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Headline: British Claim African Victory (11-6-1942)

On a recent trip back home (from east to west), my father mentioned he had some WWII-era newspapers. “Huh,” I thought.  This is new.   And the story goes like this… They belonged to my Aunt Eliza.  She never married and  lived in a room in my grandfather’s house in Monroe, Utah, though she was living […]

War Stomach

Now this ad caught my eye. It was buried deep in a corner column near the bottom of a back page, one or two from the end. Of course, there was much to worry about in those days (OCT 1944), and modern day worriers need only swap out the term that best suits them. For […]