United Displays 142 Electrolux Server Refrigerator Line
United Electric Service announces the 1942 Servel Electrolux gas refrigerator featuring no moving parts in the freezing system for quiet operation and durability. The design offers expanded storage with tilt shelves milk shelves and sliding trays, dew drop fresheners, and adjustable interior layouts for large items. Models support bottled gas tank gas or kerosene operation and boast a one piece premium steel cabinet with white porcelain interior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Electrolux
E. M. Baker
United Electric Service
Baker
Servel Electrolux Gas
Rising costs prompt thrifty budgeting guidance for workers
Federal Price Administrator Leon Henderson warns living costs could rise 20 by spring, a 11 increase since wartime onset. Bankers advise cutting nonessential spending in staged steps, using Sam Smith as an example, to maintain savings and insurance while facing higher prices.
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Paul Gesner
John Beckley
New York
Food For Thought
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Congress
Sam Smith
Sam
Red Cross
Lady by Request and a Journey of Trust
Stephen Curt plans a monthlong air voyage to cement South American trade links for the Commerce Department. Diana agrees to run his household and handle Adela while he is away, receiving a $10,000 advance and promising to keep the editors supplied. She hides her true feelings as she vows to stay and support him.
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Stephen
Diana
United States
South America
Commerce Department
Europe
Stephen Curt
Cristobal
Ecuador
Colombia
Richard Thorpe
Adela
Evalyn Thorpe
Eva Vn
Lighthouse deaths and precision cameras in historic notes
The article notes that old lighthouses caused many bird deaths as birds missed the beams and collided with glass. It also describes aerial cameras built with about 2,000 parts, some finished to tolerances of one in three ten thousandths of an inch.
Recalled Mexican Times links LSU to Governor Allen saga
A stack of 75 year old Mexican Times issues, acquired by LSU, recalls Governor Henry Watkins Allen. From Shiloh wounds to Baton Rouge Confederate resistance, Allen fled to Mexico in 1865, founded the Mexican Times, backed Maximilian, and died in 1866. The collection, bought for $2 an issue, is shown in the Louisiana room.
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Baton Rouge
Mexican Times
Louisiana State University
Henry Watkins Allen
Allen
Shiloh
Breckenridge
United States
Mexico
Mexico City
Maximilian
Napoleon III
Porfirio) Diaz
City of
State University
James A. McMillen
Oklahoma City
Eastern College
McMillen
Louisiana
Mexican City
Church Bells to Ring for Peace in Twin City drive
The Twin Cities Ministerial Union will have church bells ring at 10:59 a.m. every weekday to call residents to a minute of pause and prayer for peace. Mayors of Monroe and West Monroe initiated the movement, with pastors expressing support. Brazil was once called Terra de Santa Cruz.
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Monroe
West Monroe
Twin Cities
Brazil
Terra de Santa Cruz
Land of the Holy Cross
New Hammond Organ Installed at We Monroe First Methodist
The First Methodist Church in We Monroe begins services with a new Hammond organ and chimes recently purchased at a cost of about $2,000. Music plays a key role in church life, and the organ is expected to boost interest in upcoming programs as pledges are collected Sunday with a congregational lunch.
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Eny Gremillion
Saul F. Gremillion
North Third Street
Monroe
Fort Amador
Panama Canal Zone
United States Navy
Northeast Junior College
Navy
We Monroe
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United Displays
Atlantic Seaboard
Carl H. Pforzheimer and Company
New York Stock Exchange
Louisville
NEA Service, Inc
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Monroe, LA
Lighthouse
CHURC
Miami Beach
America
Fatio Dunham
Ocean Front
34Th Street
Servel
Will
Servel Electrolux
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