These handy household hints appeared in The Harvard Courier newspaper on May 11, 1895.
Thursday, April 30, 2020
S1C Donald Averill lost 25 Oct 1944 in the sinking of the USS Gambier Bay Aircraft Carrier
This story appeared in The Harvard Courier 75 years ago describing to the Averill family that the navy had no hope of locating their son missing in the sinking of the aircraft carrier the USS Gambier Bay.
Donald
Edward Averill (1925-1944)
Richard
C. Moore painted this lithograph titled “Freedom’s Cost” commissioned by the
USS Gambier Bay Association. Nineteen-year-old Seaman 1st Class
Donald Averill of Harvard was among the 138 men lost when the aircraft carrier
was sunk by Japanese gunfire on the morning of October 25, 1944. Donald Averill
was a graduate of the Harvard High School Class of 1943.
Link to the Gambier Bay Association
Sutton Locker Plant Torn Down 1995
The May 11, 1995 Clay County News covered the demise of the Sutton Locker Plant. Remember going in there on a hot August afternoon to get your meat, and linger in the cool?
European War was Nearly Over on May 3, 1945
The May 3, 1945 Harvard Courier newspaper listed the good news from the European War front. The end was near.
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