Army News Highlights Peacetime Peak Drives Savings
The army reduces costs by salvaging cloth scraps from uniform production saving over 1.5 million dollars last year. Scrap cloth is sorted baled and auctioned by the quartermaster depot to the highest bidders. New Bell Lyra instruments replace chromatic bells for army bands offering wider tonal range. A twin glove invention for armored forces gives better hand protection while allowing finger movement. Motorcycle riders may soon have more updates.
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Army
Uncle Sam
Philadelphia
Quartermaster Depot
U. S
Quartermaster Corps
Mitchell backs defense bonds amid wartime prep in Atlanta
U S Defense Atlanta reports Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind, buying a United States Defense Savings Bond. In her statement she said that regardless of war, the nation must be prepared and equipped with top ships planes tanks and guns, and she is glad to help by purchasing bonds.
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Atlanta
Margaret Mitchell
United States Defense Savings
Set Up Job Plan to Aid Men on Leaving Service
Washington notes selective service headquarters arranged classification of skilled workers discharged from the army to speed civilian employment. About 200000 soldiers to return to civilian life with thousands more released in coming months unless the international situation requires retention.
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Washington
Selective Service
Ife
Blind People Hear Broadway Plays on Phonographic Discs
The American Foundation for the Blind with Library of Congress support brings full Broadway plays to blind readers via long playing discs played on an electric machine. A theatre co operative provides a roster of stars and 44 plays including Elizabeth the Queen and Our Town are offered free through 27 regional libraries with postage free delivery.
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New York
Broadway
American Foundation For the Blind
New York City
Library of Congress
Theater
Sybil Thorndike
Otis Skinner
Eva le Gallienne
Mady Christians
Hilda Spong
Bert Lytell
Whitford Kane
Selena Boyle
Wesley Addy
Brenda Forbes
Edith Taliaferro
Joseph Holland
House Jameson
Elizabeth the Queen
Hedda Gabler
Richard II
Anthony and
Priorities clash with toys on 1941 Christmas scene
CHICAGO report on wartime priorities shows metal toys and defense gear in surge as the Merchandise Mart notes a 20 percent rise in toy demand. Army pipelines, rations for 123,000 men, and reduced rail fares frame a broad wartime supply picture for readers.
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Chicago
Little Johnie
Merchandise Mart
Ill
Red Cross
Notes on Morale, Writers, and Quick Bits From the News
The column surveys Army morale, media criticism, and book notes, praising Marshall’s blunt warning yet urging calm. It reviews James Young in China, Stark, and a Time profile, plus a reflexive sketch of PM refugees to British Trinidad. A Midtown vignette features an American soldier and Hamburger Heaven generosity, with playful word portraits from famous writers.
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James Young
China
Japan
Boston
Collier
Yarrop
Naziland
Argentina
Selwyn James
Gerald Campbell
Trinidad
James
Europe
Sol Bloom
Campbell
Duncan McMartin
Barnum’s Early Debts Paid After Sieve of Wealth
In Danbury Connecticut a young P. T. Barnum left unpaid bills behind him. A creditor mocked that payment would come only when a sieve holds water. Years later Barnum, now a successful showman, wrote to the man that he had fixed that sieve.
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P. T. Barnum
Danbury
Conn
Ideals as Stars Quote by Carl Schurz
A brief reflective note presents Carl Schurz's idea that ideals resemble stars guiding a seeker across a desert or sea toward destiny, emphasizing the distant aim over tangible reach. The saying frames ideals as navigational beacons rather than attainable possessions.
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Carl Schurz
Victorian style HELE chairs for modern rooms
Practical guide notes HELE conversation chairs suit Victorian style and modern rooms. Details cover building a pine box frame, adding cushions, and shaping the base for comfortable angles. Also mentions ready made cushions and a hooked rug pattern, Pattern No. 201, with 10 cents and mail request.
Questioning the ruling soul within us in daily life
The speaker reflects on identity by asking what soul governs each moment. They probe whether they embody a child, a youth, a feeble woman, a tyrant, a domestic animal, or a wild beast, urging continual self-scrutiny of inner motive and character.
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Second
H. W. Siddall
Railroad Interterritorial Military Committee
United States
Quartermaster General
Johnie
Marshall
Clark Gable
Ed Howe
Atchison, Kansas
Gene
H. L. Mencken
Mencken
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Catpeteria Cashier
John Barrymore
John Galsworthy
Ben Hecht
Hig Amile
Hlizabeth Curtis
Barnum
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Longz
Firestone
Firestone Home & Auto Supply
Mr. Uxtra Traction
Sfreaz G Hera
Firestone All
Nameluls
Mia
Bedford Hills
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