Small Town Manual Aids Local Commerce Effort
The Department of Commerce offers a free Small Town Manual for Community Action to help civic leaders and merchants assess local markets, mobilize for home-front tasks, and revive trade. Cases from Norfolk Nebraska and Olathe Kansas illustrate asset inventories, housing surveys, and new business opportunities to strengthen towns now and after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Commerce
Ries
Raymond Reeves
America
Fvme
Nebraska
Norfolk
Kansas
War Industries
Armed Services
Olathe
Kans
Olaf
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Washington, D.C
Glasses Fitted Over Walgreen's Phone Examined
A brief item notes glasses fitted after careful examination at Walgreen's location, with emphasis on attentive care for children's vision and ongoing screening procedures.
Trolleys Crash in Pennsylvania Kill Ten
Ten persons die and 22 are injured after a head on collision between a crowded interurban passenger car and a freight trolley three and a half miles north of Norristown Pennsylvania. The passenger car was traveling from Philadelphia to Allentown during rush hour. Several injured are in critical condition at local hospitals. A Philadelphia Red Cross unit credited with saving six lives by supplying blood plasma for transfusions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norristown
Here
Philadelphia
Allentown
Philadelphia Red Cross
Entire Jewish population of Polish town killed
Official Polish sources reported the Nazis had killed the entire Jewish population of Krubleszow in southeastern Poland. The town held 15,000 to 20,000 residents, with more than 5,000 Jewish inhabitants.
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London
Krubleszow
Poland
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James Marlow Wid
William Pinkerton
Nenual
Nat Walker
Eves
Walgreen
Ashe SC
Lynnhaven
Wheaties
Pillsbury's
Morion
Sunshine
Dect
Pilchard’s Sardines
Virginia Maid
Kellogg's
Lakes
Wilson
White House
Joe Palooka
Jah
Bateese
Fraid Nobodee
France
Germany
Jerree
Central
ICE Delivery Company
West Broad Street
Pennsylvania
Ring-Harris
Sruby
High Point
Rogers
Naa Mastin
Aimerica
Ironing Board
Fulton Acme Mower
ACME
C.C. Motor Oil
RE Ne Lie Aen Att
Gold Crest Oil
N. C
North Main ST
Fulton Rake
Fulton Hioe
Fulton
Sylvia
Rose
High Point, N. C
Austin
Rockers
W. F. Austin & Son
Furniture Store
East
Washington Street
Fort
Jolly Cab CO
Blue Bird Cab
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