Oscar the Peacock Charms and Challenges Local Shop
Oscar the peacock, owned by Frank Cad, has paraded through town displaying vanity and bravado. He stages in front of shop mirrors, roosts on door transoms, and wanders streets before settling near Second Street. His mate Oscarina remains loyal, and the pair enjoy rabbit pellets and lettuce while their eggs proved infertile.
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Oscar
Frank Cad Glass and Paint Company
Second Street
Cad
Texas
Oscarina
Frank
Cech
Seeorn
Tucker and Car Corporation Sued For $1,430,000
Preston Tucker and the Tucker Corporation face two $1.43 million suits by Theodore Granik in Chicago. One suit claims breach of contract for $36,000 yearly pay, stock and promised vehicles. The other alleges slander and malice from statements published to harm Granik and the Dodge Chicago plant financing.
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Chicago
Preston Tucker
Tucker Corporation
Theodore Granik
New York
Washington
Granik
New Jersey
Tucker
el Ganit
War Assets Administration
Dodge
National None Agency
Dodge Chicago
Lustron Corporation
Chicago Railroad Unions Seek Unified Wage and Rules Program
Chicago rail union leaders urge national heads of 21 unions to launch an all-out unified wage and rules program. A 55-member meeting approved joint demands for joint negotiations strike votes and settlements with added wage differentials, double time for day work, expanded vacations and sick leave, portal-to-portal pay, standardized rules, and enhanced veteran benefits.
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Chicago
Chicago Railroad Union
Edwin F. Asheil
City Council Renews Street and Permit for Nick Zervakis
The city council renewed the street designation and the class B permit belonging to Nick Zervakis of 118 First Street NE during Thursday proceedings.
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Nick Zervakis
First Street
City moves funds and rezones Fruehaus Tracom site
The city council approved transferring 6301.07 dollars from the poor works fund to the sewer system. They also concurred with the city planning commission on re zoning a parcel at Fruehaus Tracom from C commercial to D light industrial.
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Poor Works Fund
City Plan Commission
Fruehaus Tracom
Rochester Hotel Fire Forces 50 Guests From Wagoner Hotel
Fire of unknown origin damages third floor rooms at the Wagoner hotel in Rochester Minnesota. About 50 guests are evacuated and one woman, Mrs. John J. Pargen of Shawnee Oklahoma, is lightly injured after being awakened by smoke and rescued by her husband and a son who used a ladder from a window.
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Rochester
Minn
Wagoner Hotel
John J. Pargen
Shawnee
Okla
Verne R. Van Dura named assistant building official
City council on Thursday approved Van Dura for assistant building official with an effective start in January. Three plats were approved on recommendation of the plan commission, including areas around Twenty-ninth Street NE, between Center Point and Oakland roads NE, and at Johnson Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street NW. Zoning changes also approved for A Avenue area from Twelfth to B and a class C beer permit for Lamont Raymond at 1407 Fifteenth Street.
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Verne R. van Dura
City Plan Commission
Twenty-ninth Street
Center Point
Oakland Roads
Johnson Avenue
Twenty-seventh Street
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Eleventh Avenue
Frank Cadh
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Sisameres
Oscar the Peacock
Cedar Rapids
Secon Avenue
Tucker and Car Corporation
Chicago Railroad
Rochester, Minn
Sunnyland
Saturn
Craemer's
Jr. Bazaar
Donnybrook Debonair
City Hall News
Lamont Raymond
Commonwealth
The
A&p Food
Craemer
Youth Guild
Laura Lee
Psloan
SLOAN
Sian
Sloan’s
Cuticura
Packag
Uttle
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