River Barges Will Carry Oil
Kansas City report notes conversion of river barges to haul five million barrels of oil. Inland Waterways president Chester C. Thompson says barges will move oil from East Texas and Louisiana fields up the Mississippi and Ohio to the East, aiding war logistics and easing railroad strain. He cites rail car capacity and compares tow to freight trains, predicting strong postwar river traffic growth.
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Kansas City
Chester C. Thompson
Inland Waterways Corporation
East
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Ohio
Thompson
Mississippi Valley Association
Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
Defense Plant Corporation
Darby Corporation
Panama Canal
Pearl Harbor
Mr. Thompson
Missouri
St. Louis
Briton’s Front Mail Delivered Home After 27 Years
Frank Gumm of the Royal Army Medical Corps lay wounded in a base hospital in France twenty seven years ago and sent his mother a card saying Getting better. Don’t worry. The note reached her recently by regular post. Gumm later recovered and now serves as assistant manager of a defence canteen in Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Frank Gumm
Royal Army Medical Corps
France
Frank
Navy
Army
Britain
Texas Man Expands Guinea Pig Business in Garage
William T. Hamilton started a guinea pig breeding business in his Dallas garage two years ago with two productive units. He now seeks a zoning change to move operations into a larger building as the enterprise grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Dallas
William T. Hamilton
Brantford Dogs Spurn City Plastic Tags
Brantford council, seeking nonedible dog license tags, zeroes in on metal options after dogs reportedly chewed and rejected plastic tags substituted by the city. The city plans a replacement program to ensure durable tags for pet licensing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brantford
Ont
City council questions jail feed cost in Reno
Reno's city council reviewed a $500 bill for feeding jail prisoners and asked the judge to speed up inmate processing to cut costs.
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Reno
Liberia's Geography Limits Port Access and Wealth Hope
The Liberian coast spans about 350 miles with Monrovia and Marshall as key ports yet harbors are poor. Liberia lacks railways and has few usable roads while rivers offer limited navigation. Climate is harsh but not as deadly as surrounding areas, and rubber dominates export growth with a major U.S. rubber firm leasing near Monrovia. Production rose from 2–3 million pounds in 1935 to over 14 million pounds in 1941 due to rubber demand.
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Liberia
Africa
New York City
Monrovia
Marshall
West Africa
United States Rubber Company
Robin Portrait Captures Subtle Robin Character
A Watertown Times reader notes that robins, though common, resist capture by bird artists. Edmund Sawyer formerly of Watertown, N Y, created a famed portrait that captures the robin’s alert interrogative look. The male outshines the female, whose aging feathers hide her years, and robins display a rich vocal life with distinct dawn and rain songs.
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Edmund Sawyer
Watertown
N. Y
James A. Common
Watertown Times
Frequent Shampoos for Lustrous Hair in Winter
Girls learn that hair shine comes from health and regular brushing plus cleanliness. Winter danger to hair includes overheated rooms tobacco smoke and wind during sports. Dry the head carefully before going out. Soften rough elbows by soaking and use lotion after washing.
Vaughn Monroe’s Early Start in Akron to Form Own Orchestra
Vaughn Monroe began his music career at age eleven as a trumpet player in a public school band in Akron Ohio. He later played professionally for a dance band while funding Carnegie Tech studies, then joined Austin Wiley in Cleveland, then Larry Funk, and finally organized his own orchestra while with Jack Marshard in Boston.
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Monroe
Vaughn Monroe
Vaughn
Akron
Ohio
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Austin Wiley
Cleveland
Larry Funk
Jack Marshard
Boston
Biscuits Over Bullets Cheer at Camp Barkeley
Members of the Medical Training Center detachment at Camp Barkeley Texas listen to Maj. Joseph Federbush address cadets in the Recreation building. He jokes about keeping records and even the song Praise the Lord and Pass the Biscuits may come to the hall.
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MRTC
Camp Barkeley
Texas
Joseph Federbush
Basil Winthrop’s Reckoning with a Red Headed Love
Basil Winthrop, sheltered by a wealthy father, rebels against an arranged marriage to Elaine Mortimer. He meets a red headed bazaar worker, falls for her, and after dramatic confrontation with his father, chooses love over duty. Basil and Mary Smith marry and live happily.
