These United States Girls, Here’s a Husband If You Can Milk 14 Cows
Arthur Birnstengel, a 44 year old Grantsburg farmer with a 610 acre operation, vowed in 1946 to marry only if the woman would help milk 14 cows and handle farm chores. He advertised, listing 11 criteria including age 30 to 42, good health, honesty, no smoking or drinking, and a willingness to care for his son, Arnie, and to assist with dairy duties. His congressman advised seeking a truthful, capable partner amid wide responses from across the country.
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Grantsburg
Wis
Arthur Birnstengel
Birnstengel
Alvin E. O’kenski
Arthur
New York
Chicago
Georgia
Alaska
Arnie
World Record Filling Station Robbed 26 Times
Belair Maryland reports the most burgarized service station in the world having been robbed 26 times since Pearl Harbor. William H. Holmes operates the Stepney Station near Aberdeen and will have Floyd Pitts run it after war’s end. About $3,500 in cash and goods have disappeared. Police have 14 arrests with 10 convictions and about $1,000 restored.
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Belair
Pearl Harbor
William H. Holmes
Stepney
Aberdeen
Harford Gazette
Holmes
Floyd Pitts
One Language Proposal Aims For Global School
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt proposes an internationally understood language to be taught in schools worldwide, arguing the language barrier is a severe obstacle to international peace. The idea stresses teaching a single universal language across nations.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Grandpa Bags Deer With Pocketknife
Detroit Lakes reports hunter John S. Pretts known as Grandpa topped local records by bagging two deer this season. After a chase on glare ice ended with the deer down, he used a pocketknife to kill them on the ice, assisted by a neighbor boy and a dog.
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Detroit Lakes
Minn
John S
Pretts
L. Benshoof
Grandpa Pretts
Helena's Main Street Gold Strike Delivers Small Boon
In Helena Montana, contractors digging on Main Street unearthed gold flakes from black sand. Mayor John J. Haytin and Henry Kasman witnessed the find with a dredgemaster estimating about $1.75 in gold per square yard. Crews returned to work sealing the street after the discovery.
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Helena
Mont
Henry Kasman
John J. Haytin
Kasman
Oil soaked birds perished in war deaths rise
The interior department reports thousands of auks murres puffins sea birds and ducks died during the war from oil on the sea. Oil fills feathers and ruins their waterproofing, causing mass casualties among waterfowl.
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Department of the Interior
Pocket Pooch joins vagabond poet on stray quests
Walter Ward of Philadelphia, known as the vagabond poet, collects stray animals and shelters them until owners are found. The dog Pee-Wee is among seven Ward keeps, often tucked in his overcoat pocket during travels. Ward once co owned a New Orleans boiler factory but now favors a traveling peddler life.
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Walter Ward
Philadelphia
Pee-Wee
Ward
New Orleans
Youths sought as cadet midshipmen for U S Merchant Marine
The U S merchant marine cadet corps offers appointments as cadet midshipmen with concurrent Naval Reserve status. Tests are conducted nationwide by the Civil Service Commission. next exam April 3 1946. Applications due March 1 1946 to the U S Merchant Marine Cadet Corps Washington DC.
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Washington
United States
Merchant Marine Cadet Corps
U.S. Naval Reserve
Merchant Marine
U. S. Civil Service Commission
U. S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps
War Shipping Administration
D. C
News of Fliers and Kansas Air Transport Plans
In Washington a fable about atomic power contrasts with a pilot's despair. A B-17 crew frets jammed bombs and fuel, while a tower operator misquotes a prayer. An omni directional radio range aids pilots, and Kansas outlines airport growth with 26 bonds totaling 926 500 and 88 airports by 1945 with 16 bases.
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Washington, D. C
CAA
Kansas
United States
Army
Navy
Topeka
Kansas Industrial Development Commission
Model plane builders keep WWI crates alive amid WWII
Jet propulsion and wartime advances fail to dim hobbyists' enthusiasm for constructing World War I era model aircraft. Enthusiasts insist on preserving the craft, sharing plans, and showcasing scale replicas despite modern aviation progress.
Social Security for Farmers Planned by Benedict
Murray R Benedict argues farmers should join the social security system. The plan covers self employed farm workers by a two percent tax on net income, with a stamp book option, yielding about eight dollars yearly and eventual retirement benefits plus survivor protection. It notes farm groups and political leaders support including agriculture in social security.
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Navy
National Planning Association
Agriculture Committee
NPA
Murray R. Benedict
University of California
Mr. Benedict
Benedict
Big
Social Security Board
Congress
Jake Duncan
Jake
Social Security
Post Office
Barbs. on demobilization and world affairs
The author jokes about rapid demobilization aligning with Nicaragua and Honduras as the only world city without rail links. He notes planes landing, imagines landings ships used as auto ferries carrying a hundred autos per trip, and quips about price controls and purse-control.
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Iceland
Kenneth Wickman
Pittsburgh
John Bull
Winston Churchill
Florida
The
U.S. Merchant Marine
Pass Christian
Miss
San Mateo
Calif
U. S. Merchant Marine Academy
Kings Point
Long Island
N. C
U. S
Aefiey Ma
Air Future of Kansas
Brazil
South America
Lewis Wolfe
Watson
Aywerderate
Baukhage
WNU Service
Eye Street
N.W
Bankhag
Nicaragua
Tugucigalpa
Honduras
Richard
Bellans
Ail Draggiste
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Ard
Xzit
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