Carrots Should Be No 1 Root Vegetable for Victory Gardens
Agricultural notice by Henry. Pree advises victory garden readers that carrots should be the top root vegetable. Details cover soil preparation with complete fertilizer, row spacing, seed sowing in short rows, and interplanting corn and onions. Care includes frequent cultivation, moisture, weed control, and staged plantings for multiple harvests.
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Victory Gardens
Henry
Golder Acre
Wisconsin AL
Golden Acre
Wisconsin
Rinety
Siost
War Job Ideas For Nonessential Workers And Gigolos
The War Manpower Commission suggests adapting civilian skills to war work. It proposes roles from mounted police to recreation welfare jobs and hints that nonessential workers may shift to duties aiding the war effort. Agencies will guide workers after July plans.
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Washington
WMC
Trey
WAIC
Romeéter
Téd Che
Jon
Ike Contamers
Uncle Sam
Night club workers and other jobs listed as war aid roles
A list of varied roles proposed to aid wartime production includes bartenders and dishwashers in factories, tree climbers in lumber camps, welders and acrobats in plants, and dairy workers, with editors and society reporters named among local paper staff. The piece notes diverse occupations for national effort.
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WMC
Local War Service Notices and Promotions
Whitehall Elmer Shovah receives a promotion from private first class to corporal. George Whalen, seaman first class, is aboard the cruiser Augustus noted in invasion news. Edward J Williams becomes an aviation cadet at Maxwell Field Alabama. William Prindle Jr promoted to first sergeant with Army Air Forces in Washington DC. Milton and Martin Gallagher enjoy a four year reunion. both in the Navy with campaign bars. Richard B Lee, coast guard motor machinist mate, completed basic training at Manhattan Beach and graduated from Brooklyn Automotive Trades School before shipment to Norfolk. Glass Day exercises highlighted class 1Bit with senior remarks and vocal solos by Lorraine Rasmussen and James Grady. notes on armed forces relatives prominent.
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Elmer
James Shovah
Elmer Shovah
McCotter Street
George Whalen
George Whaten
Second Avenue
Augustus
Edward J., Williams
James Williams
Williams Street
Maxwell Field
Ala
Amy Air Forces
William Prindle
Main Street
Prindle
Washington, D. C
Army Air Forces
Milton
Martin Gallagher
Lillian Gallagher
Mountain Street
Navy
Richard B. Lee
Omate
Holly Lee
Broadway
Coast Guard
Manhattan Beach
Stocklyn School of Automotive Trades
Norfolk
Skeenic News
Frangen
Malecmn
James Grady
Ih Scene Ti
Local Contacts Fill Weekend in Hoosick and Vicinity
Center Cambridge Zedrie Babcock of Troy visited his parents Mr and Mrs Herbert Babcock on Sunday. Mrs Nettie Keyes learned of her cousin Jed Machlin's death in Bacon Hill. Several couples including Mr and Mrs John Powers North Hoosick and Mr and Mrs Ambrose Kelly hosted and visited friends. Felix Insterman of Lindhurst and L A spent time at a West Cambridge Road farm. Planes and service members noted: Lieut Donald D Brownell left for Camp Atterbury after a furlough with his father and Mrs. Dodds and others made short trips to Anderson and Greenville. Esther Arnott returned home from North and South Carolina visits.
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Zedrie Babcock
Troy
Herbert Babcock
Nettie Keyes
Jed Machlin
Bacon Hill
John Powers
North Hoosick
Ambrose Kelly
Wellie O'Donnell
John O'Donnell
St Hoosick Falls
Buel G. Kenyon
Howard Brownell
Valley Falls
Daniel Delaney
Pittstows
Eugene Conway
Felix A. Insterman
Lindhurst
L. A
West Cambridge Road
Charles Davis
New York
Tikka
Greenwich’ Road
Carl Saunders
June
West Rupert
Harriet E. Dodds
Donald D. Brownell
Camp Atterbury
Ind
Duane G. Brown
Glen Townsend
Marilyn
Birs
Townsend
Dewey McNall
Greenwich
Janet, English
The
WACS
Fort Devens
Mass
David Re English
Howard F. Dodds
Anderson
Belva I. Dodds
L. Raw
Garden Party by Em manuél Danish Lutheran Ladies Aid
The Ladies Aid Society of Em manuél Danish Lutheran will hold a garden party at the patronage at 2:30 pm today replacing the usual meeting. Hosts will be Mrs James HM Lundi and Mrs Waiter Connor.
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Ladies’ Aid Society
Emmanuél Danish Lutheran
Chure
James HM. Lundi
Mra
Connor
Elephants Disrupt Burma Railroad Headline
Maj. Fred A. Schilling reports from India and Burma that elephants on the Burma railroad near Portland disrupts train operations amid hazards. Engineers face locomotives derailed by elephants while crews also encounter leopards panthers and venomous snakes along the track.
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Portland
Joseph
W_ Stuvel
Burma
Fred A. Schilling
India
Schilling
Vacationers and visitors were noted in Shushan area
Shushan residents and neighbors were seen visiting and hosting. Mrs A Ho Humphrey is spending her vacation in Cambridge while Mrs Edna Galbraith returned from Rotterdam Junction. Miss Doris Galbraith is at home for summer. A birthday party for Mrs Tovio Keiski was hosted by her family. Ruth Williams and Carlton Squires visited Frank and Mrs Smith. Shushan attendees at a County Chrle dinner party included several local women. Long Island became part of the British colony of New York in 1674.
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A. Ho Humphrey
Cambridge
Edna Galbraith
Alen Palmer
Rotterdam Junction
Doris Galbraith
Benson
Tovio Keiski
Ruth Williams
Hoosick Fails
Carlton Squires
White Creek
Frank Smith
Shushan
Bridge
Clayton Oestreicher
Chrle
Charles Anton
Clifford P Gray
Edgar Watkins
Fred Wagar
Thomas Steele
Lillian Piser
Names In the News and French City Pronunciations
Fragmentary OCR notes describe pronunciation guidance for several place names and personal names in Europe and Asia. It lists Seine, Cherbourg, Le Havre, Reun, Civitavecchia, and mentions Italian and Burmese city names with phonetic cues and syllable stress patterns.
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Sudet
Saint Pas
Masa
Listeux
Sul
le Havre
Seine
France
Reuen
Paris
Rue
Atlind
Rome
Mring
Burma
Iowa Industry Bank Won By Towa for Work
Iowa farms and firms rapidly shifted to war production earning Army Navy E awards. Clarinda leads with two E awarded companies among about thirty Iowa plants cited for excellence. The E award began as a Navy gunnery honor in 1905 and expanded to recognize various wartime manufacturing achievements.
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Towa
Iowx
America
Mae
Iowa
Terigo
Arst
Clarinda
Navy
Industries honor awards for quality and timeliness
The EB award expands to Benois for high quality war material and on time or earlier contract fulfillment. Firms receive EE flags and employees are cited for exceptional production excellence amid wartime industrial push.
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Indus
Benois
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