Local Red Cross reports 1375 home service cases in year
Elyria chapter handled 1375 home service cases from June 1947 to July 1948 with 61 percent veterans or dependents and 22 percent servicemen. national figures show 65, 28 and 7 percent in those groups. The chapter also assisted 459 other individuals with information and related services. In Septembers report 77 people sought home service. Malden Mass Katherine Richardson and Cecilia Coughlin offered jobs after painting their seven room home.
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Home Service Department
Elyria American Red Cross Chapter
National American Red Cross
Home Service
Mary Elizabeth Snyder
Red Cross
Malden
Mass
Katherine M. Richardson
Cecilia T. Coughlin
Real Estate Agent Returns to Pulpit in Ashby
Rev. Paul Harris Drake, 59, after 25 years selling real estate, returns to clerical work in Ashby Massachusetts to preach “God's way.” A pacifist prior pastor, he previously left ministry in 1917 and 1923 for liberal views, now vows to spend remaining years in service from the parsonage.
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Ashby
Mass
Paul Harris Drake
Drake
Newton
First Parish Unitarian Church
Dorchester
Christ Church
United States
The
Marlboro
First Universalist Church
Treasure Hunters Seek Peru Gold
Plymouth England Albert Edwards, 50 year old treasure hunter, finishes reconverted fishing cutter Heather Glen. He plans to sail for Cocos Island off Peru, famed for a legendary fortune of gold hidden aboard the Marie Dyer amid a revolution era risk.
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Plymouth
England
Albert Edwardes
Heather Glen
Cocos Island
Peru
Marie Dyer
Treasure hunt crews sail to remote isles for mythical gold
Edwardes leads a voyage with his wife a friend Edward Sanders and a cat toward Nore folk Island north of New Zealand hoping to find the Cocos treasure after 64 expeditions failed. They plan to live in a South Sea style paying six shillings four pence yearly, about $1.25, while Edwardes remains doubtful the treasure exists but eager for one last try.
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Cocos Island
Edwardes
Edward Sanders
Norefolk Island
New Zealand
Cocos
Ants blamed for 50-foot tree collapse at Myles estate
Cambridge Massachusetts. Tree experts say ants hollowed the base of a 50-foot tree of Heaven on Dr. Arthur L. Myles’s estate. The 35-year-old tree fell onto the highway, bringing down telephone wires and blocking traffic.
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Cambridge
Mass
Arthur L. Myles
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