Reminiscences of the Mite Society in Center Shaftsbury
Mrs. Merritt Hewitt Sr recalls early 1800s beginnings of the Mite Society at the Center Shaftsbury Baptist Church, its chicken pie suppers, food solicitation, homemade tables and linens, plays like Romeo and Juliet, sewing for India, and community fairs. The group faded after the mid 1930s.
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Vermont
Merritt Hewitt Sr
North Bennington
Shaftsbury
Mite Society” Center
Shaftsbury Baptist Church
Mite Society of the Baptist
Center Shaftsbury
Ida Harrington
Governor Galusha House
Bennington
George Hawks
Alma Harrington
Alma
George
Cole Hall
South Shaftsbury
India
THE
Mite Society
Nixon's Orlando Speech Tarnished Presidency
The Nation argues Richard Nixon’s performance before the AP editors in Orlando marked a low point for the presidency. It says his defense, spinning himself as not a crook, damaged the office under intense network scrutiny.
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Richard Nixon
Associated Press Managing Editors Association
Orlando
Fla
Nixon
No Crook Claim Undercuts Trust, Speaker Declares
A stern rebuke flows as critics note that declaring one's own honesty invites doubt. The speaker argues that self-proclaimed integrity resembles a bid for virtue and that such rhetoric demeans the office and political discourse.
Ivan's status symbol Russia discovers the auto
Russian drivers regard private cars as status and convenience during the space age era. The 1973 Zhiguli costs 5500 rubles, with long waits and improvised repair. drivers show privacy via curtained cars, while geese and chickens dot roads. The trip notes few women drivers, scarce hitchhiking, and few billboards on 1700 miles of roads.
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Soviet Union
America
Argonaut magazine debuts at St Joseph's Commercial School
The Argonaut, the school paper of St Joseph's Commercial School, appears this week with school news, editorials, literary pieces, jokes, cartoons, and special articles. Editorial board includes Madeleine S James as editor in chief and Dorothea Fox Irene Roy Charles Toomey and Francis Cone. Also notes Miss Mildred Purdy attends National 4 H Club congress in Chicago on a Montgomery Ward scholarship for ten years of club work.
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the Argonaut
St. Joseph’s Commercial School
Madeleine S. James
Dorothea Fox
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Topping
Ida
Pune
Stent Penn Chae
Bankamericard
Atkins & Gould Jewelers
Ivan
Russia
Leo Grussov
Christian Science Monitor
Moscow
Grand Union Empire
Zenith
Kenneth A. Beauchemin
Main St
Daniel Green
Ist
Ie Shoes
Farrell
Tom Breneman
Manchester
Arlington
New Haven
Conn
John Poljacik
U.S
John A. Gronouski
Chamber of Commerce
Natalie Levin Goodman
Anna Levin
North Street
Best
Illinois
Oberlin College
Ohio
Maryland
Whittaker Chambers
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