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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1943
Page
3
The speaker notes American sports fans pride in raw power across football baseball boxing golf and tennis. He recalls recent gatherings with soldiers sailors coastguardmen and merchants who demand direct answers and quickly challenge weak claims.
A collage of athletic praise names Bronko Nagurski Babe Ruth Jack Dempsey Lou Gehrig Ted Williams and Sam Snead as power icons. Mentions of Chicago Cubs uniforms John Jerome White and a veteran IL umpires scheduler wrap a vintage sports nostalgia piece.
At the Great Lakes naval training base a massive sports setup includes 136 200 participants across 20 000 track entrants and 50 squads. Ten gymnasiums host 40 basketball courts 11 recreation centers include boxing and table tennis, with a 660 000 gallon largest pool. Baseball under Lieut Mickey Cochrane drew 375 000 fans in 77 games.
American ingenuity turns discarded silk stockings into powder bags for explosives. Silk from millions of pairs helps create projectiles, with Cibé Silk burning cleanly to avoid barrel cleanup. In one month the drive yielded 2,500,000 pairs collected.
A correspondent travels into New Guinea’s remote interior to reach the front, describing rugged mountains, 9000 foot passes, jungle fatigue, malaria like ticks known as moch a bites, and a wave of jungle warfare. He witnesses a commando patrol fight and reach a frontline camp where feverish troops rest and march toward battle.
Describes a colonial girl bedroom ensemble with bonnet, bouffant skirt, embroidery, scallops, puff sleeves and matching dresser scarf. Outlines use of outline, lazy daisy, French knots and buttonhole stitches with hot iron transfer 29534 offered for 15 cents and ordering details.
The text claims Roger Brooke Taft administered presidential oaths to a series of presidents including Van Buren Harrison Tyler Polk Taylor Fillmore Pierce Buchanan Lincoln. It appears a garbled account mixing 19th century figures and a modern justice.
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