Far Away Places with Denman in the Orient
Northwest Airlines captain John Denman and his wife recount a three week air tour through Shanghai Tokyo and Peiping to cities in China Siam and the Philippine Islands. They describe hotel life in Shanghai heat cold and noise on Nanking Road and a pedicab city tour. Next installment covers Peiping as fighting nears the Great Wall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Denman
Northwest Airlines
Far East
Tokyo
Japan
China
Indo-China
Thailand
Siam
Luzon
Philippines
Formosa
Shanghai
Philippine Islands
Orient
Nanking Road
Yangtze Valley
Cc. H. Denman
John
Peiping
Great Wall
New Year observance closes Sikeston shops January 1 1949
Stores and other business houses in Sikeston closed last Saturday January 1 1949 to observe the New Year. The piece reflects on reflection of past mistakes and plans to avoid them in the year ahead, noting differing views on time and diligence. It also touches on Jewish and Christian New Year observances and suggests a closing pattern on Good Friday for contemplation.
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Sikeston
Chambers of Commerce
Jesus Christ
Calvary’s
University Acquires Title To Camp Crowder
Columbia Mo Jan 6 The Board of Curators of the University of Missouri accepted title to part of Camp Crowder near Neosho from the War Assets Administration for a Missouri State Vocational School The transfer includes 9 570 acres 566 buildings and utilities The board estimated 1949 50 funding at 1 000 000 and 1950 51 at 750 000 for establishment and operation The matter returns to the legislature to ensure long term appropriations for twenty years to support the vocational school
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Columbia, Mo
University of Missouri
Camp Crowder
Neosho
War Assets Administration
Missouri State Vocational School
Allen McReynolds
Mrs Braxton Nations Dies at Morley Home
Mrs Minnie B Nations age 68 died at her Morley home Monday. Funeral services were held at Morley Methodist Church. Burial followed in Morley cemetery. She was a Morley native, married Braxton Nations January 28 1900. Surviving are seven sons and three daughters including Chester Cecil Robert Lyman Nations Morley Harold Vernon Nations Cape Girardeau Roscoe Nations Nevada Mo Mrs Shuma Brashear Ruth Carroll Oran and Helen Nations of Morley.
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Minnie B. Nations
Morley
Kelley
Morley Methodist Church
Nations
Tom Stanley
Braxton Nations
Chester
Cecil
Robert
Lyman Nations
Harold and
Vernon Nations
Cape Girardeau
Roscoe Nations
Nevada
Shuma Brashear
Ruth Carroll
Oran
Helen Nations
Restrictions on National Service Life Insurance Holdings
No veteran may hold more than ten thousand dollars of National Service Life Insurance including U S Government Life WWI Insurance, curbing total policy value held by each veteran.
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U. S
Opening of Cow Bell Attended by Hundreds in Sikeston
Hundreds of Sikeston and neighboring communities attended the opening of the Cow Bell, the town’s newest eating place in the Reiss Dairy building. Food ran short at times on opening day as customers from Portageville Lilbourn New Madrid Charleston and other areas visited. The Cow Bell will formally open in about a month as new machinery is installed and the Malone avenue plant supplies continue during the move. Lair's notes Simmons Beautyrest mattresses and sofas now in stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sikeston
Portageville
Lilbourn
New Madrid
Charleston
Reiss Dairy
B. D. Blackburn
St. Louis
Malone Avenue
Magna Carta manuscript returns to England on New Year
The Lacock Abbey manuscript of King John’s grant of freedom to England arrives in England after a two year stay in the United States. It was loaned by an act of Parliament to the Library of Congress in Washington for exhibition.
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England
United States
Lacock Abbey
John
Library of Congress
Washington
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Jean
Johnny
Garden City
University
Crom the
March OF Dimes
the National Foundation For Enfantile Paralysis
Otto Schoen
Scott County
Charles H
Val
Hudson
Ford Tudor
Lintoire
Vogt-Brasfield
Motor Company
Highway 61
North
Sikeston, Missouri
Morehouse, St. Louis
Simmons Beautyrest
Simmons
Lair
Center St
Allard-Matthews Insurance Agency
The
Bly
the National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Charles H. French
Sikestone
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