Waterford soldiers overseas share frontline notes from Italy
Roy Shudt Corp. prints letters from former Waterford athlete Bill Le Beau and others abroad. Bill describes landing craft approach to Italy, air raids, and Italian hospitality, noting roads and soil, engineers at work, and comparisons to Sicily. The piece lists Waterford natives and relatives in Europe and the Pacific, including Therrien, Vallee, Crammer, Kane, and many others, with brief updates on postings, promotions, and training.
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Sicily
Italy
Freedom tempered by hardship for Mosley in England
Britain's No 1 Fascist Sir Oswald Moseley, recently released from prison, faces a tough life in exile. Pictured carrying his own firewood and coat to quarters at the Shavencrown Hotel in Oxfordshire, England, amid protests and demonstrations.
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Britain
Oswald Moseley
Oxfordshire
England
Blume Post Plans New Year's Eve Party at VFW Hall
The Blume Post of Foreign Wars meeting at Third Street headquarters planned a New Year's Eve event featuring a turkey dinner, Veterans dinner, and floor show. George E. Kehn was named arrangements chairman with a team including Joseph McGrath and others. Mrs. Helena Kehn leads reservations for the women's auxiliary. Commander Patrick Vaughn presided as word came that seaman second class George F. Reinoehl recently received a medical discharge and Ralph K. W. Baker from the Naval Hospital Sun Valley Idaho is set to return for the holidays in Troy. A buffet luncheon followed the meeting with social time.
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Leo H Blume
Post of
Post Rooms
Third Street
Post
George E. Kehn
Joseph McGrath
Thomas Callahan
Louis Coiteux
William Houser
Peter Maguire
Norman Nichols
Frank Hayden
George Chase
Helena
Ida
Troy
Abolish State Post Held by Troy Man and New Appointments
Charles H. Sells announces Henry Cohen of Albany as head of a new bureau of contracts and accounts and James Mulvey of Albany as chief accountant. The old bureau of audit and finance, headed by the late Joseph Sheary of Troy, is abolished. Cohen earns 8000 dollars a year and Mulvey 6500, both provisional pending Civil Service exams.
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Henry Cohen
Albany
Bureau of Contracts and Accounts
Charles H. Sells
Bureau of Audit and Finance
Joseph ©. Sheary
Troy
James Mulvey
Cohen
Mulvey
Waterford Boys Posted Worldwide Praise for Service Members
Staff Sergeant Cramer and Tech Sergeant Tom Fleming of the Marine recruiting office in Albany visited under difficult traveling conditions and promised to return with films. Joe sends thanks for their contributions and for keeping Waterford boys posted around the world.
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Cramer
Tom Fleming
Marine Recruiting Office
Albany
Gang
Joe
Waterford
Dr Plunkett Urges Christmas Seals Buy
Dr Rob ert E Plunkett director of the Rensselaer County Tuberculosis and Public Health Association urges all citizens to buy Christmas Seals to support the county’s tuberculosis work. He notes tuberculosis as a leading cause of death for ages 15 to 45 and cites wartime chest X rays showing one in a hundred examined rejected for tuberculosis.
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Rensselaer County
Robert E. Plunkett
United States
Tuberculosis Warning and Silkworm Silk Process
The passage notes that tuberculosis often shows little warning until damage occurs, and that the heat method can reveal the disease before it's too late. It also mentions how silkworms produce silk only when air contacts the worms, turning into a silken thread.
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