Sweden and Denmark Protest Soviet Baltic Encroachment
Sweden and Denmark jointly accuse the Soviet Union of encroaching on the freedom of the open sea by extending territorial waters in the Baltic. They reject a 12 mile Baltic limit, citing centuries old practice and three to four mile norms, and warn that such extensions restrict fishing and navigation rights.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Denmark
Baltic
Russia
Baltic Sea
Moscow
Athletes Foot Germ Amazing Results In One Hour
An advertisement touts a 4 L strong penetrating fungicide that claims to reach embedded germs and kill on contact. It promises immediate effect and offers a 40 cent refund at Cecil's Drug Store if not satisfied.
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Cecil
Quizbag of Historical Quests and A Musician’s Life
Questions probe Columbus voyage position on the equator on first voyage in 1492 and a claimed North Pole discovery via Stars and Stripes. asks about survival without food or sleep. names Attila The Hun as The Scourge of God. in England a derby hat is a bowler. A Hungarian conductor born June 4 1891 is identified, died 1945. A Devon clergyman novelist born June 12 1819 is noted.
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Equator
New World
North Pole
God
England
Holme Vicarage
Dartmoor
Devon
Name of Victorian author and biographer from Hampshire
The item profiles a Victorian writer ordained as a curate and later rector of Eversley who served as queen Victoria's chaplain. It notes his 1848 first volume The Saint's Tragedy and praised works Wesward Ho Hy patent a and Two Years Ago, including children books The Heroes Water Babies and Madam How and Lady Why. He died January 23 1875.
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Eversley
Hampshire
Hospitable defined as generous and welcoming character
A concise dictionary style entry explains hospitable as generous and welcoming toward guests and strangers, deriving from Medieval French and Latin roots meaning to receive as a guest.
Birthday greetings for notable 20th century figures
Today honors include Al dous Huxley novelist and essayist Andre Maurois author George Bernard Shaw playwright Carl Jung psychiatrist and Bob Waterfield pro football star.
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Aldous Huxley
Andre Maurois
George Bernard Shaw
Carl Jung
Bob Waterfield
It s Been Said About Selfishness and Discontent
An aphorism contrasts self indulgence with discontent, asserting that the more a person indulges the self the more demand is created and the more discontentment follows. Anonymous attribution.
New Amsterdam Applies for Dutch Charter in 1449
A historical note records that in 1449 Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam sought a charter from Holland. In 1788 New York ratified the U S Constitution. In 1945 Clement Attlee succeeded Winston Churchill as British prime minister after the Conservative defeat at polls.
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New Amsterdam
Holland
New York State
United States
Clement Attlee
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Quiz item snapshot with scattered clues
Snippet presents mixed clues including a latitude comparison to Florida a 1909 Peary reference a date April 6 1909 a Grod riddle about Attila the Hun and a bowler plus a garbled string ANM HWD geedvy oE T
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San Salvador
Florida
Robert Peary
Attila
Secret Service names new North Carolina head
Howard S. Anderson, longtime secret service agent and Roosevelt trip planner, becomes special agent in charge of the North Carolina district. He replaces Louis D. Lacey who moves to Nashville after seven years in the state. Anderson is a Baltimore native who arrived from Kansas City and has served 13 years in the service.
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North Carolina
Secret Service
Howard S. Anderson
Baltimore
Kansas City
Anderson
Louis D. Lacey
Nashville
Tennessee
Budget commission finds state services not free
The advisory budget commission criticizes perceived free state services observed during its east coast tour. It notes lunches and fuel for travel were paid, highlighting competition for tax dollars among state agencies and private enterprises. It warns of rising costs, potential deficits, and calls for higher appropriations to improve parks and historic Fort Macon.
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East
States Ports Authority
Wilmington
Morehead City
State Park
Fort Macon State Park
Budget Commission
Fort Macon Park
Commission
Atlantic Beach
Oneral Fund
Fort
Macon
North Carolina
Bogue Island
Beaufort
General Assembly
Scott
14 Year Old Kinley Killed by Lightning in Silver Valley
A 14-year-old Lexington Route 2 boy Homer Lee Kinley was struck by lightning and killed at his home during a severe storm. He was a student at Silver Valley school and attended Pleasant Grove Methodist church. He is survived by his parents a brother Bennie and four sisters Magaline Dorothy Emogene and Shirley Kinley. Final rites were to be held at Pleasant Grove Methodist church with burial in the church cemetery.
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Silver Valley
Lexington
Homer Lee Kinley
David T
Treva Hughes Kinley
Young Kinley
Silver Valley School
Pleasant Grove Methodist Church
Bennie Kinley
Magaline
Dorothy
Emogene
Shirley Kinley
Asheboro
National Guard Awards For Five Members At Ft Jackson
National Guard officials announced awards for five members of the 540th Field Artillery battalion for outstanding summer encampment service at Ft. Jackson South Carolina. Capt Douglas Bray of B battery Thomasville was named outstanding officer. Enlisted honors went to Pvt Raymond W Walker Jr A battery Cpl William E Poole service battery Pfc Clyde Hanes Thomasville B battery Pvt Ernest L Byerly.
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540Th Field Artillery Battalion
National Guard
Ft. Jackson
S. C
Douglas Bray
Thomasville
High Point
Raymond W. Walker
William E. Poole
Clyde Hanes
Ernest L. Byerly
Britain Prepares Civil Defense Against Atomic Bombs
London reports a Home Office manual warns a single atom bomb could kill up to 50 000 in a typical British city without warning or shelters. It states casualties could be cut to a fraction with advance preparations and suitable shelters.
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London
Home Office
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Japan
Acre
Woman Jailed For Attempting To Kill Husband
In Elizabethtown a woman, Annie Gertrude Croom, is jailed on a charge of poisoning her husband William David Croom with arsenic in 1948. Sheriff John B. Allen said a preliminary hearing in recorder's court was planned, potentially delayed by absent doctors from Duke hospital and Wilmington.
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Elizabethtown
John B. Allen
Annie Gertrude Croom
Recorder’s Court
Croome
Allen
Murchison
Wilmington
Eugene A. Spead
Duke Hospital
Durham
Croom
Gibson named to North Carolina tuberculosis board
Wilmington July 26 DP Governor Kerr Scott announced A. E. Gibson of Wilmington as a member of the board of directors of the North Carolina tuberculosis sanatorium. He replaces Dr Thurman Kitche Wake Forest who resigned recently due to ill health. Bows and arrows are the only weapons of the Simono Indians of Bolivia.
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Wilmington
Kerr Scott
A. E. Gibson
North Carolina
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