26 May 1942
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1942
Page
1
The Thomasville Greeters Club forms a welcoming group of new residents and local volunteers promoting friendliness and civic courtesy. It aims to ease moves and integrate newcomers, offsetting standoffish attitudes and supporting a stable, cooperative community image.
A column shares three brief ocean vignettes from Sam Blythe’s Atlantic City visit and Santa Barbara reflections. Lizzie the cook mistakes the sea for flat land, a Midwest visitor misjudges the Pacific’s size, and a Democratic Convention tale ends with a puzzled Eastern delegate seeking the shoreline.
A state minded piece argues for legal reform of judiciary appointments and criticizes direct judge elections. It recalls counterfeiting stamps plots, wartime sentiment, and calls for stable democratic governance while warning against political reactions.
Washington Daybook notes the early rationing approach focusing on gasoline rather than sugar or tires. It observes that tires are banned from rationing by registration and that sugar is rationed by registration with general allowances.
New York performer Al Gordon trains a diverse pack of about ten mixed and street dogs. He cages no punishments, using patience and gentle guidance to teach tricks from back flips to perching and balancing. The act, featuring a humane philosophy, runs at the Rainbow Room for six weeks.
A dense list of crossword style clues across and down entries includes hints for various words such as a tropical bird, a medicinal plant, a mineral spring, an edible seed, a soap plant, and a parasitical object. It features themed terms like unity and central point related terms and a variety of household and natural items.
A bushel of soybeans yields about 49 pounds of soybean meal according to the latest industry estimate.
Meigs Georgia May 26 Mrs Ella Hewell spends several months at her son W A Hewell and wife. Mrs Hewell returns from a visit to daughter Mrs Jeff Kersey in Union Town Alabama. Life Miss Sylvia Boutwell has.
The Meigs column reports Mrs. A. E. Zant and daughter Eleanor visiting from Valdosta, Jack Singletary visiting family in Meigs, and lengthy travels of the Belvin and Pye families. It notes funeral services for a Meigs area mother in Moultrie, plus relatives visiting from Albany Pelham and Marion.
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