Grocers Call for Reduction in Expensive Foods
Chicago AP report: grocers urge housewives to stop buying costly foods to curb rising prices. NA R Grocers secretary says Americans crave luxury foods and should cut steaks and roasts. Unions press meat price relief while milk and overall food prices hit record highs.
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Chicago
National Association of Retail Grocers
R. M. Kiefer
Association
AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Worker’s Union
Cedar Rapids project bid notice in Iowa county
Bid notice for a county road project in Cedar County Iowa to be opened at the county auditor's office in Lipa at 10 o'clock am on July 37 1948. The work includes excavation and culvert installation and involves about 2 087 cubic yards of earthwork plus 660 feet of road work and associated improvements. Proposals will be publicly opened and read. bids must be on standard forms and accompanied by a certified check or bid bond. The county reserves the right to reject any or all proposals and to waive informalities.
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Lipa Oun
Cedarids
Iowa
Brad
Waroject
Miles Leength
Bertram Township
Boe
Stile Sport Co
Seale
Wabfars
Certifiz Public
Hibhner
Seconfars
Eleeweg i
Boston Restaurateur Proposes Metered Café Tables
Fred Paris of Boston plans to install compact parking meters at cafe tables to curb lingering over dessert. The meter starts when dessert is served, runs 20 minutes free, then charges a quarter for each additional 20 minutes, with all proceeds going to waitresses.
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Boston
Fred Paris
Paris
Miss Overell Inherits Estate After Trial
Beulah Louise Overell aged 19 was officially informed she inherits an estate worth 309977 dollars following acquittal in the yacht blast deaths of her parents. Co-defendant George Bud Gollum also linked to the sensational trial as the lengthy murder case drew to a close. The heiress and Gollum attend UCLA summer school and have kept apart since the trial.
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Los Angeles
INS
Beulah Louise Overell
Miss Overell
George “Bud” ‘Gollum
Walter E. Overell
Gollum
Ucla
Incorporated Poultry Company Outlines Powers and Officers
The document details the corporation formed June 2 to conduct broad business activities including buying selling leasing and constructing real and personal property. It lists authorized stock divisions issues common stock of $100 each and non assessable stock. It names officers Herman Levin president Wm Bass secretary and attorney and sets annual meetings and transfer of offices to Rapids Town.
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Fate of
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Sakotiere
Ice
E Corporation
Iltectors
Herman Arevdent
Wweis
W. Basa
A. Levin
Herman Levin
Freident
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Rapids Town
End of Pre Publication Censorship for Japanese Papers
Allied headquarters in Tokyo announced the end of pre publication censorship for 16 Tokyo and Osaka daily newspapers and three news agencies with an estimated combined circulation of 20 million. Col. R S Bratton said censorship would end within 10 days. Japanese editors hailed the move as a democratic step in occupied Japan.
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Tokyo
Allied Headquarters
Osaka
R. S.bratton
Civil Intelligence Section
Japan
Soloist Rose Marie Jun to Headline Band Concert
Soprano Rose Marie Jun, a Coe College junior and WMT radio performer, will be the soloist with G. L. Lyman guest conducting the Coe College Band concert on the Plaza at 7 30 p m Sunday. Lyman, known Cedar Rapids composer, wrote Coe College Band march and directs Cedar Rapids area groups. Jun recently won Hawkeye Music Festival top honors for the second year.
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Rose Marie Jun
G. L. Lyman
Cedar Rapids
American Federation of Musicians
Miss Jun
Coe College
WMT
First Presbyterian Church
McKinley High School
Arditi
Iris
Wolfe
Porgy and Bess
H. Jun
G Avenue
Lyman
Coe
Stanley Vesely
Coe Military Band
Marion
Atkins
Blairstown
British curb on hanging passed in House of Commons
The House of Commons approved a law limiting capital punishment by 307 to 209, amid Churchill opposition who warned it could allow a lethal stabbing in a crime spree to go unpunished. The measure creates two murder degrees with a five year trial, one punishable by death and the other by life imprisonment. Hanging reserved for murder with excess malice during robbery burglary or rape.
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London
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
Lfe
Legal notice on murders and punishments in historical code
The excerpt outlines penalties for murder including hangings for gang assaults of three or more and life imprisonment for all other murders, with authorities detailing acts of attempted resistance, escape, and poisoning as factors in punishment.
Miners Journal Says Labor Should Push Labor Repeal
The United Mine Workers Journal argues organized labor must seek repeal of the Taft Hartley Act rather than rely on the Democratic platform. It accuses President Truman of violating labor guarantees in 1944 and signals strong UMW opposition to Truman, while not endorsing Dewey.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Journal
Organized Labor
Truman
Lewis
Thomas E. Dewey
UMW
North Carolina Polio Case Total Reaches 608
North Carolina polio outbreak climbs to 608 cases for the year, with 24 new infections reported to raise the rate to 15.7 per 100000. The state faces rising cases near the border as two South Carolina counties record increases. Emergency hospitals are being prepared in Greensboro and at two wartime Army camps.
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North Carolina
Raleigh
N. C
State Board of Health
South Carolina
Lancaster
Sank
Charlotte
Greensboro
Pershing Reprimand Turned Thanks for AP War Dispatch
Norman Draper recalled Gen. John J. Pershing loudly rebuking him for a censorship matter during World War I and then privately thanking him. Pershing praised the correspondent and censor after reviewing the incident in a tense office meeting.
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Chicago
Associated Press
John J. Pershing
Dispatch
Norman Draper
Pershing
Draper
American Meat Institute
U. S
Fire losses for May total 161635.59 in city report
Fire Chief E P Kohout reports May losses of 161635.59 with fire damage to contents at 125723.83 and building damage at 35911.76. A May blaze at Smulekoffs furniture annex caused about 80000 in contents loss, with 3000 uninsured.
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E. P. Kohout
Smulekoff
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