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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1944
Page
6
Washington digest examines the push and pull between states rights and federal growth as bureaucracy expands. It discusses reconversion, unemployment payments, and how both parties critique centralization while privately accepting it, noting biases and political incentives shaping implementation.
Ernie Pyle recounts a perilous afternoon on the Western Front as medics from Captain Lucien Strawn’s unit press forward amid heavy shelling. A sequence of bursts, craters, and scattered, wounded soldiers unfolds while Pyle and infantry scramble between ruined towns and shattered farms, meeting frontline courage and grim realities.
BRIEFS reports show World War II coal output rising with about one third fewer miners than World War I. Red Cross messages from service members to families have increased by 10 percent. A Go-To-School drive aims to curb declining high school enrollment. Japanese school children breed rabbits in 550 schools to clothe soldiers.
Two shock cases staggered down the road toward us not wounded but broken. They could barely speak or understand as the doctor ordered them to wait at the corner. They walked away unsteadily, mouths open, eyes staring, holding each other like intoxicated men, having found more war than the human spirit can endure.
Scalloped top curtains for any room using sheer lawn or lawnlike fabric. Curtains are hung above eye level on a single sash rod with a four inch scalloped hem seen through the material. Diagrams show how to mark scallops with a small saucer and use a wooden pattern box. Patterns and shell shapes are described with size notes and a 15 cent price for colored items.
Practical tips cover leaks and sealing with wax, handling melted fats, carrying small tools in a case, preventing marks on floors with wax, boiling water to clean coffee pots, softening ice, ironing hot water, hand washing woolens, and discarding frayed laces. The guidance uses simple methods to protect fabrics, floors, and utensils.
A note cites Collier?s on U S compensation for nonbattle accidents. It states a North African Arab death costs 200 dollars, while the mule’s death costs 250 dollars, with total payments exceeding 2100,00 to about 15,000 claimants, reflecting local value bases.
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