Green Ribbon Club Seeks Paris Matches for Surplus Women
In Paris a group of midinettes forms a club using green ribbons to signal serious marriage intent. Men must observe rules, wait to approach, and potential brides may approve then introduce themselves. First meeting discussed numbered folders and medical exams, with dances and excursions planned to foster introductions amidst wartime surplus.
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Paris
France
Midinettes
St.Patrick’s
Bastille
Plan for Old Boys College at Oxford and its aims
A proposal to admit adults to Oxford University with a dedicated college for non traditional students. The idea mirrors Ruskin College and would provide a home for extra mur al activities and continuation of studies started through extension courses, letting older learners complete education.
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London
Oxford
Thames
Ruskin College
College Raises Drug Herbs
Seattle Washington reports the college of forestry at the University of Washington is also engaged in growing drug herbs as part of its department program.
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Seattle
Wash
College of Forestry
University of Washington
Pranks and Fortune in Berlin and St Louis Connection
Berlin reports strange exploits with exchange rates as Selmar Meyrowitz pays a 10 000 mark fine for cross border cigarettes. A St Louis hotel heir left Irving in Bochum $39 000, later multiplied in marks by the exchange rate to nearly 60 000 marks. A Berlin dance club habitué inherits 70 000 000 annuities from an aged American, with a sealed portfolio containing jewelry and foreign currency.
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Selmar Meyrowitz
Berlin
Meyrewitz
Marienbad Ang
Meyrowitz
Bochum
Agenski
Irving
St. Louis
United States
Germany
Westphilix
Singer buys church in Venice for a private refuge
Los Angeles singer Henry bought a church in Venice with 230000 dollars cash to have a place to cuss, his wife testified in Judge Hahn's court in a suit brought by Ben Letter. Singer has been declared incompetent and the white is now his guardian.
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Los Angeles
Henry
Singer
Venice
New York
Hurch
Beach
Whitch
Hahn
Sult
Ben
Pote
Record Potato Growth Claim Spurs London World Record Talk
A garbled World section notes a claim about a world potato growing record tied to London. The fragment references Akron and a presence chamber but remains unclear on the precise event, date, or participants.
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London
Akron
Dual Role Keeper-Host At Vermont Hotel Jail
In Newfane Windham County a single operator runs both hotel and county jail within one building. HR Osborne manages guests and inmates, viewing the setup as practical and normal. The hotel extension is a white brick two and a half story structure with a jail doorway kept locked by a large key. Coal production figures are cited as 700,600,000 to 1 909,000,000 tons annually.
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Newfane
Windham County
Oxborne
Edge Between Night and Day Echoes in Verse
A reflective line about the thin boundary between day and night echoes Dallas Lore Sharp’s meditation on time and perception, suggesting a narrow threshold that frames human experience.
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Dallas Lore Sharp
Desserts and Puddings from a Classic Kitchen
A compact guide presents dessert ideas and puddings using cake leftovers and simple fillings. It describes orange and lemon rice puddings with meringue, bread pudding steps, and a traditional Hingham pudding, finishing with a worldly proverb on virtue and domestic virtue.
Classic Soups and Noodle Garnishes for Dinner
A vintage soup guide outlines cherry fruit soup velvet soup and brown onion soup with beef stock, plus a Scotch puree and homemade noodles. It offers instructions for cornstarch thickeners croutons and choux paste dumplings to enhance hot or cold servings.
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Philadelphia
Foreigners in France fed on canned goods in hotels
The piece criticizes foreign hotel menus in France offering canned salmon and sardines from Portland or Norway, U S meat from Chicago packers, bread three days old, and daily-restocked vegetables. It suggests travelers deserve fresh foods and recalls Red Cross Ball Blue detergent as a staple tip for clean baby clothes.
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France
Portland
Ore
Norway
United States
Chicago
Those Permanent Waves Molly and Cordellia
A light exchange quotes Molly announcing a permanent wave and Cordellia joking about radio. The line ends with a quip about ignorance versus willingness to learn attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
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Molly
Cordellia
Lacked Cow Touch and Other Quirky Observations
A Brown county woman criticizes WII Vawter landscape saying the cow looks wrong and the texture feels no like a cow. A separate anecdote shows an amateur gardener arguing weeds make potato digging harder yet easier because surplus steps are shorter. A proverb notes a woman's tongue as crucial in running gear.
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White House
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Mark
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Hjelkesper
Vermont
United ‘States
Amily
Sggcocean
Benjamin Franklin
Aking
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Western Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
F.H. Hewitt
Main Street
Kansas City
Dept.of Immigration
Dominion of Canada
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