Toasted toast sparks a town wide sour mood
Wilbur Peebles burns his toast and a small domestic inconvenience spirals into a daylong chain of annoyances. Miss Alice Squeich, a drugstore clerk, a dairy delivery driver, a traffic cop, and Trellis Mae all react with sarcasm and tension until Wilbur’s mood darkens and the day ends with a nagging sense of collective discontent.
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Wilbur Peebles
Wilbur
Trellis Mae
Alice Squeich
Wilbur Gree
Miss Ich
Baldy
Miss Sque
Jack L Warner Early Life and Film Career Highlighted
Jack L Warner born August 2 1892 in London Ontario is the youngest of the Warner brothers film producers. He supervised talent story material and casting and was known for economy and efficiency. He began as a minstrel singer at age 12 and became a lieutenant colonel in World War II. his son Jack also served as an army officer. His firm produced the first talking pictures.
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Jack L. Warner
London
Ont
Warner Film - Producing
Jack
Hoffman and Beche Lead Regional Business Figures
In St Paul Edward Hoffman president of radio station WMIN and in New Rochelle Miss Laurie Franklin Beche former executive secretary of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs are noted as prominent figures in their respective regions.
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The
Associated Press
ST Paul, Minn
Edward Hoffman
WMIN
New Rochelle
Laurie Franklin Beche
National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
Obituary Notes for Mrs Jeosie Caliderwood Waring and Mrs Phillips
New York tribute to Jeosie Caliderwood Waring 74 mother of orchestra leader Fred Waring. In Bartlesvale Mrs Frank Phillips 70 wife of the Phillips Petroleum Co. board chairman, born in Creston Iowa.
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New York
Jeosie Caliderwood Waring
Fred Waring
Bartlesvale Cole
Frank Phillips
The
Phillips Petroleum Co
Creston
Iowa
Fragmentary health note on ivy infection treatment
A garbled medical fragment discusses removing an outer skin, ivy infection, and a single application sufficiency. It mentions questions to a ragalist and a person named Heeschier Bre, though details are unclear.
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Heeschier Bre
Teaching Children Thoroughly Builds Character in Tasks
The piece urges parents and teachers to assign chores and lessons for character development, not just completion. It advises assessing a task for the child’s ability, providing background, time, and tools, and staying supportive to ensure a thorough, workmanlike finish. It warns against overburdening youth and suggests seeking gentle mercy and appropriate pacing.
TVA booster tale frames private enterprise gains in valley
In Memphis the TVA is praised as a private enterprise booster by Gibson County Cooperative manager Floyd Jones and other leaders. They cite dairy plants, electric equipment demand, and home heating growth spurred by TVA power, noting 15,000 rural members and rapid farm electrification. Local plants and towns report new factories expanding services without closing others.
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Memphis
Tenn
NEA
Tennessee Valley Authority
Valley
TVA
Floyd Jones
Gibson County Cooperative
Trenton, Tenn
Pet Milk Co
Jones
TVA Power
Farm Bureau
West Tennessee
Co-Op
Rural Electrification Administration Lines
Gibson Co-Op
Herman Brawner
Pickwick Cooperative
Selmer
Pickwick
Brawner
Pi Ick
Tiptonville
Bells
Humboldt
Rutherford Garment Works
Rutherford
Brown Shoe Co
Ford To Increase Its Car Prices
Ford Motor Co plans to raise passenger car prices within days to cover higher steel costs and wage gains. Ford notes the exact amount is undecided and says dealers have been notified of an imminent price increase. General Motors recently boosted prices by eight percent. The article references June 1947 context and notes wage figures for production workers.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
General Motors Corp
Ford
Fragments Report Scam Message With Threats Online
The readable text warns of a quick scam formula and threats to reveal money to a supposed approver. It mentions NORITO and Gara Gus to otum aw Keita and urges not to release funds, describing a deceptive online scheme.
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Gara
Otum Aw
Keita
Norito
Discoverers Fail to Find Seven Chief in Western New Mexico
In western New Mexico the expedition led by Marcos ae eS Seat and the discoverers did not locate the Seven Chief of ibole despite efforts.
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Marcos Ae Es
Ibole
New Mexico
Germans In Bizonia Get Highest Postwar Food Ration
Berlin report from the American military government says 40 million Germans in Bizonia now receive the highest basic food ration since the postwar occupation began. The AMG cites improved crops currency reform and aid from the European Recovery Program as the main factors boosting both food availability and Ruhr coal and overall industrial output. The July basic ration rose to 1 990 calories per day from the 1 550 calorie level at year start, with many worker groups receiving more.
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Berlin
AMG
Ruhr
Zonia
Bizonia Dure
Germany
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Withur
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Eanstre
Stuber
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Pickwick Area
Hawaiian Islands
James Cook
Islands
SEARS
Aluminum
America
David Bradley
John Deere
Os Ak
Fifth Avenue
Bizonia
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