Labor Day Socials Across Swynneville and Nearby Towns
Local residents marked Labor Day with visits and gatherings. Families including Swynneville Mer. and Mrs. John Leisure, the Hulls near Ashville, and the Nighs joined relatives at fairs, dinners, and Sunday visits. Several couples traveled to Ashville, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis for family visits and shopping.
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Mer
John Leisure
Indinepolis
Ed Poston
Lawrence Wortman
Frank Hull
Near Ashville
Lewis Nigh. Jr
C. E. Hurst
Will Arnold
Harold
Earl No
Mary Jiffe Unger
Barbara Unger
Howard Haywood
Lavone Davis
Indianapolis
Ola Haywood
Fred Pollitt
Shelbyville
James Fisher
Chris Brown
Ira Maddicks
Sidney
Ohio
Ralph Henderson
Mary Poston
Walter Stiers
Raymond Cross
Charles Andis
Charles Irvine
New Palestine
Dorsey Smith
Earnestine Nigh
Dave Wilcoxon
Robert Long Hospital
John Scott
Doris Covall
Max Kelso
Cincinnati
Zoo
School Opening Calls for Extra Care
Hoosier Motor Club urges heightened driver caution near schools as 750,000 children under age 15 require protection. Todd Stoops notes the 16 year old School Bay Traffic Patrol origin and AAA safety efforts since 1924 with School Zone signs. Last year 2,630 children aged five to fourteen were killed and 176,690 injured, figures rising from 1938.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Todd Stoops
Hoosier Motor Club
Stoops
Hoover failures and missed chances in 1944 editorial
An Idaho Wallace Miner editorial criticizes Hoover as a failure in many actions and inactions. It cites social, political, and wartime decisions, contrasts with Willkie, and urges readers to vote in November 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
Idaho
Congress
Europe
Hoover
Girl Scouts of America
White House
Chicago
Willkie
Traffic safety guidance for motorists and pedestrians
Record cites a 170,700 figure and urges greater care by motorists, children, and parents to reduce deaths and injuries. It advises warning younger children to stay out of the street, cross at intersections with traffic lights, obey school boy traffic officers, and set an example by walking properly. It notes facing traffic where no sidewalks and supports the 1939 traffic law as a safety measure if enforced.
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Carthage
Morristown
Greenfield
Westland School
Jersey
Guernsey
Addie Shubert
Ladies Aid of
Westland Church
National WCTU Convention Pushes Food Over Liquor
At the Chicago convention the National W C T U argues that diverting the three billion dollar annual liquor bill to healthful foods would enrich farmers and consumers. Nita Foster appears at a luncheon featuring milk and orange juice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Nita
Oddities and theft notes in brief from across the states
Mrs. K. C. Rollins of Cedar Rapids pays her third traffic fine by serving jail time. A Pittsburgh drug store advertises a heat wave banana split special. Williamson County Indiana officials get word of multiple thefts including a 60 foot bridge, a Crab Orchard Lake boat dock and a lawn mower. Alvin Rausch, Madison aviator, wakes to dream of bailing out and lands in his yard.
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K. C. Rollins
Cedar Rapids
Williamson County
Marion, Inl
Crab Orchard Lake
Alvin Rausch
Madison
Wis
Potatoes Grow Under Ground Beside Athol Man Tomato Above
Athol Massachusetts resident Paul Pralinsky reports a curious garden contrast with healthy potatoes sprouting underground while a large tomato ripens above ground. Local garden notes highlight unusual vegetable growth in a single plot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Pralinsky
Athol
Mass
Open jail tour marks sheriff birthday in Fort Wayne
A birthday open house at the Allen county jail drew curious visitors as Sheriff Walter A. Feiger showed the facility to the public. In Memphis Missouri, over 12 000 rat tails were turned in to the county agent as part of a countrywide rat eradication drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Walter A. Feiger
Fort Wayne
Ind
Allen County
Sans Souci daredevil had prior carnival stunt history
Jimmy Lynch of Sans Souci Michigan who recently tripped over a dog and dislocated his shoulder had turned over automobiles at high speed as a carnival daredevil for years without injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy Lynch
Sans Souci, Mich
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Wotne
Ashville
N. C
Lawrence Addington
Gus Carwine
Cynthia Jane Alexander
Earl Carwine
Elmer Peas
Dave Peer
Marjorie Nigh
James Smith
George Robbins
Ralph Wickliff
White River
University Heights
Millard Eck
Russell Eck
Frank and
John Earnest
Frank Holdbrook
Mrs
Will Woodruff
NBC Red
NBC Blue
Service
New Deal
Treasury
Rapidan
Supreme Court
Coca-Cola Bottling Co
Chattanooga
Tenn
John Milliken
6Th Cavalry
U. S. Army
O McCall’s Maga
Pathfinder
Mirror
Sports Afield
True Experience
Christian Heral
Woman’s World
Home Arts
Mos. Nee
SELE
Woman's World Hoasehold Pathfinder
Poultry Tribune
American Fruit
G. Capper
Farmer
Nat’s Livestock
Farm Journal and
Farmer’s Wife
AAG
Famous Magazines
Home Arts Needlecraft
Country Home
Farmer and Farmer's Wife
American Fruit Grower
American Poultry Journal
Farming T. Breeder’s Gazette
Rhode Island Red Journal
Mother’s Home
National Livestock Producer
Capper
Farmer Eee
Elite Og
R.F.D
Foster
Plug Aiea
Pittsburgh
Rex E. Sexson
Ray Botsford
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