Dream House Sold At Less Than Value In Midtown Lot
Alfred and Edna Birnbaum sold a two story house won for 50 cents in a raffle to Herbert Braasch. The deal includes $50 daily rental on the Midtown Manhattan parking lot where the house sits and Braasch plans to move the house to a Long Island lot. Braasch calls the purchase a gamble and wonders if it is a white elephant.
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New York
Alfred
Edna Birnbaum
Birnbaum
Herbert Braasch
Midtown Manhattan
Birnbaums
American Women’s Voluntary Services
A.W.V.S
Braasch
Port Washington
Long Island
Four Drumsticks Are Promise of Danville Chick
A Danville farm story notes a six week old chicken named Biddy with an extra leg on each side. Dale Walz five says there should be four drumsticks from Biddy and praises the unusual fowl. Biddy is owned by Dale’s foster parents Carl and Mrs Brown who bought her from a hatchery.
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Danville
Biddy
Dale Walz
Here
Dale
Carl Brown
British Coal Miners End Wildcat Strike
North England pits saw 75,000 miners drifting back to work after a 48 hour wildcat strike that idled 75,000 workers and halted 222000 tons of coal. The walkout was led by 868 mine elevator operators in Yorkshire and Lancashire despite union advice.
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England
Yorkshire
Lancashire
Standard mile at sea differs by nation
The United States nautical mile is 6,080.27 feet, while British French and German versions are shorter by two inches to four feet.
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United States
PATE ROOFING AND INSULATING CO OFFER
Roofing and insulation offer no down payment and three years to pay. 821 N Park Ave Herrin phone 25271. reads as an advertising notice from a local contractor.
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Pate Roofing and Insulating CO
N. Park Ave
Herrin
Shaw's proposal to abolish prisons and gas criminals
George Bernard Shaw, 93, mails a post card from Ayot Saint Lawrence outlining a drastic cure for crime. He argues against punishment, comparing criminals to pests and urging execution or lethal gas for incorrigible offenders and enemy soldiers.
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George Bernard Shaw
London
Ayot Saint Lawrence
Shaw
Fourth Brinks Suspect Found
Joseph Jakalski, 31, last of four men sought in the Brinks killings, was captured in Cheyenne Wyoming on a vagrancy charge. Police say he was the trigger man in the June 25 daylight bank shootout at the South Chicago Savings. The robbery yielded $920 in cash and $377 000 in worthless checks. two guards were killed.
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Chicago
Joseph Jakalski
Expres
Cheyenne
Wyo
Jakalski
South Chicago
George R. McSwain
F.B.I
Brinks Express Co
Joseph den
Bruno Koziol
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Elbertas
Maddox
Giant City
Black
Ledoux
Ly-Mar Cafe
Barney Watson
White City Park
Herrin, Illinois
Jack Staulcup and His Orchestra
Illinois
RC Stullomy
Alumi E
North Park
Walnut
M’boro
Brinks
CNC
America
St. Louis
Jefferson Memorial
Midwest
Atlas Tires
American Petroleum Institute
Standard Oil
Lora
Hee
Ford
Nehi Bottling CO. , Itlin
Mous Servel Refrigerator
Paya
Welchinger
Illinois Electric & Gas Co
P. O
Johnston City
Kirby’s Variety Store
East Broadway
Murphysboro
Carbondale Brown’s
S. Illinois
Marion
Hector
Morgan-Jewell
Motor Company
Murphysboro, Illinois
Brewster Motors, Inc
Park Avenue
Ilinois
Vogler Motor
Fashion Academy
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