Stamp Flowers Honor Mother's Day War Time Aid
Miss Anna M. Jarvis, creator of Mother's Day, urges Americans to wear war stamp flowers this year. She recalls 1918 and notes the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. Jarvis hopes envelopes to troops on battlefields bear the label Mother’s Day and stresses mothers’ duty to home and children.
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Philadelphia
Whistler
Anna M. Jarvis
Congress
Harrison County
Miss Jarvis
Answers to the Daily Quiz list
Answers to the Daily Quiz on Page 4 reveal quiz solutions: 1 Sling and pebbles 2 False only the females suck blood 3 William H Histie 4 Seven short and six long 5 Charles Heine Wagner 6 True 7 Haiti 8 Joseph W Martin Jr 9 New York City 10 Thirty.
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Charles (Heine) Wagner
True
Haiti
Joseph W. Martin Jr
New York City
Preakness Stakes Raises Fresh Questions Ahead of Run
In wartime Baltimore the 53rd Preakness faces crowd, travel, and Derby outcome questions. The field includes Derby nonparticipants and horses pointing to Pimlico, with purses and bonuses outlined, while odds favor uncertainty about the Derby winner's chances in the Preakness.
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Pimlico
Bimelech
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Whirlaway
Alsab
Walter M. J@ dele Halbred
S Circus
H. L.straus
New Moon
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Zanzibar
Belair Stud
Oakford
William L. Bann
Victorian
Farm Field Work Progress Slower Despite Delays
Virginia weekly crop report says strawberry harvest delayed at least 10 days due to late frost. Planting and seeding show mixed progress across counties. corn, oats, cotton, soybeans, and tomatoes are under varied stages. Temperature variance from 93 to 35 degrees slowed growth across the state.
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Virginia
U.S. Weather Bureau
Extension Service
Virginia Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Loudoun County
Nansemond
Princess Anne
Mountain
Prince Edward
Essex
Northampton
Westmoreland
Allied Invasion Drives Axis From Tunisian Roads
Allied forces report heavy action around Djebel Chemti and Djebel Ashkel with American and French units taking 300 prisoners, many Italians, as they advance toward Ferryville and Bizerte. Bombardments target Ferryville and Lake Bizerte port facilities while Montgomery’s Eighth Army pressures south toward Tebourba.
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Lake Ashkel
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Sidi Salem
Ferryville
First Army
K. A. N. Anderson
Djebel Bou Aoukaz
Medjerda
Tebourba
United States
Eddekhila
Tunis
Montgomery
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Gulf of Hammamet
Enfidaville
Tunisia
Lake Bizerte
Sidi Ahmed
Axis
High Command
Rome
Associated Press
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Mateur
Mrs deGrange's Car Recovered by Troopers
Police say the automobile of Mrs. H. Clay deGrange, reported missing, was recovered by troopers stationed in Attinsburg Marlowe, West Virginia. The finder location and date were not provided in the readable text.
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H. Clay deGrange
Legima
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