Etang de Berre port project frames Marseille trade shift
The Etang de Berre seawater connection to the Mediterranean near Marseille transforms a former gulf into a 50 000 acre anchorage with canal linked to Rhone. The vast project cost 94 000 000 francs and aims to provide docking space and storage for American and Franco shipments, expanding regional trade and defense against mistral winds.
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Marseille
Mediterranean
Marc
Boin An
Tennars
Marselle
Verdun
Tidga
Marsail
Lave
Campaign for Recruits in DC National Guard Shows vigor
Officers and men of the District of Columbia National Guard promote a recruitment drive this week to raise unit strength. A recruiting office at 1249 Pennsylvania Avenue opens for the parade and remains open daily to explain drill, equipment, and benefits. Displays include marksman trophies, a signal corps wireless outfit, and medical gear. The effort targets expansion of the guard toward a higher active status comparable to the regular army. The current strength is cited as 12,207 men with a stated requirement of 4,400.
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National Guard
District of Columbia
Pennsyar A Avenue
Acork
Medica
Wea Point
Wartime railway notes obscure in scrambled OCR
Fragmentary OCR text references dining cars and wartime railways with unclear dates and names. The readable fragments mention London, war era conditions, and Northwestern connections, but concrete events or actions are not discernible from the passage.
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Anchorage
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Ynereran Proii
Mistral
London and Northwestern
London
Seling
Hecht & Co
Seventh Street
Petite Fale
Corse
Enalance Bowter
Custers
Washington
Palm Beach
Palm
Beank Clothes Hecht & CO
Copenhagen
Rajah
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Caer
Mit
Matehese
Merle
Wight
Tonis XV
Freanvas
Chidken
Rage
Emerald
Lisle Sox
Firat
Gotham
Peery
Norfolk
Bron
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Gleave Modela
Leor
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