Buccaneer Days Revival Set for Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi will host Buccaneer Days June 12 to 14 with pirate Jean Lafitte as the central figure. The event features top entertainers, battle-pageants, Miss Texas finals, sailboat races, aquatic shows, parades, fireworks, and a lavish Court of the Queen of the Seas, reviving a wartime hiatus.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Jean Lafitte
South Texas
Atlantic City
Lone Star State
Galveston Corpus Christi
Centenarian Peter Duffy Challenges Gardeners in Iowa
In Oelwein Iowa 106 year old Peter Duffy boasts he can pull weeds faster and out-hoe any gardener. Deafness is his only handicap and he remains active with 24 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren. He credits travel and an early life on farms and mining for his vigor.
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Oelwein
Iowa
Peter Duffy
Duffy
Tall Corn
Grandfather Tops Law School Class
In New York Harry L Donnelly, a 51 year old grandfather and former traveling salesman, graduated summa cum laude as valedictorian of St John’s University law school Brooklyn class. He had begun study for fun after 25 years on the road and led the class in scholarship despite finishing high school in 1912.
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New York
Harry L. Donnelly
St. John’s University
Brooklyn
Donnelly
Aviation Activity and Developments Across Midwestern Airports
Reports show Dubuque Iowa starting lighting seeding and fencing on a new 2.5 million dollar municipal airport. Arlington Heights Illinois new civilian training base renamed Arlington Flying Center. Colorado Flying Farmers held meeting at Fort Collins and a St. Louis aviation clinic drew mayors managers and dealers. Lenox Iowa airport upgrades to meet government training requirements. Indiana business group embarks on a 12 country globe tour sponsored by the Indianapolis Chamber. A Toledo New York flight reports birth of four spaniel puppies en route. Wisconsin Central Airlines prepares feeder operations serving 43 communities across four states with DC-3 transports.
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Dubuque
Iowa
Naval
Arlington Heights
Ill
Illinois Aircraft Services and Sales Company
Arlington Flying Center
Colorado Flying Farmers and Ranchers
Christmanfield
Colorado A. and
M. College
Fort Collins
Flying Farmers Organization
St. Louis
Parks College of Aeronautical Technology
St. Louis Arena
Lenox
al Wurster
John Kendall
Indiana
New York
Indianapolis
Ellis Parker Butler
Express
Air Express
Toledo
Mt. Desert Island, Mo
LaGuardia Field
Bangor
Wisconsin Central Airlines
Illinois
Minnesota
Upper Michigan
Wisconsin
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Notable facts on veterans and early aviation history
The text notes that about one quarter of aircraft industry workers are veterans from the army, navy, marines, or merchant marine. It mentions aviation as a basic subject in Russian primary education, early use of rockets in India by 1792, and aircraft in active military operations in 1915 during Pershing’s punitive expedition to Mexico. It also states the K-30 camera weighs 575 pounds.
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Army
Navy
India
Pershing
Mexico
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Target
New York City
Brooklyn Bridge
Strategic Air Command
George C. Kenney
Metropolitan
Glenny
Grenwood
Glenny) Brann II
Glenwood Brann
Malden
Mass
Joe Dobson
Ted Williams
Boston Red Sox
Bass
Monsieur
Paris
Schnitzler
Genesee, Wis
Ervin Schnitsler
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Edward Beamon
Washington, D. C
Alcide de Gasperi
Italy
Enrico de Nicola
Victor Kravchenko
David Ben Gurian
Palestine
United Nations
Miss Buccaneer
Grandfather
Vijim Kors
Muldrow Glacier
Mt. McKinley
McKinley
Ely
Ores Falls
Butte, Mont
Ross Lumber Carrier
Hercules Motor
Good Rubber
D Lumber & Fuel CO
Main St
Chehalis, Wash
Fruehauf
Rexburg Oil CO
Rexburg
Idaho
G.M.C
Pacific Northwest
Wittenberg Motor CO
Seattle
Wash
Business & Invest, Oppor
Hiway
Belgrade
Montana
Billings
Mont
Paultey
Inc
Sunbeam Grocery
Res. Dist
Snc
F. R. Angell
E. Hawthorne
Portland
Oregon
Lewistown
Bath
Old
City
Richard D. Field
Mississippi Ave
O. A. Moone Equipment CO
Lincoln
Nebraska
Lake Town
Suerman Coeur d'Alene
Cricket Boot CO
el Paso
Texas
Ashmead Stock Ranch
Chester
H. P. Freon
Shell & Tube
Tacoma Way
Tacoma
Washington
Farm Machinery & Equip
Minneapolis-Moline
Grodon Loomis
Denver
Wyoming
Ozarks
Barnsley
Ozone
Ark
Josephine Falconer
Enterprise
Columbia River
Battleson Land CO
Canby, Ore
Mt. Adams
Sleeping Beauty
P.O
Co. H. Estes & CO
Ingomar
Enumclaw
Auburn Highway
W. W. McPherson
Wianak
H. H. Schmitt
Prineville
Hart & Dilatush
Stevens Spokane
State of
Kelly-Springfield Tire CO
N.W
12Th Ave
Ore
Chevrolet
General Motors
Tommy Thompson
Douglas McKay Chevrolet Company
Salem
Great Falls
Vicinity
Chanic’'S Tool & Forge Co
Ojal California
Elliott Fisher
Bend
Shevlin-Hixon Company
Gandy, ‘Divarisator
Rite G. and
J. Box
Berkeley 1
Calif
Directelle Ing
Togersen Hosiery Co
Wilmette, I
Dillon
Carbon County
Dryhead
Prite
Fischer's
Billings. Montana
Frank Eggers
Yacobt
Buster Ray Clinic
Barber Greene
Buda
Cardwell
Ehtee Bros
Spokane
St Marles
Curley Sales Center
St. Maries
Pacific Coast
Chicago Novelty Sales CO
Denn
Noseburg
Dusek’s
Malin
Rapid City
Beauty Products Coq
W. Alder
Philipsburg
Bridgeport Equipment CO
Bridgeport 2
Howe
Acme Scale & Service CO
Glenwood Ave
Minneapolis, Minn
John Bambach Hosiery CO
Ridge Ave
Philadelphia
Bernard Hatcher
Fairfield
Greenwood Ave
Northwest
LAMB
FOX Studios
J. M. Wylie Piano Company
Broadway
Fargo, N. D
RESU
Gorder Company
Aberdeen
Brown’s Real Estate Apt
Omice
Walsh
Art Swanson
Froid
Border Equipment Company
P. O
Great Falls, Mont
Litchfield Woolen CO
Sibley Ave
Litchfield, Minn
Tobacco By-Products & Chemical Corporation
Louisville 2
Kentucky
Lydia Pinkham
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