastic 40 percent reduction in motor fuel allotments for buses as part of a broader eastern gasoline shortage. The issue shares top billing with labor problems and the year’s poll tax debate on the capital news front.
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Washington
East
Capital News Front
Congress Deadlock On Pay As You Go Taxes Deepens
Washington report notes a joint conference committee again failed to bridge Senate and House tax pay as you go differences. A further meeting was set for tomorrow morning. Over the weekend the Office of Defense Transportation announced taxicabs and commercial trucks partially crippled service, affecting 12 northeastern states from Maine to Virginia.
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Senate
House
Office of Defense Transportation
Main
Virginia
New News Editor Joins Logan Daily News Staff
Louis R. Burns of Antigo Wisconsin joins The Logan Daily News editorial staff as news editor, replacing Harry M. Krumlauf who moves to the Zanesville News sports desk. The Burns family rents the Rheinscheld property in South Logan and has a 3 year old son named Danny.
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Antigo
Wis
Logan Daily News
Burns
Chronicle
Urichsville, CO
Harry M. Krumlauf
Zanesville
Navy Has 35 John Paul Jones Namesakes In Service
The Navy reports 35 ships ships named John Paul Jones on active rolls including two Ohioans. One lieutenant from 271 East State Street Athens and a seaman second class from Summit are among the namesakes. Two other John Paul Jones bearers have been killed since the war began.
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Navy
John Paul Jones
East State Street
Athens
Summit
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