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;SAM McCONKEY 1 SLIM JOHNSON CLARK WAR. Ol, "SMOKES” ORIGINATE ’laTF US, •. • • VICTORY MATERIALIZES WITH YOU The above Tarboro Firm paid f50.00 .for this advertisement and thereby gave the finicial aid necessary in publishing this issue of the Home Front News, »Slim Johnson (Rotarian)had the idea of advertisements in the H, F*N. as a finicial medium for its publication, and, together with his partner Sam McConkey,bought and paid for the first Add in our News Sheet. — ;;. CAPTAIN BILLY BRYAN IN AUSTRALIA »aiLLY»GIVES SUB HELL Landed Safely after a monotonous Lt. (jg) »(>illy' Nicholson was an (thank God) voyage; now sleep in engineer on the destroyer Jewett a tent and read the wife*s lett- when the destroyer destroyed a ers by a flashlight; got my pay submarine. T'was like this: two in pounds, shillings & pence. At planes bomded the sighted semi- once went to Town for aT- Bone submerged sub, bringing same to Steak - price 3 shillings & 6 the surface & then lacking more pence; ordered another steak, bombs they radioed the ^^Jewett” which began firing r?fc 1^,000 yards Stores and movies close Saturday. The destroyer was able to close at Noon and stay closed »til Mon in to 4000 yds for the kill with- day morning.As to Transportation ^out interference from the sub as 30% of the Aussies ride bicycles everytime its crew tried to come 5^ motorcycles and the rest ride out of the conning tower theplan- no newer than 1935 model cars es strafed them, prisoners includ Trains are a curiosity. Hoard a ed the Sub, Captain.There' v/as much radio broadcast originating in citing and commending done among Chapel Hill. Winter now beginn- the victors, ing with cold nights & warm days - • NEWSETTES F^OM THE FRONT Ride a lot in a jepp - want one to bring home after the war. The Miss Mary Collins Powell (Red X) Cattle & horses are the finest is in England. Pfc. Craig Harrell 1 ever saw - see wild kangaroos, Jr. is in Brazil, S.A. and says* parrots & wallabys;children play that fearing H-11 might possibly with baby k6-rigaroa8,feod4n#..lihein, . be^.A? present post has from a bottle; picked lemons as changod’"^i¥ way' was large as basaballs. recently entertai^iod b;jr a (cens.) vaudville and advise the show was Went to Town again. Ate soup "as hot as the climatCv” Brig.G-cn bread, butter, steak, onions. Prank Armstrong, Wake Forest Grad' poached egg,Jam, jolio,ice cream and formerly of Hobgood has been coffee (with lemon) - the price awarded the p. S*C«, for gallantry 2 jfi 6 or no water or napkins in air action over Holland. Pvt,' over served but always the best Willard (Poss) Cl.nrk, former Runn (and strongest) beer I ever tast ymedc Soft ball king, now of AlaS ed is at your elbow. ka, ( and whose interesting & in quisitive letters really gave Ye FILLER; "Its^'Just like Marie says Editor the HFN Idea ) hasn^t been you can*t get more out of. home for 17 Mo. and doesn^t like a sweater, than you put in to hear of Hart Mill Victories it. over Runnymedc,Poss says: ”Just \ you Wait ,»til I come home”
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