Girl Scout Group to Aid Displaced Children in Germany
The Girl Scouts of the United States will send seven adult leaders to Germany to work with displaced children in camps. Miss Gertrude Bruns will head the team joined by six other volunteers with roles across training, troop work, and leadership development in the American military zone through January 1947.
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New York
INS
Girl Scouts of
United States
Germany
Paul Rittenhouse
Girl Scout
World Bureau
World Association of Girl Guides and
Girl Scouts
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Gertrude Bruns
Madison
Wis
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Girl Scout National
Bruns
Diana L. Dyer
Winston-Salem
N. C
Girl Steet National Board of Directors
Helen E. van Ess
Albany
N. Y
J. Roger DeWitt
Independence
Girl Scouting
Independence Girls Council
Helmi Selinato
Mountain Iron
Minn
Marjorie W. N
Atlanta
Italy
B. Matter
Duluth
Chicago Opera Guarded Priceless Music Scores Under City Street
The Chicago Opera House holds a vast library of opera scores dating to 1910 housed under the sidewalk with a hidden vault door and forked access. Librarian May Valentine notes former head Samuel Insull's lavish purchases and says collectors from coast to coast seek the collection, which survived the war.
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Chicago
Chicago Opera House
la Scala Company
Italy
Chicago Opera Company
Samuel Insull
May Valentine
Insull
Golden era of child health praised by Dr. Fishbein
Dr. Mor ris Fishbein, editor of Hygeia and the Journal of the American Medical Association, called the past 35 years the golden age of child health. He cited an nearly 80 percent drop in white child mortality ages one to 14 since 1910 and noted auto accidents as the only major cause with higher death rates than 35 years ago, with about 20,000 killed and over 1,000,000 injured.
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Chicago
INS
Morris Fishbein
Hygeia
Fishbein
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Free Trial Offer From Frontier Asthma Co
Sufferers of asthma during hot humid summers are urged to request a free trial of a remarkable method offered by the Frontier Asthma Co. The ad promises a costless trial no matter where you live or what remedies you have tried. Send today to Frontier Asthma Co. 5-T Frontier Bidg. 462 Niagara St. Buffalo 1, N. Y.
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Frontier Asthma Co
Frontier
Niagara St
Buffalo 1
Free Samples Out At Paris Fair This Year
The Paris fair shifts away from free samples as rationing looms. Cheese vintages and regional delicacies will be viewed behind glass with sale pending future ration relief. About 8,000 exhibits highlight a slow postwar recovery with booths from the United States Britain Sweden Denmark Brazil Czechoslovakia Switzerland Belgium and others. Luxuries such as perfumes champagnes cognacs textiles dominate the packed displays as France aims to regain world markets and foreign credits.
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Paris
Light
France
United States
Great Britain
Sweden
Denmark
Brazil
Czechoslovakia
Switzerland
Belgium
Outsmarts Self In Outsmarting Gang Of Thieves
Detroit police report Oliver Ruby hid money in envelopes at his furniture store after reading stories of safes being robbed. Thieves broke a rear door glass, found the hidden envelopes containing 1,557 dollars, and left with them. The safe was not touched.
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Detroit
INS
Lars
Ruby
True Fish Story in Hoodoo Ends With 20-Pound Pike
Harold Lakoskey told friends in Virginia Minnesota how he originally failed to land a big northern pike. He later reaped his joke by catching the same 20-pound fish on a subsequent cane fishing trip in Hoodoo and displaying the supplier of his first failed effort with the hook leader and sinker still attached.
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Virginia
Minn
Harold Lakoskey
Many Currency Exchanges In Windy City
Chicago hosts about 550 currency exchanges licensed and bonded, created after bank closures in the 1930s. They handle roughly $30,000,000 weekly, offering banking services except deposits and loans. President David Maslowski notes seven of ten residents use exchanges and banks receive about $500,000 yearly in charges.
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Chicago
INS
David Maslowski
Chicago Currency Exchange Association
Fire on plate humbles catcher in mid game brawl
In a Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri league game at Iola catcher Dave Dennis from Miami Oklahoma sparked a heat drama when his chest protector ignited after a dispute at the plate. Flames erupted from the protector believed caused by a discarded cigarette lodged beneath it between innings. A separate note touts a new degreaser product for cleaning greasy dishes by pouring a few tablespoons into hot water.
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Iola
Kans
Dave Dennis
Beoe
George Carney
Miami, Okla
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