Statue of Liberty Becomes Mecca for Freedom Lovers
New York readers see the Statue of Liberty as a beacon for 1941 freedoms as visitors flock to Bedloe's Island. The piece notes record attendance, the statue's symbolic meaning tied to the Four Freedoms, and details of the monument's dimensions and ascent.
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Don G. Sandra
Union
New York
Bedloe’s Island
Radio City
Brooklyn Bridge
Hall of Fame
New York Bay
Manhattan
Roosevelt
Ossining
Battery Park
Bedloe
Narrows
Auguste Bartholdi
Liberty
Bartholdi
France
United States
Survey Urges Family Health Classes as Food Costs Rise
Minneapolis report argues public and vocational schools should offer immediate classes to teach American wives and mothers how to feed families healthfully amid rising prices and possible scarcities. It cautions against relying on bottled vitamins and stresses simple guidance using familiar foods, cheaper meats, and powders like evaporated milk.
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Minneapolis
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
Women Rights Versus Joint Tax Returns Highlighted in Letter
A letter to the column argues against joint income tax returns for spouses, stressing the historical fight for women’s individual rights. The writer urges thoughtful national decisions on work, technology, and social policy without eroding women’s status. The piece also discusses social programs and a call for more nurses amid a national shortage.
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House of Representatives
United States
WPA
NYA
Correct Labels on Cans Will Assist U. S. Housewives
In a nationwide experiment during the year grocers with the National Consumer Retailers council label canned fruits and vegetables graded A and B. The Agricultural Marketing service sets the standards and labels explain grade meaning, product specifications, type and style, and servings per can.
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U. S
New York
National Consumer Retailers Council
Agricultural Marketing Service
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Prison inmates force menu change at Waupun
Inmates at the Wisconsin state prison in Waupun refused to eat the standard meat dishes Bologna and Sausage. The 900 prisoners folded arms and demanded a better, more varied lunch. Warden John C. Burke granted the request, resulting in a menu change.
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Waupun
Wis
John C. Burke
Knowledge Quiz Answers From Historic US Figures
A quiz with ten questions and a provided answer key covers topics from literature to geography and politics. Highlights include Henry W. Longfellow, Peru, 236000 miles of rail, 180 vestigial organs, ultraviolet sun rays, Babylon, 1539 tunnels totaling 320 miles, preachers, Canada’s population 11012734, and nine women in the Seventy-seventh Congress.
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United States
Tower of Babel
Phillips Brooks
Henry Ward Beecher
Lyman Abbott
Dominion of Canada
Babylon
Hattie Caraway
Arkansas
Jeannette Rankin
Montana
Mary T. Norton
New Jersey
Edith Nourse Rogers
Massachusetts
Caroline O'Day
New York
Jessie Sumner
Illinois
Frances P. Boston
Ohio
Margaret Smith
Maine
Katharine Byron
Maryland
Hay fever relief claim linked to salty corn meal dish
A Pennsylvania electrical engineer reportedly found hay fever relief after eating overly salty corn meal mush. Dr. Selleck and medical experts endorse a chloride based remedy, Nakamo Bell, now produced by Hollings-Smith Co. in Orangeburg. Clinical tests with 10 to 60 year olds yielded relief within ten minutes and marked symptom cessation in weeks.
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Pennsylvania
E. E. Selleck
Columbia University
Hollings-Smith Company
Orangeburg
New York
Nakamo Bell
Selleck
Reproof and Bearing Fear Not the Anger of the Wise
A compact meditation on accepting constructive criticism. The verse urges those worthy of praise to endure correction without fear, framing wise rebuke as a path to virtue and growth.
Window Through Which You See the World Quote
George Bernard Shaw advocates moral achievement as the path to honor and urges personal integrity and clarity of view. The message frames virtue as something earned and reflected through one’s character.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Mecca
U.S
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Governor's Island
Battery
Brooklyn
ONT
Messe
Eleanor
Genevieve Paulson
E. J. Morrissey
Valeria
Iowa
Lynn Grant
Melrose
Conn
M. Paulson
Genevieve
Henry W. Longfellow
Peru
Fede
Coffee Shop
Schimmel
al Mel
Lincoln, Nebraska
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