Tobacco Prices Suffer Losses
United Press reports average prices weakened across all flue cured belts after Monday gains. Better grades held steady while low and common qualities fell most. Eastern and Middle Belts traded heavily. Border and Old Belts slowed. Monday set an all time high for Eastern Belt at 60.94 dollars per hundred on 11,127,978 pounds. The Middle Belt’s high since Sept. 4 reached 53.91 per hundred on 3,844,134 pounds. The life span of bees ranges from three weeks to eight months.
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United Press
Federal
Middle Belt
Final Passage Of Foreign Aid Bill Foreseen
Washington reports House Foreign Affairs Chairman James P. Richards says the House will pass tomorrow and send to the White House the 7.483 billion dollar foreign aid bill. He notes opposition from some Republicans but expects swift final action. Senate defeats two moves to sidetrack the measure. Taft warns that transfer authority could erode European aid cuts and allow up to 250 million more for economic aid than Congress intended.
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James P. Richards
House Foreign Affairs Committee
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White House
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Senate
Iwo
Truman
Robert A. Taft
R-O
Prueman
Congress
No land animals or industries beyond Antarctica's edge
Between the South Pole and latitude 60 there are no land animals larger than insects and no industries other than whaling. This fact highlights the extreme scarcity of terrestrial life and the limited economic activity in the high southern latitudes.
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South Pole
State Farm Bank Plan Offers Car Buyers Savings
An advertisement claims the Bank Plan can cut car costs with low-cost financing and lower risk insurance. It urges customers to compare figures with their State Farm agent before purchasing. Otis W. Blackwell in High Point, North Carolina is listed as contact.
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State Farm Bank
Otis W. Blackwell
White Oak St
High Point
N.C
THE
State Farm Mutual Automobie Insurance
Bloemlagtes, Hines
Pull Up a Chair and 1949 to 1992 Reflections
A mash of anecdotes and trivia spans pennies in circulation and copper needs, fashion sales dips since 1949, a Syracuse Herald Journal quote about GIs and girls, cocktail popularity, odd signs in shops, British bakers touring the U.S., and assorted musings on history, language, and culture. The piece ends noting old English wart cures with pebbles carried in a bag.
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U. S. Mint
Syracuse
N. Y
Herald - Journal
Manhattan
Teddy Roosevelt
F.D.R
Faye Emerson
Tombstone joke proves man alive despite date on stone
Eagle Wisconsin: John Aplin, 87, remains alive though his tombstone reads 1865 1950. He had the dates cut in 1946 after his wife died and told the stonecutter to mark 1950, arguing a few years differ little. Crow intelligence noted by naturalists.
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Eagle
Wis
John Aplin
Aplin
Alice
Notice of administration for D L Culler estate
North Carolina Guilford County notice announces Mrs Mary Alexander administratrix of the D L Culler estate, requests claims by September 26 1952 and requests debtors to pay immediately. It lists route and box address in High Point and attorney Rufus K Hayworth with dates 9/12 19 26 10/3 10/17.
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North Carolina
Guilford County
D. L. Culler
Compton City
California
Mary Alexander
High Point
N. Co
Rufus K. Hayworth
Rhubarb Grown In High Places Is More Tasty
Himalayan expedition scientists from the California Academy of Sciences report rhubarb grown at high altitude near the Nepal Tibet border is tastier and less fibrous. They found plants flourishing in melting snow at 37,500 feet and will collect seed for the academy.
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San Francisco
California Academy of Sciences
Nepal-Tibet
EF. A. Charlton-Thomas
Thomas
Academy
Navy Day Honors Roosevelt Birthday Fleet Voyage
Navy Day is celebrated on October 27, marking Theodore Roosevelt's birthday. He sent the U S Fleet on a 1908 triumphal tour and is credited with shaping the Navy into a formidable defense line.
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Theodore Roosevelt
U.S
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