Britain to Spend Heavily on Air Force Amid Rearmament
London March 2 Britain plans to spend over a half billion dollars on its air force in the year starting April 1. Estimates show 111,602,000 pounds for air force costs including planes, maintenance, and interest, with 78,500,000 pounds in core expenditures and 56,500,000 pounds in fleet air arm needs. Swinton says aircraft employment rose from 30,000 in 1935 to about 90,000, reflecting a large upturn in rearmament.
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London
Roa
Brit
Air
Marshal Goering
Rman Airforce
Fleet Air Arm
Britain
Wist Swinton
Chamberlain
Ferther
Feet Air Mves
Explosion Discovery Sparks Idaho Police Report
In Pocatello Idaho a caller noted youths playing soccer with sticks officers arrived and found twenty five dynamite sticks nearby The discovery prompted police to secure the area and investigate potential hazards and intent.
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Pocatehllo
Idaho
Hair Do's That Flatter Faces and Figures
Coiffure expert tips show how to choose hairstyles to slim long faces and balance strong features. Don Ross illustrates with a middle aged woman, Greta Garbo is cited for balance, and rules stress matching hair to the head and face for a finished look.
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Narow
Mr. Ross
Don Ross
Coiffure
Detective Recognizes Fugitives in Penitentiary Shave
Denver detective W. J. Ryan, after a half shaved beard, identifies barber Lefty Johnson as the man who traded bullets with him during a restaurant holdup flee. Johnson is captured later. A separate item notes an ostrich racing a horse in Australia.
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Canon City
Colo
Colorado Penitentiary
W. J. Ryan
Denver
Lefty” Johnson
Johnson
Ryan
Love and War Aboard The Gray Gull
Polly Chelaby and Jerry Whitfield ride a perilous Atlantic chase as Cabell Banks commands a privateer ship near Delaware Bay. The Gray Gull evades British frigates then seeks Washington papers while Polly faces an uncertain return to Lyme and a future tethered to naval duty. The voyage blends romance, patriotism, and nautical danger amid a wartime voyage toward Philadelphia and beyond.
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Jerry
Cabell
Washington
Polly
Gray Gull
Baltimore
New England
Navy
Madison
Erry
Gabel
Chesapeake
Philadelphia
Canada
Richtivy
Polly Chelaby
London
Jerry Whitfield
Cabell Banks
American
Delaware
Maryland
Delaware Bay
Gray Gulf
Carteret
Cape Charles
Chesapeake Bay
Blue Bay
York
Rappahannock
Virginia
James
Potomac
Boston
Sir Walter Raleigh
Plymouth
Ranks
Connecticut
Fieet
Lyme
Tobacco accounts for over half of North Carolina farm income
North Carolina in 1937 saw tobacco generate 66.5 percent of crop cash income and 56.7 percent of total farm income from all sources, with cash sales averaging 24.47 per hundredweight. Burley prices fell about 49 percent on the Asheville market while flue cured held firm despite record stocks and large production.
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Enterprise Bureau
Raleigh
North Carolina
W. H. Rhodes
State Department of Agriculture
Rhodes
Burley
Asheville
Richmond Mayor Returns Wrong Check Amount After Machine Error
Mayor J Fulmer Bright received a check for one million eighty five dollars instead of one million five dollars. He withheld deposit and reported the error to the state treasurer after discovering the correct amount was only 105 dollars. The discrepancy arose from a printing machine mistake on interest coupons for state bonds.
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Richmond
J. Fulmer Bright
Bright
Burglar Leaves Watch Behind After Break-In
In Grand Island Nebraska Archie Ball reports a burglar who stole three pipe wrenches left his own watch behind on the Beck porch. Ball notes the watch was worth far more than the tools and the intruder invited to come again.
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Grand Island
Neb
Archie Ball
Ball
Vege table Compounds Promised For Women’s Health
An advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a natural tonic to ease functional disorders in women. It claims to strengthen the system during transitions from girlhood to motherhood and into middle age, noting the product has helped women for over 60 years.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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