Mysterious Tension at Bigelow Mansion Prewedding
Private detective Duke McCale guards wedding gifts at the Bigelow mansion where Miss Adelaide Bigelow fears a danger beyond theft. Veronica Vallaincourt and Curt Vallaincourt prepare to wed as family secrets surface.
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Duke McCale
Bigelow
Adelaide Bigelow
Veronica
Curt Vallaincourt
Sybil
Stephen
Victoria
McCale
Vallaincourt
Stephen Bigelow
Christopher Storm
Karen
Tragic web tightens over Bigelow nuptials unease
In a Beacon Street drawing room McCale confronts Adelaide Bigelow about Veronica Bigelow’s pending marriage to Curt Vallaincourt and a fortune held in trust. Adelaide reveals family motives and a dangerous plan as a shot echoes outside and a green-clad woman flees the Common.
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Rocky
Curt Vallaincourt
Duke McCale
Beacon Street
Adelaide Bigelow
McCale
Mr. McCale
Wartime landing mats sold to become corn cribs in Midwest
Airplane landing mats used in Europe and the Pacific are being sold by the War Assets Administration for corn storage. About 4.2 million square feet from Kankakee Illinois were bought by 40 bidders to be converted into cribs on farms across Illinois Indiana Iowa Minnesota Missouri Nebraska South Dakota. Total sale rose to 125,887 dollars.
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Washington
Europe
Pacific
Midwest
War Assets Administration
Kankakee
Ill
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
South Dakota
WAA
Agriculture Department
Disillusioned brides of G I s return to England
Twelve British war brides of former G I s left New York aboard the John S. King to return home and seek legal separations from their husbands. Mrs Winifred Baxter Stussy of Joplin Missouri traveled with her 10 month old daughter Pauline.
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G.i.s
England
New York
John Srecson
Winifred Baxter Stussy
Henry W. Stussy
Joplin, Mo
Pauline
Nazi Literature Is Being Repulped for Better Use
In the United States zone of Germany American military government officials say no book burnings will occur. Existing Nazi literature is repulped to free paper for printing school texts and other urgently needed books.
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Frankfurt
Germany
United States
Hunter Gets License Bags Mallard But Question Lingers
C W Follis of Keensburg bought a duck hunter stamp at the Mount Carmel post office, then on his way home a flying object smashed his windshield and a mallard lay in the seat beside him. Officials question legality of the catch as the incident unfolds.
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Mount Carmel
Ill
C. W. Follis
Keensburg
Illegitimacy Rate Stated at English Diocesan Meeting
A report to the diocesan conference of the Church of England in Wakefield England says at least one in every eight children born in England is illegitimate.
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Wakefield
England
Church of England
Promptness at Mealtime Saves Life in Pittston
Benjam in Desko, 58, of Pittston, was rescued after a noon search by his wife led to a coal mine shaft collapse rescue. He had gone to an anthracite field and did not return for lunch. A bulldozer operator alerted a Pennsylvania Coal Co. crew, and two hours of digging freed him unharmed.
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Steve
King
Stephen
Mamma
Sonny Boy
Karen
Stevey-boy
McCale
Bigelows
Ann
Abbey
Rocky
Wilkes-Parre
Benjamin Desko
Pittston
Desko
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Clocks and Sweaters Made Under One Roof in Delavan Plant
In Delavan Wisconsin George W Borg who owns an electric clock factory also runs a knitting operation in the same plant. He arrived in 1928 and merged a knitting mill with his electronics plant to produce about 4000 clocks daily while machines knit sweaters in continuous runs.
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Delavan
Wis
George W. Borg
Want to Live Long Calvin Coolidge Deadly Life Expectancy
Washington reports a Metropolitan Life Insur ance analysis on presidents life expectancy. It finds that the job shortened years for most leaders since 1900 with Roosevelt and Hoover as noted exceptions and Truman shown with a projected 15 more years.
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Washington
United States
America
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
Harding
Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
McKinley
Harrison
Cleveland
Herbert Hoover
Truman
No Food Cut Protests In Britain For German Aid
The British Press Association reported that Britain has decided not to reduce its own standard of living to provide more food to Germany.
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London
British Press Association
Britain
UNRRA chief warns of looming 1947 food crisis
Fiorello La Guardia warned that despite this year’s larger crops, China and eastern Europe will not be self sufficient. He urged prompt UN action and international aid grants or loans to finance imports after UNRRA ends to prevent a new global food shortage and damage to recovering economies.
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Flovalla
Washington
Unrra Pj
Fiorello N. la
Left Leg Learns What Right Did
Eleven-year-old Leon Hutchenson, confined by a broken right leg in a cast, used his left leg as a lever to move it. The resulting bone snap sent him back to hospital after a recent release.
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Vancouver
Leon Hutchenson
Old Burglar Returns to Prison for Company
An 82-year-old man released from Canon City penitentiary asked to be readmitted, saying he did not like life outside. Warden Roy Best agreed and he is back inside doing odd jobs, citing that there is always company in prison.
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Carson City
Colo
Colorado
Canon City
Roy Best
Sailor Found Sleeping On Seven Floor Ledge At City Hall
Philadelphia police recount a narrow escape as 19 year old Sailor William Long was found asleep on an eight inch ledge outside city hall seventh floor. He wore no shoes and did not know how he ended up there.
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Philadelphia
William Long
Long
City Hall
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Texas
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