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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1949
Page
11
Lingard Miller aged 93 died in Sao Paulo on Wednesday. From Lockhart Texas he came to Brazil in 1869 and homesteaded with fellow North American exiles. He owned a sugar plantation in Brazil.
The Mormon Battalion completed the longest infantry march in 1847 covering 1,870 miles from Council Bluffs Iowa to the Pacific Coast.
David Prager, 29, a Berlin-Hunt Tool Company cashier, confessed to embezzling up to 19 000 dollars to fund a cross country life with two wives and amateur basketball teams. He lived weekends in Los Angeles with wife two while remaining with wife one in Memphis. a divorce is planned as police continue investigation.
Senators Tom Connally and Lyndon Johnson with nine colleagues sponsor a bill for a comprehensive water and soil survey of the Arkansas White and Red River basins. The measure would form a 13 member commission from federal agencies and eight basin states to coordinate surveys and develop projects with Army Engineers Corps Bureau of Reclamation Soil Conservation Service Fish and Wildlife Service and other agencies.
The term ditto bag, once used for a two of each item kit in the Navy, originated from the older ditto bag naming. The phrase reflects early kit design and terminology adopted by sailors and ship stores.
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