Foxhole Dreams Come True Marine Memorial Club Opens
In San Francisco the Marine Memorial club serves living Marines and civilian Marines with hotel like amenities while honoring fallen comrades. Brig Gen Evan Orchard Ames (retired) leads the effort creating an exclusive space for Marines with guest memberships for families and associates. The club offers rooms dining lounges pools steam bath and more at a low tariff, funded by PX profits once allotted for recreation.
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Dog Completes School With Perfect Attendance
In McKeesport Pennsylvania Spotty the woolly dog, aged and nearly blind, graduates from grammar school with a perfect record. Principal H E Remaley presented the dog a diploma and a certificate of perfect attendance as Spotty walked onto the stage behind the Stanko family for ten years.
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Summer Wedding in Tomahawk Unites May Juné and Frank Welke
In August in Tomahawk Wisconsin May June daughter of John July and his wife wed Frank Welke son of August Welke and his wife. The ceremony connected two local families in a small town summer wedding setting.
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May Juné
John July
Frank Welke
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Country Doctor Remains Active At Age of 90
Burlingame Kansas features Dr. F. E. Schenck as one of the last horse and buggy physicians still serving the town. At 90 he embraces new medical tech but recalls the old days, tending calls, guiding patients, and helping raise generations with a vast medical library and steady practice despite aging.
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Evicted Man Builds New House From Crates
In Hagerstown Maryland Jesse Young a carpenter evicted from his home transformed a basement into a two room English cottage style house using army surplus trunk crates. With his son Frank they loaded the parts onto a truck and assembled the structure in two hours plus six hours for finishing.
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Street Names Confuse Tourists in New Orleans
New Orleans city streets stretch about 2100 miles with 1100 names causing tourist confusion. Tchoupitoulas stands as the oldest name with 20 official spellings. Burgundy was once Craps street. renamings linger in directories for decades. Lafitte crosses Claiborne by design due to historic rivalries. Basin street, famed, was briefly Saratoga street before residents pressed its return.
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Ken Strong Kicking Through Modern Football History
The piece recalls Ken Strong of NYU and the Giants as a master kicker adapting to the modern football. It traces early great kickers like George Brooke and Sweeley, notes the shift to a passing game ball, and highlights the enduring challenge of place and kickoff kicking amid changing rules and equipment. It calls attention to the enduring role of kicking in football's evolution.
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Spud Chandler
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Harry Kipke
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Great Modern Kickers Highlight Sammy Baugh
A briefing noting Sammy Baugh as a top modern kicker and passer, detailing his TCU past and Redskins tenure. It also praises Ward Cuff as a skilled toe kicker and cites Jim Thorpe as the best all around kicker in the speaker’s view.
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Know Your Breed Morgan Horse
Justin Morgan founded the first great American horse family. The Morgan breed, named for its founder, is bred at the United States Morgan horse farm in Middlebury Vermont. Horses range from 14.2 to 15.2 hands with 15 hands preferred.
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Soft Corn Needs Special Handling For Winter
Farmers face a soft corn season with frost risk and late planting. Capper's Farmer suggests silaging or pasturing immature corn, and emergency crib methods used in 1945. Northern growers harvest as fodder or husk ears by hand, while hybrid corn remains sturdy on the stalk for winter viability.
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Preparing Livestock for Breeding and Calving Season
Guidance on keeping pigs gaining weight, preserving milk fat, and managing electric fences. Flush ewes before breeding to improve conception rates. Dry cows expected to calve in late fall should be dried off for eight weeks with a nutrient-rich ration to sustain condition and calf development.
New Weed Killers Show Promising Results
New weed killers supplement 2,4-D and report good control of quack grass crab grass and stolons and seeds. IPC developed in England during the war now shows effective results in tests by the U S department of agriculture and is harmless to people and some broadleaf plants.
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U .S. Department of Agriculture
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