Bet you never have a dull moment in Korea
A letter from a friend describes hosting a party with Frances, a car crash, and family visits. It notes Frances’s bold behavior, the Buick wreck, the hospital stay of another driver, and a mortgage to cover bills. The writer jokes about pay, raises, and sending regards to troops, then shifts to a fragment about morale and a flying saucer mystery.
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Korea
Frances
Smedly
Fran
Gypsy Rose Lee
Claud
Bert
Flying saucers spark season of aircraft sport
The season opens with a playful sportspotting game pitting the Citizens against the Service team. Players describe white mists traveling at speed as they claim to spot aircraft from Mars, hoping to outdo rivals in vivid reporting. The rules are light, the score is even, and fans await more thrills each season.
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Mars
Army
Navy
Steven
Dixie White Youth To Work In Chi Slums
Edwin Brown a 23 year old white youth from North Carolina will spend a year building recreational facilities for Negro children in Chicago slums. Sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee he works for maintenance. He organized a 35 member neighborhood committee and started a playground project on the North West Side.
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Chicago
ANP
Edwin Brown
North Carolina
American Friends Service Committee
Brown
American School For Classical Studies
Athens
Greece
United States
Quaker National
Philadelphia
North West Side
American Friends Group
Haverford College
Turner’s Kindergarten Opens Tub
Turner’s Kindergarten at 7168 NW 16th Ave readies its opening on Tuesday September 2. The popular Liberty City facility serves children aged 2 to 6 with care from 8 to 3 30 supervised by Miss Lottie C. Major and Mrs Thelma H Turner. Call 84 3768 for information.
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Turner’s
16Th Ave
Liberty City
Lottie C. Major
Thelma H. Turner
Johnson
Oldest Negro soldier denied hotel stay in Oklahoma City
Dennis Bell, 88, the oldest living Medal of Honor recipient from the Spanish American War, faced a hotel discrimination incident at the Biltmore in Oklahoma City during the 62nd annual National Reunion of the Army and Navy Legion of Valor. His Washington, D. C. party, led by niece Adelene Bell-Smith and Lauritta Morris, was told no accommodations could be given to Bell despite reservations in his name. Local veterans intervened, demanding Bell’s rights.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
ANP
Biltmore Hotel
Dennis Bell
Washington, D.C
Army and Navy Legion of Valor
United States Army
Bell
Biltmore
Adelene Bell- Smith
Washington
Lauritta W. Morris, White
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Fred
Cooper
Dixie White
CHI
Phelan Mortgage CO
Miami Ave
Turner
Roscoe Dunjee
The
Black Dispatch
O. G. Gee
Ior
Gee
ABC Mortgage CO
Seybold
N.W
3Rd Avenue
Kotex
Mexana
Bayer
Johnson’s Baby Oil
Carter
Yardley Soap
Bond Street
Yardley Hand Cream
Yardley Night Cream
Yardley Foundation Cream
Yardley
King’s Men
Cologne
Hot Plates
Fostoria Toasters
Corey Percolator
Chignons
Page Boys Bangs
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