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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1944
Page
2
A garbled 1940s style column reflects public mood on war, economy, politics, and technology. It references carding tires, free pews, silent films fading, TV rise, taxation, bond drives, and frontline war notes including Rome and Caen. It mentions Rhetoric on campaigns, Roosevelt, Wallace, and war loan efforts alongside casual social observations.
The article argues many recent high school graduates are physically fit and destined to join the armed forces. It stresses education as essential for effective soldiers, notes the army values educated manpower, and suggests many will choose service over high paying civilian jobs despite wages at home.
A speaker argues that selfish actions harm the nation during wartime and discusses race relations, labor friction, and education. The text reflects racial stereotypes and social tensions, urging understanding and elevated treatment of African Americans while warning against disruptive labor and social conflict.
A dense grid style list presents multiple Across and Down clues with partial answers and scattered letters including words like overshoe, vessel abbr, public vehicle, practical joke, and other fragmented terms, indicating a completed crossword style puzzle with diverse wordplay and thematic hints.
Washington dispatch reports a split Texas delegation with one aligned to Roosevelt and racial segregation politics and another opposing a fourth term. The piece notes Georgia and Texas primary control rulings, then explains national travel shifts as war limits civilian transport.
A senator claims a new policy will cap price hikes by limiting haircuts to one per year. The plan aims to keep costs stable while reducing previous monthly increases.
A Finnish communique quoted by DNB in a Berlin broadcast said the Russians opened a general offensive on the Karelia Isthmus north of Leningrad with heavy artillery and tank formations. Early reports indicated fierce artillery fire and air formations, with some local advances contradicted by earlier defenses.
In Petsamo Finland the deep harbor lies 200 miles north of the Arctic circle and remains ice free year round due to the Gulf Stream keeping waters warm despite the frigid climate.
Bainbridge Georgia June 10 Decatur County war finance chairman B R Simmons selects district chairs for the fifth war loan drive. Colonel Mills S Savage of Bainbridge Army Air Field will help present Battle of Midway film in each school district on scheduled June evenings. Free rodeo admission to bond buyers who meet the June 15 1 30 p m deadline.
Word arrives of the death of S/Sgt. Robert Eugene Rogers 22 a Bainbridge native killed in a Nebraska plane crash. He served as engineer on a B 17 and as an aerial gunner. Survived by parents Mrs Thomas Ralph Davis and Sgt R Rogers Camp Swift Texas and extended family. Funeral arrangements pending.
Bainbridge Georgia June 10 Mrs L D McMillan of Quincy entertained at a seated tea May 31 to compliment her sister Miss Mary Celia Davidson whose wedding date to Mr Edwin Jonathan Perry Jr of Bainbridge was announced and will interest friends in Georgia and Florida A strawberry ice course with angel cake and a bridal rosebud on each plate bearing a card.
An obscure notice notes a wedding event with a bride-elect and a small gathering. Fragmentary text mentions a ceremony and a tea service, but many details are unreadable.
Bainbridge Georgia June 10 St Josephs Catholic Church will hold Sunday services presided by Rev Michael Manning at 9 30 am during the octave of Connie Christi Confessions precede Mass Mass at the Air Field is at 8 and 11 conducted by Father B S Moscinski the Catholic chaplain at the Air Field.
The admiralty said four heavily armed German trawlers were sunk southwest of Ijmuiden with three torpedo hits and one damaged by gunfire. A British torpedo boat was lost with two casualties as German entry attempts near the invasion coast were frustrated.
The pattern 9084 adds a feminine touch with a ripple of ruffles on the yoke and pockets. It comes in misses and women's sizes from 12 to 44, with size 16 using 34 yards of 35 inch fabric.
The notice offers a needlework pattern collection for twenty cents and a Marian Martin Summer Pattern Book for fifteen cents more. Readers are instructed to mail size, name, address, and style number to Times-Enterprise Pattern Dept. in New York, with a note about not mailing to the Thomasville address.
A letter from George Arnold recounts a dire dog whelping story. Eight pups born to his English Letter Annie were sold or given away. unable to cope, he drowned one pup daily. The mother disappeared then was found dead in a pond, prompting debate on whether she died from grief or self harm.
A fragmentary timetable shows daily train times with several early morning departures and 3rd day intervals. Names Rochester Petersburg Detroit Chicago and agents M. T. Wells and phone 162 appear among routes to Montgomery Savannah Atlanta Tampa and other hubs.
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