Two great pitchers in Tigers lore Newhouser and Trout
Old-time observers debated famed pitching duos with a focus on Detroit's Harold Newhouser and Paul Trout, noted for their near pennant run. The piece recalls earlier two-man combinations like Mathewson and McGinnity and Chesbro, while examining Newhouser's talent and persistent flaws.
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Detroit
Newhouser
Trout
Tigers
Mathewson
McGinnity
Jack Chesbro
Tiger
E. A. Batchelor
Harold
New Star Feboldson Rivaling Bunyan in Folklore
Omaha reports a Nebraska born legend, Febold Feboldson, a Swedish pioneer-type figure whose feats rival Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill. The tale, shaped by Wayne T. Carroll and writers Beath Holmes, spread from Gothenburg through the Gothenburg Independent and Gothenburg Times, tracing Febold’s boundary-defining exploits and wild adventures across the plains.
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Omaha
Neb
Febold Feboldson
Paul Bunyan
Mike Fink
Pecos Bill
Kemp Morgan
Nebraska
Robert Paul Beath
Washington, D. C
Plains
Febold
Chicago Tribune
West
Mississippi
Wayne T. Carroll
Gothenburg
Watt Tell
Scandinavia
Carroll
Gothenburg Times
Beath
Don P. Holmes
the Times
Etna
Nebru
Bergstrom Stromberg
Herebold Favardson
Hjalmar Hjalmarson
Eldad Johnson
Kansas
Republican River
Johnson
Veterans Demand Mature Roles In Postwar Jobs Survey
A cross section of veterans shows most prefer man jobs over prewar roles. They return as mature, capable workers after battlefield leadership and responsibility gained abroad. Employers should place veterans in higher positions reflecting their experience and maturity. The piece also critiques exchange rates that shortchange GIs paid in francs versus dollar value.
Tell of Service They Want After the War
New York Central railroad received letters from about 160000 travelers seeking improved postwar service. Responses call for air conditioning better porter service private quarters and dining and lounge car facilities on trains to enhance comfort after the war.
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New York
New York Central Railroad
Magnet Aids Removal Of Stuck Bobby Pin In Child
New York doctors at Manhattan Eye Ear and Throat hospital perform a nonsurgical magnetized removal from a three year old girl’s stomach. The five minute procedure used a two foot medical magnet via a bronchoscope to extract the pin with fluoroscopic guidance. The operation, reported as possibly the first in New York, followed X rays and prior hospital transfers.
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New York
Mary Palmer
Manhattan Eye
Harry Palmer
76Th Road
Queens
Mary
Mary Immaculate Hospital
Jamaica
Manhattan Institution
East 64Th Street
United States Veterans Administration Hospital
Kingsbridge Road
Bronx
General Electric Company
Schenectady
Women of Today No Strangers to War With Marines
A feature recalling wartime heroines among Women Reservists. Lucy Brewer who posed as a man to serve aboard the USS Constitution in 1812. Maj. Charlotte Day Gow er who set up first aid stations in Hong Kong. S/Sgt. Mary Virginia Herst in Bangkok. Peggy Urzendowski evacuated from Corregidor. Capt. Helen Nicholson Crean awarded the Croix de Guerre for Verdun heroism with the 5th Marines.
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Lucy Brewer
Charlotte Day Gower
Washington, D. C
Hong Kong
Mary Virginia Herst
Argonia
Kans
Bangkok
Thailand
Peggy Urzendowski
Far East
Corregidor
Helen Nicholson Crean
Washington
D. C
France
5Th Regiment of Marines
Verdun
Wrs
Marines
War crimes atrocity by Nazi youths in barn blaze
Seven hundred Polish Russian and Hungarian slaves were locked in a gasoline soaked barn when a teen SS guard set it alight and laughed as flames spread. Prisoners tried to flee but machine guns and grenades mowed them down, the door sealed on the survivors.
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U. S. 9Th Army
Germany
Bomb Sticks in Rack as Pilot Bombs Japs
An airman named Lt. Frederick A. Dimitnd hand-bombed a target when a bomb stuck in the rack. He managed to drop the bomb on enemy forces despite the snag. Further details on location and outcome are unavailable in the fragmented text.
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Frederick A. Dimit
LUEBIRDS Pattern 7481 for Bridal Linens
Pattern 7481 offers a transfer design of 20 natural color motifs featuring loebird and flower stitchery sized 414 by 10 inches. The motif arrangement is two by two, presenting a cheerful wedding appropriate motif set for linens.
Questions Quiz Answers From the Newspaper Page
A reader’s quiz asks eight questions on language and civics. Topics include phrase meaning, Washington’s cherry trees, a female governed state term, who elects congressmen at large, Singhalese homeland, a long English word, weather cues in leaves, and the administration with the lowest national debt.
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Washington
Answers to numbered items from a historical prompt
The list presents brief responses to a quiz or prompt. It includes claims about fruiting, gynarchy, voter reach, a country, a concept of strength, and a scientific cause for leaf warp due to atmospheric moisture, plus a historical debt figure for 1836 under Andrew Jackson.
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Ceylon
Andrew Jackson
Lone pine on Sherman hill survives Union Pacific path
A lone tree beside the Lincoln highway on Sherman hill between Cheyenne and Laramie Wyoming remains in the roadbed area once cut by the Union Pacific tracks laid in 1867. To spare the tree the company built the roadbed around it keeping the historic landmark intact.
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Lincoln Highway
Sherman Hill
Cheyenne
Laramie
Wyo
Union Pacific
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W. Randolph St
Chicago
Druggista
Gulf Coast
OPA
Hawaii
Florida
Belgium
Bfgoodrich
FO Tol
SLOAN
Dr. C. M. Coe, Inc
Pine ST
ST. Louis
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