Liquor Stores Earn Nearly Four Million Dollars
Charleston West Virginia liquor stores began operation May 9 1935 and by November 30 posted a total profit of 3 775 939 39 with 1 684 258 47 deposited in the general fund and a 2 071 680 92 surplus. For the first eleven months sales reached 9 781 509 73 with a net profit of 2 379 995 93. Operating costs totaled 775 852 92 and overhead 164 770 84. Other income including confiscated cars liquor and license fees was 147 395 77. November sales were 1 085 997 36 versus 1 116 801 15 in October and the net profit last month was 292 956 96.
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Charleston
West Virginia
The
Liquor Commission
President Roosevelt Sends Snowbound Farm Greeting
The president and Mrs. Roosevelt send a simple pencil sketch of a tiny snowbound farm as their Christmas card this year departing from prior years’ photos in a fireside scene.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Woman Fights Owl and Saves Chicken in Burkeville Yard
Mrs. Josie Woods corrals a horned owl attempting to snatch a prize hen in Burkeville Texas. The bird drops the fowl and attacks her with beak and claws. The owl loses the hen and fight but Mrs. Woods sustains severe wounds to her hands.
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Associated Press
Burkeville
Tex
Josie Woods
Mrs. Woods
Pope to Deliver His Yule Message From Bed
Vatican City Pope Pius rests in bed with left leg pain yet plans a brief Christmas Eve radio address at 12:30 p m local time. Engineers set up Vatican radio lines so he can speak from bed or chair, awaiting physicians’ ok.
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Associated Press
Vatican City
Pius
Beckley
Vatican
Railroads Need More Xmas Cars For Holiday Rush
Chicago businessman George A. Kelly of Pullman says railroads require the heaviest extra equipment in six years for the Christmas travel period from Dec 18 to Jan 3, with an estimate of 15 200 additional car trips beyond regular schedules. Fourteen wind tunnels are operated by the British government for aviation testing.
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Associated Press
Chicago
George A. Kelly
Pullman Company
Carnegie raises white collar pay in Pittsburgh district
Carnegie Steel disclosed raising salaries of about 85.7 percent of its white collar workers by around ten percent in the past month. The company employs over 12,000 clerks and salesmen in the Pittsburgh Youngstown area.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
Pittsburgh- Youngstown
Black gold is king in Oklahoma
Tulsa Oklahoma report notes oil, not wheat or cotton, dominates farm income in 1935. State totals show oil rentals and royalties at 36.75 million, wheat sales 23.38 million, cotton lint 19.18 million, highlighting oil as the main money crop.
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Associated Press
Tulsa
Okla
Oklahoma
Early civic, botany, and city origins noted
The text lists facts about Miss Mary Harriman organizing the Junior League in New York in 1900, the lemon tree's native claim to northwestern India, Empress Josephine's 1763 birth on Martinique, and Leningrad's founding as Saint Petersburg in 1703.
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Mary Harriman
Northwestern
India
the Empress Josephine
Island of
Martinique
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