Mocking Mules and Woodpeckers in Politics
Current Opinion discusses ridicule in campaigns including Truman opponents and a Alabama gubernatorial race. It cites a governor calling a critic a peckerwood, later turning into a political fad and boosting public interest. The piece warns against underestimating the mule and notes a riled mule can kick hard.
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Truman
East Kentucky
White House
Missouri
Alabama
Bibb Graves
Frank Dixon
Dixon
Woodpecker
Hard swallowing in Chicago endorses Dewey in tough paper view
The Petersburg Progress Index reports the Chicago Tribune endorses Governor Dewey as the lesser evil of candidates while criticizing Truman as worst. It notes Dewey’s good qualities and admin skills but faults his New Deal compromises and bi partisan foreign policy stance. The piece hints at intra party opposition if Dewey wins.
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Petersburg
Chicago Tribune
Dewey
Truman
Tribune
TVA
McCormick
Mason-Dixon Line
Lions hear district governor at meeting
Lions hear District Governor John A. K. Donovan address club matters. Lt. Commander C Ridgely White reports for two weeks active duty at the Naval Intelligence Office in Washington. Mrs Alfred Miller marks her 91st birthday anniversary.
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John A. K. Donavan
C. Ridgely White
Office of Naval Intelligence
Washington
Alfred Miller
Navy reports two American destroyers lost in Mediterranean
A Navy communique today confirms the loss of two American destroyers in the Mediterranean amidst ongoing World War II naval actions. The bulletin also notes an unsuccessful Japanese bombing raid on Attu Island in the Aleutians.
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Mediterranean
Attu Island
Aleutians
Popeye cartoonist E. C. Segar dies ten years ago
Ten years ago in 1938, Popeye cartoonist E. C. Segar dies. Apple harvest expected to end in the next ten days with 287000 barrels in storage. Japanese beetles invade Winchester. Quar antine threat unless control measures are taken.
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E. C. Segar
Winchester
Handley crushes Randolph Macon 46 to 0 in 1923 game
A twenty five year old item notes Handley High School routed Randolph Macon 46 to 0 in 1923. It mentions a Birth of a Nation advertisement at a local theater and observes weather above normal for the season.
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Handley
Randolph Macon
Birth of Nation
Rain spoils last day of fair at Winchester event
Fifty years ago in 1898 the fair closed amid rain and disappointment while local residents accepted incandescent lights for public use in Winchester. Plans emerged to convert a plant for new energy, and Thomas Brill sustained a slight injury at work during the period.
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Winchester
Thomas Brill
Strength For The Day We Spend Nine Billion On Liquor
The piece cites a magazine claim that nine billion dollars yearly is spent on liquor, three times education funding. It warns that 4,000,000 are chronically out of commission from drinking, including 2,000,000 alcoholics and 2,000,000 inebriates. It states two-thirds of adults drink, one-third abstain, with 17 percent drinking thrice weekly and 48 percent occasionally. Men drink three-fourths. women about 56 percent. It portrays a worsening trend with broad social, financial, physical, and spiritual harms.
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Authority
How's Your I Q A newspaper quiz from 1940s era
A user quiz asks ten questions testing general knowledge from a mid twentieth century newspaper. Questions cover a Texas Democrat ex-FDR cabinet member backing Dewey, grammar correction, J Edgar Hoover’s agency, Stonewall Jackson’s real name, Merkers salt mine art finds, police as shorthand for pellagra, Battle of Britain timing, the Second Lady, an equatorial South American capital, and Audubon Society’s purpose.
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Texas Democrat
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dewey
J. Edgar Hoover
Stonewall” Jackson
Merkers
Germany
Britain
U. S
Audubon Society
Rainfall totals and yearly averages from Chester Research Lab
Present and past rainfall figures cover October to date and year to date. The record notes 98 years of average annual rainfall at 36.20 inches and lists monthly precipitation values from February to December for 1946 inclusive, with specific inches shown for each month.
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