Recruiting Drive Js Launched Here
A recruiting campaign by L. D. Patterson of Carnegie Steel is promoted at the U S Employment Service in Pittsburgh. Patterson will recruit workers for Clairton, Duquesne, Homestead, or Edgar Thomson Mills within 15 miles of Pittsburgh with free transportation and a free meal on arrival.
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Pittsburgh
United States Employment Service
L. D. Patterson
Carnegie Steel Corporation
Patterson
Clairton Works
Duquesne Works
Homestead Works
Edgar Thompson Works
79 Men Enlisted From Penal Farm Shaping Maryland Military Intake
Governor O Conor said the State Penal Farm at Roxbury led Maryland penal institutions in sending men to the armed forces. Of 201 inmates accepted for service, 79 came from Roxbury among 228 applications. Seventeen prospective inductees from 392 applied were sent to induction. 118 were rejected. The House of Correction contributed 55 and the Penitentiary 45, with others from Baltimore and Bel Air jails and the Maryland Training School for Boys.
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O’conor
Roxbury
Maryland
State Penal Farm
House of Correction
Penitentiary
Baltimore
Bel Air City
Maryland Training School
1000 Trusses to Be Given Away This Month Kansas City
A doctor’s invention for reducible rupture is offered with a 30 day trial. Readers may receive a $3.50 truss free if they try the device. No leg straps belts or leather bands. If dissatisfied return the invention but keep the free truss. Write Physicians Appliance Co. 6396 Koch Bldg 2906 Main St Kansas City Mo Adv.
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Kansas City
Physicians Appliance Co
Koch
Main St
Tilghmanton Notable Birthday and Anniversary Gatherings
Tilghmanton Sept 11 report covers Edward and Davis family birthday 78th celebration and 57th wedding anniversary with children and grandchildren in attendance. Also notes Mrs. Anne Sprecher’s semiconscious incident improving, plus travel and visits by family including Roland Alexander in defense work transfer, Chester Norris and Gartland relatives. Djerba is identified as the largest island on the Mediterranean Barbary coast.
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Edward Davis
Chas. Davis
Roy Davis
Frances
Harry Davis
Arbutus Carter
Delores
Chas
Bobby
Mary Lou Davis
Leoj Smith
Ray Hershner
Allen Davis
Dale Lee Davis
Anne Sprecher
Harvey Moats
Roland Alexander
Burlington
N. C
John Marmaduke
Eugene
David
Alexander
Defense Work
Knoxville
Tenn
Nave
Philadelphia
Chester Norris
Patsy
Hagerstown
John Cave
Joseph Gartland
Baltimore
District Office to Close Hagerstown ODT District Office
The Hagerstown district office of the Office of Defense Transportation will close, leaving a field office with about five retained staff as part of transferring gasoline rationing duties to the Office of Price Administration. The move aims to free ODT personnel for traffic registration, planning, and wartime transport tasks while aligning regions with OPA offices.
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Hagerstown
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Office of Price Administration
Edward R. Gisburne
ODT Highway Transport Department
OPA
Secretary Greeted By Familiar Face
Miss Catherine Shipley new executive secretary for the Washington County Welfare Board greeted by County Agent Mark Miller who shares offices in the same building. In Cambridge they had worked in the same building, and in Hagerstown the Welfare and extension service offices occupy the entire building.
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Catherine Shipley
Washington County Welfare Board
Mark Miller
Focal Welfare Board
Cambridge
Mr. Miller
Miss Shipley
As ii
Hagerstown
Mrs Mabelle Carlisle Receives Purple Heart
Mrs Mabelle Carlisle of Washington Avenue yesterday received the Purple Heart awarded posthumously to her son Grover Randolph Brown who was wounded in France on August 5.
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Mabelle Carlisle
Washington Avenue
Grover Randolph Brown
France
Prices checked at fairgrounds by price office
Office of Price Administration investigators checked fairgrounds prices yesterday after complaints that items such as ham burger and hot dog were higher than downtown rates. Concessionaires unable to submit last year’s price schedules were told not to charge above prevailing downtown prices.
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Office of Price Administration
Fairgrounds
Two Autos Collide In Newark Intersection
No injuries reported after a collision between vehicles driven by Philip W. Shockey of 1100 Nleck Corbett Street and Harry J. Finnegan of Newark New Jersey near Locust Street and North Avenue. Finnegan faced charges of reckless driving by Patrolman Palmer and Isano.
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Philip W. Shockey
Nleck
Corbett Street
Harry J. Finnegan
Newark
N. J
Locust Street
North Avenue
Finnegan
Mec Palmer
Isano-'e
Filling Station Operator Is Held
J. C. Johnson a 52 year old filling station operator near Park Cirels was arrested on a federal warrant by Lieut Joseph F. Desmond and Pa trolman Charles Wolford charged with possession of thirty six 100sallon counterfeit ration coupons. Johnson held at police HQ pending arraignment before US Commissioner C Welles Little. OPA investigator Arthur Perlman who has led the probe filed the complaint. Also note: cotton socks should be bought one inch longer than foot length to allow for shrinkage.
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J. C. Johnson
Park Cirels
Joseph F. Desmond
Charles Wolford
Johnson
UL. S
C. Welles Little
Arthur Perlman
OPA
New Apricot Variety Claims 40 Percent Sugar Content
Reported by Russian scientists a new apricot is said to ripen with up to 40 percent sugar, promising a sweeter fruit. An accompanying ad touts St Joseph Aspirin, urging readers to ask for the brand as the fastest and strongest option, priced at 10 cents.
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