New Scout Training Weekend At Camp Williams
West leads a group of executive staff trainees at Camp Williams for a weekend program covering compass skills outdoor cooking sanitation and tent pitching. Leaders include Buchell Lynch Osborne Rogge with Muir Lintelmann and Ingli assisting. The event sets the stage for April Sod Busters training and district reimplementation of new Gateway Area council scouting directives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Camp Williams
Jack Buchell
Wesley Methodist Church
Ed “Bucko” Lynch
St. Michael's
Bernard Osborne
Roosevelt School
Arthur Rogge
Holy Cross
Lessed Sacrament Catholic
Gerald Muir
Kenneth Lintelmann
B. W., Ingli
Gateway Area Council
Majority Voters Favor Stassen Charter Revision Suggestion
A Institute poll shows over sixty percent of voters support rewriting the UN charter to strengthen the organization. Harold E. Stassen proposes a 1950 world convention to amend and remove the veto, with college graduates most approving. The public favors modernization while fearing no outcome from another meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stassen
Princeton
N. J
Harold E. Stassen
United Nations
Institute
Russia
Milton and Paradise Lost in the Puritan era
The article recounts John Milton siding with Cromwell and the Puritans, his later blindness, and how he used an assistant to write Paradise Lost. It notes Satan’s fall and Eden, Milton’s description of hell, and the poem’s reputation as a great work, with about $40 earned by the author and his daughters aiding in writing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Milton
Cromwell
Milton
Lucifer
Archangel
Paradise
Hell
Satan
Heaven
Adam and
Eve
Mexico and the Mexicans leaflet offer
A leaflet titled Mexico and the Mexicans promises facts about Mexico’s people and Aztec customs. It will be sent free if readers enclose a stamped self addressed envelope and mail the request to Uncle Ray in care of this newspaper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingufu
Mexico
Uncle Ray
Carries Clothes To Court Faces Six Months Jail
Edward Christman a 45 year old baker seeking a divorce told Circuit Judge George M Fisher he would starve or sit out any jail sentence until his wife grants a divorce. He arrived with a suitcase of clothing and was sentenced to six months in jail for defying a temporary child support order. A second item notes a new electrically operated potato peeling machine in Denmark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Edward Christman
Margaret
George M. Fisher
Christman
Flory
Anti Cancer Grant Okayed for Wisconsin Institutions
Rep. Frank B. Keefe announces final approval of a 975000 construction grant to McArdle Institute and Wisconsin General Hospital for cancer research and patient care. The grant, part of a broader anti cancer program, aims to relieve bottlenecks by funding clinical and hospital facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Washington
Washington
Frank B. Keefe
R-Wis
Keefe
McArdle Institute
Wisconsin General Hospital
United States Public Health Service
Leap Year Debunker Sees 1948 Marriage Rate Dip
Metropolitan Life statisticians debunk the leap year romance myth and forecast a drop in the 1948 marriage rate from the high levels of the past two years. The all time peak in 1946 was 16.3 marriages per 1000 people, with 1947 about one eighth lower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Price Cuts Urged Across All Retail Levels
Jay D. Runkle of the National Retail Dry Goods Association urged item by item price reductions whenever and wherever possible at the opening of the national marketing conference. He warned producers resist cutting costs or prices could trigger booms and busts, while retailers noted labor and value challenges. Sweden campaigns to boost margarine production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Jay D. Runkle
Detroit
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Runkle
Lawrence Sizer
Marshallield and Company
Chicago
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Boots
BY Edgar Martin
War's
Vpreem
Tia
BY Leslie Turner
Lulu Belle
Easy
MR. McKee
By George Gallup
American Institute of Public Opinion
Nigro Beauty Shop
Jafer
Beauty Shop
Nigro's
Newburg
Bidg
Guardians of
Leeuwenhoek
Frommes
Frommel Scald
North Fourth Street
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Madison
Eau Claire
Wausau
Oshkosh
Green Bay
Sheboygan
Racine
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
317
Trovel
Avon
Twe
Alaska
the Orient
Owest Airlines
Uncle Ray's
Aumele Wang
Denmark
Penneys
Sweden
Cossacks
Men’s Dept
Pram
PAM
Boot Sox
Children’s Union Suits
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