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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1948
Page
5
A famed conjurer known for humor and safe tricks brings a new stage to the Vocational School on October 5. Backed by a 30 person company and cars of props, the performer unveils original illusions such as The Doll's Dream and The Girl in the Crystal Casket.
Blackstone travels from Milwaukee to La Crosse and then to the Twin Cities for a week of synchronized illusions. He follows a schedule that spans two acts and thirty scenes, all set to music.
Defense Minister Raoul de Amt Eur says Western European union experts draft a plan akin to a military Marshall plan. Five nations bound to any defense pact are Britain France Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg. He notes the United States would bear the main defense burden.
Scientists estimate the northern shores of the Great Lakes are rising at about foo per century due to ongoing geological activity. The finding highlights long term shoreline change affecting local communities and ecosystems around the lakes.
The United Lutheran Church in America will review proposals for a 5 million dollar budget for 1950 and 1951 at its 16th biennial convention in Philadelphia. The plan funds overseas missions in six areas and church work in the United States and Canada, with eight months of giving showing strong increases over 1947. If trends continue, total 1948 receipts could reach 3.6 million, though buying power has eroded.
The U S Navy bomber Truculent Turtle arrived in Santiago after a flight from Patuxent Maryland. A prior landing in Antofagasta due to radio trouble left the mission 700 miles short of its target. The crew had covered about 5 500 miles in an attempt to set a new inter American distance record.
Foreign motion picture exhibitors encounter growing limits on sending earnings from Argentina. The dispute centers on currency controls and government policy affecting film importers and distributor profits.
In New Castle Pennsylvania a six year old fatally shot his ten year old brother with a 1 gauge shotgun after an argument over a comic book. The coroner said Samuel Thomas Nail fired the weapon injuring George Lee Nail who died in New Castle hospital shortly after. The incident stemmed from a disagreement about trading a comic book with a neighbor boy.
Excelsior Springs Missouri October 4. The Ball Clinic offers a free book titled Rheumatism explaining why drugs fail and how their system of treatment with mineral waters and baths combats rheumatism and arthritis. No obligation to request the book. Mail requests to The Ball Clinic Dept 2111 Excelsior Springs Missouri today.
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