Saga of Friendship remembers a railroading bond at Elrod
For 58 years the Chicago and North Western train 106 stops on the prairie near Elrod South Dakota each Memorial Day to honor Willand “Pig Bill” Chambers and the little boy known as “The Little Fellow.” Crew members and families keep the silent ceremony alive with flowers, prayers, and a marker boulder.
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Lonely Prairie
Elrod
Willand Chambers
Pig Bill" Chambers
Big Bill
Contraction Gang
Bill
Chambers
Eli
Vince J. Ford
Ford
Lydia Benson
Redfield
S. D
Chicago and North Western
8. D
Bill’ Chambers
Longest name in the world born in Kentucky boy
In Whitesburg Kentucky a 14 year old eighth grader bears a long name with many names in the family Bible. Parents W L Stallard gave him Hugh Alexander Morris Gene Saul Ralph Giles Gilbert Mother Marquis Miles Marion Mayo John Charles James Gordon Bennett Adams Christopher Columbus Eli jah Green Eversole Bradly Kincaid Robert Jefferson Breckinridge. Classmates call him Bennett or Bobby for short.
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Whitesburg
W. L. Stallard
Hugh Alexander Morris Gene Saul
Ralph Giles Gilbert
Marquis Miles Marion Mayo
John Charles James Gordon Bennett Adams
Christopher Columbus
Elijah Green Eversole
Bradly Kincaid
Robert Jefferson Breckinridge
Stallard
Bennett
Bobby
Woman's Initials Serve As Reminder of Storm
LITTLETON COLORADO Mrs E E E A Shell recalls the blizzard of 88 birth, the initials Eighteen Eighty Eight Ann stand for the event. Doctors could not reach the home for the birth, and the father named her in celebration of the survival of mother and child.
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Littleton
Colo
E. E. E. A. Shell
Ann
Aviation Notes Highlight Local Air Races and Teachings
Aviation Notes reports on the first air races tied to a Civil Air Patrol fair at Sidun Falls Municipal Airport on May 25 including bomb dropping and spot landing contests, a mass parachute jump by ex paratroopers, and a plane wedding. The Sioux Falls squadron aims to raise funds to place a city, Red Cross, and police plane for emergency search and rescue. Also noted are Challenger Airlines expanding Denver to Salt Lake City air service with future Billings routes, and human interest items about a Goshen Indiana 80th birthday plane ride and a Georgia teacher using a Piper Cub as a school bus option.
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Lem
Sidun Falls
Scd
Civil Air Patrol
Sioux Falls
Red Cross
Rocky Mountain Empire
Denver
Salt Lake City
Challenger Airlines Company
Cheyenne
Laramie
Rawlins
Rock Springs
Kemmerer
Wye
Billings
Mont
Clara Frick
Goshen
Ind
Sarah Lunsford
Cobbs County
Georgia
Lunsford
Schoohouse
Airports Quieted by Anti Noise Campaign Progress
T P Wright head of Civil Aeronautics reports substantial drop in complaints as noise from low flying aircraft declines. Traffic patterns and pilot cooperation reduce over residential areas, with routes shifted to water or wastelands. Also notes Army C82 troop carrier demonstration in Pacific tour.
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T. P. Wright
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Wright
Airlines report safety record for 1944
International Air Transport Association data show more than two thirds of scheduled international airlines worldwide had an absolute safety record in 1944. Sixty member airlines carried 8.345 billion passenger miles and recorded 33 fatal accidents with 298 casualties, roughly 28.3 million passenger miles per fatality, while 42 airlines had no fatal accidents.
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International Air Transport Association
Unclear OCR Pattern Guide Mentions Weekly Service
Fragmentary text mentions UNCUT AOE Lite diagrams and patterns with repeating figures. It references a weekly newspaper service in New York and a garbled address line, suggesting a damaged notice or ad fragment with no clear event or outcome.
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New York
N.V
Coach for Holy Ghost in Spanish royal processions
An ancient Spanish custom described as a per royal carriage called the Corte de Respeto accompanied the king in processions. Reserved for the Holy Ghost, the empty coach symbolized reverence and tradition spanning generations.
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Spain
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Mighty Railroad
Wanu
Missouri River
Auridge
Richard Ryan
Emperor Hirohito
Ryan
Veterans
Mike
Edward Arnold
Mississippi
Frisco Railroad
Congress
Jim Munro
le Claire
Iowa
Munro
Harold Qusen
Montpelier
Earl C. Shreve
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Truman
Joseph M. Dodge
Detroit
Austria
Marshall
Berlin
Michael L. Munk
U. S
Germany
Hugo Eckener
Ida Lupino
Los Angeles Department of Justice
Miss Lupino
London
Pees Aviation Notes
Army Air Forces
Pacific
Holy Ghost
Gro-Pup Nibbon
Gro-Pup
Battie Creek
Genumtm
James McKence Laboratories
Heow-Bow
Torreco BV
A Chemical Corp
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