First Woman Driver Splashes Trail Across Alaska Highway
Rusty Bow becomes the first woman to drive over the Alaska Highway completing a 56 hour trip from Fairbanks to Dawson Creek with a five ton load of cement. She notes the highway is beautiful and should be preserved, challenging reports of its harshness and urging continued maintenance after the war. Along the route she sparks curiosity among truck drivers who marvel at a woman behind the wheel.
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Alaskan
Alaska Highway
Éd Womichy
Rusty Bow
Alaska
Territory
Richardson
Oto
Whittier Tunnel
Russell
Cally Highway
Meaulital
Mré
Dow
Fairbanks
Dawson Creek
B. C
Bill
Rusty
Edmonton
Alta
Alaska truck queen who built wartime road links
Mrs Dow, pioneer driver Ol n Scott Dow later Fussell Dow, drove trucks to Texas and California before moving to Alaska a decade ago. She helped bring Weston Chevrolet to Alaska in 1944, taught across the Anchorage area, and now advocates peacetime government service stations and tourist camps to maintain the wartime road system.
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Mix
Dow
Téxat
Californid
Abé
Alaska
Champlea
Oln Scott
Fussell Dow
Ameka
Wiweston Chevrolet
Matahuska
Anchoragé
Avon School Board Meets and Budget Approved
Avon Board of Education held its monthly meeting in the school cafeteria. Final approval was given to the 194% budget, textbooks were ordered for opening, and Route 2 bus maintenance was approved before the school year starts.
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Avon School Board
Avon
Avon Board of Fdu|ration
Douglas Knight
Ed Knight
Center Road
Farm Leaders Meet At Marion For Annual Conference
Thirty farm leader delegates from Ashland Fostoria Marion Wapakoneta and nearby areas gathered in Marion for their annual conference to discuss farm operations and pricing strategies amid postwar adjustments. Purdue economist Dr E J Bard spoke on anticipated price trends and the need for careful planning as markets adjust after the war.
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Flyria
Ashland
Fostoria
Défiance
Marion
Wapakoneta
E. J. Bard
Purdue Universsity
Pursche
Brookings Institute
Washington, D. CO
World Abundance Seen Through Peace Effort at Antineh College
Head argues for a world of abundance through enduring peace and reform in global production. He cites poverty as the core issue and warns that current production-for-profit systems and cartels block true peace until they are outlawed and replaced.
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Murray
Lincolin
Farr Baraat
Antineh College
Paca
Vielong
Globe
Syston
Chicago GOP Finance Head Named for Dewey Campaign
Herbert Brownell announced James 8. Kemper will head the Republican finance committee for the Dewey Bricker campaign from New York. Kemper will base headquarters in New York and the campaign plans a balanced budget with financing discussions underway.
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New York
James 8. Kemper
Chicago
Shartsman
Republican’ Finance
Dewey-Bricker
Herbert Brownell
GOP
Todayy Kemper
Undefined historical note fragment
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Cleveland and Britons with unclear context and dates, describing a male subject confined for weeks and a folk figure with a duvet. The readable parts are sparse, and no coherent events, names, or dates are confirmable from the fragment.
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Homer
F.l Casper
Vermilion-on-the Lake
Scott Hartsel
Steve Moore
Lorain
Splain
Netrait Road
Sheffield Lake
Grizzle
Stony Ridge Road
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