Detective Patty MacVeigh Solves Hugger Mugger in Automat
In August 1933 at the Broadway and 144th Street Automat two deaths from cyanide puzzled investigators. Detective Patty MacVeigh links Jellinek’s suicide tied to foreclosure with Lil Rosenfeld’s scavenging, uncovering $45,000 hidden in bankbooks and steady interest totaling $1,200 annually.
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Patty MacVeigh
Billy Rose
New York
Broadway
144Th Street
Lil Han Rosenfeld
Harry Jellinek
Little Boys
MacVeigh
Lillian
Manhattan
New Jersey
Jelinek
Classified Ads and the Rise of Efficient Marketplaces
This feature extols classified or want ads as a more efficient marketplace than physical stalls. It praises timeliness convenience and description in ads, noting how ads connect buyers and sellers without travel. It urges thorough details to boost response and showcases everyday life stories behind listings.
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Pierce
Nation honors Elizabeth Kenny for polio battle
Elizabeth Kenny, Australian nurse, receives nationwide Gallup poll honor as one of the two most admired women. Congress passes an unlimited visa bill allowing her to travel and return to the United States without standard immigration papers, boosting global access to her polio treatment.
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Sister
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Truman
United States
House
Judiciary Committee
Kenny
Marvin L. Kline
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Kline
America
Kenny Foundation
Tion
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Brussels
Belgium
Pontiac
Michigan
Buffalo
New York
Jersey City
England
Canada
Argentina
Australia
Luther Youngdahl
St. Paul
Donald C. Dayton
E. J. Huenckens
The
Elizabeth Kenny
Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs
Variety Clubs of America
Parents’ Magazine
University of Rochester
New York University
Rutgers University
American Nurses’ Association
Hollywood Pictorial Notes On Stars And Shifts
Live Deering’s stage start at twelve in a Broadway hit and Olive’s screen break in Samson and Delilah mark a week of film moves. Olson, Berg, Ryan, and Taylor surface in varied talks from new contracts to premieres as Truth or Consequences gains a name, and D O A promotes a dead on arrival mystery.
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Live Deering
Miriam
C. B. DeMille
Hot Springs
New Mexico
Ralph Edwards
Howard Lesieur
United Artists
New York
Police Department
Homicide Squad
Edmond O’brien
Pamela Britton
Luther Adker
Dusty the Springer Spaniel Faces a Dilemma
In a tale of hunger and temptation Joe and Sylvia consider selling Dusty the week they own him. Dusty proves helpful by retrieving a lost rag doll, drawing a curious stranger who asks to buy the dog. Joe resists yet feels guilt over potential sale as he weighs an easy thousand dollars.
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Dusty
Sylvia
Joe
No Sale Turns Into Offer For Dog Dusty
Joe rejects a high price for his dog Dusty and is offered $25 a day to hire him for a film. A rotund man praises Dusty as a perfect find for a hidden-object role and suggests terms if the initial amount is refused. Joe ponders the choice as they walk away on Vine Street with Dusty watching.
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Sylvia
Dusty
Joe
Vine Street
Primary Kaolin from North Carolina Botted for Fine China
Primary kaolin produced in this country comes from North Carolina. It is a ceramic used in fine china.
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Ali
North Carolina
China
Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues
A long list of crossword clues including Across indices from 1 Java tree to 0 Secluded narrow valley and Down clues spanning unrefined to chairs with various abbreviations and spellings.
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Knightservant
Earth
Chui
Vailey
Last Week Scores and Birds Mentioned In Brief
Last week’s 42 Hasten 43 Conclude 45 appears as a cryptic item. Topaz hummingbird is noted with No. 62 in a compact column of odds and oddities.
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Hasten
Conclude
Polio Epidemic Strikes Nation With Fury in 1949
The 1949 polio outbreak reached a new peak with 33,144 cases from January 1 to October 2 and expected surpassing 40,000 by year end, exceeding 1948’s high of 28,000. Outbreaks occur yearly in late summer, peaking mid-September, striking nationwide with impartial ferocity.
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U. S
Build This Cozy Home For Bluebirds Wrens
Birds have preferences for depth width and opening size in nesting houses Pattern 277 provides actual size cutting guides for blue birds and wrens The pattern costs 25 cents and can be ordered from Workshop Pattern Service Drawer 10 Bedford Tits New Fork.
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Bedford Tits New Fork
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Lillian Rosenfeld
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Inez Gerhard
Olive Deering
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the Goldbergs
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Kathleen Ryan
Robert Stillman
Stanley Kramer
Elizabeth Taylor
Texas
Elizabeth
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Barricade
Lafayette Junior High School
Los Angeles
the Fiction Corner
Hollywood
Selma
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Great Lakes
Cig
Dean
Doan
Chey
Tobacco By-Products & Chemical Corporation
Richmond
Virginia
McKesson & Robbine Inc
Bridgeport, Cons
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