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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1940
Page
6
Londoners enjoy grass served as a multi course meal. J R Branson showcases grass dishes to reporter Wilson Midgley including beetroot lettuce grass stuffed tomato and grass bound sausage rolls. The tasting session highlights inventive grass preparations pitched as nutritious and tasty.
Seabiscuit wins $86,650 in a comeback, becoming the era’s biggest turf money winner with total earnings of $437,730. Georgetown University’s A Blazis is noted among sports items, alongside NL results and a February to March boxing outline involving Louis and Go Doy.
Capt Ray D Delhouer of Ontario California famed for World War carrier pigeons has bred a line of mottled birds on the Signal Corps suggestion. The markings are designed to help conceal them.
Mrs. Florence Subers Townsend, of New York and Bainbridge, died Friday in Rye New York. Funeral services were held Sunday at four o'clock from Donalson street residence with Rev. James J. Ward officiating. Burial in Oak City cemetery. Survived by sons A Will Townsend J A Townsend M H Townsend and sisters Mrs Josie Harrell and Mrs B C Dickerson. Active and honorary pallbearers named.
Tuesday night programs list city services numbers and department contacts then notes Mrs. Palmer, a local writer, who has poems in The Anthology of American Poetry for 1939 and recently sold short stories. She will read poems at the event alongside a musical program featuring Mazurka Godard and Beethoven sonata movements.
Bainbridge Ga June 25 Announcement by William Roy Jones chair entertain ment that the regular monthly Sportsmen's Club meeting will feature N P Arline Jr local singer Orion Osborn pianist and Annette Madys Palmer poetess Arline a tenor with praised tone will sing selections including Ah Sweet Mystery of Life The Wedding of Jack and Jill Vale Carolia Ben Dedication and Quombra Mai Fu Osborn a noted blind pianist of Florida has earned acclaim in a recent church program
Bainbridge Indiana June 25 Fourty two Decatur County 4 H Club members will start camp on July 2 at Camp Sawyer on Spring Creek. Members should bring their own plate fork spoon saucer and glass and a picnic lunch plus 60 cents for camp expenses. A photo show a lifeguard and 4 H instruction are planned with music and contests. The group will meet at the Broad Street canning plant on Tuesday morning July 2 to travel to the camp.
Bainbridge residents report weekend trips and social visits. Lloyd Rich and family spent Sunday in Panama City, J. G. McKenzie joined kin in Beacon Till Florida, Will Townsend of Rye New York visited relatives and attended a funeral, others motored to Panama City and Columbus while Vernon Dasher headed to Fort Madison Iowa for business.
Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire remains calm and unruffled in a Philadelphia hotel room as he knots a tie adorned with an elephant, reflecting the Republican convention atmosphere and his presidential bid.
The Associated Press reports showers and cooler air spread through the Great Lakes and most of New England while a heat wave affected Virginia and North Carolina. Central states cleared toward the Pacific coast. Gulf coast rain cleared. Georgia recorded the heaviest 24 hour rainfall with Newnan 1.34 inches and Columbus 1.22. Northerly winds cooled the north central region and eastern Great Lakes saw rain temper June heat. Readings included Richmond 93 and Norfolk 94 in Virginia, Albany 59, New York 60, Boston 62, Chicago 66, Buffalo 70.
Atlanta Ga June 25. The eight states comprising the fourth corps area have been requested to furnish 3497 of the 42000 recruits the army is seeking. Corps headquarters said 2882 of those enlisted in the fourth corps area would be assigned to units in the region and the rest sent to other areas.
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