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While on leave, he used a $60 bonus (equivalent to $1,120 in 2023) from his employer to purchase an engagement ring for his girlfriend Ruth Hartley, a salesgirl he first met in May 1941. The 1st Marines landed on Guadalcanal on August 7, 1942, the largest Marine force ever engaged in landing operations up to that time and first American ...
Iowa Newspaper Association; Penny Abernathy, "The Expanding News Desert: Iowa", Usnewsdeserts.com, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century)
Pride of the Marines is a 1945 American biographical war film starring John Garfield and Eleanor Parker.It tells the story of U.S. Marine Al Schmid in World War II, his heroic stand against a Japanese attack during the Battle of Guadalcanal, in which he was blinded by a grenade, and his subsequent rehabilitation.
Pixie’s family was among the 1820 settlers in South Africa and moved to Rhodesia in 1922 where Ruth's grandfather, Alfred Ernest Hartley bought a farm. Ruth obtained a BA in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town in 1964, a PGCE (Art and Design) in 1981 at Trent Park, Middlesex University, and an MA in Women’s ...
The Atlantic News-Telegraph is a daily newspaper published in Atlantic, Iowa, and covering Cass County, Iowa, and the surrounding area.The newspaper is owned by Community Media Group and publishes six days a week, Mondays through Saturdays.
Ruth Sue Ann Robison, 45, and her spouse Tony Ray Robison, 52, both took bullets to the head when the shooting erupted at the home in Des Moines, Iowa last Friday.
Ruth Price Hartley Mosley (September 23, 1886 – August 14, 1975) was an American nurse, businesswoman, and civil rights activist. In 1910, she became the first black woman to be the head of a nursing department. [1] Mosley was also one of the first women to be licensed as an embalmer.
Atlantic was founded in October 1868 by Franklin H. Whitney, B.F. Allen, John P. Cook, and others. While historians cannot agree on how Atlantic got its name, local legend tells that the founding fathers estimated that the town was about halfway between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, so it led them to flip a coin and, clearly, Atlantic won.