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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1946
Page
2
A collection of aphorisms and reflections from Hilton Carlyle and Navarre. It contrasts peace and war demands with the best human qualities and explores friendship jealousy and love. The excerpts note epic scales beyond arms and man and emphasize mutual regard and emotional restraint.
Local dealers promote two holiday items for smokers Camel Cigarettes and Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco. Camel cigarettes come in a 200 pack tin and Prince Albert is offered in one pound tins. Both are attractively packaged with space for a Merry Christmas message, requiring little wrapping.
The Rural Free Delivery program began in 1896 with four riders and a boy on a bicycle and has grown into a $100 million enterprise on its 50th anniversary. By 1946 it operated 32,161 routes, serving nearly eight million families with an average route length of 44.8 miles.
In Dover New Jersey two arsenal guards found an old iron mine in an unsurveyed Picatinny reservation area. Abandoned workings stretch through Morris Warren Sussex and Passaic counties with ties to the Copperas and Green Pond mines. Ore from these sites supplied cannon ball production for Washington’s Continental army.
Miss Martha M Patterson celebrated her 82nd birthday by riding her bicycle. She no longer pedals downtown due to heavy traffic but still cycles for pleasure and small errands in Hastings Nebraska.
New York report says at least 12000 wartime marriages between American soldiers and foreign women have dissolved. R G Mastrude of the International Migration Service notes many brides were abandoned after soldiers returned home. He cites false addresses and bigamy as common issues and criticizes divorce law foreign agreements as inefficient.
In Vermont's Pownal Center a rural quietude is highlighted as a world peace emblem. The UN Weekly Bulletin features the 150 resident community with its church schoolhouse and farms as a model of unmarred peace, wartime servicemen returning home, and a wary view of global threats.
The article notes December 2 1942 as the Atomic Age birthdate when the Manhattan Project achieved a working nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago. Maj. Gen. Groves calls it a milestone in science and a Chicago anniversary meeting by Argonne laboratory and 25 universities follows.
Police in Baltimore plan to track down a hub cap collector after he amassed eight caps in one night. The story notes locals collect stamps pipes or war souvenirs, but officers now seek to add hub caps to their own scavenged haul.
New York reports a record Christmas club payout of 124.6 million dollars to 1,761,377 depositors from mutual savings banks. The total is 13 million higher than 1945 with an average distribution of 70.72 dollars per account.
Former combat fliers in Philadelphia form a pilots club to keep veterans informed on aviation advances and hangar flying. New air markers, hangars, and airports expand rural centers while rebuilt fields attract air circus events and GI Bill flight training. The piece also notes the Fairchild XNQ 1 trainer’s first flight and the rise of air mail field post offices from 1918 to 1930.
The Weekly Newspaper Service issue advertises a booklet on etiquette covering introductions dining dancing and letter writing. It promises guidance for social success and invites readers to send 25 cents for the booklet and to print name address zone and title.
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