Rural America Drives Red Cross Campaign 1947
Rural areas and small farming towns are emphasized as essential to the 1947 Red Cross fund drive with a $60 million goal. The piece details four major postwar responsibilities including veteran services, hospital aid, active duty support, and community relief, noting 2,908 chapters and heavy volunteer work backing a peacetime expansion of disaster and safety programs nationwide.
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YNU
America
American Red Cross
Washington, D.C
Red Cross
ARC
Veterans’ Administration
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Philippines
American Junior Red Cross
Farm Leaders and Red Cross Urge Campaign Support
Farm leaders and the Red Cross urge rural America to back the 1947 fund drive. Clinton P. Anderson calls the Red Cross a good neighbor aiding local and world communities. A B. Goss and Edward A. O Neal echo praise, calling Red Cross service indispensable and its mission of mercy enduring.
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Red Cross
Clinton P. Anderson
Rural America
Anderson
America
A. 8. Goss
National Grange
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Goss
American Red Cross
O’neal
Churches Use Chartered Buses To Boost Attendance
In Philadelphia, 15 churches hire buses to shuttle parishioners from designated corners to services and back. Holmesburg Methodist reports an 80 to 40 percent attendance rise in a year of bus service. Old Swedes church also uses buses as residents lose access to transit and move away from traditional neighborhoods.
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Philadelphia
Holmesburg Methodist Church
Gloria Dei
Protestant Episcopal Church
Coldest Spot in Nation: Big Piney Wyoming
Big Piney Wyoming, a cattle town of 241, is frequently cited as the coldest place in the country. The Weather Bureau blames cold air drainage from surrounding mountains for 20 degrees below zero readings and a short growing season of one day versus Cheyenne’s 149.
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Big Piney
Wyo
Wyoming Mountains
Weather Bureau
Cheyenne
Street Strays in Santa Fe City Council Order
Santa Fe New Mexico report notes that Street of the Cows has been lost or strayed in the ancient city. The street committee was ordered to corral the straying street after the council noted the 40 foot shift from its original 60 year old location.
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Santa FE
N. M
Sawing Proves Easy as Sewing in Self-Built House
Jackson, Michigan where dressmaker Myrtle Ann Dibble is building a seven room home largely by hand for her two daughters. She mixed cement, laid a basement, cut green oak logs, fitted them, nailed, wired, and plumbed as she handles all work herself to complete the house she started with life savings after a divorce.
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Dibble
Lack of Sleep Tied to Harmful Effects and Drunkenness
Chicago report quotes J P Fanning of the National Association of Bedding Manufacturers arguing sleeplessness can mimic alcohol intoxication. He cites scientific tests where sleep deprivation made men as irresponsible as drinkers, and mockingly notes leaders like Hitler and Napoleon suffered from excessive wakefulness.
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Chicago
J. P. Farming
National Association of Bedding Manufacturers
Fanning
Sci
Hitler
Napoleon
Pedro Gomez and Manuel Beuno in a Villa era firing squad
In a tense courtyard scene Pedro Gomez and Manuel Beuno recall past saves and threats as Villa era rebels face Carranza loyalists. The narrative builds to a fatal firing squad moment with Pedro’s last calm smile fading as the defining wall fire ends his life.
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Pedro Gomez
Pedro
Caliente
Caballero
Pancho Villa
Manuel Beuno
Devil'n Drink
Carranza
Manuel
Villa
Pancho
Fedro
Mars
Household hacks for quick arts and home tasks
The note blends simple crafts and maintenance tips. It covers decorating bonnets with ribbons and feathers, soaking clothes to avoid dirt, handling glass panes, placing rubber tips on putty knives, keeping a kitchen mirror, and pinging ceiling paper first. It also advises using cereal boxes for letters and maintaining a Blue Book for organized storage and seasonal wardrobe notes.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Kellogg’s
Perry
Terry-Morse
Detroit
San Francisco
Ny Lait
Vasolite Company
Harte Hendors
Med
McGuire Veterans’ Hospital
Richmond
John W. Johnson
Bay Pines Veterans’ Hospital
St Petersburg
Fla
Joseph Sine Sonin
Fleischmann
Eveready
National Carbon Company, Inc
Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation
East 42Nd Street
New York
N.Y
American Standards Association
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