Automobile lineup with Chevrolet and Mercury models
Classified notice lists several 1940s cars including a 1948 Chevrolet Club Coupe, 1948 Mercury Station Wagon with radio heater and Columbia overdrive, 1948 Chevrolet Fleetline 4 door sedan with radio and heater, a 1946 Chevrolet 4 door sedan with radio and heater in mechanically good condition, and a 1947 Chevrolet 4 ton Stake Pick up.
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Columbia
Chevrolet
R.&h
J. J Jones Motor Salesith & Buchanan
Studebaker
VIS Investment CO
Dodge
Alma Miller tours peacetime Europe after war service
Alma Miller 2416 Ong returned from a six week Europe tour with Campus Tours, traveling on the Queen Mary and later the Queen Elizabeth. She visited England Belgium Holland Germany Austria Italy France and Switzerland, noting reconstructed bombed areas, Rhine steamboat trips, Oberammergau, and varied climates.
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Europe
Alma Miller
Campus Tours
Miss Miller
England
Rhine
Peace Palace
Belgium
Holland
Wichita Falls Flood Ebbs After Heavy Rains
The Big Wichita River crest was forecast to occur today with water about three feet below the 1941 flood level. Diversion Lake spillway flow dropped to eight‑tenths of a foot while the Red River stayed within banks. Over 200 families evacuated as Holly Day Creek floodwaters continued to back up in the south side. Red Cross fed refugees and typhoid serum was flown in by the state health department.
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Associated Press
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Red River
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State Health Department
One Good Steal Leads to Another in San Rafael
Fred Carstens of San Francisco was arrested in San Rafael on August 4 charged with stealing a television set from the home of Richard E. Shepard while Shepard was in jail for allegedly stealing money from his employer.
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Cal
Fred Carstens
San Francisco
Richard E. Shepard
Shepard
Movie Kiss Eras Changed by Hollywood History Expert
Hollywood kiss historian Chlisle Jones notes screen kissing has slowed as other film elements accelerate. Kisses grew deliberate from Valentein and early stars, with directors shaping effect while technicians manage the lens. Cagney’s grapefruit moment sparked disruption, but today scripts and cutters determine final length and order.
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Greta Garbo
John Barrymore
Dolores Costello
Nebraska
Warner Studio
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Romance on Screen Quieted by Sensitive Microphones
The piece notes that film romance has become duller and more deliberate due to overly sensitive mics. It credits Jones with preferring real life love to be deliberate but resists claiming expertise on the subject.
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Jones
Ulbricht Threatens East German Takeover of West Germany
East Germany's Walter Ulbricht warned that the Reds will seize West Germany as North Korea advances in Korea. He labeled the West German and South Korean governments as puppet regimes, urged support for the Soviet Union, and called for peace committees and anti American actions including production bans and film protests.
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South Korea
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Ulbricht
Socialist Unity
Communist
Soviet Union
West
Europe dollar deficit drops in first quarter 1950
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva reports Western Europe's dollar deficit for Q1 1950 fell 40 percent from a year earlier, mainly from a one third cut in European imports of American goods. The deficit runs at an annual rate of 2.106 billion dollars. Europe’s Q1 imports total 714 million from the United States and 147 million from Canada.
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Geneva
Switzerland
United Nations Economic Commission For Europe
Europe
Canada
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