Market Pages Immortalize Nine Slaves in Prewar Rosin Trade
In Savannah Georgia a dated market feature recalls how nine enslaved people were named and used to identify top naval stores grades during pre Civil War rosin production. Names such as Nancy Katy Isaac and Betsy show a crude color coded system that evolved into the naval stores grade terms like window ginny water white and extra. The piece also notes current market quotations for pine products and a separate incident about hospitals receiving surplus coal once used to power pumps.
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Nancy
Oliver
Katy
Isaac
Harry
George
Howard
Dolly
Betsy
Colony Set For New Guinea Battle Area
Dutch New Guinea may become valuable to the Netherlands as plans by an Association for the Colonization of Dutch New Guinea proceed. The group aims to attract Dutch settlers to turn parts of New Guinea into grain growing and cattle raising districts, starting with the Manokwari to Hollandia region. The Netherlands Indies government has repurposed American facilities at Hollandia as a nucleus for settlement, with plans for rice maize potatoes vegetables and cattle grazing. A note on wartime resource use precedes a separate line: 6,000 prisoners of war will assist Colorado sugar beet farmers in thinning the 1946 crop.
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Java
Golfiera
Holland
New Guinea
Manokwari
Hollandia
Netherlanda Haat Indies
Denver
Colorado
Veterans Lead Pleasant Life in British Zone of Germany
Hamburg reports on a Wehrmacht veteran living in the British Army of the Rhine zone. The ex corporal enjoys greater freedom than most Germans, receives meals and shelter, and travels freely. He notes risk from Soviet forces and mentions his wife and daughter in German-held territory.
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Hamburg
Germany
Mintiet
Unterottmvier Koherh Gries
Mrea
Hay
Field Gray
Risslane
Soeiel-ruled
Mia
Gera
Grlene thanks workers as desertions rise in war zone
A Troy Record report recalls Grlene praising returning troops and noting a mass desertion from a 400 man unit to their homes in the Ibadan Zone. He laments families left behind and questions whether deserters can return as prisoners, while recalling ties to the Red Army and wartime hardships.
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Grlene
Hly Warvica
Ibadan
Periniasiany
Chey
Rusalan
Red Army
Alder Jugenit
Goer
Te Luelwaffe
Boats From Bombs Columbus C U Parker Huddy War Veteran
War veteran Parker Huddy, long associated with an olden trade, has started his own business in Columbus. The initiative marks a shift from his wartime service to civilian entrepreneurship, reflecting resilience and local enterprise.
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