Clock Stops Eggleston's Life After Patient Clock
Arthur Eggleston, 77, lived by a ticking clock in his Chardon home for over four decades. When the clock ceased on a Sunday, he reportedly said if it stopped so would he. He died hours later from delayed shock after a prior fall, with doctors noting the clock's silence as symbolic of his fate. Custard baking tips follow, advising hot water bath to maintain even temperature.
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Chardon
Arthur Eggleston
Eggleston
Egsiti
Erwin
MSG near table staple may join salt and pepper
Minneapolis businessman B M Hagan predicts monosodium glutamate will become a common table standby like salt and pepper. He notes MSG enhances flavor in hamburgers eggs and steaks and is already used by food makers in soups bouillon cubes and sauces.
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Sagan
Special Commodities Division
General Millis
Hagan
General Mills
United States
Million Peso Christmas Lottery Surprise in Mexico City
In Mexico City a British grocery wholesaler gave a lottery ticket as a Christmas gift. The ticket won the premio gordo of about one million pesos before tax, roughly $175,000. A return gift of 150,000 pesos, a Cadillac, and 5000 pesos per child followed. The wife of the principal actor declined to discuss the matter.
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Mexico City
INS
Mexico
Santa Claus
Plan to Wreck Government of U S Revealed
At a deportation hearing in New York on February 19 a former Communist official testified that Stalin described the United States as a main citadel of capitalism to be destroyed. He said Browder repeated the claim here and outlined a method using everyday grievances to swell masses and storm the capitalist state.
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U. S
Rty
George Hewitt
Immigration Department
Joseph Stalin
United States
Stalin
Moscow
Earl Browder
Earl Browder, Then Secretary-General of the Party In This Country, and Browder
Hewitt
Ben Sutton Recognized for Insurance Sales Record 1947
Stacy V Scots of Atlantic Life Insurance Greensboro announced that R Ben Sutton a High Point special agent led all agency agents in paid business during 1947. He was named a Big Twelve producer with the company for 1947 and will receive special recognition at the Ace convention in New Orleans.
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Stacy V. Scots
Atlantic Life Insurance Company
Greensboro
R. Ben Sutton
High Point
Mr. Sutton
New Orleans
Man Drops Dead At Close of His Talk
Henry M. Abele of Birmingham collapsed after finishing a speech to the Fish Methodist church men’s club in Montgomery Alabama. He uttered a blessing and then fell lifeless, ending the address on “The Laws of Human Equation.” Abele was pronounced dead at the scene. A separate item notes a UK railroad payroll listing eight cats.
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Montgomery
Ala
Henry M. Abele
Birmingham
Abele
Fish Methodist Church
Portable Spitz Planetarium Brings Stars to Any Classroom
A 25 pound Spitz portable planetarium from Science Associates Philadelphia turns any room into a starry sky. It projects stars to magnitude four, shows sun moon and planets with a four minute rotation, and uses twelve Vinylite plastic panels for clear constellations.
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Philadelphia
Science Associates
Planetarium
Local Rifle Club Dinner Meeting Set for Saturday
Members of the High Point Rifle and Pistol club will meet at Elwood hotel Saturday at 7 p.m. for a dinner meeting featuring state officers of the Rifle and Pistol club state association. A North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission hunting and fishing film will follow a buffet barbecue supper. Tickets must be bought by Friday night from Milton Byerly at 116 E High Street. nonmembers are welcome.
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Elwood Hotel
Rifle and Pistol Club State Association
North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
Milton Byerly
E. High Street
Byerly
Wife Battles War Office Over Dead Husband
Mrs. Gooderham of Norwich insists her husband alive after the War Office deemed him dead since his 1940 Dunkirk disappearance. A War Graves Commission letter confirmed burial in France, yet she contends he did not cross the Styx.
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London
INS
Mra. Gooderham
Norwich
British
War Office
Gooderham
Gooderheim
Dunkirk
Styx
Mrs. Gooderham
Wedding Symbols Displayed on Ears
New York designers Dorothy and O M Reseff describe wed earrings as a method for husbands to lessen other men’s attention by displaying wedding symbols on wives ears. The items are described as white palladium duplicates of wedding rings designed to disenchant possible rivals.
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NEW_ YORK
Ins
Dorothy and
O. M. Reseff
Ex-Publisher Douglas H. Cooke Dies in New York
Douglas H. Cooke age 62 and former publisher of Leslie's Weekly Judge and Life magazine died yesterday in New York. He led Pickwick Ltd New York publishers of hospital magazines and hailed from Hinsdale Illinois. Temperatures over 140 degrees Fahrenheit are not tolerable for humans.
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New York
Douglas H. Cooke
Leslie's Weekly
Judge
Life
Cooke
Pickwick, Ltd
Hinsdale, Il
Utah MVD Chooses Letter X For License Plates
Allan Rogers, director of the Utah motor vehicle division, explains that X is the easiest letter to identify on license plates. He notes K follows X, while C and G are problematic as they can be confused with O, M, N, and W.
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Salt Lake City
INS
Utah Motor Vehicle Division
Allan Rogers
Motor
Drowning Intended By Man In Prerogative Case
In Hoquiam Washington a man attempted suicide by jumping into a river but later wished to live, telling a cab driver his fiancée broke their engagement. He later called for the same taxi, soaking wet, and said he had changed his mind and climbed back to shore.
Doan's Pills End Kidney Ailment Woes
The ad touts Doan's Pills as a stimulant diuretic for kidney and bladder discomfort. It claims kidney tubes flush out poisons from the blood and promises relief from backache, fatigue, swelling, and nocturnal urination.
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Doan
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