Strange Sights for GIs in Occupation Japan
A K S Bartlett piece describes sights for Army of Occupation in Japan. GIs may observe women and wrestlers, octopus dishes, pearl farms, paper houses, geisha, and two atomic bomb sites, with notes on fraternization and caution from a pocket guide. The piece mentions a samurai sword, sake, sukiyaki, and Hirohito’s or Halsey’s white horse as notable images.
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K. S. Bartlett
New York
Japan
Land of the Sunken Sun
Douglas MacArthur
Army Service Forces
Army
Yank
Maria
Lake
Joe
Hirohito
Halsey
White Horse
Bible Questions Answered By The Voice Prophecy Broadcaster
A compact Q and A session on creed signs of Jonas in Luke 11 29 32 the creation debate and biblical explanations. It covers evolution versus biblical account of creation the Sodom and Gomorrah destruction and Passover symbolism unleavened bread and life origin questions with cited Bible verses and notes from Genesis Psalm 36 and Darwin.
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Voice Prophecy International
Jonas
Sodom
Gomorrah
Israel
Egypt
Paul
George Darwin
The
British Association
Charles Darwin
Association
Little Lines by Margie B Boswell
Slipshod methods slip into mudholes as the great shift gears. The right is a wrestler hard to handle.
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Margie B. Boswell
Divorce Petition Notice in Grayson County Texas
No 53824 Gyene Mozelle Brown is summoned to appear by 10 AM on the first Monday after 42 days from issuance for a divorce petition filed August 21 1945 in District Court Grayson County Sherman Texas. Plaintiff Marshall P Brown seeks divorce on cruel treatment and three years abandonment.
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State of Texas
Gyene Mozelle Brown
A. D
District Court of
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Texas
Marshall P. Brown
S. V. Earnest
Nancy Drake
Christmas Mailing Rules Announced By Armed Services
Overseas Christmas mailing rules from Army and Navy authorities urge sending gifts between September 15 and October 15 only, using the latest address, packing in a heavy box under five pounds with 36 inches girth, and choosing usable items while avoiding perishables, intoxicants, weapons, poisons or flammables.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Office of War Information
Texans Take Jokes About Their State Instride
A humorous column notes Texans’ good nature for ribbing their own state as jokes about listing who owns Texas circulate in weeklies. Soldiers in Gainesville laugh at “I Give You Texas” and locals boast of Texans’ sport about state pride and humor.
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Texas
Gainesville
Admiral King surprised by earlier Japanese surrender
Admiral Ernest J. King, chief of the U S Fleet, said at a news conference that Japan's surrender came sooner than he expected and he expressed relief with a bright remark. He did not reveal his target date for capitulation.
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Washington
Ernest J. King
United States
Attention Girls Read the Ads and Got Her Man
A Monahans News jingle touts a young woman who uses Lux for nightly baths drinks Cocoamalt and Ovaltine, wears Max Factor lip color, uses Drene shampoo, Realsilk hose and soft white hands. Dr West brightens her smile and two months bring her name and fame across the land.
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Monahans
Dr. West
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