YWCA Business Girls Committee Holds Monthly Supper
The YWCA business girls committee met for its monthly supper with Mrs. Fay Gordon presiding. Janice Lessing reported on the Y-Ettes club and announced a June 25 banquet at the Blackstone Hotel to honor new officers to be elected at a June 11 wiener roast at Ellwood Park. Kathryn Jones reviewed softball activities of the business and industrial girls, who play on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Business Girls
YWCA
Fay Gordon
Janice Lessing
Y-Ettes
Blackstone Hotel
Ellwood Park
Esther Boulware
Kathryn Jones
Cadets Consider YWCA Program at Tulsa Conference
A committee formed to study possible YWCA cadet program following the Southwest Business and Industrial Girls Conference in Tulsa Oklahoma. The event highlighted cadet involvement and potential regional activities for the organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Business and Industrial Girls Conference
Tulsa
Oklo
YWCA
House approves Bretton Woods monetary plan in landmark vote
The House backed the Bretton Woods agreements by a 325 to 29 margin, sending the ratification to the Senate where opponents predict a tough fight. The plan creates a $9.1 billion world bank and an $8.8 billion currency stabilization fund with the United States contributing major shares. Treasury officials say the package aims to spur investment and stabilize currencies, eliminating economic warfare.
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Washington
Bretton Woods
House
Senate
United States
United Nations
Rep
Sumner
Illinois
Banking Committee
N. H
World Bank For Reconstruction
Treasury Department
World Bank
Treasury
Dow Jones Stock Averages and Chicago Livestock Report
Merrill Lynch reports Dow Jones at 167.17 at 1 P M down .12 with 30 Industrials and 65 stocks mixed. Chicago livestock prices show hogs steady at 14.75 for 140 lb barrows, sows at 14.00, cattle and calves mostly steady to slightly lower, beef steers 15.00 to 17.75, yearlings 15.00, cows 10.00 to 13.00, sheep steady with lambs around 16.00 and wooled yearlings above 6.00 to 7.75.
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Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Ostigamenee
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
WFA
NEW York Stock Exchange
Am Smelt & Ref
Am Tel & Tel
Anaconda
Armour & Co
Ata
Aviation Corps
Baldwin Loco
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem
Borden
Braniff Tees
Briggs
Il Central
Nat Bise
Shipbuilding
Nor Am Aviation
Ohio Oil
Packard Teeter
Pan Amer ’ Airways Eeesee
Paramount
Penn RR
Ind
Steel
Wilson & Coeoreeee
White Motors
Warner Broser
Western Union
Catholic Hierarchy Urges Postwar Peace Draft Debate
The House Post-War Military Committee heard opposition witnesses while Catholic leaders urged delaying a peacetime draft until war ends. Monsignor Carroll of the National Catholic Welfare Conference urged weighing international conditions and allowing servicemen to voice opinions, suggesting extending the selective service act through the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Woodrum
Virginia
Howard J. Carroll
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Monsignor Carroll
Army
Courthouse Records and Divorces Headline Local Deeds
A series of warranty deeds records transfers of plots in Florence, Lula Bennett, Edna Woodward, and others with numerous lot and block descriptors across town. District Court lists two divorces, Hise and Kaiser, while a final note describes sheep on a Northumberland artillery range during the war era.
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Florence N. Ames
Clifford Brown
Lula Lee Bennett
J. C. Vaughan
Plemons
Her Abernathy Et .Ux
Leroy A. Wilks
Holland Miles Realty Co
J. W. Nelson
Bivins
Edna L. Woodward
Ora Huey
J. B. Cross
H. M. Laughlin
O. A. Thomas
S. J. Hts
James M. Beazell
W. J. Gregg
Wolflin Place
Wilma Gilbert
O. L. Thorp
Quincy Ford Et al
Earl Raymond Stone
Pleasant Valley
L. E. LeRue
Norman Carroll
Clara Johnson
Thos. C. Hicks
Jimmie P. Prince
Etta B. Anderson
Old Town
Kathryn Hise
J. W. Hise
Blanche West Kaiser
Geo. M. Kaiser
Northumberland
Monty
Ancient Greeks estimated Earth size near correct
The article notes that ancient Greeks had an approximate measure of Earth's size and likely computed its circumference within under five percent error by 150 B C, reflecting early geodesy.
Kathleen Wind sor records on Forever Amber writing hours
The archive shows Kathleen Wind sor spent 1,303 hours reading 380 hours indexing notes 3,284 hours writing and produced 9,241 pages or 2,310,250 words during her Forever Amber manuscript work.
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Kathleen Windsor
Amber
100 Million Mines Cover French Coast
Paris reports the French government considers banning beach access as 100 million German mines cover 75 000 acres along the coast from Channel to the Mediterranean. The plan uses disarmed Germans to accelerate removal with 3 000 already at Dunkerque. mined land could become agricultural under French supervision.
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Paris
U.P
Channel
Mediterranean
Finisterre
Brittany
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Sa Growers Oly Reserve
Brande Oe
California Growers Wineries
Gs Southwestern Drug Corp
Lincoln St
Audre L. Murphy
Farmersville
Tex
John “Iron Mike
O’daniel
Murphy
Alexander M. Patch
Seventh Army
Salburg
Austria
Vaughn Plumbing Company
Pierce
Courthouse Records
Iowray
ROYAL
Bennett's Shoe Shop
Frenchn
Albert Lard Electric Company
Te Spr
Mississippi
California
LUX Zoc
Swan
Lipton
Meat Dept
Schilling's Coffee
Imperial
Phillips
Realemon
Curtis
Eagle Summer
Perfere No
Fillmore
Mississipp
Roland
West
Amarillo
Church of Christ Fifth
McMasters
Dewey Shaw
Biloxi
Miss
COE Lumber
J. B. Coe Lumber CO
Lincoln
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