Olds Built Cars to Ditch the Smell of Horses
Lansing marks Ransom E. Olds 80th birthday as a pioneer whose low priced auto started with a crude 1886 steam carriage built to avoid horse odor. His work led to the curved dash era, Oldsmobile, and later REO, with a career spanning Real Estate ventures and GM ties.
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Ransom Olds
David J. Wilkie Lansing
Mich
Ransom E. Olds
Olds
Sve
Oldsmobile
San Francisco
New York
Olds First Engine Company
Olds Motor Vehicle Co
Olds Motor Works
Reo Motor Car Co
Thieves Steal Fortune From New Rochelle Home
Police disclosed the theft of 1 831 000 dollars in stocks war bonds and jewelry from the New Rochelle home of a 45 year old widow Mrs Ida F Edwards, head of Edwards Co of Norwalk Conn, noting a broken window and closet entry. The loss includes 1 808 000 in stocks and the rest in war bonds and jewelry. The widow is linked to the electrical manufacturing firm founded by her late husband Robert Edwards who died in 1935. The article also includes unrelated quotes from Olds on car industry and tax reforms.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Ida F. Edwards
Navy Fleet Post Office Hopes to Find Sailors' Relatives
In San Francisco a Navy fleet post office supervisor details the massive task of matching forwarded mailing addresses with sailors abroad. He notes millions of letters weekly, mishandled parcels, and the common issue of vague addresses. A Marine Waves unit screens camera shipments while a “Dear Mom” department consoles anxious families.
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San Francisco
James C. Clark
United States Navy
Fleet Post Office
Clark
Navy Post Office
Pacific
Feet
Navy
Marine
Coast Guard
Aleutians
Australia
U. S. Fleet
Schmidt
Johnny
Lester Chastain
Dallas
Tex
V-mall
Sarah Burmeister
Pleasanton
New WMC Control In Effect For West Virginia
West Virginia will implement new manpower controls on July 1 to require male job seekers be hired via referrals from the United States Employment Service or approved arrangements. WMC plans to intensify USES recruiting to move workers from surplus to areas needing labor, though employment ceilings and regional priority committees will not take effect here. Lumber and mining industries face shortages, and the plan aims to ease pressure in those sectors.
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United States Employment Service
West Virginia
Andrew Edmiston
Washington
WMC
Paul V. McNutt
McNutt
Edmiston
Plan to reorganize labor supply and recruitments in Charleston
The article notes a push to control the present labor supply through intensified recruitment. Managers of the state's 27 United States Employment Service offices will be summoned to Charleston later this month to receive instructions on administering the new plan.
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United States Employment Service
Charleston
Fires Explosions Kill Eight in State in May
Fire Marshal reports May deaths totaling eight, keeping May toll equal to April. Five month total reaches 33 in 1944, down dramatically from 97 in same period last year, with West Virginia experiencing fires and hazards across the state. An unrelated ad touts Udga tablets for stomach upset with a money back guarantee.
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West
Cohen Drug Company
Drug-Atorer
Ady
Schultze Studio Pupils Schedule Recital at St Johns
A group of piano pupils from the Henri Schultze studio will perform in a recital at 4 p m today in St Johns parish house Norma Thaxton daughter of Mr and Mrs Thaxton will receive a diploma in the ceremony
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Henry Ford
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Lansing Gores
Oids
Ranse
Lansing
Duryea
Ford
Bemberg
Packard Mary Allen
Sheers
Haynes
Capt. Clark
J. Jones
J. Smith
U. S. Navy
Earl Schmidt
New Orleans
Smiths
John J. Smiths
London
W. Va
Third Ave
Montgomery
Dorset
Lecessary
American Viscose Corporation
U. S
Ryeq
Gc Ag Ripon
NITRO
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