Man finds hoard from pipe in Philadelphia slum clearance
Unemployed laborer Julius Bracey found a pipe filled with old U S gold coins totaling 5542 50 while scavenging rubble near Center City Philadelphia A March 25 1939 New York Times dated paper and three cans held the coins The coins ranged from 863 dated to 1928 with denominations of 20 510 5 and 52 50 Police noted residents once paid in gold from Baldwin Locomotive Works The story pairs with a Sacramento incident where a California Highway Patrol officer recovers stolen packages only to learn a lesson from the wife who bought them again.
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Philadelphia
UPI
U. S
Julius Bracey
Center City
New York Times
William Leinhauser
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Kennedy Era Political Roundup Echoes Campaign Pace
The report tracks Nixon flying west and Kefauver shifting east as campaigns heat up nationwide. It notes military absentee voting efforts, aims at Senate seats in Washington and Oregon, Kefauver advocating hydrogen bomb test limits with Stevenson, and end with Truman urging California voters to back a vigorous president capable of full-time service.
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Washington
Estes Kefauver
Jbe
Paign
Pentagon
Pacific
Eisenhhow
Mak
Senate
Oregon
Arthur Langlie
Warren Magnuson
Kefauyer
Adlai Stevenson
Kefauvery
Pennsylvania
Stevenson
Mixon
Finols
Chicago
Harry
Truman
California
Severn
Phone Union Sets Strike In Pacific Telephone Fight
National officers of the Communications Workers of America call a strike by 20,000 telephone workers in Northern California and Nevada set for midnight Saturday after failed contract talks with Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. In the interim PT&T grants wage increases of 3 to 5 dollars weekly to 4,600 commercial and accounting staff in the region.
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San Francisco
Communications Workers of America
California
Nevada
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co
Pt&t
Burgess in Taipei Visits Officials and Bases
Carter L Burgess assistant secretary of defense spent six hours in Taipei and met with President Chiang Kai shek. He called on top American and Nationalist officials and inspected facilities used by American military personnel during the visit in Formosa Taipei.
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Taipei
Formosa
Carter L. Burgess
Chiang Kaishek
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