Violent Christmas Toll Tops Nation as Deaths Rise
The Associated Press reports a grim Christmas toll with 152 violent deaths including a nine killed in a St. Louis bus crash and a Pontiac Michigan auto fatality. Other tragedies spanned Washington DC, Hartford area, Rhode Island, and Missouri as states tally high counts amid holiday calm.
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Christmas Day Message From King George VI
The king sends Christmas greetings from his home to the empire and thanks service members, civil defenders, and families separated by war. He urges readiness, courage, sacrifice, and unity, hoping for victory and lasting peace after the conflict, with faith in God guiding the nation through hard times.
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Sterlington Home Club Meeting Held at Mrs Culbert Lees
The Sterlington Home Demonstration Club gathered at Mrs Culbert Lee's home with President Mrs Gene Willis presiding. Jewel McQuiller spoke on Christmas candy and cake making, gifts were judged for wrapping, B C Dean won first, Gene Willis second, Tom King third, a vase was given to the president, then music and carols. Refreshments served to members and five visitors attended. The Boston News Letter carried America's first newspaper advertisement in May 1704.
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Call Made for Student Nurses in Wartime Defense
The nation mobilizes civilian defense now urging student nurses to sustain hospitals while graduate nurses join the army and navy. Touro Infirmary School of Nursing offers 25 scholarships for women ages 18 to 35 with two years of college or equivalent. Apply to director of nurses, Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, La.
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Patsy Carr Receives Major Christmas Gift in Miami
Patsy Ruth Carr, 13, crippled since birth, received one of the era’s largest Christmas gifts after her 1940s letter to Santa asking for a crippled children's hospital in south Florida was reproduced by the Miami Herald. The paper’s holiday feature highlighted the appeal as a keynote.
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Patsy Walks After Hospital Campaign Letter
A letter she wrote sparked a successful hospital campaign, and Patsy has now regained the ability to walk following the operation. The effort mobilized support and led to the procedure that enabled mobility.
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Santa figures for widow and son of slain trooper
In Key West on Christmas Day nine year old Billy Daniel received support from his fellow officers who, after his father was shot two weeks earlier, brought a Christmas tree a bicycle skates and candy for the boy. A Miami merchant contributed a $100 check to the widow Mrs Luther P Daniel.
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