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ALL IN A DAYDear Diary: MONDAY—Yesterday the CX.S.O. room at the Y” resembled a Spanish fiesta more than anything else; there’ wasn’t any dancing, but the large group of soldiers gathered around the piajio was singing Spanish songs with a gusto that put everyone there in a festive mood. Reminiscent of the days when circuses used to give ah advance performance by means of a street parade, was the preliminary appearance made by Lionnl Hampton's band at noon today, when the musicians walked from the railroad station to their hoteh .. .Everybody gripes about the wea^ ther which has been zipping through all four seasons in one day of late, but at least we can be glad that this Palm Sunday didn’t bring the 24-inch snow that covered the county last year. ... Amateur weather prophets are smug because their saying that a late Aas-ter means a late spring is turning out to be only too true this season.... Townspeople are telling visiting soldiers whose homes axe in the north, that it^s “these Yankees’’ who are keeping the cold weather with us.« • • 'TUESDAY—Receiving a franked letter this morning, a local woman looks at it casually along with her other mail, presupposes that it comes from one of her son's friends who Is in service, lays It aside to read later ,.. then something about the handwriting catches her eye and she opens the letter, only to discover it Is from her son himself — a college student and a member of the enlisted reserve, who has been called to active duty. ., • A lady finds a strand of pearls in the middle of West Washington street and holds up traffic long enough to pick up all the beads that have come off the broken string , . . and to the person who had lost the pearls and to whom they werejater returned, such attention to detail could not but be gratifying. .., It’s not especially clever to “forget to give your ration points to the grocer, even if he forgets it, for sooner or later it's the conaumet who will suffer . - . dealers can’t replenish their stock if they don’t have the points to show for what has already been sold. ... University of Maryland students, anzious to sell enough war bonds to buy an army trainer plane, have asked the Fairchild company here to lend them a locally manufactured plane for exhibition purposes.• • •VVEONESDAV—Every day is a busy day for shoe repair shops but this afternoon when an Army of-flcer displays his practically nonexistent rubber heels, explains to the clerk that he la staying at a nearby camp longer than he had expected, has only one pair of shoes with him—the shop stops everything long enough to fix him up with a new pair of heels. . ♦ The rain has been so frequent that it’s been the plague of everyone’s life and yet it served a good purpose the other night in discouraging about of fisticuffs .. • annoyed at an argument In which they hare become Involved, two men invite each other to step outside — but it doesn't take them long to call the whole thing off when they face each other amidst a steady drip.... When a local man is unable to buy candy to send to his Army officer son, stations ~in w^mngion, ne packs an Easter box which contains eggs and home-grown potatoes—for potatoes are even scarcer in Washington than candy Is here ,.. Favorite gag of the week tells how Mussolini wired Hitler asking him to send food; Hitler wired back: “Tell Italians to tighten •belts” . . . but Mussolini pulled a fast one with this quickie; “Please send belts.”* .« *THURSDAY—For 39 years the miniature railroad at Pen Mar Park has done a flourishing busines^^but when the army moved in to the park, the railroad moved over to Braddock Heights, the transfer taking place today successor to theFleigh family, operators of the amusement during its entire tenure at Pen Mar, is E. E. Kern..-.with fruit and vegetables slated to rise in price, home-canning during the coming summer may seem at first glance to be a luxury and yet thrift or no thrift is not the issue this year—for the government is requesting everyone to can capacity quantities so they will be able to eat next winter.... Incidentally, home-canners are being urged by the War Production Board to use a steel-saving glass top on their jars of produce; these lids are now being produced in quantity for the first time in this country although they have been long preferred in Canada over the steed screw-lids sopopular here people who livedthrough World War I are thankful that a shortage tf bread is one thing we don’t have to worry about in this war, as yet; substitutes for wheat flour were the chief headacheof homemakers back in 1917.• • «FRIDAY—With Jonquils blooming in the yard and an appetising odor of coffee emanating out to the street, the county jail this afternoon presents a far from dismalpicture... .one of our outdoor girls •who went on a hike this past Sunday saw a fox and to ail her doubting friends she could smugly reply that she had not only seen the fox but had photographed him anticlimax of the Incident came when her films were developed and what she said was fox was just a little spot on the landscape that wpuW never serve to prove her* statement ... .a tlcket-taker at a local theatre this evening somewhat amazed when a patron asks him’ for a Jar: he looks at the fellow questlonlngly and the latter explains: 'T thought rd better put this In something before I go in to the show.this’* was a little garter snake which the man took out of his pocket..«. with lettuce virtually off the market this week, a housewife admits that’s the one thing she could be persuaded to buy from the foodleg-gers.done
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The Daily Mail
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Sat, Apr 24, 1943
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