Local Industry and Tragedy Report from Southeast Missouri
MAIN STREET area announces a new mattress and upholstery factory open for business, plus yard additions at a shoe factory expected ready by December. In POTOSI miner Jack Oral Irwin, 28, died when two mine walls collapsed east of town. In GIDEON, 1500 attended the fourth annual style show by Gideon Anderson store with 25 high school girls and 11 models. In CAPE GIRARDEAU, Presbyterian syndical conference met, focusing on women’s church activities.
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Potosi
Jack Oral Irwin
Here
Gideon
Gideon-Anderson Dry Goods Store
Malden Mourns Former Police Chief W J McMillan
Malden records the death of W J McMillan former chief of police who died last Sunday night. He leaves a wife two sons and three daughters and other relatives in the community.
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Malden
W. J. McMillan
This Place
Kennett
John M. Fleceman
Hornersville
Government spends huge sums on farm subsidies
A Sanctioned report from Washington states the Federal Government paid 3.4 billion dollars for price supports in the 12 months ending July. The Commodity Credit Corp holds 2.35 billion dollars worth of farm commodities on loan, with 610 million written off as loss. CCC, the Agriculture Department’s financial arm, speculates on future losses as postwar crops keep prices buoyant and stocks remain high.
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Washington
Commodity Credit Corp
CCC
Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Department
Court upholds anti rum running law in Missouri case
Federal Court in Kansas City denied an injunction that would ease liquor shipments from Missouri into dry Oklahoma. Tulsa attorneys argued the Missouri provision requiring correct shipper and receiver names on the bill of lading was unconstitutional. The ruling connects to other state liquor transport actions and Missouri law changes amid a wave of construction and government spending reports.
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Missouri
Oklahoma
Kansas City
F A Griffing
Carl D. Harp
Robert L. Brannin
Brent Clark
Tulsa
Okla
Scott County
Harry Wesley Purcell
Ponca City
Sikeston
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Crystal City
Fredericktown
Cape Girardeau
Synodical Conference of the
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Poplar Bluff
William B. Cope
de Soto
New Madrid
J. Thomas Anderson
Mississippi River
Doniphan
Eleven Points
Newport
Ark
U. S. Army
Nathan Baughman
Patsy O'Neal
Fise
Cecil Brashier
Veterans Farm
Fisk High School
Kennett-Sikeston
Steele—Civic Clubs
Pemiscot Bayou
Pemiscot
Essex
James Monroe Harper
John G. Hart
Aurora
Ill
Highway
Hart
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Illmo
M. H. Hamil O
N. E. Raines
Ancell
George J. Arnold Kelso
Joseph Keusenkothen
Fred Burger
New Hamburg
H. J. Melies
E. A. Schindler
Oran
Bud Mason
Tom Baty
Torley
Harry Daugherty
Mrs
Ruth Finney
Commerce
J. T. Carlton
Blodgett
B. F. Marshall Or
Crista Paschall
Diehlstadt
E. E. Crader
O. F. Anderson
Kroehler
Liberal
LIFE
Saturday Evening Post
Krochler Mig. Co
Anon
Withs Fo Ward
Pineville
Hyman Rubin
Cairo
Missour
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