Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary Announces Essay Contest
The VFW auxiliary hosts an essay contest titled Peace With Honor For America for area high school students with a $1000 national prize and a local 20 10 5 prize. Monroe judges are Lawrence Kitchen Nell Cunningham and E C Hamilton. Essays due by midnight April 1 1950.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
America
Monroe
Lawrence L. Kitchen
Nell Cunningham
North School
E. C. Hamilton
Fred R. Simpson
LaVon- Jones
Dean N. Person
VFW
Market summary of livestock and produce in Chicago
Salable hogs 10,000. market slow with butchers 15 to 25 lower. Sows scarce, steady to 25 lower. Top 18.10, extreme 18.25. Good to choice 190-200 lbs 17.90-18.10. Other weights scattered. cattle 3,500, calves 400. Steers and heifers slow, some losses. good to low choice steers 26.50-35.00, 950 lbs heifers 31.50, cows 14.00-19.00, vealers 25.50-29.00. Butter steady. receipts 434,415.
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Chicago
USDA
New York Stock Market Hits 1949 High At Opening
The market opened strong with broad buying lifting prices to a 1949 high. General Motors Montgomery Ward International Harvester American Telephone Allied Chemical and Westinghouse led gains while Bethlehem Steel Chrysler Studebaker J I Case Chesapeake and Ohio and Baltimore and Ohio lagged. Corporate bonds also rose alongside stocks.
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New York
Bell
General Motors
Montgomery Ward
International Harvester
American Telephone
Allied Chemical
Westinghouse Electric
Bethlehem Steel
Chrysler
Studebaker
J. I. Case
Chesapeak
Ohio
Baltimore
Plaintiff in Suit for Billions Jailed in Los Angeles
Arthur R. Van Wyke, known for filing vast damage suits against Mae West and others, was jailed after an $890 damage suit was filed against him. He alleges rights to the name Diamond Lil and has faced various actions, including rent disputes at a Santa Monica hotel for a $2,000 monthly suite with only $110 paid in two weeks.
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Los Angeles
Arthur R. van Wyke
Mae West
Santa Monica
Washington Times Herald Sale Approved for 4.5 Million
U S district court approved the sale of the Washington Times Herald to the Chicago Tribune Co for 4 5 million as part of the first accounting by executors of Mrs Eleanor Patterson estate.
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Tribune
Washington
Washington Times Herald
Chicago Tribune Co
U. S. District Court
Eleanor Patterson
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Vew's Auxiliary
U. S
Peetsuit
Fred Fogel
Lene, Ill
Thomson Phosphate Coo
S. Dearborn
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Golion
Eeei
M-W
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Nora AD
U.S
Sale Wardoleum
Childrens Underwear
17Th Street
Chase and Sanborn
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