Christmas season housecleaning a gift drive proposal
Eleanor Roosevelt urges turning spring cleaning into a Christmas giving campaign. Families should purge usable goods for neighbors, forming a community committee with Rotary Kiwanis Lions and welfare agencies. Salvation Army and Goodwill fund distribution. involves Negro schools and library groups.
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Rotary
Kiwanis
Lions Clubs
Salvation Army
Volunteers of America
Social Service
Goodwill Industries
Maine
California
Tuskegee
Hampton Institutes
Penn School
South Carolina
Calhioun School
Alabama
American Merchant Marine Library Association
Seamen’s Church Institute
American Library Association
United States
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Pershing edits new guidebook to American battlefields
General John J. Pershing has completed editing a new authoritative guidebook to American Expeditionary Forces battlefields shrines and cemeteries. Titled American Armies and Battlefields in Europe the revision from 1927 will be printed in Washington for readers seeking roads distances trains restaurants hotels and historical context of 1917 and 1918.
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Paris
U.P
John J. Pershing
Washington
Argonne Forest
Flander Fields
Dt. Mihiel
America
Europe
American Battle Monuments Commission
Pershing
United States
France
Belgium
England
Sparrow Favors Residing In Case
In St Louis a 13 year old girl Lorraine Decker keeps a pet sparrow named Pritzy. The bird is wild but enjoys a home with three square meals daily. Each morning Lorraine frees it from its cage and the bird returns for lunch at 11 30 a m then again at 4 30 p m before night in the sage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
U.P
Lorraine Decker
Pritzy
Lorraine
Relay of buggy rides marks Clarendon elder’s pastime
Hugh Brown an 81 year old Clare ndon resident continues to entertain friends with horse drawn buggy rides. He owns two horse driven vehicles and still enjoys giving rides in the old fashioned way.
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Clarendon, Tex. U.P
Hugh Brown
Birth Announcement for Cox Family Baby Boy
Mr and Mrs Frank Cox 340 Second street southwest are the parents of a baby boy born at 2 am Friday the latest report says both mother and child are doing nicely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Cox
Second Street Southwest
Librarian Advice Highlights Gift Books and Best Sellers
Librarian Margaret Cooper notes top gift picks include How to Win Friends and Influance People by Dale Carnegie and Return to Religion by Dr. Link. She surveys self improvement trends, quotes Tressler on losing friends, and lists current best sellers and local library circulations such as Gone With the Wind and Drums Along the Mohawk.
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Dale Carnegie
Dr. Link
Link
Carnegie
Tressler
Pan Loon
Crow
Shanghai
Good Society
Walter Lippman
Northwest Passage
Victoria
the Citadel
Citadel
Worthington Five Triumphs In Bowling Tilt
Worthington Five defeated Linton Municipal by 81 pins in a Sunday match at the Worthington bowling alley. E Harbett led Linton with 188 228 194 for 605 series as the top individual.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worthington Suckers
Linton Municipal Golf Course
E. Harbett
Linton Five
Ony
What Do You Think About Christmas Desires By Citizens
A reader poll captures varied Christmas wishes from diverse townsfolk. Clerks and workers express desires from silverware to a train set, while others favor practical needs and simple happiness as a modern holiday decor trend prompts discussion.
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Santa
Acquittal Tainted by Typist Error in Dec 1936 Case
Memphis on December 6 reports a typist misprinted a 6 as a 7 leading to a directed verdict of acquittal for Robert Riddick who was charged with cutting trees on another man’s tract. The indictment wrongly stated December 1987.
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Memphis
Tenn
U.R
Robert Riddick
North India grows cotton in North-Central Province
Attempts to grow cotton in the North Central Province of India show progress. About 250 hundredweight has been recorded by the agricultural department. Villagers are encouraged by the crop's early success.
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Calcutta
U.r)j
India
Four New Field Mice Found in Monterey County
Berkeley scientists announce discovery of four previously unknown field mouse species in Monterey County and report capturing a kangaroo mouse in Utah as part of the same zoological survey.
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Berkeley
Cal
U.P
Monterey County
Utah
Jack C. von Bloeker, Jr
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
University of California
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Ida Lupino
Richard Arlen
Popular Science
Joan Crawford
Ann Sothern
Jack Haley
Walter Catlett
Edward ER. Horton
Mary Boland
Danger
Sylvia Sidney
Henry Fonda
Franchot Tone
Robert Young
Jean Dixon
Chic” Sale
March of
Mickey Mouse
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Glenda Farrell
Barton McLane
Edgar Bergen
Charley McCarthy
North India
The
Peoples Trust
Peoples ‘Trust Co
Linton, Indiana
Bert Wheeler
Robert Woolsey
Darktown Scandals Company
Philco
Ariel
Malicoat
Baxley
Main Street
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