Anna Miles among first WACs to visit Canada for CWAC event
Anna Miles, among the earliest area girls to join the WACs, was named to join U S Women’s Army Corps cadets visiting Canada for CWAC anniversary week. With a 42 piece WAC band, she travels from Fort Des Moines to parade in the celebrations honoring the Canadian Women's Army Corps. Miles, a corporal, is the daughter of Mrs. Alice Milks of 9 First Street and has a brother in service.
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Anna Miles
WACS
U. S. Women’s Army Corps
Canada
Canadian Women’s Army Corps
WAC
CWAC
Fort Des Moines
Anna
Alice Milks
9 First Street
Stenotypists Plan Program At Albany Chapter
Ray Huntley in the South Pacific notes radio timing and home hopes as wartime letters recount soldiers in England and at various bases. The District Chapter of Associated Stenotypists of America appoints chairmen Rena Becker and others for publicity vocational entertainment and membership with a first meeting at 186 State Street Albany featuring a mock trial and a year of lectures dances shorthand speed contests and outings.
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Associated Stenotypists of America
Rena Becker
Rensselaer
Jeanne Brown
Albany
Jeraldine Stanley
H. Hulatt
State Street
St Patrick’s School Site Sold for Parish House on River Street
Negotiations concluded for sale of River Street property between St Patrick’s School and Doaw Street to St Patrick’s Church. Federal Investors, Inc. bid in at a city tax sale, with Jacob H. Saperstein interests to be represented by John H. Brod erick. Buildings to be razed include three single three story frames and a duplex, with immediate tax assessment and construction planned. A fire on January 27 1940 damaged the rectory, and War Stamp books urged conversion to War Bonds.
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River Street
St. Patrick’s School J
Doaw Street
St. Patrick's Church
Jacob H. Saperstein
Federal Investors, Inc
John H. Broderick
Saperstein Innterests
St. Patrick’s School
Photo Promotes Alice Sowalsky to Second Lieutenant
Alice Sowalsky daughter of Mrs Margaret A Sowalsky of 432 Seventh Avenue has been promoted to second lieutenant in the WAC. She is stationed at Officers Training School Fort Des Moines. Sowalsky is a Catholic Central High School and State College for Teachers graduate and was employed at Medical Center New York before enlistment.
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Sixth Avenue
Camp Blanding
Fla
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Tham Cope
Federal Street
Harugan
Tex
Stona Falls
Bob Schumacher
George H. Schumacher
Fwles
Air Corps
Bob
CCHS
J. M. Warren Co
Don Kruse
Highland Avenue
Great Lakes
Norfolk
Duchy
Dick Feathers
Fort Bragg
N. C
Berlin
Harold Kelly
Pawling Avenue
Fort Knox
Toledo
Ordnance
Harold
Troy Hi
New York Power and Light Corp
Seaman
Herbert Kehn
George Street
Green Island
Sampson
Herb
LaSalle
Bert Boice
Alice C Sowalsky
Margaret A. Sowalsky
Seventh Avenue
WAC
Officers’ Training School
Fort Des Moines
Sowalsky
Catholic Central High School
State College For Teachers
Medical Center
New York
Emma Willard Opens Sept. 15 After Summer Changes
Emma Willard School reopens September 15 with 280 enrolled students, including 25 in residence. Principal Muss Anne Wellington says a limited number of young boys will be admitted in pre primary and first grades for the first time in years. About 130 local students enrolled. 23 states represented, led by New York with 53.
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Emma Willard School
Muss Anne Wellington
Emma Wilard
New York
Massachusetts
Michigan
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Connecticut
Slinsons
Iowa
Vermont
California
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Mussour
Oklahoma
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Texas
Utah
Wyoming
Slocum Hall
Old Third Street Methodist Church To Be Razed
An old South End landmark, the Third Street Methodist Church, long unused for services, will be razed. The building, owned by Casey Brothers Construction Co, has served as a storehouse for twenty years and lies on the east side of the street just south of the First Precinct. It has not been in use for four or five years, prompting demolition.
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South End
Third Street Methodist Church
Casey Brothers Construction Co
Fred C. Casey
Casey
R P I student leaves car in street and goes to sea
R C Goldich of Chicago an RPI student told Troy police his friend’s 1931 Ford left on River Street near Cluett Peabody & Co Inc for about two months was sold for junk. Owner John F O Rourke left orders to sell but Klopotosky failed to relay. Goldich traced the car to a local junkyard where it had been driven and sold for cash.
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R.C. Goldich
Chicago
Goldich
Central
Joseph Klopotosky
Paterson
N. J
John F. O'Rourke
Utica
O'Rourke
Merchant Marine
River Street
Cluett, Peabody & Co Inc
Klopotosky
New Jersey
Whitehall Man Renamed Deputy in Knights of Columbus
James E. Roche of Whitehall has been named district deputy of the 32nd district by State Deputy Hugh A. Cushing of Jamaica. Roche, the youngest district deputy in the state, will oversee councils in Whitehall Hudson Falls Fort Edward and Glens Falls.
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James E. Roche
Whitehall
Knights of Columbus
Hugh A. Cushing
Jamaica
Roche
Hudson Falls
Fort Edward
Glens Falls
Navy Lieutenant Baxter Home on Sicilian Leave
Lieut. James P. Baxter of the Navy, son of Williams College president James P. Baxter, has returned home on leave after taking part in the Sicilian invasion. He serves on the staff of the commander of the division of naval transport.
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Sicily
James P. Baxter
The
Navy
Williams College
Division of Naval Transport
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