Old Signs Bring Tidy Profit By Libby O'Brien
Libby O'Brien buys 10 000 used street corner signs from New York City for 478 dollars and sells hundreds at 15 to 20 dollars each. She markets across neighborhoods, notes popular squares, and runs a one woman PR firm while caring for ailing husband.
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W York
UPI
Libby O’brien
New York
Bronx
Libby
Raymond Gabbianelli
New Haven
Old Greenwich
Conn
Lady Bird Johnson
Department of Traffic
Gabbianelli
Grand Central Station
Fifth Avenue
42Nd Street
United Nations Plaza
Polly readers share clever home hacks and a silver anniversary notice
Dear Polly column offers tips from readers such as using a comb to scrub glove stains and a frying basket to drain pasta plus a water stain removal method and a magnetic car dash reminder. A playful homemade hat art is noted, followed by a Cedar Rapids notice of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Meyer’s silver wedding anniversary open house at Lafayette EUB church.
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Polly
Carol
Alburnett
Lafayette Eub
Bernard Meyer
Women Shying From Professions, Says UNC Greensboro Scholar
Dr Lyda Gordon Shivers of UNC Greensboro reports low female participation in law schools and doctorates from 1920 to 1959 while noting rising employment among married women. Her figures show law school women under 3 percent and doctorates just over 10 percent in the late 1950s.
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Greensboro
N.C
Lyda Gordon Shivers
University of North Carolina At Greensboro
Alumni News
Shivers
Woman's Club Weekly Schedule and Talks
The schedule lists meetings for the Woman's Club including Chorus on Monday at 10, Board of Trustees at noon, Board of Directors at 12 30, and General Club at 12 45 featuring a talk on the mentally retarded by Ed Hanlon. Additional events include Artis at 7 30 with Operation Feet First and crafts on Tuesday at 9 30 with a sack lunch to be taken. philanthropic day Thursday at noon with Guest Day and a covered dish luncheon. Hospital sewing at 10 with hostesses The Mines Ralph Veley Milo Whipple and George Lodge.
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Ed Hanlon
Center For
Artis Department
James Young
Art and Craft
The
Ralph Veley
Milo Whipple
George Lodge
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Lexington
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ERE
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Newspaper Enterprise Assn
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Judy
T. K
Marita
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Nabisco
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California
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Washington
Crica
U.S. No
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West Jamed
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Woman's Club
Board of Trustees
Board of Directors
Charlotte
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True Art Carpet Sales, Inc
16Th Avenue
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