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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1946
Page
10
Deaths and funeral notices list names, ages, and services from multiple homes in the area. Survivors are named, with locations including Fifth Avenue, Eagle Mill, Cohoes, and Troy, detailing churches, cemeteries, and interment plans.
The funeral of Harry J. Schramm was held yesterday from A. R. Fox & Son Funeral Home on Thirteenth Street with Rev. Leslie M. Mandy officiating. Bearers were associates of Mr. Schramm at Catamount Textile Manufacturing Co, Bennington. Interment followed at Memory's Garden, Calonts.
Brazil for the first time uses government funds to send citizens abroad on official business. The national treasury will pay one cruzeiro per person, about two cents, to members of the official delegation to Paris. Foreign Minister Jon Neves da Fontoura lacks several juridical advisers and industrialists on the team and even paid them in advance.
A man on vacation buys three pairs of nylon stockings but finds them too large for his wife. The garments fit his mother in law instead, prompting him to search for three more pairs to placate his wife. The oddly worded piece reads as a humorous domestic anecdote from a southern state context.
Jual Anderson asks for a rent boost in Chicago while tenant Jona Maxwell reports willingness to pay more. The landlord rejects the rise, stating eight years of occupancy justify current rent and that nothing will change.
A Philadelphia veteran, after 19 years, completes a bachelor degree near the top of his class. He served in the Army and Air Forces, was wounded in World War II near Manchester, England, and later worked for Brown & Maument Division of Minneapo lis Honeywell Regulator. He had previously attended Yale University, interrupting studies in 1990 after a junior year, and returned on leave last year to finish his degree.
Winnipeg's only photography school arose from a decade old clash between four policemen and a lawbreaker. Harry Provigot trained with a miniature camera during the incident, his pictures later appearing in a paper and magazine before selling to a factory house organ. He then opened a school, teaching skilled pupils who work and teach at night.
London friends plan a memorial for Wells at Green Crematorium after his death at 79. The private cremation is noted, with a wider service being discussed but not likely within the next three to five weeks.
A city newspaper publishes a Veterans Directory listing principal agencies aiding veterans. It notes contact offices in Troy and surrounding counties for claim and pension help, education and vocational guidance, employment services, and veteran rights information with phone numbers and addresses.
A researcher Dr Gorton R Funda at the General Wlodels Research Laboratory reports a new method to render ultraviolet rays visible by adding a dose of Joad to a tube coating and exposing it to infrared light. The process makes electrons emit visible light, similar to wartime sniperscopes that used infrared illumination. The article notes possible parallels for future devices and mentions related wartime and administrative details.
An advertisement outlines a new plan by the Concern Organized to Care for Babies in Pittabury. Founder Richart Mawthorn proposes a program offering child care with a focus on safety. The ad cites damages up to 910,000 for personal property and 2,800 for theft, and mentions charges including 40 cents, 75 cents, and a $2.50 fee. A note warns of a shock comparable to 46 volts from an electric test.
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