Photo popularity leaders in New York celebrities
The New York Frame and Picture Co. reports that Franklin D. Roosevelt General Douglas MacArthur Olivia de Havilland and Cardinal Spellman are the top framed photo favorites among New Yorkers. The finding covers the year ending unspecified in the excerpt.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Olivia de Havilland
Cardinal Spellman
New York Frame and Picture Co
Nudge Your Lazy Bile Tonight Doctor's Constipation Remedy
An old advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a vegetable remedy to stimulate bile flow and relieve constipation. The capsule suggests improved digestion and regularity, priced at 30 cents and available at drugstores, following label directions.
Picture requests flood office for presidents and stars
On Oct 15 the firm logged 563214 orders to frame FDR and over 100000 sought Cardinal Spellman. Military heroes led by MacArthur with Eisenhower, Dewey, Roosevelt, and Pershing. Top stars were Olivia de Havilland, Walter Pidgeon, and Ingrid Bergman. Women made up 72 percent of movie star framing requests.
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Fdr
Cardinal Spellman
MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George Dewey
Teddy Roosevelt
John J. Pershing
Olivia de Havilland
Walter Pidgeon
Ingrid Bergman
Ear rings of trout flies attract attention at college
Elizabeth Buckner at Washington State College has fashioned ear rings from trout flies with brown hackles feathers and barbed hooks. The college coed showcases the latest feminine accessory as a novelty item in a lighthearted note from Seattle.
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Steherin
Wash
U.P
Washington State College
Elizabeth Buckner
Amarillo Tops in Food Bills and Retail Sales
A Sales Management survey ranks Amarillo high nationally for food purchases per person at 167 dollars versus 149 nationwide and 126 in Texas. Food store expenditures rose to 9.913 million dollars, up 99 percent from 1940, while general merchandise and drug store purchases also surged since 1940.
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Amarillo
Research Department of the Business Publication
Texas
Retail Grocers To Reorganize Group
Texas Retail Grocers Association revival to hold its meeting tomorrow night at 8 in Capitol Hotel rooms. Officers to be elected and a discussion of the Fair Trades Act of Texas and the retail sales tax. All Amarillo area grocers invited to attend. Thirty five members have joined so far.
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Texas Retail Grocers Association
Capitol Hotel
Amarillo
Nazis Died Quickly Says Army Authority
Four power commission in charge of Nuernberg executions denies an impression that Nazis took 10 to 16 minutes to die after being dropped. The commission said death intervened rapidly and the time each criminal was pronounced dead bore on the record released by the U S Army public relations division.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Nuernberg
U. S. Army
Cowhands Adopt Nylon Lariats Across West and Southwest
The article notes a trend among cowhands toward nylon lariats after medical examiners certify death, marking a shift in handling, while regional cowhands in the West and Southwest embrace the new material for lariats and ropes.
Wholesale Food Prices Drop 3.2 Percent in Week
Wholesale food prices fell 3.2 percent in the week ended last Saturday led by declines in meat butter and lard. The food index remained 498 percent higher than June 30 and 60.3 percent above the prior year. Livestock prices rose substantially. The general wholesale index for 900 commodities rose 0.6 percent to 135.9 percent of the 1926 average. The Mississippi flood stretched over 1,000 miles from Cairo Illinois to the Gulf.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
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