Local bowlers shine as scores head into league prep
Roames leads with high averages in straight games while Mabel Williams posts 119 open. Glaize & Bros. delivers a 221 three game win over Novick's Transfer Co. Fiddler adds 123, Glenn 1122, Ressiguie 382, Rhea 155 with eight spares. Victory League meeting set to balance teams for a stronger season.
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H Gore
Worke Perfectey
Mabel Williams
Cadillac Girls
Shorty Billmyer
Glaize & Bros
Novick
Jim Fiddler
Glaize
Lee Glenn
Lee Ressiguie
Royal Crown Cola
Troy Rhea
Victory League
Fred Yellett
Perry Construction Co
Railway Express
Ex Senator Norris in critical condition in Nebraska
Former Senator George W Norris, 83, is reportedly unconscious and weakening after a cerebral hemorrhage on Tuesday. Dr E F Leininger said Norris is being nourished by IV and had a high fever of 103 that night, with temperature 101 this morning.
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McCook
Nebr
George W. Norris
E. F. Leininger
Norris
Leininger
Congress
Verdun Recapture and Somme Advance Mark WWII Anniversary
The article links the recapture of Verdun to Hitler’s fifth war anniversary and notes Allied victory in northern France as they push German forces from the Somme battlefields. It recalls May 1940 German gains in the Somme, Amiens and Abbeville and credits Churchill with rallying a do-or-die British government.
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Verdun
Hitler
France
Somme
Amiens
Abbeville
Dunkerque
Wanted a custom-built house trailer and more
Classified notice listing a wanted item for a custom-built house trailer with new tires in midwood service station Riverton Va dated 8 31 1961. Contains multiple sale notices including ladders roof coating grapes a house and land and various restaurant equipment with contact details.
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Midwood
Riverton
Wartime resolve and calls for unconditional surrender
The piece quotes Allied leaders and editors urging total defeat of Nazi Germany. It notes casualty tolls since D-Day, Eisenhower’s vow to press into the Reich, and the public mood that punishment must be severe before any peace. It frames postwar reconstruction as a path to peace.
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Enland
Eich
Hitler
Germany
United Nations
Hull
Eisenhower
Reich
I Talked To A Star Last Night Poem Note
A 1944 poem recounts talking to a star that offers comfort while a sweetheart sails the deep. The star promises travel and a clear message as the speaker looks upward and sends kisses toward New Orleans. CHAPMAN dated July 28, 1944.
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Deep Sea
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