09 Dec 1948
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Newspaper
Billings Herald
Location
Billings, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1948
Page
1
The season’s first snow brings a young thrill seeker to sleds skates and overshoes on streets and hills. It warns that coasting on highways causes injuries and fatalities and that hitching to motor vehicles is dangerous. Parents should caution children to stay safe.
A legacy of Pearl Harbor seven years past sets the agenda for the new Congress. The piece argues war consequences shape housing costs military readiness and displaced people and links aggression abroad to domestic trouble. It urges strong human rights policy and a world leadership role, noting an impending tax exemption vote for all voters.
A fragment heavy item list covers a range from odd seasonal weather notes to tax deductions for 1949. It mentions a local garageman, discomfort at home over use of a single electric blanket, and a note on rising postal rates effective January 1. The text also references veterans and home buying, with scattered remarks on personal finance and errands.
Months later and sold the same homes ab profit to non veterans. And there is also a small minority of professional veterans who think the world owes them a living with s bonus thrown in at the end of each year. As in all, veterans are fine fellows. We don't believe that they should all be condemned for the shortcomings of a few. A Billings youngster who for the past three years wrote letters to Santa Claus addressed his annual gift request list to his dad this year. A postscript at the end of the letter stated I'm checking on that stork story no. Buy and Use Christmas Seals.
Thanksgiving note recounts several Americans in Paris on Thanksgiving day 1843. Geoffrey Towser, a former Amherst student, was accosted in his automobile by predatory individuals in a troubling incident reflecting dangers faced by travelers abroad.
An article recalls varied Thanksgiving scenes in Paris with U.S. envoy Jefferson Caffery praising the Marshall Plan. Inez Cavanaugh cooks for soldiers while John Van Metre enjoys home cooking after leaving Evanston. Jan Kindler and Leoplod Stockwell’s godson enjoy bebop and a painter journalist party toasts the holiday, ending with an accidental injury to a French existentialist.
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