Company K at Camp Robinson Report and Training Update
A. C. Edmiston notes ongoing disciplinary issues with an officer, the 140th basketball team’s first round loss, and the 127th Field Artillery’s overtime win 46 to 44. Photos of the regiment and 3rd Battalion are planned, training followed on Wednesday, recreation Thursday, and Corporal Wisdom returns after injury. An eight mile road march included fear gas exposure as masks were sometimes forgotten. Quad duty tours occurred Thursday night and Friday. Company K and officers pledged over $125.00 to the Red Cross Roll Call, aiming for 100% participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wright Field
Peck’ Wisdom
Wisdom
Warner
Company K
Red Cross
NEW YORK Manufacturers Propose War End Policies
The National Association of Manufacturers outlines postwar goals to curb unemployment. Government aims include attractive investments, favorable tax treatment for reserves, debt control, lighter securities regulation, and stable banking. Business should push new products, strengthen finances, delay building until after the war, limit inventories, maintain employment, retrain workers, and hire youths entering the workforce.
Record July 1911 Rainfall Peak in Philippines
In July 1911 a world record rainfall event drenched the Philippines with 46 inches in 24 hours and an unprecedented 88 inches over four days, leading to severe flooding and extensive damage nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Names for cattle stall names show humorous breed pride
At the International Livestock Exposition breeders read the 7600 cattle names revealing a mania for novelty. Names range from he man labels like Mutineer and Barbarian to Miss Mischief and Grandduke, with political and university ties echoing in the stalls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ands
Grandduke
Shek
Sultan
Czar
Chancellor
Carlos Domino
Rooevelt
Ousio
Purdue
Sikelton Woman Escapes Injury In Accident
Miss El Reno Shelton of Sikes ton escaped injury Monday morning when her Chevrolet coach collided with a Plymouth driven by Bill Layton of near Essex on Highway 60 near Essex. Both cars were badly damaged as Layton turned into a side road.
Report on Lepers in the Philippine Islands
Of the world's 3,000,000 lepers, 12,000 are in the Philippine Islands. A terse statistic highlights a stark regional concentration of leprosy within the archipelago.
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Phillippine Islands
Local Seme News Briefs Highlight Three Fatalities
New Madrid farmer Seme News Briefly Told Seme News Briefly Told NEW MADRID Isham Puckett Jr. 22 died in Cape Girardeau hospital after an incident last Saturday night. The body returned to New Madrid for burial. In Benton funeral services were held for Leona S Dirnberger 22 daughter of Mr and Mrs Dirnberger near Benton who died of pneumonia. In Clarkton Lowell C Waltrip prominent farmer was killed last Saturday when his sleeve caught in a lime dill freeing machinery.
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New Madrid
Isham Puckett Jr
Cape Girardeau
Benton
St. Denis Catholic Church
Leona S. Dirnberger
Mike D.rnberger
Near Benton
Clarkton
Lowell C. Waltrip
Missouri Vocational Association Elects Poplar Bluff Leader
Jerome Berryman, Poplar Bluff high school coordinator and defense training supervisor, was elected president of the Missouri Vocational Association at a St Louis meeting last week. The group has 750 key instructors across the state.
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Poplar Bluff
Jerome Berryman
Missouri Vocational Association
St. Loui S
Funeral rites held for Wm Brumley at East Prairie
Funeral services were conducted Monday at the Methodist church in East Prairie for William Brumley a 47 year old World War veteran who died last Saturday at a veterans hospital in Memphis of complications Rev Paul Preston officiated Interment followed at Dogwood Cemetery near East Prairie
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East Prairie
Wm. Brumley
Memphis
Paul Preston
Dogwood Cemetery
Jones Brothers Reunite After 45 Years at Bernie
For the first time in 45 years the six Jones brothers gathered at Bernie. The brothers are Will A. Jones editor of the Dunklin County Democrat in Kennett Reuben F. of Jefferson City Peter of California and Albert R George H and J Tribble Jones all of Bernie.
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Kennett
Jones Brothers
Bernie
Will A. Jones
Dunklin County Democrat
Reuben F
Jeferson City
Peter
California
Albert R
George H
J. Tribble Jones
Man Arrested in Moon City Robbery Case at Local Hotel Marquette
Charles Newcomb Johnstone of Holly Colorado was arrested in the Hotel Marquette lobby after a Sunnenfelds store robbery in St Louis. Officers found 875 dollars in a sock in the hotel room along with three guns. Johnstone was sent back to St Louis to face charges.
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Cape Girardeau
Charles Newcomb Johnstone
Holly
Colo
Hotel Marquette
Sonnenfeld
St Louis
Johnstone
St. Louis
Bloomfield Clerk Besa Wilson Dies in Cape Girardeau
Besa Wilson former clerk of Stoddard county died at St Charles Hotel in Cape Girardeau early Tuesday from a liver ailment. He was 68 and had served as night clerk there for fourteen years. Survived by widow Lulu Davis of Bloomfield two sons Charles M Cape Girardeau Paul Wilson Bloomfield and daughter Mary Wilson a Dexter public schools teacher.
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Bloomfield
Besa Wilson
Stoddard County
St. Charles
Cape Girardeau
Wilson
Hote
Lulu Davis
Charles M
Paul Wilson
Mary Wilson
Dexter Public
District farmers repay loans in southeast Missouri
Southeast Missouri farmers are retiring loans at a higher rate, according to Sikeston Production Credit Association officials. The association has 607 members across seven counties. Earnings are invested in U S Defense Bonds, with 4900 added to bonds, plus 5100 in U S Treasury Bonds and 30794 in reserves. Investments protect members and support defense bonds. The association also sells Defense Savings Stamps to members.
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Missouri
Sikeston Production Credit Association
Scott
New Madrid
Mississippi
Stoddard
Cape Girardeau
Bollinger
Butter
United States Defense
E. P. Coleman Jr
United States Treasury
Coleman
State organization boosts seal sale in Missouri
Donald E. Pratt, executive secretary of the Missouri Tuberculosis Association, urges Missourians to support the 1941 Tuberculosis Christmas Seal campaign. He emphasizes war and world crisis heightening TB dangers, calls for redoubled county efforts to educate the public, find cases, and place patients under care, urging timely purchase and use of the seals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald E. Pratt
Missouri Tuberculosis Association
Tuberculosis Association
Defense Bond Quiz Focuses on Payroll Deductions
The question explains payroll allotments as portions of employee earnings set aside each payday by individuals to buy Defense Savings Bonds or stamps, exchanged later for Bonds.
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Defense Savings
Defense
Defense Savings Bond as a Gift for Employees
Hundreds of companies have set up programs to help staff save, including gifting Defense Savings Bonds. To give one, purchase a Series E Bond at a post office or bank and issue it in the recipient’s name.
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Camp Robinson
A. C. Edmiston
Keith
Sikeston, Mo
Bailey & Bailey Attorneys-at-Law
Room
McCoy-Tanner Bidg
George W. Kirk
Applegate Bidg
Robert A. Dempster
McCoy-Tanner Building
Sikeston
Merlin G. Anderson
Derris-Malcolm
Howard A. Dunaway
B. L. McMullin
Wome
Stallcup
F. L. Sisson
North Kingshighway
Optometry
DR. W. M. Sidwell Optometrist Office
Telephone
New York
National Association of Manufacturers
Pitty
Sikelton
Seme News
Dempster Furniture Co
Front Street
Billy Fly Ry Credit
Cape Girardeau, MO
Scott County
Revenue
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