Clammer Charley Stine Finds 50 Grain Pearl in Cedar
Charley Stine a lifelong Cedar Rapids clammer aged 66, finds a lustrous 50 grain pearl in a four inch blue point clam by the Penick and Ford plant. He has fished, trapped, and clammed along the Cedar for decades, selling shells to a Washington Iowa factory and sharing the prize with family.
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Charley Stine
Ninth Avenue SE
Cedar River
Charley
Penick and Ford
Cedar Rapids
Lisbon
Fourth Avenue
Fourteenth
First Avenue
Jeff
Washington
Penick and
Ford
It Happened Last Week Highlights in U.S. Policy and World Tensions
Precedents broken as the United States planned a peacetime draft with a nationwide registration for 400,000 youths aged 18 to 25 while 18 to 65 men would register. Debate raged over conscription and potential moves toward totalitarianism. Abroad, Havana hosted a conference on hemispheric solidarity amid Argentina discord, while Japan warned of retaliation over scrap embargoes and the U.S. looked to synthetic rubber. In Washington, Wallace resumed as agriculture chief amid Willkie campaign moves and a cabinet reshuffle touched off by Defense concerns.
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United States
Senate
America
Havana
U. S
Argentina
Canada
Uncle Sam
South
Central
South America
U.S
Fumimaro Konoye
Japan
China
Dutch East Indies
Shanghai
U .S
Tokio
Wallace
Roosevelt
Wendell Willkie
Louis Douglas
the Treasury
John W. Hanes
James Reed
al Smith
John J. Raskob
Colorado
Willkie
GOP
Elwood
Ind
Louis Johnson
Robert P. Patterson
Friends of New
Britain braces for new Nazi drive while morale holds
Britain endures raids and tightens belts as Churchill and Halifax reject Hitler's peace offer. Germany claims heavy shipping and air losses. Lancastria death toll noted. Romanian and Balkan options discussed. Roosevelt seeks export loans. Elmer Maytag dies.
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England
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Churchill
Viscount Halifax
Britain
Germany
Admiralty
Northern Ireland
Eire
Europe
Turkey
Balkans
Romania
Waifa
Palestine
France
Edouard Daladier
Legion Membership Reaches All Time High in 1940
The American Legion reports a 1940 enrollment of 1,054,267 World War II veterans, the largest membership in its 2 year history. The article also notes that the word Minnesota derives from two Sioux words meaning sky colored water.
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Indianapolis
The
American Legion
Minnesota
U S Considers Renewing Soviet Trade Pact
Acting Secretary Sumner Welles met with Soviet Ambassador Constantine Dumansky to discuss renewing the U S Soviet trade treaty before its August 6 expiry. Officials expect a one year extension, continuing the 1938 practice and preserving economic ties despite tensions with Nazi Germany.
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Washington
INS
Sumner Welles
Constantine Dumansky
United States
Russia
Welles
Hull
Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
U. S. Fonds
Black And White Again Linn County Auto Plates 1941
Madeline Brutsman and Grace Boyd of Marion in the county treasurer's auto registration office preview Linn County 1941 license plates made at Anamosa reformatory. New plates use black lettering on white. 1940 orange and blue plates are retired. Stock lists 23750 passenger and 3300 truck licenses. sale begins Dec 1 with Nov 1 to Dec 1 for special numbers.
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Gazette
Linn County
Madeline Brutsman
Grace Boyd
Marion
Anamosa Reformatory
Soviet tanker charter faces sharp denial over policy impact
A spokesman rejected any foreign policy implication in the Maritime Commission approval of the Soviet charter for the American tanker Standard of W. S Miller to Vladivostok. He warned that danger of involvement in such facilities drives sanctions, noting no warfare threat in northern waters.
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Maritime Commission
W. S Miller
Vlad'vostok
Siberia
Stherian
34 Nabbed As They Sell Literature Of Jehovahs Witnesses
DETROIT UP Thirty four persons were arrested Saturday as they distributed and sold literature of Jehovah s Witnesses, a religious sect in Detroit. Twenty posted bonds of five dollars to be released. the rest, seven men and seven women, were held for lack of bond. Charges were soliciting without a license. An order had been issued to arrest street literature sellers without a license as the convention progressed. Age range was 19 to 28.
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Detroit
Jehovah S Witnesses Realigtous
George T. Murphy
Detroit Street
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Bob Estabrook
Towa
Trixie
Stine
Erbrook
British Air
Iowa
Mercury
Lake Geneva
Wis
Elmer Maytag
Newton
Legion
Ratlue
Sanior
Penney
Coats
Myers
Children’s Smart New
Penney’s
Utware
Aera
Kalumal
John & Turner & Son
Turner
Veryone
John B. Turner & Son
Second Avenue
Jehovah's Witnesses
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