War letters from Saipan and soldiers recall home streets
A Saipan to France letter from Lieut Kenneth Penney with an engineers battalion notes Mud and map quirks in France and fond memories of home streets like Broadway and River Streets. Donations pour toward the ward memorial from soldiers including Corp William Wicks and Corp Ben Reizen. Other notes mention veterans’ furloughs and training in England and France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saipan
Pacific
Fulton
River
Kenneth Penney
France
Penney
Sam
Troy
Broadway
Franklin Square
State Strat
108Th Street
Fifth Avenue
Hicks
Arthur. Hicks
River Scireet
England
Belgica
Holland
Gince
Douw
River Streets
Corp
Ben Reezen
Abraham Reizen
Gale
Eighth Air Force
Ralph Paul Thompson
Varo Beach
Pla
War era service updates from Troy and Watervliet enlistments
Sergt Maynard A. Coons leads a unit settling Slains in France while Joseph F. Talsot joins intensive naval training at Wisconsin. Edward D. ConsDine, ex postal clerk, served 25 months with European theater units. Edward Br Ormeley at Starx General Hospital in Charleston seeks transfer for further care. Lance civilian and military families recount reunions with returning soldiers from Chateau Thierry to English hospitals. Multiple soldiers from Watervliet and Troy units receive promotions, commendations, and new roles in aircraft and armor groups across England and France, including mentions of Brig Gen Jesse Auton and various crews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forse Avenue
Mechanicrifie
Aftasir Service
Sest Homme Te Enz
Engfien
France
Sergt Maynard A. Coons
Seventh Avenue
Joseph F. Talsot
St Michaels Avenue
Hadlo Naval Fraining School
University of Wisconsin
Edward D. Consdine
Troy Poste Mice
AAP
Edward BR. Ormeley
Starx General Hospital
Charleston
S.C
Army
Chateau Thierry
Wie
Lism Kane
Third Avenue
Waterview
Lawrence O'Melia
Jume
Mickey Murphy
Jere
Sergr
Calvin G. Bunt
Congress Street
Eighth Air Force
England
Jesse Auton
Formeir
Edward G. Carley
Aaf
FE. W. Carley
Thirteenth Street
G. E
S Sergi
Frederick €. Hayneer
Fifth Avenue
General Auton
T. Sérgi
John ¥. Gilcheist
Sixth Avenue
Watervliet
Joseph J. Golash
Francis Miner
Carolina Avenue
QMC
Cooper, Jr
Air Corps
Justin Mshoney
Seventh Marines
Leutenant
Cambridge Sportsman Bag Edged 143 Pound Buck
Cambridge resident Henry Wulff shot a buck weighing about 143 pounds. Visiting from Santiago Chile, Charles W Hunt meets his father Rev James G Hunt DD. The Cambridge Young Men's Club turkey party comes to Patrician Hall tonight. Women’s Society of Christian Service serves a public turkey supper at Jermain Heart tomorrow evening starting 5 30 pm. The Rice Seed Co prop on Washington Street features a board approved proposition by Lyman White. Tax collector Ruth Davis announces tax collection sites and dates across Cambridge area stations through November and December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Wulff
Charles W. Hunt
Santiago
Chile
James G. Hunt
Young Men's Club of
Cambridge
Patrician Hall
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Whits Creek Methodist Church
Jermain Heart
Rice Seed Cos
Washington Street
Lyman White
Ruth Davis
Cambridge Central
John Henry
G. K Spurr
Frank Higgins
Niles
Mark Kenyon
Lauderdsie Road
London Papers See Victory for President
London papers forecast President Roosevelt's victory over Dewey in the U S election. Financial Times notes stock market interest is academic and predicts a likely Roosevelt win with a possible large margin. Times cites a stock boom if Dewey wins and Wall Street excitement returning to prewar levels. Daily Worker condemns Dewey choice as unfit for American democracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
United States
Financial Times
Derey
the Times
Wall Street
London Daily Worker
Dewey
War Scrap Book Grows in Independence
Mrs. Flavia O. Biske began a wartime scrap book the day after Pearl Harbor. By fall three years later she owned 14 large leatherbound volumes with about 100 pages each, filling the albums with clippings and pictures and using roughly forty quarts of library paste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence
Pearl Harbor
Flavia
Biske
Tax rates notice at Turnpike Road Cambridge
Tax collectors announce that on the Turnpike Road in Cambridge taxes are payable at 1 percent for the first thirty days from Nov 6 to Dec 6 and 5 percent thereafter for all unpaid taxes on all days except Saturdays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turnpike Road
Cambridge
Japanese Atrocities Report In Occupied Indies News
A World War II era dispatch details brutal acts by Japanese forces in the Indies and Java including village massacres, arson, torture and executions. It notes infamy of the occupation with reports of prisoners of war abuse and widespread destruction, while also describing a copper cleaning paste recipe.
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Lidice
Netherlands
Vilage
Java
Nese Medas
Om Srematta
Netherlands Indies
Sumatra
Medan
Cloquet Boys Lead In Lumber Camp Competition
In Cingust Minnesota, Cloquet mills ran a contest to employ schoolboys as a response to a labor crisis in lumber jacking. Youths, including Future Farmers groups near Catton, earned wages, delivered wood, and competed for war stamps. Charlie Olesiak emerged as champion for Cloquet, cutting 20 cards and earning 255 dollars plus 200 more for spring wood cutting. Over twenty other boys won prints and regular wages, as the community aims to increase output by over one percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cingust
Minn
Boypower
Cloquet
E. Schente-Hapsonm
Cloquet Experimental Forest
Harry Q. Nelson
Achooloys
Cloquet Rotary Club
Charles Olesiax
Charlie
Sengon
Early White Potatoes Price Outlook for Coming Year
Washington reports that early white Irish potatoes will cost consumers about the same as last year under new maximum skipping point ceilings. The ceilings, announced yesterday, take effect from the beginning of the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Potatoes Price Support Declared By Office of Price Administration
The Office of Price Administration announced maximum potato payments through June 30 1965 based on growers average returns. OPA said the rates were 27 cents per hundredweight higher than required by law but urged by the War Food Administration to sustain production to meet estimated needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of
OPA
War Food Administration
Also Mentioned on This Page
William Wicks
Chester Mahoney
Anthony F. Razziano
Air Service Command
Arsenal
Arthur Kithick
Sara
Yiaths
Deiat Empire
Lady Florence
Third Street
Speen
Ideal Studios
River St
Troy Theatre
Tro Troy
Automotive Mechanics
Camp Lejeune
N.C
Pic
William J. Hogan
College Avenue
Thomas L. Horan
Middleburg Street
T/Sergi THOMAN ENGLAT
Second Street
Cherry Point
QML
Priedam, Barton
Fourth Avenue
Naval Training School
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Owa
William MU Pelt
Averill Park Road
RIV Corps
Army Service Command
Southwest
Island
Bougainville
Solomon! Ilands
Rensse
Laer Valve Co
Albert & Pickett
Berlin
Sixth Armored Calvary
Herbert W. Truesdell
Eva Kelly
Air Force
Sheppard Field
Tex
William J
Nugent
Petersburg
Alexandria Army Air Field
Oveseas
Hoosick High School
Wilion J. Nugent
Lucky
Rita
Hugh A. Fosburg
Cherry Plain
Marianas
Seventh Air Force
Guam
Hawaii
Aunt Jenny
Borgey
Anne Ate
Jennys
Deny
East Indies
MANH
Fulton St
Fulton Street
Lucite
Williams
St. Troy
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