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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1943
Page
8
A combination chest and dish cupboard are built from an old dresser. Cream painted pieces feature early Dutch designs in bright colors with stenciled tulips on glass and chair seats. Mrs Spears offers patterns and instructions with Pattern 262 and 15 cents.
Former Charlotte News feature editor Marion Margrove has joined the army and started training at Fort Bragg. He notes the first weeks are the hardest and shares stories of army life while performing KP duties as a cook. Margrove plans to advise others on civilian life and slang.
A reader guide explains Army jargon used by Junior returning from furlough, detailing terms like goldbricking, police, fatigue duty, OD uniforms, GI items, PX, and AWOL. It notes slang for yardbird, sawbone corporal, and other tasks, plus an anecdote of Private Zuber energetically shining his shoes.
A row of Private Zuber and friends ends up at the Service Club with a visiting Rochester girl. They tease a quiet Ben while he recalls Fayetteville fights and letters home. Ward Threatt drops in with Army reminiscences as the narrator notes retreat and inspection routines.
A Londoner in New York observes peacetime life and wartime anxieties in United States. He describes FBI alien forms and cultural contrasts between London and New York. He notes friendly locals, high prices, fashioning uniforms, and hopes for postwar common citizenship between Britain and the United States. He recalls encounters with WW II figures and reflects on war’s emotional toll and loneliness of frontline soldiers.
An old French word mee from Latin mis sus gave the Army its term mess for meals. The piece notes chicken dinners as a favorite among soldiers and Camel cigarettes as a welcome gift. It mentions sales records from service men and postal restrictions on sending Camels overseas, including to Navy Marines and Coast Guard personnel.
The traction company notes unusually high demand and wartime conditions require extra time to fill popular pattern numbers. It directs customers to send their orders to the specified address for processing and prioritization.
Banana surplus once solved a shipyard problem by supplying grease for launching battleships. About 45 tons of a special grease were needed to ease thousands of tons of steel into the water.
In Washington a phrase once meaning to be taken for a ride now refers to losing a seat on a plane when a higher travel priority passenger boards. Government officials are described as bumped off when their seat is taken by someone with greater travel urgency.
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