U S Shelled Out Billion Dollars For Jewels Baubles
Washington reports Americans spent 1.2 billion dollars on jewels and baubles last year a record total rising 12 percent from 1844. The Bureau of Mines notes wealth shift to middle and lower income brackets and forecasts fewer high priced items. It also surveys jewelry fashions including up swept hair earrings worn with gloves and hair accessories.
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U.S
Washington
Bureau of Mines
Bureau
Two Men Electrocuted In Wisconsin Crane Accident
Clarence Knutson aged 38 and Glen Nepstad were guiding an I-beam moved by a crane when its chain contacted a 60,000 volt line between Menomonie and Cedar Falls. Knutson suffered burns to both legs and arms and chest while Nepstad was burned on the left arm and leg.
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Menomonie
Wis
Clarence Knutson
Glen Nepstad
Cedar Falls
Knutson
Nepstad
Radio Program Listings and Time Schedule for August 1946
Radio schedules list NBC CBS and ABC programs for August 3 1946 including Mr and Mrs North McGarry and His Mouse The Whistling Detective Dr Christian Drama Sad Sack Intrigue and Watch on the Rhine. Also covers Thursday August 8 1946 with Morning devotions Morning News Luncheon with Leo Per True Confessions Carrington Playhouse and others.
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NBC
Mr. and
Mrs. North
McGarry and His Mouse
Art Linkielter
Kay Kyser
Tommy Tucker Band
CBS
Paul Lukas
ABC
Frankie Carle
MBS
Bra Ker
Xevier Cugat
Ralph Ingercoll
Top Secret
Fred Waring
Marine Band
Olmstead Playbourne
Jack Heley
Arthur Godfrey
Mark Warnew
Leoper
Carrington Playhouse
News of the World
McGarry
His Mouse
Three Suns
Lee Simms
Shrednik
Joyce Jordan
Morton Downey
Robert McCormick
Ma Perkins
Bill
Abe Cimarron Tavern
Jack Armstrong
Aby Capi
Farrell
Abe Sparrow and
the Hawk
Tennessee Jed
Abe Tom Mix
Quincy Howe
Walter Kiernan
Abccraft
Dick Tracy
Abc-West
Larry Carr
Lowell Thomas
Newscas
Abc World News
Cal Tinney
Abe
Clayton
Cbs News
Abec Fulton Lewis, Jr
Gordon MacRae
Raymond Swing
the O'Neills
Meredith Willon
Mark Warnow
Cbs America Town Meeting Forum
Horton
Harry Kogen
California
Finnegan
Coins and relics found on Eire farm unearthed by James Lyons
Two hundred seventy coins dating from the ninth to the twelfth centuries were found by James Lyons on his farm at Tullyduff, Eire. A stone hammer and a skull with bones were recovered and sent to national museums for study.
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James Lyons
Tullyduff
Eire
Crosby plans Notre Dame education for his four sons
Hollywood stars Bing Crosby and his wife claim their four sons study hard at St. John's Military Academy and show talent for singing and instruments. Crosby says he hopes they may attend Notre Dame if grades and talent align, while noting his children have avoided early film work to keep peace with family.
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Crosby
Notre Dame
Hollywood
Bing Crosby
Frank Leahy
Irish
Bing
Gary
Cruz
St. John’s Military Academy
Woman Survives Lightning Struck Tree While Killing Dinner Chicken
Mrs Verl Anderson planned to kill a chicken for dinner in Gunnison Utah. A storm burst, lightning struck the tree, tossing her against the house. The chicken died, and Anderson was bruised but finished preparing the bird for dinner.
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Gunnison
Utah
Verl Anderson
Denver Fireman Sets Descent Record After Alarm
Fireman Warren Hayes rushed from the firehouse kitchen to the pole during an alarm. He set a descent record and injured his back while responding, but he went out with the fire truck.
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Denver
Warren Hayes
Hayes
Houston property condemned halts owner demolition
Mrs. A. P. Lurie faces a legal showdown after the city condemned her building as a fire hazard and ordered its demolition within 30 days. Judge Ewling Boyd then issued a restraining order to stop tearing off the roof on a renter’s petition, involving 30 subtenants.
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Houston
Tex
A. P. Lurie
State Firemen Choose La Crosse For Meeting
The Wisconsin Paid Firemen's association concluded a two day convention by re electing William B Grego as president Fred Johnson as vice president John Kromer as secretary treasurer and Bruno Geschrei as a member of the executive board La Crosse was chosen as the 1947 convention city The Wisconsin State Association of Fire Fighters will open a two day convention today.
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Superior
Wis
Wisconsin Paid Firemen’s Association
la Crosse
William B. Grego
Racine
Fred Johnson
John Kromer
Kenosha
Bruno Geschrei
Milwaukee
Wisconsin State Association of Fire Fighters
Fur Goods Industry Concentration in New York
More than 80 percent of the U S fur goods industry is located in New York highlighting the state's dominance in fur trade production and related commerce.
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U. S
New York
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