Turkey Prices About Same As Last Year
New York reports Turkey prices for Thanksgiving to be near last year with larger birds cheaper in some areas. USDA pegs 1953 turkey crop at 55,746,000, the second highest on record, eight percent below last year’s 60,657,000. Wholesale quotes in New York and Chicago show medium hens similar to a year ago, large birds over 16 pounds a few cents per pound lower. Retail prices remain embargoed by major chains, to be announced soon. Four of five gobblers will be ready-to-cook, drawn and cleaned, ready for stuffing and oven.
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New York
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Chicago
USDA
American Shipbuilding Co
Buffalo
A. E. Heekin
Flight Laundry
Dean Vail Corp
Hanna
Putnam St. Paterson
Lwinter Quarters
Lorain
N. J
Clock Given By Lincoln Back At His Home
A five foot pendulum wall clock once given by Abraham Lincoln to Clark M. Smith, Springfield, has been bought for Smith’s home. Built 1842 to 1858 by E Howard & Co, it passed to Mrs Minnie Smith Johnson, now in a rest home. National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Illinois purchased it. The walnut case clock remains in good running order.
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Springfield
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
E. Howard & Co
Boston
Clark M. Smith
Smith
Ann Todd
Mary Todd Lincoln
Minnie Smith Johnson
National Society of Colonial Dames of Armorica
Illinois
Restaurant owner trusts astrology after nickel mailer
Rochester Indiana restaurant owner John Hoover said astrology guided him after a Fort Wayne woman sent a letter saying she had been charged five cents too little. She enclosed a nickel, Hoover confirmed the charge was correct, used the nickel for a three cent stamp, and sent back two cents.
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Rochester
Ind
John Hoover
Fort Wayne
Hoover
Rocks In His Box Tale From Angola Prison
A guard stopped a convict as he was removing a box from cold storage. Inside the box were three chickens dressed and ready for cooking. The inmate claimed the box contained rocks and explained they were Plymouth Rocks.
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Angola
Plymouth Rocks
Chinese Woman Cleared in Singapore Card Playing Case
A Chinese woman and 11 companions told a Singapore magistrate they were not gambling but observing a custom to mark the first anniversary of their husbands' deaths. The magistrate discharged the group, releasing them.
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Singapore
Ito
Week's Balance Sheet For Hot And Cold Wars
United Press survey weighs good and bad news from the hot and cold wars. Pakistan signs potential aid-based base access while the U.S. weighs a broader military pact. Churchill pursues a big-power meeting as Europe’s Army plan advances with French Socialists backing unity. Italy pledges five-power talks over Trieste while Yugoslavia calls for non alignment amid East–West pressure.
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Phil Newsom
United Press Foreign News
Pakistan
United States
U.S
Washington
Winston Churchill
French Socialist Party
Guy Mollet
Russia
Moscow
Kia
West Germany
Guiseppe Pelmats
Reds
Yugoslavia
France
East
Britain
Free Territory
Trieste
Berlin
Thomas S
Tion Commission
Korea
Italy
Marshal Tito
Lord Explains City Government At Quota Club
Kenneth Lord, Elyria City Council president, spoke to the Quota Club of Elyria at the Graystone Hotel. He outlined city departments and the duties of officers, noting Elyria’s size brings complex administrative and legislative challenges. The club announced a Thanksgiving Dance for Friday, November 27 and discussed plans for a children’s party at the school for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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Kenneth Lord
Elyria
Quota Club of
Graystone
Lord
School For the Deaf and
Ruth Keith
Quota
Constance Lynch
Pittsburgh Ship Firm Plans to Sell Five Vessels
United States Steel Corporation president says five small Pittsburgh Steamship Fleet ships will be sold if satisfactory bids arrive by March 1. The vessels, over 50 years old, have drawn buyers from Toledo and Buffalo amid mild fall weather enabling quick drydock work and hull repairs before next season.
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Cleveland, C
Marine
EWS
Donald C. Potts
United States Steel Corporation
Pittsburgh
Potts
Toledo
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N. Wilkens
School of Professional Dancing
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Blue Banner Boys
Bernies
Taylor & Fairlawn
Lake Erie
Roll
Cleveland Rink
Stoney’s
Rainbow Lounge
Bob Nicoloff
Rainbow Lanes & Lounge
Oberlin Rd
Cleveland
Louis Polinak
Mrs. Polinak
Stars
California
UCLA
Allied Service
Cleveland St
Gibby’s
Paprikash
Gibby
General Industries
Taylor
Unusu
Tura
Ohio
Chronicle-Telegram
Ally
sim/Lorain drydock
Cpl
Edward Dickenson
Big Stone Gap
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Dickenson
The
Chevrolet
Bel Air
Fine Entertainment
Dinah Shore
NBC
Teesday
Thoredays
Tumedey
NBC TV
Fisher
ELCO
Chevrolet Sales, Inc
E. Bridge St
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