Wild Automobiles Frighten Passersby in Dusty Italy
A travel narrator recalls early motor travel through northern Italy with dust, disease fears, and startled horses. A vivid episode describes a well dressed Englishman on a high stepping cob whose horse bolts after a tire blowout, the cart tipping, and a quick retreat to seek a safer town without a hotel. The writer apologizes to the Italian gentleman later for the upheaval.
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Haly
Parma
Iyian
Carler’s Life Liver Pills Promoted as Constipation Cure
An advertisement promises relief from indigestion constipation and headaches by using Carler’s Life Liver Pills made from vegetable medicines. It claims daily bowel cleansing improves health and mood with phrases like Happy Days Are Here Again and urges readers to ask their druggist for Carver’s Platt Liver Pills.
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Carle
War 25 Years Ago Today September 35 1915
War roundup notes actions across Europe on September 35, 1915. British attack strong German positions near Le Bassee canal advancing 4900 yards. French offensive in Champagne. Russian fleet shells Gulf of Riga. In Warsaw hand to hand fighting reported amid German shelling. British fleet bombed by German aircraft, claims denied in London.
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le Bassee Canal
Champagne
Gulf of Riga
Britain
Warsaw
North Sea
Ark Oval
London
Enlistments Boom Under Draft Law
Washington reports voluntary army enlistments surged as selective service officials expect the first compulsory service quota may be filled without a draft. With 435,000 men volunteering from April through August, officials anticipate a rush of applicants, including 700 youths in New York handled by special military police yesterday.
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Washington
New York
Texas U to Set Enrollment Mark
University of Texas enrollment looks set for an all time fast semester record. Yesterday's late registration yielded 653 students for a total of 8961 an increase of 79 from last year's late period. More late registrations are expected Friday.
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Austin
University of Texas
Weather Hints and City Temps From A Hazy BoM Report
A garbled weather summary provides temperatures and conditions for multiple U S cities. It lists highs and lows, cloudiness, precipitation and winds for Abilene Albuquerque Amarillo Austin Dallas Fort Worth and many others alongside an incomplete moon phase and tide notes. The report mixes station readings with stray time stamps and misspelled place names, reflecting a damaged OCR source.
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Tex
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Alpine
Amarillo
Apalachicals
Austin
Billegham
Ala
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Texso
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Buffalo N.T Ga
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Minn
Paro
Evansville
Ind
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Ark
Fort Worth
Fredericksburg
Galveston
PiCidy
Goodland
Run
Hallsras
N.C
Pielay
Huron
Clear
Kansas City
Ker Weat
Fla
Kingman
Ariz
Knoxville
Tena
Laredo
Lille Rock
Arkax Lenissile
Lubbock
Macon
Memphis
Tenn
Miami
British Planes Bomb Libya Targets Tobruk and Cufra
Rome reports British planes attacked Tobruk and the Cufra oasis in Libya yesterday with 44 percent of forces involved, while no Italian operations in Egypt were noted. Fifteen killed and 70 injured as British air bomb dropped high explosive and incendiaries on Tobruk, harming civilians, hospitals, and a harbor steamer.
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Rome
Tobruk
Cufra
Libya
Egypt
Britain
Kenya
Merv
Dakar Falls to Free French and British Forces
Reports from Vichy indicate Dakar in French West Africa surrendered to British naval and Free French units after a Tuesday raid by RAF planes. Official Vichy statements gave no update since 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. Casualties from Tuesday morning bombardment tallied 185 killed and 362 wounded.
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Vichy
Dakar
French West Africa
Charles de Gaulle
R. A. F. Wavs
Channel
Need for Arm Speedup At Bankers Meeting
In Atlantic City New Jersey Seph 25 and 4090 delegates at the sixty sixth annual convention heard the economic policy commission urge that the nation face arms protection by acting swiftly not just heavily. The panel warned the current rearmament pace lags behind 1917, noting spending in eight months of 1949 was far slower than in the comparable period of that year.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Torpedo Strikes British Steamer Sulamis Near Ireland
Mackay Radio reports the British steamer Sulamis, a 2 5801 ton vessel owned by the Donaldson Line with home port Glasgow, torpedoed early today about 415 miles west of Ireland. No details were given on casualties or damage.
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New York
Mackay Radio
Ireland
Lloyds' Register
Donaldson Line
Glasgow
Londoners Jubilant Over Berlin Raids as Bombing Escalates
Londoners hailed the night’s raids on Berlin as heavy bombers struck Siemens and Halske electrical plants and a Friedrichsfelde transformer station. The strikes, echoing a third successive night of attacks, caused fires near a canal bridge southwest of Tempelhof as civilians watched in relief.
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London
Furbo
Hous R
A. F
Berlin
Air Ministry
Siemens and Halske
Friedrichaefelde
Tempelhof
Imensboy
Fils
Finland Opens Road to Nazis through Norway Transit
Finland and Germany formalize a route for troops and supplies to move from Northern Finland to Nazi-occupied Norway. A Finnish communique notes transit of German troops and supplies between Northern Norway and Northern Finland under specified conditions and measures.
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Finland
Helsinki
Germany
Norway
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