Yank Bags 500 Germans By Mistake Hero of Elmhurst
Sergeant Gibbons of Elmhurst New York became a wartime folk hero when he inadvertently routed a column of German troops. He drove a captured vehicle and, after misreading a road fork, encountered a tiger tank and US soldiers, creating a notable but accidental incident in First Army operations.
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York
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Pied Piper
Elmhurst
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Ambitious escape story of Gibbons and 22 German prisoners
Amid World War II chaos Gibbons led a small group from German guards toward American lines. Surrounded by enemy, he exploited a panic gap, rallied captured soldiers and new recruits, and reached safety as the number of prisoners swelled beyond the original 22. He described trusting fate and the day’s strange turns.
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New York
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Cambridge Valley Grange Halls Dance And Meetings
Cambridge Valley Grange Halls host a dance and various club notices. The Women’s Auxiliary of Captain Maxson Post meets tomorrow at 3 pm at Mrs Paul Landon’s on Avenue AL. The Cambridge Valley Home Bureau meeting is postponed to Nov 14 at Mrs Victor Carvin’s home. A beaver colony appears in the Fairgrounds swamp north of Cambridge with visible dams and felled trees.
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Robert McClean
Washington County
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Salemi
Charles C. Perry
Ralph Rush
Whitehall
Schuyterville Halloween Parade Plans Run High
A village Halloween parade planned in Schuyterville for this evening is sponsored by the Garden Club and the Business Men's Club. It begins 7 30 pm at Schuylerville High School, marches to the park and back, and invites all school children including Victory Mills School students. Participants must wear costumes and prizes will be awarded to High School pupils.
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Market Growers’ Journal
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Crossword Puzzle Clue Text From Sparse OCR
Puzzle items include scattered phrases like woman soldier and Halziess along with garbled words. The readable bits hint at clue fragments and partial names, suggesting a damaged OCR page with a mix of partial entries and stray letters rather than a coherent puzzle solution.
President plans final campaign Boston talk and speeches
President Roosevelt plans a Boston address to wrap up a broad campaign tour after urging advisers to choose Boston, with preliminary talks in Bridgeport Hartford and Springfield en route and a Hudson River Valley ride concluding with a Poughkeepsie post office stop.
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Round Lake and Malta Home Bureau Meeting Notes
Round Lake guests attend a lamp shade making lesson at Grange Hall Maltasme under director Mrs Reginald Mac Kinney. The Malta Home Bureau plans next Tuesday meeting. In All Sainte Episcopal Church auxiliary, a luncheon replaces the summer picnic with Mrs Lawrence B McKean presiding and announcing a Nov 16 holiday sale in Library Hall. Evangelistic services run Nov 3 at West Hoosick Baptist led by Rev Robert Wella, with parade dancing afterward at the High School supervised by Garden Club members.
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Lillie S. Davis
Whitehall
J. Victor Gailor
Malta Home Bureau
Grange Hall
Maltasme
Reginald MacKinney
Bureau
All Sainte Episcopal Church and Friends
Library Hell
Lawrence B. McKean
Carl Wi Robbins
Herold Mosier
Harry S. Foster
Edward de Garmo
West Hoosick Baptist
Robert Wella
Bethel Baptist Church
Montclair
N. J
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West Hoosick Church
Local Horseman Takes Honors in Horse Show
Keeley of the Rensselaer and West Point teams earned first and second in knockdown and out act, and second in e jumpers at the second annual horse show of the South Brigade 7 New York State Guard in Newburg. Maj. Jack Demers, Capt. William Weatherwax, Jerry Hull, and John Bowman from mounted patrol units attended the event.
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Monsselor County Mounted Patrol
Soth Brigade
New York State Guard
Newburg
Neeley
Taborton Church to Hold Turkey Supper
The Young People's League of Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church of Taborton will serve a turkey dinner at Taborton Hall on Saturday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Reservations close on Wednesday.
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Young People’s League of
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Church of
Pittsburg Roundup Reels In City Cars In Frantic Tidy Up
A garbled report describes a city driven crackdown in Pittsburg involving private and city owned vehicles. Police and city officers conducted a round up that targeted 22 private cars and eight city cars amid confusion and investigation.
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Burg
City Law Department
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