Vatican to Display Art Treasures During Holy Year Exhibitions
Rome reports six years of Vatican excavations will open tombs of 16 popes friezes mosaics altars and ancient coins to visitors during the 1950 holy year. Excavations 1940 to 1946 halted to protect the basilica foundations and will be arranged for public viewing with some sites kept sacred.
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Vatican
Rome
Vatican City
Pope Pius
Peter
St. Peter
Bacchus
Death Valley Scotty Bets Hidden Gold Fortune
Death Valley prospectors figure Death Valley Scotty, a 76 year old named Walter E. Scott, claims a 600000 dollar gold hoard in Grapevine Canyon. He says he shared the treasure with Albert M. Johnson before Johnson’s death, and plans to prove the fortune without taxes. He mocks the IRS and asserts hoarding gold is not illegal, recalling past publicity stunts and a famed Barstow visit.
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Scrath Valley
Calif
Death Valley
Scotty
Grapevine Canyon
Walter E. Scott
Albert M. Johnson
Johnson
Internal Revenue
Washington
Fort Knox
Barstow
New York
Scott Death Valley “Castle
Jealous farmhand accused after fatal beer lye mix
In VAN BUREN Maine a 39 year old Carl Peterson was arrested on a murder charge after a party case ended when his sweetheart Yvonne Pelletier Poitras drank a laced beer. He confessed adding lye and planned for two workers Martin Marczrole and Gene Cote to drink it, but she took the glass and died. Peterson to be arraigned Friday.
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van. Buren
Carl Peterson
Fort Fairfield
Peterson
Martin
Marczrole
Gene Cote
James P. Archibald
Yvonne Pelletier Poitras
Archibald
Shippers Meeting Set in Omaha December
Fifty-eighth regular meeting of the Central Western Shippers advisory board will be held in Omaha on December 2 and 3. Main speaker is Joseph H. Hayes of Chicago, counsel for the Western Association of Railroad executives. The event includes reports by Earl W. Murphy of Boise and talks on business forecasts. States represented include Idaho, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Iowa. Presiding officer is W. H. Marriott.
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Central Western Shippers Advisory Board
Gem State
Omaha
Joseph H. Hayes
Chicago
Western Association of Railroad Executives
Amon
Earl W. Murphy
Boise
Shippers
Idaho
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Iowa
W. H. Marriott
Sioux City Grain Exchange
Tragic tale of Red Smith and wife Jean Gardner
Minneapolis AP reports Red Smith endures combined tragedy as his wife Jean Gardner dies on what would have her 33rd birthday. The couple married after hardship dating to 1936 and raised four adopted children while Red recovered from a railroad accident and polio.
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Minneapolis
Red Smith
Jean
Red
Smith
University of Minnesota
Jean Gardner
Rebecca
Rupert Officials Ready to Address Condemned Bridges
State Representative Tom Bell and Rupert Chamber of Commerce leader Charles Whittaker will meet with Idaho Public Works Commissioner E. W. Sinclair in Boise at 2 p.m. Tuesday November 23 to discuss actions on two condemned bridges over the Snake River near Rupert.
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Rupert
Tom Bell
Charles Whittaker
Rupert Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
E. W. Sinclair
Boise
Snake River
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LEGO
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Dawn Fresh Picnic
del Monte
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Saas
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Henriksen
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