Weather signs and world affairs stir a July column
The column muses on July as a potential twin to May and June, notes weather lore and forecasts, and discusses WWII era themes. It reflects on Victory Garden pride, Truman’s Big Three meetings with Churchill and Stalin, and general human superstitions about signs and luck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
July
Julius
May
Noah
Victory
Roosevelt
Churchill
United States
Spoeks
Congress
Truman
Marshal Stalin
Russia
Stalin
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Capistrano
Hitler
Rusty and Babe Face Nighttime Ambush on the Ranch
On a stormy ride back to the Double R Ranch Rusty discovers a riderless pony wounded by gunfire. She tends Babe and plans a trek to the city for veterinary aid while neighbors react with fear and bravado as danger looms near the waterway sump and bridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Rowland
Rusty
Herb
Ladue Decker
Ladue
Decker
Babe
Jed
Ling
Manny
Sis
A Ranch Woman Faces a Shadowy Vet and Gang Talk
Rusty escorts Babe the horse to Doctor Harness's homestead where a red haired veterinarian Herb Westmore tends the animal. A tense exchange hints at gang involvement and possible rustling while Rusty weighs trust, duty, and the sheriff's message.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manny
Rusty
Doctor Harness
Herb
Babe
Dactar Wert
Traifer
Miss Westmore
Doctor Westmore
Decker
Ladue
American air carriers carry 600 million passenger miles in 1938
American airlines flew about 600 million passenger miles in 1938. This figure was roughly double the total passenger miles of all European carriers combined, illustrating the rapid growth of U S air transport before World War II.
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By Esther Landwehr
L A
Tae
Westmore
Herb Westmore
Fatso
Red
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Saline Theatre
Gene Autrey
Lon Chaney and
Boris Karloff
House OF Frankenstein
Dorothy McGuIre
Joan Blondell
James Dunn
Brooklyn
Jennifer Jones
Song OF
Bernadette
Milan
Warner Baxter
Hillary Brooks
Ann Miller
William Wright
Eve
Sun
Veronica Lake
Faye Emerson
Helmut Dantine
Berlin
Eire
Sean T. O’kelly
Dublin
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