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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1959
Page
8
The City of Biddeford invites bids on about 1 157 tons of hot top bituminous concrete to surface part of Main Street. Bids due by 12 00 noon at the City Clerk office Monday June 1 1959 and opened the same day at the regular City Council meeting. Signed Municipal Officers. ATTEST Raoul Binette City Clerk.
Hollywood AP recounts Phillip and Dennis Crosby four minutes apart, contrasting the burly Washington State alum with the pale shy twin, both married to showgirls and each a Bing Crosby offspring. Lindsay, the mysterious fourth brother, pursued art and a show business career, touring Europe and serving in the Army before aiming for acting and a Crosby family act.
Dick Sinnott reports on New England stories from Babson Institute in Wellesley where a Garner venue negotiation prompts business lectures, Maine theatre box office notes, Connecticut drummer Charlie Donnelly’s seven bands, and high school seniors facing college costs. Also highlights Frank Hles on college entry tips, Vermont summer travel guide by Michael Frome, and a Paul Bunyan display in Brainerd Minnesota.
The Saco Extension association met at the Saco GAR hall with Miss Marion G. Banks speaking on highway safety. She described tunnel vision and color blindness, signs, dimming lights, bicycle safety, and driver training in high schools. The state reimburses towns ten dollars per student driver licensed through the courses.
In Chester Massachusetts a stork shower honored Mrs. David Hodgson, former Mary Ann Veilleux of Biddeford. Co-hostesses included Mrs. Betty M Thibault and others. Gifts were opened, pianist Miss Rachel Martel performed, and guests from Sanford Cape Porpoise Dorchester joined.
Harvard Business School acquires a taciturn five foot wooden Indian from Maine to stand beside the historic Whatcheamo figure from Leavitt and Pierce. The pair embodies a now-rare advertising art as Harvard preserves a piece of early retail history amid a fading tradition of wooden sentinels.
A long string of names of women presented in a civic or social roster. The list includes Cecile Pacuette Aline Metayer Mae Dunning Emma Bolduc Raymond Phillips Virginia Nelson Germaine St Ours Calixte Lambert Ralph Rossigner Paul Staples Cecile Lacroix Claire Cote Florida Roberge Laura Boissard George Hodgson Edward Roberge Gilbert Rishton Fred Gagne Douglas Conley Earl Pollack Raymond Martin Edna Anton Francis Allen Jean J. Roberge Juliette Caron Blanche Roy Lillian Fournier Edward Roberge Cecile Lacroix Amond Delisle L Boissonneault Paul Richards Irene Leahy Alfred Chadbourne and Jean nine Lizotte.
If you want to sell more and earn more, you do not need to be a salesman. My role is to make you one of the best.
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