Town of Verville planned for disabled veterans
Harry Revel proposes a dedicated town Verville for disabled veterans featuring accessible homes with wide doorways ramps and one story living. The city would include factories back yard workshops a hospital schools and theater with veteran loans backed by a national bank and corporate factories ready to locate there.
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Exservicemen
Verville
Revel
Veterans
Omar Bradley
Veterans Themselves
Ed Sweeney
Birmingham Veterans’ Hospital
van Nuys
Vetville
Aviation Notes Highlight Early 1940s Flight Events and Allies
Bozeman hosts two major aviation events in June 2022 with Montana Flying Farmers and Ranchers at Montana State College and Northwest Airlines inaugurating service to Gallatin Field. The piece also covers rural air expansion in New Jersey, postwar aviation growth, and foreign pilots in international lines, plus details on the Fairchild Packet cargo plane dubbed the flying boxcar with a 4000 mile range and nine ton payload.
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Bozeman
Mont
Canada
Montana Flying Farmers and Ranchers Association
Montana State College
Northwest Airlines
Gallatin Field
Middlesex County
N. J
North Brunswick
Woodbridge
Ziegfield
Forsgate Airpark
Perth Amboy
Hadley
Pacific
Boots the cat completes 600 mile journey to home
Boots the wandering tom cat returns to Mrs. Raymond McCullough in Racine Wisconsin after a two year trek of 600 miles. He was shipped to Albion Pennsylvania to stay with his grandmother, disappeared, and reappeared on a window sill one night before strolling to his usual spot behind the sofa for milk.
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Racine, Wis
Boots
Raymond McCullough
Natick Dog Lady Receives Report Card With Good Conduct
In Natick Massachusetts Lady the school dog attends Nathan Rice school daily and receives report cards from Miss Helen Murphy. Lady shows poor reading writing spelling arithmetic and geography but remains likely to be promoted from sixth grade aided by her master William Geneva II who excels in his studies. Lady earned A in conduct for 32 weeks.
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Natick
Mass
Lady
Nathan Rice School
Helen Murphy
William Geneva II
Stand Back Ladies Bill Aims Public Bar Distance
Cheyenne Wyoming lawmakers introduce a bill requiring women to stand five feet away from bars when drinking in public at the current legislative session.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Ancient Chinese use long fingernails as paintbrushes
The fingernails served as paintbrushes for fine Chinese art, according to the source. Americans in 1946 averaged eighteen pounds of candy per year. An illiterate person must be at least ten years old to be classified as such. The tropical Lebbek tree, called Woman's Tongue, has rattling seed pods. NB in a manuscript stands for note well. Seahorses grow from one inch to ten inches long.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commerce Department
Isolated Hutterites Form Vast Sect Across North America
Isolated Hutterites are described as the only secular communities on the continent. Beginning with a single colony started by German immigrants in South Dakota in 1874, they now number 42 colonies with about 4,500 members in the United States and Canada. Members pool work for collective benefit and live simply without movies radios autos newspapers or clocks.
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South Dakota
United States
Canada
Doolittle Recalls Stormy Flight and World Series Earphones
In a witty reminiscence Jimmy Doolittle recalls a past assignment with a government official. Their open cockpit plane hit a sudden storm but landed safely. The passenger praised his steadiness, and Doolittle laughed that earphones helped him stay on course while he listened to the World Series.
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Jimmy Doolittle
Doolittle
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Minn
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Scandinavian Airlines System
Linea Aeropostal Venezolana
Chinese National Aviation Corporation
Panagra
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Sflavors
America
P. S
Joe
U.S
Firestone
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