Scrap Iron Boom From Arms Race Drives Prices Up
New Orleans faces a weekly 5 000 to 10 000 ton flux of scrap iron bound for Italy, Japan, Poland, Belgium, England, Germany and Mexico amid wartime demand. Junk operators, big firms, and rag-and-bone men profit as iron, brass, copper and tin fetch high prices with ships needing metal for munitions. Conditioning, rail and ship parts, and even dismantled taxicabs move to meet foreign demand, while fears linger over the material flowing into weapons production.
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New Orleans
Italy
Japan
Poland
Belgium
England
Germany
Mexico
Great Combines and Syndicates
Castoid
Egents
Junker
Household tips and kitchen notes from a neighbor
Household ammonia removes rust stains from copper. Do not add sauce to boiled cabbage onions or celery until serving or it will be too watery. Sand the soapstone surface before applying linseed oil. Thin lemon slices with paprika and celery salt garnish steaks toast or fish. Dawn grows slowly this season and lawn towers are unnecessary. keep grass about two inches high. Associated Newspapers World Service.
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Associated Newspapers
Wae
Courtesy and the duty of true courtesy in society
A reflection on courtesy as a virtue crossing race and social lines. It cites a street car scene where a man offers his seat to a woman and recalls quotes from Thomas Jefferson and Edmund Burke. The piece argues courtesy signifies character and personal growth beyond time or trade.
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Thomas Jefferson
Edmund Burke
Helen
Frank
Nazi jail pastor Niemoeller held on slander charges
A recent photo shows Rev. Meriin W Niemoeller, a militant German Protestant clergy leader, arrested on charges of slandering Nazi notables and opposing Nazi Jewry. An official statement says his assertions have been a constant feature of anti German foreign press.
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Meriin W Niemoeller
Tsl
Pastor Niemoeller
Lost art of courtesy in city life and motherhood
An old woman struggles with a heavy suitcase at a Union Station elevated platform as six youths pass by. The piece argues courtesy should be a primal daily value, linking respect for personality and motherhood to a broader social bond in a hurried era.
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Union Station
Home Makeover Sparks a New Start for a Couple
Helen 3B recounts rebuilding a damaged kitchen after a fire, reorganizing space to place cabinets around the sink and fridge, adding a wheeled dining table, and crafting a Swedish blue kitchen with yellow ceilings. The piece visits a neighbor, praising a practical, tasteful home led by a hardworking, balanced couple.
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Frank
West Point Campus Gets Face Lifting
West Point United States Military Academy underway on a $3,000,000 modernization. New cadet barracks, academic building, gym addition, cadet armory, ordnance and engineering labs, and junior officers quarters rise to boost capacity and Gothic limestone facade. Construction aims to finish with space for about 1,000 cadets and features an updated gym, libraries, and new classroom wings.
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West Point
United States Miliary Academy
North Cadet Barracks
Brary
Tennis Cours
British School Teasers Prompt Pupils In Examination
A Barnsley school examination includes a puzzle asking students to determine the letter after P under conditions tied to the day of the week. Another teaser challenges pupils with word-play, asking whether to write yes or tang based on a numeric cue. An intelligence expert notes such tests seem odd but reveal need for wits to solve.
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Beny Wells
Barnsley
Wes
Petara
Fence spans 200 miles to keep cattle from Texas in Louisiana
A 200 mile barbed wire fence extends from Logansport near the Texas border into Calcasieu parish in Louisiana. The structure aims to prevent tick infested Texas cattle from crossing the Sabine River during low summer flows, keeping them from wandering into New Orleans area.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Logansport
Texas
Shreveport
Calcasieu Parish
Sabine River
New Life code for Chinese waitresses behavior
The New Life movement issued a code for Chinese waitresses in Nanking advising against curling hair and rouge, and against wearing foreign dress to avoid a wrong impression. The guidance aims to enforce modest presentation and local norms.
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Nanking
China
Behsavior
New Life
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