Boy Wanderer Known As Mike Stranded in Occupied Europe
June 10 report from Paris and Belgium recounts a boy named Mike from Trenton Texas who rode a cattle ship to Paris with cowboys. He slept in a cafe while the cowboys searched the town and was later sent to the Rhine after being taken in as a mascot. He escaped to Belgium as an international waif. Trenton, Texas has disowned him.
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Ngton
Mike
Belgium
United States
Trenton
Texas
Paris
State Department
Occuion
Rhine
Green goods stock buys raise DOJ probe in city
A fragment notes that a New York man bought a local road terminal, Chicagoans buy stock in a scheme at a dollar a share, and the Department of Justice begins an inquiry. It hints the subject no longer lives in the country and comments on urban folks leaving home to find work.
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Pennsylvania Road
1919 Cotton Sold in Paris Texas Sale Tops 77000 Dollars
In Paris Texas on June 10 the Lamar County Cotton Growers Association sold 2200 bales of 1919 cotton to an exporting firm. Prices ranged from 5 to 12 cents per pound net to growers, with the cotton assembled at Texas City last February. The sale totals about 77000 dollars, and much of the cotton had remained unsold at any price.
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Paris
Texas
Lamar County Cotton Growers’ Association
Texas City
Mother rescues son from deep well as she bears fifth child
Mrs Norman Girling of White Plains New York climbed into a 15 foot well to rescue her two and a half year old son then carried him out and returned to birth her fifth child that night. Carnegie Hero Commission declined to award the prize despite widespread praise.
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Carnegie Hero
Norman Girling
White Plains
N. Y
Carnegie Hero Commission
If Every Man Did His Best Thematic Verse
Poem by Walt Mason contrasts ideal of universal effort with modern work life. It imagines a world where each person does their best, reducing crime, waste, and injustice, and improving abundance. The piece ends with a newspaper credit line and stray advertising note.
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Ton
Walt Mason
Remark on Medal Awards and Hero Mothers
A Delta Courier remark notes Mrs. Girling exceeds Carnegie Commission prizes with her two babies. It argues if all heroic mothers were medal recipients, the Carnegie fellows could not keep up, predicting a million medals annually and the commission bursting.
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Whitewright
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Tos
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Cai
Pevagson
Wearwell
Commodore Perry
Seng
Euan
Ibias
Cerned
Children’s Department
Warner
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Val- Ucs
Black Hawk
Pequoit
Xtra
Sherman
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