Monkey Business in the Air Prepares for a Postwar Era
The columnist recalls postwar animal shipments as Henry Trefflich, a Nassau Street dealer, began transporting monkeys and elephants by air. Jungle Jenny manages the stock while airline executives assist, highlighting early institutional air freight challenges and the surprising public interest in exotic cargo.
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Henry T. Trefflich
Nassau Street
Seaboard
Western Airlines
Jungle Jenny
Airlines Expand Animal Care Networks Worldwide
All major carriers establish animal welfare centers. British Overseas Airways runs a large animal hostel at London Airport with a comprehensive care manual for hundreds of species. Pan American World Airways operates a horse stable at Idlewild and rents space to other airlines.
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British Overseas Airways
London Airport
Pan American World Airways
Idlewild
TWA grows horse handling for overnight mudder service
Trans World Airlines expanded horse handling enabling a stable to pick a rainy spot with a stake and fly a mudder entry overnight to Chicago. Revenue from this service surpassed 125000 last year as trainers increasingly rely on TWA for keeping horses in condition.
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Trans World Airlines
Chicago
T.W.A
Airlines Use Freight Revenue From Animals
Airlines acknowledge animals are a growing factor in freight income. Monkeys and chimpanzees for polio vaccine work are shipped by the thousands, with Pan American reporting shipments of chicks canaries ant-eaters bears pigs wild cats a kiwi and other birds. A special warning tag notes the kiwi must be handled without indignity due to its beak.
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Fort Meade
Germany
Third Cavalry Division
New Zealand
BOAC Manual Guides Global Animal Care Operations
The BOAC manual outlines care for nearly all fauna from apes to birds including cage types and daily menus. It includes communication codes enabling orders for distant tropical zoos from England, reflecting a vast and unusual business in aviation tied to animal welfare.
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B.O.A.C
Tropics
England
Firemen’s Day Parade Boosts Bristol’s Firefighting Pride
The town marked its 275th anniversary with an annual firemen’s day featuring nearly 40 apparatus and about 1000 firefighters. Bristol’s Defiance hand engine won muster and repeated as New England champion, as out-of-town engines joined a large parade and demonstrations through Bristol.
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Oscar A Wiage
Rishe
Chamber of Commerce
Harriet Bradford Inn
Belvedere
James St. Angelo
Somerset
Swansea
Rehoboth
Warren
Barrington
East Providence
Providence
Fall River
Quonset Naval Air Station
Newart Naval Base
Area Forestry Patrol
Council Opens Action on Ten Year Tax Exemptions
Bristol town council considers granting ten year tax exemptions for new industries. A special town meeting is set for October 19 to decide if the council may award exemptions through 1957. The Civic Industries Committee urged authority and funds for attracting industry and supporting relocations.
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Civic Industries Committee
Magee to Stay on Town Council Despite Move
William E. Magee announced last night he will remain a town councilman after moving to Warren. He cited requests from friends and citizens and urging from fellow council members and the general assembly for immediate action on appropriations.
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William E. Magee
Warren
Lord Mayor congratulates Bristol on 275th anniversary
The Lord Mayor Harry Crook telegrammed BristolTown Council offering congratulations on the 275th anniversary and expressed sympathy for the New England flood disaster. Council President Bruno urged a thank you letter and noted caution about quick tax exemption decisions and secrecy in negotiations.
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Bristol
England
Harry Crook
New England
Ione Hurricane Course Uncertain Town Prepares
Ione's path remains unclear as the center sits 100 miles northeast of Norfolk while residents brace for possible impact near midnight. Coast Guard Depot reinforced, 200000 feet of lumber moved, waterfront businesses board up, and the 275th anniversary events cautious amid the storm.
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Ione
Edna
Norfolk
Virginia
Lone
Nelson G
Beals al
Coast Guard
Winslow E. Kelsey
Connie
Andrews School
Beals
J T. O’connell
Collins and Aikman
Beach Road Man Follows D G Coggeshall
Martin R. Biancuzzo of 107 Beach Road was named by the town council as a member of the board of tax assessors to succeed the late Daniel G. Coggeshall. He was nominated by his brother in law Councilman Joseph E Goulart and will fill the unexpired term until November 1956. The meeting also discussed Hopeworth avenue reconstruction, school bus impacts, road gravel needs, and land acquisition for widening East State Street.
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Martin R. Biancuzzo
Beach Road
Daniel G. Coggeshall
Joseph E Goulart
Hopeworth Avenue
Wiliam P. Sousa
Bsing
Maenson
Charles Hison
Schook di
Sousa
C. C. Hronek
Frank L. Martin
East State Street
F. J. Murphy Inc
Burnside Memorial Building
Holmes Memorial Building
Kearney Post
Civil Defense
Nelson Beals
Murphy Company
Nicholas Castigliego
Jerome Donovan
Department of Public Works
Public Welfare
Tett
Civil Desense Department
Joseph Vallone
State Department of
Hope Street
Narragansett Aon Company
Wood Street
Bradford Street
U. S. Rubber,Co
Bradford
Wood
Lawson-Raiola
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John Stuart
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Saster Winuners
Neptune
Greenwich
Brockton Oko
Marblehead
Hydrant
Tancock
Niagara
Newmarket
Holliston
Ashburnham
Oko
T. P. Brightman
Council
Biancuzzo
Saul Hicklin
Ricklin
Magee
General Assembly
Joseph F. Bruno
D.G. Coggeshall
Bruno
John W. Church
Robert Sarvin
Donovan
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