Toy Makers Predict Big Xmas Toy Stock for Christmas
Chicago reports a heavier Santa load for 1945 with war era shortages ending. Electric trains, skates, construction sets, bicycles, and metal wagons return in limited quantities, first come first served. Mail order firms Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward publish large toy catalogs and warn early shopping.
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Merchandise Mart
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Montgomery Ward and Company
Jeep
Bell Presented to State Museum by Navy
The bell of the atom bomb blasted battleship Pennsylvania, the only battleship to take part in every major Pacific operation in World War II, will be given to the state museum in Harrisburg by the Navy Department.
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Harrisburg
INS
Pennsylvania
State Museum
Navy Department
Rockets plan to surpass V-2 speed range and accuracy
General Electric and the Army Ordnance department conduct a joint missile research program in Schenectady New York aimed at developing rockets with higher speed greater distance and improved accuracy and effectiveness than the German V-2.
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Schenectady, N. Y
Ins
General Electric
Army Ordnance Department
Roosevelt presses Moscow aid over war program
Roosevelt insisted in 1942 that Russian lend-lease promises be fulfilled regardless of effects on any other part of the war effort. WPB warned him of the drastic impact on production, instructing Nelson to report the issue to the joint chiefs and seek a review of requirements.
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Washington
Roosevelt
War Production Board
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Civilian Production Administration
Russia
Soviet Union
Nelson
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chiefs of Staff
Chief Executive
Track Gauge Origins Tied to Ancient Roman Roads
The standard gauge of four feet eight and a half inches used by British and American railways stems from ancient Roman road cuttings. British Railways notes this lineage shows how cart tracks, reused for railways, shaped modern gauge.
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London
British Railways
Prehistoric Find Near Silverton Stuns Oregon Scientists
A farmer digging for water near Silverton unearths a paleontological treasure described by University of Oregon paleontologist Warren D. Smith as the state’s most important discovery. The find includes a 7-foot tusk and suggests bones from a 14-foot-high mastodon, dating 20 to 50 thousand years ago, potentially a great-grandfather to modern elephants.
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Silverton
Ore
INS
Warren D. Smith
University of Oregon
Absent minded business men travel with BOAC record
London reports that business men and diplomats traveling by air across the world appear as absent minded as the proverbial professor. The British Overseas Airways Corporation handles vast yearly business on routes from North America to England and across the Middle East Africa India Australia and the Far East.
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London
INL
British Overseas Airways Corporation
North American
England
Middle East
Africa
India
Australia
Far East
Guilford County Realty Transfers in High Point Area
A list of property transfers in Guilford County includes Nellie Seward Hedgecock and others to Grave Seward and wife two tracts on High Point Winston Salem Highway W F Clayton and wife to FE F Marion and wife lot in Woodlawn Forrest Subdivision and numerous other conveyances across High Point areas including Edwards property Headen property Emerywood Snow Park Spencer Avenue Peach Tree Drive and East Green Street with multiple buyer seller pairs and subdivison lots.
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High Point Township
Nellie Seward Hedgecock
Grave
Seward
High Point
Winston-Salem
W. F. Clayton
FE. F. Marion
Woodlawn Forrest
W. L. Edwards
J. E. Hall
Edwards
H. B. Hurley
C. G., Poole
Headen
City of
Joe P. Crowder
Emerywood
Dallas Jenkins
Lizzie Jenkins Everhart
S. P. Stutts, Jr
Mendenhall Drive
Troy T. Shelton
John W. Presnell
Peachtree Drive
Vernie O. Cook
W. Co. Sheloff
B. H. Osborn
Frank W. McFadden
Spencer Avenue
F. Allen
Jerry P. Slanter
Snow Park
John W. Coltrane
James I. Groome, Jr
W. C. Jones
Lou H. Hamilton
J. W. Ferrer
E. V. Ferrell
Club Drive
G. C. Bean
John W. Proctor
T. C. Barker
Emil D. Henderson
C W. Sensenbach
W. Co. Jones
Johnson Manship
Laurin Milton Walker
East Green Street
Cooksey Appointed To Welfare Committee
R M Cooksey city manager of Thomasville is named to a state wide survey committee on soliciting alms for livelihood. Henry T Powell of Henderson announces the appointment for the North Carolina League of Municipalities. The Raleigh meeting is set for October 31 with the state public welfare commissioner.
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R. M. Cooksey
Thomasville
Henry T. Powell
Henderson
N. C. League of Municipalities
Cooksey
League
State Department of Public Welfare
Chambers of Commerce
N. C
Raleigh
Three Saints and the early posts
The text notes three questions and provides answers: 1) Russian colonists called their first Alaska settlement Three Saints. 2) The first post office in the American colonies was in Boston. 3) The U S did not belong to the League of Nations.
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Alaska
U. S
The
League of Nations
Hunting Tip urges dogs to save millions of pounds of game
M B Allen of the Western Winchester hunting authority advises the eight million license holders to bring a dog afield. He notes state laws limit take but many birds and other game are lost by shooters who do not use dogs to retrieve their kill.
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New York
M. B. Allen
Western-Winchester Hunting Authority
Allen
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