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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1946
Page
2
Shanghai reports claim Russians will not evacuate Dairen before the Sino-Soviet treaty ends. U S navy ship asked to leave, and locals fear loss of the gateway to Manchuria. Dairen remains under Russian flag atop both Chinese and Russian properties.
London, Dec 25. King George VI spoke from Sandringham in his Christmas Day address to English subjects. He urged the nation to maintain patience and courage to hasten the world recovery, saying Britain showed the way during bombing and could again lead by discipline and endurance. The year has been hard with global war aftermath and political burden of resettlement.
The article provides fragmented meteorological figures including temperatures, precipitation, wind, sunrise and sunset times, pollen counts, and wind indicators. It mentions locations such as Los Angeles and Memphis and includes stray notes like ad lines and contact prompts, reflecting a noisy OCR pull from a weather column.
Christmas 1946 brings hope for peace as Americans pursue relief efforts. President Truman appeals for a blessed year ahead while volunteers in Elmira, New York finalize a four room bungalow for a crippled mother of three. Soldiers and prisoners are returning home, and Red Cross gifts reach nearly 200,000 hospital patients worldwide. Many European towns face cold, fuel shortages, and scarce bread supplies during the holiday.
In London and across war torn Europe food and fuel shortages dampen Christmas with short ages of supplies and bleak prospects. Yet faint hopes for a brighter future appear as Europe marks its second Yuletide amid hardship.
TOKYO December 23 Seven Eleven workers and one weather station employee atop Mount Fuji at 12400 feet formed the world’s highest labor union. A member said they work where the mercury hits 30 degrees below zero and deserve better pay, joking about a strike raising media attention.
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