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...England and New Jersey's suburbs, where small towns had taken affairs into their own hands. There local civilian defense councils had organized men & women into first aid, feeding, fire fighting, decontamination, salvage and emergency police units, air-raid wardens, messengers, even intelligence divisions. Serious small townsmen practiced pistol shooting, sniffed gas, spelled each other through 24-hour days watching for airplanes and flashing reports of everything in the skies to Army Information centers...
...lines came from a letter Webster once wrote to John Jay, but to jittery West Hartfordians this looked like a personal insult. Sniffed the Hartford Courant: "If Mr. Ziolkowski chooses to use his statue of Noah Webster as a billboard on which to publish his feelings toward his fellow townsmen, that, of course, is his business." Wailed the West Hartford Metropolitan Shopping News: "Perhaps he has forgotten, as many men do today, the teaching of the Good Book which advocates in one place the turning of the other cheek...
...village teeming with overland adventurers (coureurs des bois), boatmen (voyageurs), townsmen (habitants). "There were spruce military men from the American garrison which had been placed over the village when it passed from French rule four years ago. ... To a Quaker it was strange for a town to boast a dozen billiard rooms and only one small church. . . . Most astonishing to Shreve were the warehouses where he had to select his furs. . . . Pelts were stacked high on every side . . . and heaped in hills about the floor, hung from rafters and bulging from the adjoining sheds...
Citizens of the town of Holmfirth, Yorkshire, felt last week that the war was getting really too demanding. The town was gladly carrying its share of Britain's military and economic burden. But many townsmen wondered whether, on top of this, they had to go on putting up with their fellow townsman Wilfred Overend's idea of a good time...
These riflemen on the porch roof of the Chatham (La.) public library were not playing. While indifferent townsmen lounged below, they were busy sniping at Blue troops in maneuvers which, beginning this week, sent 450,000 troops into battle between the Second and Third Armies. To prepare the U.S. public for such casualties as falling off roofs and crashes in tanks and planes, the U.S. Army last week announced that 136 soldiers might be expected to die during the 15-day September maneuvers (17 from disease, 119 from injuries), that as many as 40,000 more might be expected...