Post Office Announces Private Highway Post Office Routes
The Post Office department plans two private highway post office routes starting around March 11 between Muscatine and Des Moines and Des Moines and Shenandoah, Iowa. Special first trip cadets and cancellations will apply. covers must reach postmasters by March 9 with authorization to hold for the first trip.
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New Jersey Philatelic Group Urges Steam Locomotive Stamp
A New Jersey philatelic society passed a resolution urging issuance of a stamp to mark the 125th anniversary of America’s first steam locomotive, according to an Associated Press report.
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Origin of the Mausoleum Name Traced to King Mausous
The term mausoleum comes from King Mausous who constructed a grand tomb in ancient Caria located in southwest Turkey.
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The Volt Named After Alessandro Volta
The volt, a unit of electric potential, honors Italian physicist Alessandro Volta who died in 1827.
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More Tar Heels Turning In Tax Returns Now
Raleigh reports more North Carolinians filed income and sales tax returns this year than in 1949. Revenue commissioner Eugene Shaw told Governor Scott the department has 46,468 income tax returns and 98,994 sales tax returns, with no clear cut revenue increase yet. He attributed the rise to new personnel, equipment, and federal cooperation.
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Rain could lift soil seven inches high in two-inch dump
The U. S. Soil Conservation Service warns that a sudden two-inch rainfall on a field would loft soil as high as seven inches into the air, sending dust and debris upward from the ground.
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Europe Favors American Jazz and Films in Mass Popularity
A Preston Grover dispatch from Paris reports European tastes favor American culture with jazz topping venues from Prague to Lisbon. Americans like Bing Crosby Duke Ellington Louis Armstrong dominate Prague stages while Hollywood films, especially in Italy and Britain, draw large crowds and high attendance across Europe.
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Man Strangled By Sweater In Fall From Ladder
HOPEWELL Va Feb 25 The body of 48 year old car penter Odis Delmore Holbert was found late yesterday hanging by his sweater from a ladder reaching to a two story window of his home Police Chief F Gwaltmey ruled the death accidental saying Holbert apparently slipped causing his sweater to catch and strangulate him He lived with his brother John T Holbert whose family was away shopping at the time.
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Unemployment Pay Outlays Reach New January High
Unemployment compensation payments rose to a record 186 million dollars in January as 2.078 million workers filed for benefits. Robert C. Goodwin of the labor department noted normal seasonal factors behind the increase, comparing it with August 1949 when 1.952 million applied for 170.6 million dollars.
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