Novel card game offered to Stalin as object lesson
Troy businessman C Carlton Carroll sent a deck of his invention to Premier Joseph Stalin as an object lesson in world goodwill. The Tetra domine Playing Quads blends cards and dominos, adding a dimension of inter-card matching. Carroll envisions a UN style unity and distributed a 1000-pack privately.
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Stalin
Troy
N. Y. UP
C. Carlton Carroll
Joseph Stalin
Carroll
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Ernest Bevin
Radio winner's scare over clerical giveaway error
Xenia Ohio reports a radio prize winner, Joseph E Chamberlain, fearing the promotion due to a clerical mistake. Officials say the mixup endangered the prize claim and caused anxiety for the winner.
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Xenia
OWP
Joseph E. Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Prizes Misdelivered After Network Quiz Error
The $7,500 in prizes promised to Chamberlain were misrouted by a paper error. Four prizes arrived while he spoke with the master of ceremonies by phone in New York, and he expected the remaining awards soon.
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New York
Chamberlain
Rural customers set up own line in Ohio countryside
About 125 subscribers of the Mifflin and Windowville Telephone Co. in Richland and Ashland counties organized a self help project to lower costs. They dug post holes and installed poles and wires themselves, with poles erected on Sept 17 and wires strung the next day to replace aging infrastructure dating to 1904.
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Mansfield, O
U.P
Mifflin and Windowville Telephone Co
Richland
Ashland
Notice advertising sale of purebred girls
Ida Rupert reports in the Mini doka County News a classified notice advertising the sale of purebred girls. The fragment notes an auction or sale listing in the paper’s classified section.
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Rupert, Ida
U.P
Minidoka County
Editor explains typo in Blackfoot sale advertisement
The office received many calls and the editor apologized stating the ad promoted the Blackfoot duroc sale. A typographical error changed the word girts to girls, slipping past the editors.
Old Time Railroad Tracks Being Ripped Up
The Nahuma and Northern Railway in Lansing Michigan announced it will remove all but 44 miles of its 60 mile track for scrap metal. The route once served as a main transport corridor for Michigan logging days.
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Lansing
Mich
U.P
Michigan
Nahuma and Northern Railway
Timber logging shifts from rail to trucks in UP Michigan
In Michigan's upper peninsula the logging industry has reduced rail transport as trucks become the main haul. Timber cutters rely on road trucks to move harvest to sawmills marking a shift from traditional railroad use. This year attracts bumper corn yields on their smallest acreage in 15 years.
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Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Junkmen steal railroad gear in Wisconsin spree
In Port Washington two musclemen stole an interurban rail line under demolition, were caught, then moved to Green Bay where they seized a 3,000 pound steam boiler and sold it for 99 dollars as junk. Police pursue further charges.
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Green Bay
Wis
Wisconsin
Port Washington
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