Camp Fire Girls Promote Friendliness and Service Nationwide
The article highlights Camp Fire Girls programs across the country, from Sherman Texas to Portland Oregon, showcasing active service like hospital visits, entertainment, and charitable projects. It notes more than 63 girls serving 847 hours, with activities ranging from wheel chair assistance to puppets for hospital patients and polio fundraiser efforts. The piece emphasizes the group’s focus on giving service as part of their law and invites girls ages 7 to 14 to join during Membership March through November 30.
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Tex
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Veterans’ Hospital
McKinney
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Ore
Alphagal Horizon Club
Reading Berks County Council
Reading
Silver Bow
National Foundation For
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Mont
Battle Creek
Mich
Santa
Tulare
Calif
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Children’s Hospital
San Francisco
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Jamestown
Man Waits 49 Years For First Pay Earned
Ed Brant of Winfield Kansas finally receives the nickel he earned in 1898 as a school sweepings pay. He dropped the coin and it fell through a crack, remaining hidden until the old Akron school was torn down. Brant says the coin is worth far less now, not even a fifth of its 1893 value.
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Winfield
Kans
Ed Brant
Brant
Akron, Kans
Single Inhabitant Now Lives in Once Rip-Roaring Town
HISSENA MONT Once a booming gold field town called Diamond City with a 10 000 population and the busiest gulch center now lives on in one log house. E B Robison, nearly 80 years resident, is the only inhabitant remaining after the town vanished into ghost town memory.
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Hissena
Mont
Diamond City
E. B. Robison
Helena
Robison
Confederate Gulch
Idaho
Montana
Two-Faced Calf Born in Annville Farm
In Annville Pennsylvania a Holstein cow owned by Harvey Sweigart gave birth to a two headed calf. The calf has four eyes two noses and two mouths though retains normal ears. The rare anomaly was noted on the farm with the unusual birth described by the owner.
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Annville
Harvey Sweigart
Baseball Fan Builds Park for Youngsters
Overland Park resident Christian G. Segner 62 built a seven acre baseball facility with lights a 700 seat grandstand dressing rooms and a soda stand at a total cost of about 15000. Opened in May the park operates nightly except Saturdays as Segner a block from the site hopes to give children a place to play occasionally serving as umpire and even manager at times.
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Overland Park, Kans
Christian G. Segner
Segner
Hidden Army plan for pilotless planes and rockets at Eglin Field
Cant see the future giants of Army air power as officials reveal a secret unit at Eglin Field Florida known as the experimental guided missile group. It operates V-2 rockets and pilotless planes guided by television from Hylln Field. Questions remain about mother planes radar beacons and returning rockets as scientists ponder lunar booster concepts.
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Atlantic
Air Corps
Hylln Field
Fla
England
Eglin Field
Moon
Memos of a Midnighter Show Faces Slow Season
Walter Winchell notes concerns for the coming season with production delays and a slowest pace in years. Treasury figures for mids 1947 show a 27 percent earnings drop for performers outside films. The commentary jokes about fashion shifts, royal marriage talk, and local spots like the Cub room and Mayflower restaurant.
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Treasury Department
It's the Cost of High Living
Walter Shead argues the nation faces the cost of high living rather than the high cost of living. He notes Americans eat well but savings shrink as about 25 percent spend beyond income. Federal Reserve data show 6.8 percent of income saved in the first half of 1947, vs 17 percent in 1845, while most farmers saved modestly in 1946.
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Federal Reserve Board
Market Humor Hits The Headlines In Quick-Change Prices
The column jokes about food price swings and market talk with a broker as prices drift. It cites eggs lamb milk hogs and a playful reference to 1929 style speculation, plus quick sketches of public figures and media/people anecdotes.
Tax Reduction Shifts in Senate Show Party Split
A Democratic senator returned from the Rockies says voters show little interest in tax reduction, while fellow Democrats back the stance. A Western Republican, contrastingly, finds strong support for capital ventures and tax cuts. Republicans foresee an early session bill possibly stronger than last year, retroactive to January 1, with expected action before February or March.
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Rockies
House
Mr. Truman
Incentive Pay Proposal Faces Socialist Equality Question
Wright Patterson commentary questions the British miners incentive plan advised by Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville after a Europe trip for General Clay. The note asks whether a socialistic government can violate equal distribution of all goods regardless of effort.
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Lewis H. Brown
Johns-Manville Corporation
Europe
Gucius D. Clay
Germany
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