Christmas Mail Month Aims To Send 70 Million Packages
War departments urge timely gifts to overseas troops during the September 15 to October 15 Christmas mail month. Army and navy postal services expect record volumes in 1944, outlining box specs, address rules, and what to avoid.
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Office of War Information
Army
Navy
Navy Mail Service
Fleet Post
New York
San Francisco
Fleet Post Offices
Service
Army Post Office
United States
War Production Board
WPB
Post Office Department
Tropics
Pacific Theater
Army Exchange Service
Special Services Division
Italy
Inside Japan unrest and Hoover on fatherhood reveal shifting tides
The column suggests brewing turmoil in Japan with moderates gaining ground against young fascist officers and notes the Emperor's unique protection. It also profiles J Edgar Hoover’s interest in children and outlines recent diplomatic shifts among Stalin Churchill and Roosevelt, highlighting cooperation with the Russians and Poland. The piece closes with a Merry-Go-Round of postwar signals and surplus sales.
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Japan
Hitler
Tokyo
Asia
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Hoover
Boy Scouts and
Boys’ Clubs
Stalin
Churchill
Teheran
Roosevelt
France
Marshal
Berlin
Poland
Night baseball threats draw revival plan from veteran star
Walter Winchell notes guest columns in his absence and urges reforms to save baseball. He warns four to five night games weekly threaten players health and family life and could kill youth interest. He advocates nationwide baseball schools with retired stars to nurture kids and restore proper development.
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O.K
Babe Dahlgren
Brooklyn
A. G. Spalding
Otts
Cobbs
Collins
Speakers
Lawn Chair Patterns for Child and Adult Sizes
A compact advertisement describes two lawn chair patterns, Pattern 253 for a child's chair with removable back and size suited to children, Pattern 269 for an adult chair. Each pattern includes materials, diagrams, and step by step assembly instructions. Prices are 15 cents each postpaid or 25 cents for both, with ordering from an unspecified address.
First permanent railway post office established in 1864
About eighty years ago the first permanent railway post office began on August 28, 1864, when George B. Armstrong sent a mail car on the Chicago North Western line to Clinton Iowa. The system, later adopted nationwide, aimed to speed mail to soldiers and civilians alike despite initial skepticism.
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George B. Armstrong
Chicago
Chicago North Western Railway
Clinton
Iowa
World
Armstrong
Counsel Presses Witness In Courtroom Confrontation
In a tense courtroom scene the stern counsel demands whether the witness ever stated that the plaintiff’s claim was of no moment. The man on the witness stand gasps and struggles to answer as the exchange turns probing and dramatic.
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Hank Greenberg
Bill Dickey
Joe DiMaggio
Bob Feller
Ted Williams
Terry Moore
How Wasps Helped Create Pulp Paper
A 19th century German paper maker Gottfried Keller disturbed a wasps nest on a woods walk and noted the nest texture resembled rag paper. He and a chemist friend inferred the wasps used spruce fiber, leading to experiments that produced wood pulp paper and the birth of the pulp paper industry.
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Gottfried Keller
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Washington, D. C
Stalin-Churchill
Merry
Big Georgia
Scott Russell
George
Eastman Kodak
Marion B. Folsom
Colmer
House
Clayton
Hile
Walter Winchell
Babe Ruth
Dad
First Railroad
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
Morye
VIAVI
Dr. Law
Viavi Company
H. W. Law
Fell Street
California
Lice
Jhes “Black
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