Rural Free Delivery marks 50th anniversary and growth
A half century after its 1896 start by four men and a boy on a bicycle the rural free delivery system has become a $100 million enterprise. It expanded from 82 routes in 29 states to 32,161 routes serving nearly eight million households with a vast network of roads and vehicles.
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Navy
Post Office Department
Jefferson County
W. Va
West Virginia
R.F.D
Rain Or Shine
Nation
World
United States
Cleveland
Old Revolutionary Mine Discovered in New Jersey
Two arsenal guards spotted an old iron mine in the Picatinny arsenal area while posting no gunning signs. Abandoned workings are found in Morris Warren Sussex and Passaic counties. Maps show Chester Iron company as an early owner. the site may be Copperas or Green Pond mine used for cannonball ore for Washington's Continental army.
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Dover
N. J
Picatinny Arsenal
Arsenal
New Jersey
Morris
Warren
Sussex
Passaic
Arsenal Engineering Division
Chester Iron Company
Copperas
Green Pond
Washington
Continental Army
Patterson Celebrates 82nd Birthday By Bicycle Ride
Miss Martha M Patterson marks her 82nd birthday with a bicycle ride in Hastings Nebraska. She avoids downtown riding due to traffic but still cycles for pleasure and small errands.
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Hastings
Neb
Martha M Patterson
12000 G L Abandon War Brides
New York report finds at least 12000 wartime marriages between American soldiers and foreign women have broken up. R G Mastrude, migration service official, says many brides were abandoned or never heard from after spouses returned home. He cites false addresses and bigamy as common issues and notes international divorce treaties complicate notice.
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New York
R. G. Mastrade
International Migration Service
United States
Europe
Mastrude
G.I
America
Vermont Village Becomes Peace Icon Worldwide
Pownal Center Vermont, a tiny farming community of 150, is spotlighted as a symbol of world peace. The UN Bulletin features its quiet parish life, absence of vice, wartime service by 12 residents, and a hope the atomic bomb threat spurs global peace rather than destruction.
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Vermont
Pownal Center
Ownal Center
United Tates
Ace Cater
United Re
E U.N
Arthur H. Bourke
Hoosie Valley
Virginia
Scientists To Note A Bomb Anniversary
The Atomic Age began December 2, 1942 when a nuclear reactor operated at University of Chicago under the Manhattan Project. Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves says the date marks a milestone in science and a Chicago anniversary meeting will be held by Argonne laboratory with 25 participating universities.
Police Join Collection Craze Seek Hub Cap Collector
In Baltimore Maryland police may become hub cap collectors after learning of a man who amassed eight hub caps in one night. Officers plan to question the alleged collector as part of the citywide fad.
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Baltimore
Christmas Club Fund Reaches Peak Figure
New York report shows Christmas club depositors will receive a record total of 124,557,464 from mutual savings banks this year. The sum covers 1,761,377 accounts and is 13 million dollars higher than 1945. Average distribution per account is 70.72 dollars.
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New York
Mutual Savings Banks
National Association of Mutual Savings Banks
Airports and aviation culture spread across towns
Former combat fliers form a Philadelphia area pilots club to share aviation advances and participate in hangar flying air carnivals and barnstorming tours. Glenwood Iowa armory bears air traffic distances while Montrose Colorado builds a new eight-plane hangar from salvaged barracks. Sundance Wyoming installs a first regional air marker and Nevada Missouri opens a new airport hangar with an air circus. Clayton Myron and Pearl Westerman wed in a plane above Lake Washington. Recreation trends project airports as rural town centers with open plan designs and diverse revenue sources amid growing airmail field offices.
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Philadelphia
Glenwood
Iowa
Council Bluffs
Omaha
Montrose
Colo
Clarinda
Ray Schenck
Civil Aeronautics Commission
Sundance
Wyo
Wyoming
Nevada
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Clayton Myron
Pearl Westerman
Seattle
Lake Washington
Boeing
America
Labor's Place in Postwar Politics and Public Mood
Washington columnist argues labor acts as an American citizen first, notes CIO-PAC influence shaped voting, and warns against minority rule. He reflects on Congress's mandate to restrain labor power, frontier political habits, and fears of extremist pressures amid postwar upheaval. He recalls a 1945 Frankfurt dispatch on France admitting German prisoners as citizens and its implications for wartime loyalties.
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Congress
Cio-Pac
PAC
CIO
Guffy
Mead
Murdock
Senate
Labor
Atlantic City
Republic
Whitch
America
Hitler
Stalin
Frankfurt
Germany
David Wills
Washington
France
Marianne
Barbs by Bankhage reflects on values and politics
The columnist riffs on a man who boasted about skipping college as GI students advance, notes the changing era where college is common, observes mink coat seekers as insincere, questions Democratic calls for resignation after a Republican win, and ends with a desert water metaphor.
Pot Holder Pattern Features Sunflower and Carnation Motifs
The guide presents Rug cotton or candlewick in flower colors for two pot holders. Pattern 7258 includes improved visuals with charts and photos and complete directions to simplify needlework.
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WNU
John O'Donnell
Michigan
Antonito
Glenshaw
New York Post Office
Herodotus
G.L
WIU
Union Church
Christmas Club
Airmail Post Offices
Fairchild Aircraft Division
Hagerstown
Washington Digest
Baukhage
WNU Service
Eye Street
N.W
Washington, D. C
U. S
Hartley Shawcross
Fritz
Bankhage
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
W. Randolph St
Chicago
PICA
Thule Suear
Toni
Joseph Janart
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