Nudes Sold at New Orleans Auction for Lounge Display
In New Orleans a controversial 1400 pound nude bronze sculpture depicting mother father and son was auctioned for 2400 dollars to A F Truxillo. He plans to display it in his hotel cocktail lounge sparking mixed reactions from city officials and residents. The piece was created by Enrique Alvarez and had been commissioned by the city.
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New Orleans
A. F. Truxillo
Truxillo
Enrique Alvarez
Disease and court notes mix in Baltimore and Philadelphia
An uneven fragment references a $1800 payment to Acorn, a city profit of $800, and disease spread outside new Municipal Courts work in Baltimore. It recalls a public appearance, rheumatic heart illness, a tarpaulin shield after a storm, and Alvarez at an auction amid water melon bites. Also mentions early US dining cars and Quebec oil and gas drilling near Gaspe with a well dug in 1861.
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Baltimore
Alvarez
Samba rules on picking up discard in Samba canasta
Oswald Jacoby explains Samba pick up rules for the discard pile. You may take the nine of spades if you hold a pair of nines and meld them, start a new canasta, or extend an existing meld, provided the discard card fits directly into a sequence or meld as it stood before your turn. You cannot use the discard to complete a sequence or start a new meld if conditions fail.
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Oswald Jacoby
NEA Service
Navy mothball fleet called cheapest insurance
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz praised the mothball fleet as the cheapest insurance for the American people at recommissioning ceremonies for the U S S Iowa in San Francisco. He noted the battleship’s current build cost would be about 250 million dollars, about double the original price.
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San Francisco
Chester W. Nimitz
Navy
Naval Operations
U.S.S
Iowa
Nimitz Helps Unveil Last Guided Vessel in Navy Parade
Nimitz and Capt. William Smedberg III led hundreds including Mrs. William Beardsley in a ceremony under 16 inch guns as the 45 000 ton carrier once ferried Roosevelt to Casablanca in 1943 returns to active duty. The ship, mothballed since 1949 at San Francisco, will join Missouri New Jersey and Wisconsin as the fleet’s fourth to be activated.
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Navy
Audtt
William S. Beardsley
Iowa
Nimitz
William R. Smedberg III
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Casablanca
San Francisco Naval Shipyard
Missouri
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Kissing General Ok's Wife Receives Degree in Milledgeville
In Milledgeville Georgia on August 27 Willan Bush known as the Kissing General watched his 62 year old wife receive a Bachelor of Arts from Georgia State College for Women after 29 years as a teacher. He wore a $300 movie company uniform and signed Confederate money while praising his wife’s life and joking about a good kiss back.
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Milledgeville
Willan Bush
Graduation Night In Mansion Ties Fortunes To Sherman Room
The passage recalls a night before graduation in a Governor’s mansion now housing the school president Guy. A Confederate veteran learns he had slept in a room once occupied by General William Tecumseh Sherman, the Yankee commander who once held the town. The note adds that over 300,000 pounds of fish and shellfish are landed annually at East Coast ports from Rhode Island to Virginia.
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Guy’ #. Avell
Gen
William. Tecumseh Sherman
Providence
Rhode Island
Virginia
Young President Washington Theodor e Roosevelt Rising Leader
Theodore Roosevelt became U S president at age 42 in a historic rise. The Gazette Classified Ads note his ascent and highlight political milestones during his early years in office.
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Washington (Sf
Theodore Roodevelt
United States
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