Massive Estate Sale Draws Thousands in Mexico and Auxvasse
The McPheeters estate on Love and Calhoun Streets in Mexico drew about 297 buyers from three states during an eight and a half hour sale that grossed over $6300. Items included a tall Victorian walnut pier glass at $210 and a glass-enclosed curio cabinet at $286. In Auxvasse, S S Harrison and sister sale attracted locals with pieces like a marble topped washstand at $220 and two walnut poster beds at $145 and $160. The event featured 14 staff, two auctioneers, and continued community chatter as buyers visited the century-old Steamboat Gothic house.
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Emma McPheeters
Mexico
S. S. Harrison
Auxvasse
McPheeters
Love and
Calhoun Streets
Donald Rummerfield
Kirksville
Calhoun Street
McPheeters Yard
Jim Dowell
Junior McCowan
Harrison
Haviland
Rosenthal
WSCS
Olivet
Love Street
William French
John Field
Highway 54
Calhoun and
Love
Harriet Pasqueth
Joseph Glandon
A. P. Green Refractories Co
Twelve year old girl works as a mechanic in Missouri
Melinda Archdekin, 12, helps with repairing pinball machines and coin boxes for World Amusement Machines Company run by her father Dale Archdekin. She began removing motors and fixing machines at age nine and quickly clears obstructions to keep devices operating. Parents say she is not a tomboy and is a real help at home.
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ST. Joseph, Mo
Melinda Archdekin
Dale Archdekin
Melinda
World Amusement Machines Company
Missouri
Archdekin
Massive Pittsburgh riot follows Pirates win
A victory celebration for the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Baltimore Orioles ended in a downtown riot with over 100 injuries and 300 arrests as about 100000 revelers packed the area. The melee spilled into looting and sexual disorder across the streets.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Pirates
Baltimore Orioles
United Nations
N.Y
Albania
United States
General Assembly
China
Nesti Nase
People’s Republic of China
U.N
U.S
George Bush
Drag Race Charges Void in Chicago Drag Race Case
Seventy people charged with dis orderly conduct from a drag racing incident on Chicago's West Side were released by a Circuit Court judge who ruled police blurred lines between troublemakers and spectators. Police arrested 52 men 12 women and six juveniles early Sunday after complaints of a drag race near East Love Street and a crowd of about 200.
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Chicago
Miners Clash With Protesters at English Strip Show
In Skegness England AP reports a vacationing group of miners stormed the Golden Butterfly club stage during a weekend strip tease. Forty women’s libbers entered and were shoved out amid fistfights as the show’s star Erotica defended bra wearing and performance.
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Skegness
England
Golden Butterfly Club
Admiral Fuqua underg oes emergency surgery in Florida hospital
Rear Admiral Samuel Glenn Fuqua, Pearl Harbor veteran and Medal of Honor recipient, is recovering in the service hospital at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa after emergency perforated ulcer surgery. He showed limited mobility on his 72nd birthday, with Mrs. Fuqua by his side, as hospital staff call him the best patient they have seen.
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Samuel Glenn Fuqua
Pearl Harbor
MacDill Air Force Base
Tampa
Fla
Fuqua
Admiral Fuqua
Audrain County
Arizona
Laddonia
Plane proposal ends in surprise engagement atop Toronto tower
In Toronto at the TD Centre 14th floor observation deck, Tom Hamilton proposed to Wendy Folliott after a plane trailed a 155-foot sign reading Will you marry me Love, Tom. Wendy, 24, was left speechless as he slipped the ring on her finger.
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Toronto
Tom Hamilton
Wendy Follitott
Toronto-Dominion Center
Wendy Folliott
Tom
Wendy
Morris Opens Jefferson City Campaign HQ
Lieutenant Governor William S. Morris launches his Jefferson City campaign headquarters to seek the Democratic nomination for governor. The move signals a formal start to Morris' statewide bid with a focal point in Missouri's capital.
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Jefferson City, Mo
William S. Morris
Jefferson City
Pumpkin Patch Raided Early
MILWAUKS A suburban pumpkin patch near Ralph T. Muszynski’s 10 acre tract was raided as Halloween harvests vanished by Sunday. Investigators noted youths and uninformed neighbors aided themselves after a rumor the city of South Milwaukee bought the land to plow under the crops. About $600 worth of pumpkins cabbage and squash were reported taken or damaged by Saturday.
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Milwauks
Ralph T. Muszynski
South
Milwaukee
Muszynski
Diabetes Assn Added to Chest Beneficiaries in Mexico
The Mexico Regional Branch Diabetes Association was added to ten other agencies benefiting from the Mexico Community Chest drive. The Community Chest Board approved the decision late last week. The campaign aims for a $51,000 goal, with payroll deductions encouraged by drive leaders to reach the target. Other agencies in the drive include Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Salvation Army, Red Cross, Mexico Social Service, Mexico Youth Center, Cerebral Palsy School, Recreation Commission, USC, and Hast Central Missouri Mental Health Assn.
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Mexico
Diabetes Assn
Missouri
Community Chest Drive
Norman Genthon
Drive
Community Chest Board
Jim Reznicek
Man Hunted For Killing 12 Year Old
Omaha police search for a dark skinned man in connection with the death of 12 year old Allen Schmidt and stabbing of his 10 year old brother Leslie. Allen’s body was found near the Missouri River by the South Omaha Bridge. Leslie, hospitalized in fair condition, described a Mexican man about 40 to 45, six feet tall with brown hair and possible beard, who drove a light brown older car. A knife was found at the scene. The coroner cited throat laceration as cause. sex motive suspected.
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Omaha, Neb
Allen Schmidt
Missouri River
South Omaha Bridge
Leslie
Allen
Loyal Schmidt
Bancroft School
James Perry
Omaha Police Department
Perry
Leslie Schmidt
George Sullivan
School Fund Gets Pledges Of $15 650
Seventy six MMA parents pledged 15650 for 1971 72 development fund during Dad s Weekend convocation. Donors may designate funds for a new student center cadet store canteen and facilities plus an Olympic pool and library projects. John Mullen Nebraska City led the Parents Alumni Committee praising early results averaging 207 per giver.
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Missouri
John Mullen
Nebraska City
Nebraska
Mullen
MMA
Academy
Memorial Chapel
Muller
Middlewest
Col
Charles Stribling III
Randall Cutlip
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