14 Apr 1941
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1941
Page
1
The piece notes a quiet Thomasville scene with residents discussing the city and nearby events. It mentions a Rose Show scheduled for April 2 and remarks on local activities, wartime production progress, and statements from Knudsen's group about lowering a record by eleven days by the Fourth of July. It also references Allied prospects, Balkan tensions, and Coast Guard duties.
The report describes a Russia Japan pact viewed as significant but not a peace agreement. It mentions Moscow signing by Matsuda after deliberations, with aims to protect European interests and to extend influence in the Orient. Analysts warn of dangerous implications and shifting German and Japanese confidence in the broader war context.
A. L. Glancy chief of the Ordinance Division predicts in a wartime address that within about one hundred days production will surge to a high peak with machinery and war planes flowing from production lines to meet needs of the United States Britain Greece and China.
Washington Daybook notes the Coast Guard’s steady role from its 1790 origins to modern times. It details missions from rescuing shipwreck victims and patrolling iceberg lanes to removing wrecks and enforcing vessel laws, highlighting dramatic rescues and expanding duties.
A portrait of Broadway’s season long horse racing set. Migrant Floridian players return to New York penniless yet quick to bet with tips and insider knowledge. They associate with celebrities, live in a shared economy, chase Derby tickets, and drift from Baltimore to Miami with little steady work.
The California Fruit Growers Exchange will place 303,266,000 orange advertisements in American and Canadian newspapers and magazines during its 1941 Valencia campaign. Ads appear in 256 daily panels and in 185 cities and 2,606 weeklies, funded by a seven cent per packed box assessment on exchange members.
Puzzle clues cover across and down entries for common words such as bird cuckoo family note of rooster molten rock and box numbers. Names like Ireland and awareness terms appear among scattered readable fragments.
In Kinston North Carolina on April 14 the city monkeys display clever flea control using cigarette stubs. Keepers warn visitors not to feed lit butts as some monkeys apply burning ends to their tormentors to make fleas hop while others burn their hands handling the stubs.
Reports describe Chinese practice of using kites with whistles to drive away evil spirits. Tales recount men lifted high into the air by large kites as part of ceremonial displays.
Miss Mildred Carter and Mr. C. B. Luckey of Quitman were married Saturday night April 5 at the home of Rev. S. O. Thomas. The bride, a Meigs high school graduate of 1936, worked at Pelham’s Wailows ten cent store. the groom, Camilla high school 1931 graduate, is with Bankers Health Life Insurance Co. in Quitman. They plan a wedding trip to Lake Wales Florida and will live in Quitman.
Wide social interest centers on the marriage of Miss Jesselyn Hambleton to Mr. Jack Hall. The wedding took place at the bride’s home on Sunday morning April 6 at 10:30, with Rev. George Downs of Meigs Baptist Church officiating before the immediate family.
Miss Minnie Hambleton, daughter of Mr and Mrs J R Hambleton of Meigs, married in a Florida ceremony. The bride wore a suit with accessories and a pink carnation corsage. The Hambletons are prominent Meigs residents and the groom is a business man on Adams Street in Florida.
Meigs April 1 notices report Mr. Medford Simpson returning from Miami and improving at home. Rev. W M Davis welcomed Rascoe Davis visiting from Tampa. Gale Rowse recovering from measles. Lenora Jo Hurst born to Mr and Mrs Hurst of Albany, former Meigs residents. Mrs Nora Mae Taylor linked to Mrs Hurst. Mrs Marvin McCord and Miss Grace Hellingsworth visited.
Mrs. Earl Dollar returned home Wednesday after a visit in Cairo.
In Greensboro North Carolina on an April evening local guests faced a tongue twister challenge at a party. Two men attempted to say a tricky phrase quickly after claiming sobriety and joked about difficulty with the simple three word sequence.
An all vegetable laxative advertises BLACK-DRAUGHT as a time tested economical remedy for constipation. It claims a quarter to half teaspoonful nightly with water leads to morning evacuation and gentle relief, offering 25 to 40 doses for 25 cents.
Fragmentary OCR shows jumbled terms like WSF and bay Wes with no clear events or names, rendering a concise news item unlikely. Readable bits do not form a coherent incident, date, or attribution for a factual summary.
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