Concord Campaign Report on Dimes Fund Total 3793 09
The Concord Campaign for the March of Dimes reports a total of 3793 09 raised with contributions from residents, mothers groups, and local businesses. The fund, managed by chairman Arthur F. March Jr and treasurer Frederick H Dominick, thanks donors and notes gifts from individuals and coin collectors as efforts to combat polio with the new vaccine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Kennedy’s
Snow’s
Colonial Inn
Arthur F. March, Jr
Frederick H.dominick
Concord
Unclear Wedding Details From Rutland Street Ceremony
Fragmentary OCR reads like a wedding notice with names such as Miss June Hoban and Mrs Ann Ward connected to Rutland Street. The text mentions a ceremony at St Michael's on a Sunday afternoon with bridesmaids and decorations described as under a white something. The remainder is garbled about Puerto and stars.
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June Hoban
Rutland Street
Marilyn Martreet
Annward
Charlot
Drich
John D. Perd
Feirst
St. Michael's
Banana Capital of the World Emerges in Fulton Kentucky
Fulton Kentucky gains fame as The Banana Capital of the World due to a single brick ice plant by the railroad. Trainloads of bananas pass through en route from New Orleans, stopping here to be iced. Industry figures say more bananas pass through this small town than any other city in the world.
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Fulton
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi River
Mississippi
New Orleans
GI Bill Built Reservoir of Trained Veterans Across Fields
A Veterans Administration study of 7.8 million World War II GI Bill trainees shows broad skill development from mechanics to medicine and ministry. Among crafts, 711,000 studied mechanics with aviation and automobile fields popular. 450,000 entered engineering, 238,000 teachers, and 243,000 accountants.
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Veterans Administration
Oi High
Adio
Fate
Noe Librari Adents
Barbers and Peenty ~ Piers
Snowbreaks and reflections mark routine in town
A reflective essay notes how boredom in a close community gives way to chatter during sudden changes like a snowfall. It contrasts everyday friendliness with the long history of Rhodes statue design and shifting wartime education policies, mentioning the GI Bill and veteran training trends into 1956.
Baffin Sea Named Not A Bay Despite Size Mark
William Baffin’s Arctic water is a sea, not a bay, much larger than the Mediterranean and six times the size of the Black Sea. Early explorers misnamed it from an incomplete sense of scale. The body lies between Greenland and Baffinland across a long strait.
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Arctic
William Baffin
Mediterranean Sea
Black Sea
Baffin Sea
Baffinland
Gana
Micky Mouse bans in East Berlin schools raid
Soviet era police raided East Berlin schools seeking Western books owned by students. Authorities confiscated items about Mickey Mouse as part of a crackdown, signaling tight cultural control by the regime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Neue Zeitung
U. Ss. High Commission
Red
Hike Natural Gas Rates Opposed in New England
Governors discuss a plan to vigorously oppose rate increases by the Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. A committee for New England hearings before the Federal Power Commission may be formed. Gov. John D. Lodge of Connecticut is reappointed chair.
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New England
State House
John D. Lodge
Connecticut
Lodge
Federal Power Commission
Washington
EPC
Tennessee Gas Transmission Company
Bel Air
Chevrolet
Council Acts On Appointments In Boston Meeting
The Executive Council approved four nominations and Gov Herter proposed new appointees. Nominees include Chester Skibinski for Associate Commissioner of Labor and Industries and Grace Buxton as a University of Massachusetts trustee.
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Boston
Herter
Peince
Tovsfield
Board of Registration of Architects
Executive Council
Jueroy Houck
Oncord
Chester T. Skibinski
Chicopee
Grace A. Buxton
Worcester
University of Massachusetts
Normen Wellen
Marlboro
Westboro State Hospital
James R Doheney
Great Barrington
Southern Berkshire District Court
No Draft-Call Reduction Until 1956 Defense Aid Says
Defense officials state draft calls will average about 18 000 for the next six months and will not fall before fiscal year 1956. Assistant Secretary John A. Hannah notes changes in end strength do not alone determine draft needs. The plan preserves 24 months service and current draft age limits despite a smaller Army.
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Defense Aid
Washington
John A. Hannah
Hannah
NEA
Army
Air Force
Navy
Department of Defense
Kores
Congress
Ymin
Rail engineer Dan Cony plays Santa near Richmond tracks
Portland Maine December 7 1941 A railroad engineer Dan Cony age 69 acts as Santa every Sunday delivering candy to children who wait near the tracks for the Pine Tree Limited to whistle through.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
U.P
Dan Cony
Cony
Richmond
First Texas Railroad Buffalo Bayou Line Opens in 1853
The Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railroad became Texas’s first and the second west of the Mississippi River, starting service in 1853 with about 20 miles of track.
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Texas
Mississippi River
Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and
Colorado Railroad
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Concord Campaign
Rick H. Bubier
Party N Honor
Bn Ives and Friends
Puerto
England
Banana Capital
Kelex Lumber & Fuel, Inc
Cpell
Motst
British. Atom
Capenhurst
Britain
Atomic Energy
Rhodes
Syria
United States
Senteen
Dale Cepalaik
Take Havre
Ure
John Harvey Furbay
Lawton Appliance Co
Walden Street
Mickey Mouse
U. S
Council
U.S
Barber Chevrolet, Inc
Acton Street
Maynard, Mass
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