1000 Gifts Offered to Top Value Savers
Top Value Enterprises Beckley redemption store at 338-310 Prince Street lists over 1000 practical gifts for stamp savers. Items span photography equipment, office goods, jewelry, linens, kitchenware, tools, sporting gear, toys, games, furniture, luggage, clocks, and household wares from brands like General Electric Westinghouse Timex Remington Pyrex and West Bend.
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Top Value Enterprises
Beckley
Prince Street
General Electric
TV Stamps Aid Budget For Newly Married Couples
A 1940s feature promotes TV Stamp stores helping families save for home goods. It explains stampEarned with every 10 cents spent, building books worth about 150 dollars for valuable items like lamps, dishes, and jewelry. The piece links weekly groceries and fuel costs to attainable rewards and suggests shopping at stamp outlets for budgeted gifts.
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General Electric
Revere
Remington
Elgin
Eastman
Philco
Sameonite
Westinghouse
International
Rogers
Kroger Executive Praises TV Stamp Plan Gains Customers
A Kroger Company executive endorses Top Value stamps, noting many new customers have switched to Kroger stores since adoption. He cites steady prices, bonus gift merchandise, and offsetting distribution costs by higher sales, appealing across income and residence groups. Tokyo Population Rises Sharply in Last Year. Population now 8,256,188 after 238,489 increase in 12 months, per City Statistics Bureau.
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Kroger Co
Fbad
Kroger
Tokyo
City Statistics Bureau
Corbett Convicted in Speeding Case Faces Flynn Trial
John J. Corbett was convicted of speeding and paid a $20 fine. He filed a speeding charge against Constable James Flynn, who arrested him. Flynn pleaded innocent and will face trial later this month.
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Sarnia
John J. Corbett
James Flynn
Flynn
Mink-coated woman demands trading stamps in hurry
A mink-clad woman in a chauffeur driven car rushed into a grocery store, paid with a $5 bill and claimed she could not wait for change. She returned to request her trading stamps before rushing to a luncheon.
Top Value stamps feature Toppie the plaid elephant
The ad promotes Top Value stamps as a path to over 1,000 gifts. Toppie, a plaid coated elephant with a cheerful grin, symbolizes merchants who display his image. The copy touts Top Value as national bargains with radio jingles and TV spots, highlighting variety and value.
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Top Vale
Toppie
Walt Disey
Stamp-Savers Can Earn Over 1,000 Useful Items
Top Value stamp program offers more than 1000 gifts ranging from baby to grandpa. The Four color catalog and redemption stores display new items daily. Top Value Enterprises grew from a small start in 1935 to 1350 staff with 100 redemption stores, led by Kroger and Capper MacDonald Co, making it the nation’s second largest trading stamp company.
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America
Beckley
Top Value Enterprises, Inc
Dayton
Ohio
Farflung
Top Value
S. Ludlow St
Kroger Co
Dayton's Capper
MacDonald and Co
Top Value Enterprises
Causeway Finished Linking Amoy to Mainland China
Peiping radio reports a granite causeway linking the mainland with the fortified island of Amoy opposite Formosa. The bridge, about a mile and a quarter long, will ease reinforcement and supply to Amoy as Nationalist artillery duels with Chinese forces near Quemoy Island.
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Hong’ Kong
China
Amoy
Formosa
Peiping
Quemoy Island
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