25 May 1945
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Newspaper
Middlesboro Daily News
Location
Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1945
Page
1
Rates listed for Bell County Kentucky Lee County Virginia and Claiborne County Tennessee 4.00 a year 6 months 2.00 per half year 1.00 per quarter Outside area 5.00 a year one month 2.7 month. Quote: None so blind as those that will not see Milton Henry.
Citizens urged to vote in Bell County local option liquor election on Saturday. Emphasizes integrity, proper registration, accurate counting, and vigilance by election officers to prevent unfairness. Middlesboro Daily News backs a Yes vote but seeks a fair process regardless of outcome.
Fragmented wartime notes describe substitutes for Canadian and Allied needs, mentioning Life Sult items and 600 warloads of milk, kapok and weed floss as substitutes. It notes Japanese occupation in the Dutch East Indies and Chinese supply links, with Air Force planes ferrying goods into China and tens of thousands of tons routed for war use.
Wartime marriage counsel urges youths to balance old duties with modern aims. It argues home and family remain guiding ideals, warns against haste, and stresses shared values, compatibility, and the peace of a settled life after war.
Lt Gov John Lee Smith condemned Maj Gen John E Dahlquist of Minneapolis and commander of the 36th Texas Division after reports he dined with a Nazi prisoner, calling the act an act of disloyalty and inconsistent with Texan wartime traditions in Atoka.
Open Forum offers last guidance to election officers challengers and voters for the May local option election in Kentucky Bell County. Officials swear in officers ensure proper oath and verify voters bonafide status while warning against ballot handling errors and urging careful ballot secrecy and proper ballot box procedures.
Soldiers recount brutal thirst during long ocean journeys and during the Okinawa campaign. Water rations were limited, purification units were delayed, and drinkable water tasted of iodine. Dreams of Kentucky memories temped morale as heat and dust wore down fighters.
Readable fragments suggest a local item about aspirin brands or availability. The text mentions Moser aspirin and a generic note on genuine purity, but specifics are unclear. Possible advertisement fragment about aspirin brands and reliability without concrete details.
Major Marvin C. Frye of the U S Army recounts a statement endorsing the war effort. The text mentions Quitton Park in Britain as a noted manor aiding the Mayo Navy's Compass Department with machine parts and gyrocompasses. It describes workers processing materials on Oshima Island near Tokyo and the role of women in the effort.
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