Gulf Mobile and Ohio May Stretch from Gulf to Chicago
Ike Tigrett, president of Gulf Mobile and Ohio, seeks ICC approval to merge with the Baltimore and Ohio's Chesapeake and Ohio and to take over the Chicago and Alton. The plan would create a 4000 mile system, expanding from the Gulf to Chicago and Kansas City. The merged roads would serve Latin American trade and develop seven oil wells yielding royalties.
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C.&a
Baltimore
Ohio
Tigrett
Jan. C.&a
Midwest
Mobile
New Orleans
Tigrett’s
Birmingham
Jacksonburg
Chicago
G.m.&c
Abraham Lincoln
Ann Rutledge
St. Louis
G.m.&o
C.m.&o
Tigrett's
Casual Comment By W. A. Bivins
A memoir recounts meeting an English gymnasium instructor who challenged the narrator to conversation and spurred him toward fitness and better table manners. Forty three years later the speaker recalls the man’s decisive influence on his health discipline.
Goodbye to Summer Weather Notes and Local Quips
Late vacationers return from mountains and coast while mock ingbirds fall silent and quails retreat to fields. Robins move on as migration nears and heat lingers though nights warm. New Bern records 19 inches of rain this summer amid light-hearted jokes.
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New Bern
Mint Money Talk Sparks Child's Ambition
A visitor asks what Bobbie will do when grown up and the child replies he will raise mint because that is where their money comes from, reflecting a family joke about earnings.
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Bobbie
Changed Man Small Betty at Church Wedding
The piece notes a fashionable church wedding where Betty questions a potential change of mind as she walks up the aisle with one man and returns with another. The surrounding items reference a firm appealing to the selective service board and a mother paying a monthly furniture store bill with a small payment.
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Betty
Selective Service Board
Baby Fine
E-zee Credit Company
C P L Plans Big Rural Expansion Program
The Carolina Power and Light company began a $3,000,000 rural expansion to build about 2,400 miles of new lines serving roughly 11,000 new customers in North and South Carolina. L. V. Sutton said the program could reach 3,000 miles by end of 1946, using 40,000 poles and 3,000,000 pounds of wire with about 10,000 transformers as materials and labor allow.
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Raleigh
Carolina Power and Light Company
L. V. Sutton
South
Carolina
Sutton
Drafted baby to be last installment of carriage sale
A shopper and clerk discuss a baby described as the last installment of a paid carriage. The woman says the baby is fine and notes he was drafted last month.
Local Army Nurse Listed as Patient at U S Hospital Camp Butner
Lt Maidie S Reitzel foster daughter of Dr and Mrs Claude E Reitzel of this city is among patients at the U S Army General hospital Camp Butner. She served over three years in the South Pacific enduring fierce bombardments and near Morotai Island. She recalls the courage of American infantrymen and friendship with Mrs Charles MacArthur. Previously she worked at Florida Medical Center in Venice under Dr Frederick H Albee.
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Maidie S. Reitzel
Claude E. Reitzel
U. S. Army General Hospital
Camp Butner
Reitzel
South Pacific
Moroau
Charles Mac-Arthur
Pacific
Frederick H. Albee
Madam Jeanette English Palmist Special Readings
This week only special readings 50 cents. Madam Jeanette English Palmist offers palmistry in a trailer at the Winston Inn located on Take N. Street.
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Madam Jeanette English
Winston Pagpees
Ere Inn
Take N. St
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Brasee- Fraley Field
High Point BC
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Walgreen
University OF California Press
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Bedford Sales CO
C. G. Bedford
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Woodrow Avenue
11Th Airborne Division
U. S. Ar
New Guinea
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Luzon
Tomlinson
Clarence
Leyte
Claude Rice
Harper
Sinclair
Ilderton Oil Co
Sinclair Distributors
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High Point, N. C
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Sheraton
Goodyear Shoe Repairing
N. Main Street
N. E. Russell
N. L. Yarnonr
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In Pension Insurance
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L. F. Ferree
PSU Coal Ie
East Washington Street
W. C. Brown
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High Point Post
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High Point Branch
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Security Life and Trust Company
Winston-Salem
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