Duck Season Opens Amid Cold Wet Opening
Opening day delayed by unfavorable weather as Monocacy and Potomac rivers swell and waters ice over. Blinds damaged by Saturday storm forced many hunters off Chesapeake Bay and Susquehanna River blinds. Deer season starts yesterday in Adams county with many hunters staying on Pennsylvania side. Frederick county begins next Monday for six days with Snook's Mill in Lewistown as the check station.
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Potomac
Chesapeake Bay
Susquehanna River
Benjamin F. Phebus
Emmitsburg
Mason-Dixon Line
Adams County
Pennsylvania
Frederick County
Maryland
Phebus
Snook’s Mill
Lewistown
Winners Repeat At U S Livestock Show
Indiana man Charles Fischer repeated as corn king of the world at the 1950 International Livestock Exposition and Grain Show. Kentucky shepherd Harold J Barber won grand champion and second for wether lambs with lambs that also won last year. Stanley K Swift showed the grand champion carload of hogs, medium weight Berkshires, last year winning lightweights. Canadians took top honors in wheat oats rye and barley as cattle judging culled hundreds of prize steers in preparation for the grand champion steer. Fischer's corn yielded 85 to 90 bushels per acre.
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Chicago
Indiana
University of Kentucky
Iowa
Charles Fischer
Shelbyville
Ind
Harold J. Barber
Wether
Stanley K. Swift
Gilman
Fischer
Rocky Graziano Knocks Out Honeychile Johnson in 48 Seconds
Rocky Graziano, former Brooklyn middleweight champ, knocked out Honeychile Johnson of Philadelphia in 48 seconds of the fourth round tonight, extending his winning streak to eight in 1950.
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Rocky
EAYO
Philadelphia
Rocky Graziano
Brooklyn
Honeychile Johnson
Graziano
U S Farmers Fleet Carries CROP Food Aid Across Oceans
A large gray freighter sails east and another west as part of CROP the Christian Rural Overseas Program. Since 1947 CROP has gathered grain eggs milk and clothing from American farmers to ship free for relief overseas. It operates under church auspices and seeks no rehabilitation role. Over 3,500 carloads have gone abroad since 1947, aiding war victims in Europe and Asia, funded in part by government transportation support. The 1950 kickoff sent 60 carloads from 18 states aboard the S S Prius Mauritz, marking a national effort to provide emergency aid without regard to race or creed.
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NEA Service
Chicago
Atlantic
Pacific
Heart of America
Christian Rural Overseas Program
UNRRA
Mercy Ships
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
China
Johnson
Convention Hall
Hill Prince Voted American Champion Horse
Hill Prince the three year old bob tailed galloper from Virginia was voted American Champion by the Thoroughbred Racing Association board. He defeated Noor in the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park after a season of major wins. The TRA poll of racing secretaries produced 36 ballots across tracks. Battlefield was named two year old champion with 35 votes.
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New York
Hill Prince
Irom
Virginia
Thoroughbred Racing Association
Princequillo Hildene
Chris T. Chenery
Virginia Sportsman
Casey Ives
Eddie Arcara
Noor
Belmont Park
TRA
Citation
George D. Widener
Battlefield
All Bran letter promises relief for constipation
An unsolicited testimonial from Andrew H. Truby of Woodland, BL, claims 25 years of constipation relief after eating Kellogg's All Bran at breakfast. The ad urges daily intake of one ounce with water and offers double money back if not satisfied within 10 days.
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Andrew H. Truby
Box
Woodland
Allbran
Kellogg
Kellogg's
Battle Creek
Mich
Hill Prince earns $309,040 in two years of racing
Through Nov. 20 Hill Prince has 8 wins and 13 victories totaling $309,040 in two years. This year his earnings reach $263,715 with wins in races including such events as the notable Handicap colt Nour and steeplechase entries Oedipus and Next Move under handlers Mrs Opden Phipps and Mrs Charles S Howard.
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Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Charles S. Howard
Opden Phipps
Oedipus
Notable horse races listed include Wood Memorial and Preakness
A 1958 News item references major races the Wood Memorial Preakness Withers Jerome American Derbys and Jockey Club Gold Cup. It notes November 28 1958 and mentions a trial in Augsburg Germany where a Bavarian crowd reacted to the wartime prison murder trials.
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Seoul
Korea
iPi
Syngman Rhee
India-Pakistan
Orange Line
S. S. Prius Mauritz
United Nations
Wyoming
North Dakota
Texas
Defense and Home Ministries
Prins Mauritz
Peter Pauw
Urbtana
Buckeystown
Republican County Central Committee
General Acceptance Corporation
Dodge
Showtime
JU. S. A
ABC
Monocacy Motors, Inc
N. Market St
Any—Duval Headley
Jinny
Hil Frince
Pretorick
Nion
Augsburg
Cermiany
Buchenwald
Buchenwald Concentra
George IV
Elgin, Gruen
Bulova
Stieff
Dolls Jewelry Store
Markell & Ford
Rederick Division
THE
Lansdale Tube Company
Radio and
Frederick, Maryland
State Employment Service
Winchester Hall
East Church Street
Frederick
ALL Modern Housewives
Mirro-Matic
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