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THURSDAY. OCT. 29, 1942 Bombs pare for horror over our homes! The Bluffton Stone Co. The Page Dairy Co. Community Market E. M. Ingalls, Prop. Pine Restaurant over it^H//bappen here! From Lake Erie to the Ohio River from Indiana to Penn sylvania Death from the skies! A thousand fires smashed buildings and smashed bodies ... terror and pain. Coventry was “safe.” Now it’s a ghost city. Pearl Harbor was “impregnable.” Casualties: 3,000! And Ohio is 700 miles from the Atlantic. Ohio hub of American war industry where a hundred thousand factory belts spin the fate of the dictators 700 miles from the coast! Hawaii is 2500 miles from Japan, but air miles are short miles Only guns and ships and tanks and planes can keep' us safe from mass murder. And U. S. War Bonds can provide the money for them. Our choice is a siiriple one: Pledge at least 10% of our income for the next year to the purchase of bonds ... or pre C'lii.i Space Jh a Contribution to cAmerica’s cdll~Out I Car Cffort the Rljn^FTny VT-v’c nr L. T. Greding Hardware C. F. Niswander McCormick-Deering Store Paul Diller Funeral Home Fred Gratz Store uffton. OUR TOWN! HfL0» .- L*#jl onto S\ .W 4$Mk Jp /F Nfc A W* mpej/ ■s a I OlCenter! Lend Uncle Sam at least 10c out of every dollar you earn for the next year Buy War Bonds the easy way Each Pay Day on the CPAY ROLL ^Allotment Plan PAGE THREE