Britain Changing Statistics Show Major Shifts After War
Britain's postwar statistics reveal rising divorce rates among Britons, a doubling of crimes by women and a 50 percent rise by men since 1935. The Central Statistical Office reports urban migration from rural England and Wales, with north to south movement and a drop in London's civil population. illegitimacy eased from wartime peaks, births showing fluctuations with 1945 births high before stabilizing in 1946. Mortality trends since 1870 show men dying more than women each year.
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Norman J. Badderst
London
Britain
United Kingdom
Thel
Central Statistical Office
England
Wales
Llegitmacy
Spain Forces Foreign Visitors to Exchange Pesetas
Madrid reports a new Spanish decree requiring foreign visitors to exchange a fixed peseta amount per day of stay. The rule, with exceptions for certain officials and relatives, sets daily peseta targets tied to stay length and demands receipts for peseta purchases at the official rate of 15.40 per dollar.
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Aldurn D. West
Madrid
Spain
Demographic Shifts Highlight Long Term Mortality Trends
The report notes 96.1 percent of total deaths were infants under one year, with 1K deaths at 79 percent and deaths of men over 73 rising sharply. Women show a similar trend as contrasts in the United Kingdom reveal 12,100 backings in one year versus 375,900 in 1840. Spinster numbers stand at 20,000 against 367,000, and divorce petitions rise, with England and Wales tallying 41,704 in 1946 compared to 9,870 in 1938.
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Mar
United Kingdom
Enelend
Wales
New Auburn Home Demonstration Agent Joins Staff
Clarence Stleitman reports the arrival of Mousto Phillips a new county home demonstration agent from Valley Head Alabama. She earned a BS in home management at Auburn and will work with 4H girls and farm women on dressmaking cooking shortcuts personality development and home safety. Phillips notes she enjoys with people and life and is not a sports fan.
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Clarence Stleitman
Auburn
Plainsmen
Bara Dell Phillips
Philips
Mousto
API
Valley Head
Als
Houston County
Valley Head High School
Miss Phillips
Snead Junior College
Boaz
Attala
Snead
APT
Miss Philips
Yorner
Mise Phillips
Baptist Church
Sara Dell Philips
New Houston County
Phillips
Ala
Tennessee
South Alabama
Emilee Walton
Eagle Start Photo
Fake Coil Opens Saloon To Thieves
Chicago report describes Stacey Carter, a porter at the Grand Rutz Gun, aiding a robbery. Carter allegedly guided two men who entered after closing, produced pistols, and took 900 in receipts bundled for him. The piece notes Carter’s ties to a supposed friend and the trouble that followed.
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Chicago
Sonshody
Stacey Carter
Carter
Stacey
Explosives Handled Safely, Farming Risk Highlighted
Assistant Labor Secretary John Kmetz told the Hampden County Safety Council that the explosive industry had the lowest accident frequency rate of any industry in the nation in 1947. He noted agriculture as the largest killer with 4503 fatalities.
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Springfield
Mass
John Kmetz
Hampden County Safety Council
Phone Was Gadget In The Good Old Days
MILWAVKER UP Old Mul eMankeeiis shill recalls 1877 when Valentine Biaty beer magnate consented to have a telephone installed in his office. When the phone rang he asked for a while then turned the telephone patent “very impressive” he said. He wondered who was calling and what business was in store.
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Milwavker
Valentine
Tough Guy Fails Under Pressure From Old Rival
A disjointed report describes a tense scene with police, a bartender, and a crowd outside a tower. Officers shout and a man exits quietly after a look at one cop. The text hints at a first round confrontation linked to a boxing or fighting event.
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Milwaukee
Teogan
Centenarian Birthday Notes and Voodoo Age Oddities
Readable fragments describe a centenarian celebration and related notes. Mentions Aubur, Texas, and a Norbert or Nather TWD reference. The text includes garbled lines about birthdays, visits, and ages, with an unclear event at a gridint or gridout location.
Kissing In Public No Crime In Japan
TOKYO AP It isn’t a crime to kiss in public in Japan after all. Lawmakers had misread unclear rules and officials said kissing al fresco was not prohibited. A Gen MacArthur official called a press conference to clarify that Japanese people could kiss in public wherever they choose.
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Tokyo
Japan
Gen MacArthur
Circus Claims Mule Can Sit Down
The circus answers a reader's question about a mule sitting like a dog. Roland Butler of Frees replies yes a mule can sit, often does to rest or out of stubbornness. Leonard S. Aylesworth leads the seat department handling many inquiries from model circus builders about wagons tents trains and equipment.
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Dhink
Ken
Fragmentary note on early railway equipment and cars
A garbled OCR fragment mentions bed 3 model cleus and various rail equipment terms. It references wagons, rathresd cars, baggage vegans and cages, and a saather noting bed come years dubbing BF wagons. The text hints at trains of flat ang eleek cere and completion with its more.
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Ion Gen Gus
Saather
Wolves IX Portugal 3A Hunt Sighting Wildlife Episode
A report notes a hunting event where about 20 hunters pursued wolves in Portugal amid mass killings of poultry by wild animals. Several wolves escaped as the field pursued the animals. A separate line mentions artesian wells named after the first wells sunk at Artois, France.
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Portugal
Seela Ees
Artois
France
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