YMCA Outing Sparks Nature Hikes and Historic Walks
The Bennington area YMCA outing group kicked off with a nature hike for third to sixth graders on West Mountain Shaftsbury led by Leonard Black. The group collected stones nuts and an unexpected jawbone of a skunk. A later Sunday excursion for adults with Black and John Riddle explored Glastonbury and Fayville visiting cellar holes a beaver dam and a working saw mill.
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Bennington Area
YMCA
Leonard Black
West Mountain
Shaftsbury
Black
John Riddle
Glastonbury
Fayville
Lincoln's silk hat donated to White County Museum
Chicago attorney Felix Wisk of Fontana Wisconsin donates Abraham Lincolns silk hat to the White County Museum in Carmi Illinois The hat was made in Springfield Illinois and given by Lincoln to a Petersburg coachman It was a frequent display at county fairs.
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Carmi
Ill
Abraham Lincoln
White County
Chicago
Atty
Felix Wisk
Fontana
Wis
Springfield
Lincoln
Petersburg
Rockport House Photo Delights Local Residents
Mr and Mrs Harold C Peart of Coulter Street recognize a Rockport Mass house on the front cover of The Saturday Evening Post linked to summers on the Cape They visited Rockport this summer and found the site from a color photo by John Clymer Kristina Ardoulos netted a $50 child contest prize in New York Sun Daily Beautiful Child Contest with grand prizes possible and she attends Freeman School in North Adams The notice also covers SOS Children's Village plans in Vermont and a moose sighting near Willoughby River Details include local families and regional associations and a Miami Herald report on Coral Gables events.
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Saturday Evening Post
Harold C. Peart
Coulter Street
Rockport
Mass
Pearts
John Clymer
Kristina Ardoulos
North Adams
LeRoy Loomis
Sage Street
North Bennington
Charles H. Lee
North Street
New York Sunday News
Kristina
Freeman School
William M. Ardoulos
Jean Loomis
Fireside
Green Acres
Cheshire
Manor
Deborah
Michele
Michael
Miami
Old Dobbin Delivers Milk in South Philadelphia
Abbotts Dairies maintains horse drawn milk delivery on 32 routes in narrow row-house blocks. Twenty five to thirty five horses operate front-step service despite automation elsewhere, praised for route knowledge and precise maneuvers. The aging team includes an 8 year old harness maker, with no plans to switch to trucks.
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Philadelphia
Edward Abbott
Abbotts Dairies
Abbott
Apple Picker's Lament Part IV at Southern Vermont Orchards
An investigative report outlines how migrant workers earning 35 dollars weekly at Southern Vermont Orchards see most income vanish to deductions for food rent social security and a delivery service. It details the lack of wage records for workers and the debt bondage created by credit and advance payments while noting housing and discipline challenges.
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Vermont
Arthur Schultzer
East Orange
N.J
Charles Sharpe
Sharpes
Schultzer
Meyer
Russia Reports 88 Red Parties Worldwide
Moscow based paper So viet Russia states 88 Communist parties exist globally with 41.6 million members. Of these, 75 parties operate in non Communist countries with over 5.2 million members. The report notes many parties work illegally or semi legally, and 49 Marxist Leninist groups in Asia, Africa and Latin America unite about 2.7 million Communists.
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Moscow
Soviet
Latin America
Cuba
Grindstone Delivered 64 Years Late From 1898 Shipping Loss
Perth Australia AP grindstone ordered in 1898 was salvaged by local divers from the sunken barque Sepia off the West Australian coast and delivered to Bunbury store. The stone, once ordered by W. Gibson, was given to his 77 year old son after decades of delay.
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Perth
Australia
W. Gibson
Bunbury
Engl
Sepia
West Australian
Underwater Explorers’ Club
Gibson
Mr. Gibson
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Old Bennington
Country Store
Kt 7
RCA Victor
RED
van Cliburn
Rachmaninoff
Rets Palace
Milhaud
Massenet
Rubinstein-Szeryng
Brahms
Beethoven
Arthur Fiedler
Boston Pops
Munch
Milhaud Jazz Ballet
Soria
Boston Symphony
Ile
Italy
Sergio Franch
Taian
Sergio Franchi
Lly Elias
Erick Friedman
Heifetz
Bay
Noveck-Shultz Inc
DIAL
Aepelle
By Agnes Rockwood
Banner
Phil Savory
National Republican Party
Phil
Philip H. Hoff
George van Santvoord
Bennington
Tyrol
Hermann Gmeiner
Morrisville
Stowe Road
SOS
Europe
Austria
Asia
Africa
Latin American
International Red Cross
Raymond Kirkpatricks
Orleans
Willoughby River
Kirkpatricks
Brownington Village
Gables
Robert Searle
Dr. Pearson
Chamber of Commerce and
The
City of
Coral Gables
Robert E. Shiesley
Waterford
N.Y
Wrgb-Tv
State University College
Crane Department of Music
Potsdam
Crane Symphony Orchestra
New York State
Rexall
America
Quinlan
Main ST
Bennington, VT
Apple Picker’s
Part
By Bob Hagerman
Grocers
Sharpe
Main Street
Russia
Grindstone Delivered
North ST
Nnington, VT
U.S
Pownal Ctr
Peaceful Valley
Nic Nos
Union Street
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