Christmas Charlatans Target Consumers This Season
Earl R. Lind of the Better Business Bureau warns of Christmas fraud schemes by smooth promoters. A “bouncing bo” ruse uses a door to door messenger offering a package and a signed receipt to trap victims in unwanted merchandise like cheap perfume. Fast-talking salesmen operate in bars offices and factories, often with neighbor delivery tricks.
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Jolly St. Nicholas
Seaealadtatto
Earl R. Lind
Better Business Bureau
BBB
Brownies Receive Complete Uniforms After Reader Appeal
Complete uniforms and two flags are now provided for the Brownies after a reader appeal led by troop leader Mrs. Mary Sroka. The modest treasury has been replenished through Community Publications readers responses.
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Mary Sroka
Happy Brownies
Navy Basic Grad Seaman Recruit John E Ovington Named
Seaman Recruit John E Ovington USN 20 son of Mrs Annie Ovington 4329 Dickens and husband of Virginia R Davis 2202 LaVergne has graduated from nine weeks of navy basic training at the Great Lakes naval training center.
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John E. Ovington
USN
Annie Ovington
Dickens
Virginia R. Davis
LaVergne
Navy
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Navy Crews Deploy From Coral Sea In Vietnam Action
Area servicemen Ronald A. Frosheiser er of 4321 Dickens joins USS Coral Sea on its third cruise to the Gulf of Tonkin as planes begin night air strikes against North Vietnam in 1965. Thomas E. Houston, Boatswain's Mate Third Class, serves aboard USS Dyess in the Middle East as a crew member.
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Ronald A. Frosheiser
USN
Victor Frosheiser
Dickens
Gulf of Tonkin
North Vietnam
Coral Sea
Thomas E. Houston
John M. Houston
Concord
Middle East
Dyess
New Recipes At Food Display
More than 49000 Chicago homemakers visit the Peoples Gas holiday display at 122 S. Michigan to see new recipes for cakes cookies breads jellies and candies. Free recipe booklets with menu ideas and tips are distributed daily. Home economists in red gowns demonstrate baking on a gas range and assist visitors.
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Chicago
Peoples Gas Building
S. Michigan
Martha Holmes
Home Service
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