Bandits Raid Picher Bank and Oklahoma Fulfill Old Style Heist
Three desperadoes tied up a salesman and held a bank at Picher at gunpoint after kidnapping Raymond Quirk in Vinita. A second bank holdup occurred at Miami and the trio warned of nitroglycerine threats while fleeing in a stolen car.
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Picher
Okla
Okahoma
Lesman
Tate
Ebbers Falls
Oklahoma
Uch Dare
Pretty Boy Loyd
Raymond
Quirk
Vinita
Miami
Miller
W. A. Brewery
Religious zealot marries the Bible in 1650 Salonika ceremony
Shebbatai Zebi, a zealot from Salonika in Greece, reportedly married the Bible in 1650. The holy book wore bridal vestments as a priest conducted the ceremony with two official witnesses present.
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Salonika
Greece
General Motors Rebuffs UAW Exclusive Bargaining Request
General Motors rejected the CIO United Automobile Workers proposal to name the union as sole bargaining agent for about 130000 GM employees. VP F Q Tanner said other groups claim representation and until NLRSA procedures determine units and rights exclusive bargaining cannot be granted. NLRB election petition was denied but hearings were ordered on UAW AFL petitions in several GM plants.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
CIO
United Automobile Workers
F. Q. Tanner
National Labor Relations Act
NLRB
Labor Board
Uaw-Afl
G. M
Prodigy Thomas Young Learned 14 Languages by Fourteen
English scientist Thomas Young showed extraordinary early talent as a child none could match. By age 14 he could write in fourteen languages, having absorbed foreign tongues while others read Mother Goose.
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Thomas Young
Leif Erikson’s Vinland Tale Explains Grapes and Cape Cod Debate
Uncle Ray recaps the Norse voyage to Vinland with Leif Erikson as he builds a winter shelter, finds abundant salmon, and names the land Vinland after Tyrker’s grape discovery. The article notes possible Vinland locations from Cape Cod to New Jersey and hints at Greenland and Labrador routes.
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Leif Ericson
Vinland
Leif
Tyrker
Greenland
Labrador
Nova Scotia
Cape Cod
Mass
New Jersey
Uncle Ray
Wartime pace to daily life and a new tobacco warehouse
An in motion feature contrasts global wartime production with daily needs such as timber cadmium and root crops. It notes Norway imports from Nazis and Denmark’s output, then reports M. E. Fagg and R. R. Fagg opening a 36 000 square foot warehouse in Burlington after operating in Tennessee and North Carolina.
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America
Iio
New England
Salvace Committee
Kernersville
M. E. Fagg
R. R. Fagg
Morristown
Tenn
Fair Bluff
Burlington
Open House at New Putnam Bakery Exhibition
Public invited to a modern bakery demonstration October 4 5 6 from 2 to 10 p m. See the automatic mixer blend ingredients and the wrapping of loaves in waxed paper. Attendants explain each process and parking is ample.
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Putnam
How Bread Is Made In a Modern Bakery
Four processes form modern bread making. Ingredients mix in the Dough-room then the dough rises in giant troughs. The dough is sealed into loaves in the Proofer, baked slowly in the oven, cooled in air washed compartments, and wrapped by a machine. Air in the rooms is continually washed to avoid bacteria.
Perilous Burma China Highway Drives Through Harsh Peaks
Auto drivers on the Bur ma China highway routinely dive from 7 200 feet to 2 500 feet crash a suspension bridge and immediately climb a steep grade to 7 500 feet with little regard for danger and safety.
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Burma-China
China
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