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Basil Winthrop
Basil
U.S
Winthrop
Sarah
Mortimer
Elaine
Sarah Mortimer
Red-Head
Mary Smith
Verkhoyansk Weather and Russian Snow Patterns
A historical piece describes Verkhoyansk in northeast Siberia as the coldest place on earth with record lows and highs, and details October Buran winds, early Moscow snowfalls, and the recurring pattern of early, mid, and persistent snows across Russia, noting regional variations and sledges.
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Russia
Verkhoyansk
Siberia
Montana
Moscow
Spezia Bombed by Britain Amid Great Naval Port Fortifications
Britain bombed Spezia, Italy targeting one of the Mediterranean’s largest naval concentrations. The port houses shipyards royal dockyard arsenal factories and cranes with vast basins and basins, while vast coal sheds and fuel tanks lie to the west. Spezia sits at the head of the Gulf of Spezia with a 75,000 population and a harbor long regarded as the safest in the region.
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Spezia
Italy
Genoa
London
Malta
Royal Dockyard and Arsenal
Gulf of Spezia
Mediterranean
New Mohawk Baking Potato Debuts at Cornell Tests
The Mohawk is a new high quality baking potato from Cornell University’s agricultural station, a cross of Green Mountain and Katahdin. Tested in New York state fields for eight years, it out yields Chippewa and Katahdin, with white shallow eyed tubers and flesh, good skin, and higher No 1 yield, though moderately susceptible to scab blight mosaic and leafroll.
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Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
Green Mountain
Department of Agriculture
Maine
New York State
Earle Hardenburg
Mohawk
Me No Sign Forces Payroll Standoff at Camp Barkeley
A Chinese trainee at Camp Barkeley Texas refused to sign the payroll during roll call in the Medical Replacement Training center. He was found in the latrine doing laundry and insisted he would not sign until his pay from last month and today’s pay were settled. He claimed he lost money in a crap game within 30 minutes and would not sign again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Barkeley
Texas
Clark County basketball tourney set at Martinsville
This week includes only Clark County basketball schedule with a Friday and Saturday tourney at Martinsville. Drawings at 7 30 p m and games at 7 30 and 8 45. Also notes PTA meetings and livestock production class updates with topics on feeding and disease control.
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Clark ‘County
Martinsville
Semester Examinations this Thursday and Friday
Examinations are scheduled for Thursday and Friday this week. Report cards will be distributed to students on Friday of next week.
West Union man completes DeKalb hybrid corn course
Harry Wright of West Union completed a week long hybrid corn study course in DeKalb Illinois hosted by DeKalb Agricultural Association Inc. He received a certificate of achievement for instruction in corn breeding adaptation of hybrid varieties soils and seed processing. Wright noted emphasis on selecting proper varieties for different conditions along with company recommendations and testing he conducts.
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Harry Wright
West Union
DeKalb Agricultural Association, Inc
DeKalb, Ilinois
Wright
Paving praise for farmers and corn harvest impact
A farmer described the value of correct hybrids and improved crops in the community, noting the 3 175 000 000 bushels produced this season as a key factor in increasing food for victory. The Red Cross chapter meeting is set for Wednesday January 27 at 2 30 p.m.
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Wright
Red Cross
Red “Cross
Notice of Claim Day in Tillie Taylor Estate Clark County
Notice announces March 1 1943 as the claim date for the estate of Tillie Taylor deceased in Clark County Illinois. Claims may be filed with executor Charles E Taylor and attorneys Snavely Miller Marshall Illinois without summons. Advertisement 4-3.
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Tillie Taylor
Clark County
Disneys
Charles E. Taylor
Snavely & Miller, Attorneys
Mershall, Illinois
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U.S.A
Robin
The
Man By
Barbara’ Benedict
Associated Newspapers, Wno Peaturens
Victor C. Miller
North 6Th
HB. O. Sampson
Rollie R. Geddess
Parents Magazine
T. A. Healey
Marshall“Grade
South School
Leander Wright
Marshall, IJ
Fox Road
Farrow
Cyrus Evans
Macklin & Knowles
Chas. Cornwell
Charles Starrett
Russell
Hayden
Deadwood
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Dorothy Lamour
Morocco
Marrs Funeral. Home
Marshall, Minois
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