Auction Sale Notice Lands in Troy to Satisfy 1942 Taxes
Public sale begins January 31, 1944 at 7 PM at the Court House in Troy to auction off several land parcels and lots to satisfy overdue 1942 state county highway school and other taxes with costs interest and charges. Purchasers must pay to the County Treasurer within 48 hours and will receive certificates describing lands and bids. after one year they obtain conveyances unless redeemed. Avery G. Hall County Treasurer and Deputy County Treasurer sign.
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Budenbeck
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Elemhans
Floyd B
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Wmatson
Euon & Rahanon
King
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s-Lasher
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Mosmen
Nicholas J
Ano
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Hacker
Cora
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Seaton
Franklin J
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Butverstone
Thomas
Ernest
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Walsh
Dorthy
DuBoise
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Warier Herman
Wanpler
Herman
e-Rosecrans Park
Zimmer
Leste
Catherine T
Gennauine
Wilford
Corrie. Vincent
Doran
Mrs. M H
Frrnley
Jonn J
Juves
Ruth A
Olive L
Raymond and
Marie
Levine
Shora
Oson
Joseph A
Mictor E
Joseph
Fonecrans Fark
Chapman
Catherine
Paseile
Anthony
Town OF
Stephentown
Bauer Arthur
Carr Calvin
u-Keller
s-e-Carr
m-Keller
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Calvin
Addie
Severstell
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Bweener
Wilson
Arvey
Harrington
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Warner
Sarath
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Waener
Fred
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Wemple
Harold
A- Farnum
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Wwemnle
Troy
Avery G. Hall
Enroll 497 4-H Girls for Food Work
A county summary shows 497 4-H Club girls in Rensselaer enrolled for food work last year with 331 in canning and 564 in clothing. Other highlights include scrap drives, salvage of silk stockings, Red Cross and USO contributions, and 73 adult 4-H leaders. Victory Garden leaflets totaled 57,900 with 2,701 bulletins and 500 posters distributed. Dorrance spent 35 percent of his time on the Victory Garden program.
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Rensselaer County
Samuel B. Dorrance
Florence H. Thayer
Thayer
Center Brunswick
North Nassau
Syeaway
East Poestenkill
Mountain View
Grafton
Schaghticoke Fair
Dorrance
Postwar Aptitude Tests Seen For Peacetime Jobs
Dr Henry E B Garrett of Columbia University says wartime psychological measurements will carry into peace time. Tests assess mental traits personality characteristics and mechanical aptitudes to fit workers to satisfying jobs and improve industry productivity. They help weed out unsuitable recruits and guide veterans into in demand fields, expanding training and ambition.
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New York
Henry EB. Garrett
Columbia University
Garrett
Taking Cops' Whistles Proves Traffic Boon
Chicago officials report traffic officers’ shrill whistles cause the most sound disruption. The Noise Abatement Commission tests found whistles, once blamed on elevated trains and horns, to be the loudest nuisance and leading to driver distraction.
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Chicago
Gloomy outlook for boost in gas quota in 1944
The Petroleum Administration for War warned that civilian gasoline quotas for 1944 face a very narrow chance of increase. Unforeseen military needs could force regional reductions in current motor fuel allotments as Harold L. Ickes notes higher aviation fuel demand will rise in both Atlantic and Pacific theaters.
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Washington
Petroleum Administration For
PAW
Harold L. Ickes
Atlantic
Pacific
Chow Mein Charge Sparks Odd Billing Confusion
A New York customer ordered chicken chow mein without onions. The meal was satisfactory but the check showed Chow mein 75 cents and No onions 5 cents, totaling 0 cents. The waiter explained the extra five cents was to compensate for the onionless preparation, saying the chef gets mixed up otherwise.
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New York
Five Cent Cigar Decline Shifts Consumers To Better Brands
Home Front reports indicate wartime shifts in cigar purchasing as cheaper five cent brands fade from shelves. Government taxes and a labor shortage reduced low-cost production, while Army post exchanges bought more tobacco, driving two thirds of MQ expenditures to cigars. Civilians increasingly seek higher grade smokes as supply tightens.
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Pittsburg
INS
Five-Center
Cigar Institute of America
Tobboggan
A. E F
Quartermaster Corps
Ticket Scalpers Turn Broadway Into Bonanza
Broadway ticket scalping surges as workers seek sold out shows. Scalpers price pairs of aisle seats well above face value with profits reported well over 200 percent. Theater officials cite a shift from systematic to furtive scalping as offices operate from hats.
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New York UP
Broadway Playhouse
Alfred Harding
Alfred Harding, A Member of the Code Enforcement Authority
Actors’ Equity Association
League of New York Theaters
Execution Delayed by Wartime Shortages
Wartime priorities delayed the Dec 30 execution of Joseph MacAvey, 24, Brooklyn, N Y, as the War Production Board would not release materials needed to repair the state's electric chair. Lincoln Nebraska.
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Lincoln
Neb
War Production Board
Joseph MacAvey
Brooklyn
Clothing Shortage Is Top Worry of British Public
A wartime British poll shows clothing shortage as the top worry for citizens, with concerns ranking second about contacting relatives abroad and third about service conditions and pay. Since 1939 millions sought CAB counsel, now over 9,000 volunteers operate across 1000 bureaus to ease postwar welfare issues and trace relatives.
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London
United States
Britain
England
C. A.B
Germany
British Isles
C. A B
Citizens’ Advice
Good Samaritans Get Real Ducking in Boothbay Harbor
Capt Henry Greenleaf and a friend tried to rescue a exhausted looking duck in the Sheepscot River but the animal revived and capsized their boat. They fell into the water and salved no further good deeds that day.
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Boothbay Harbor
Henry Greenleaf
Sheepscot
Local clubs schedule meetings and holiday events
Cambridge Monday Afternoon Book Club meets with Mrs A H Stein today. Bentley couple celebrate 26th anniversary at home with family and gifts. Women’s Christian Temperance Union meets tomorrow at 3 pm with Miss Gray. Christmas program led by Mrs John M McWhorter. attendees bring small gifts for sunshine baskets. Scotch Home Bureau sponsors care and repair demo led by Marjorie Gould at Lee Ashton home. bring electrical items or repair cards. Third Tuesday Club meets tomorrow with dessert at 7 30 and annual Christmas party grabbag. Norristown IA INS reports Millicent Saphar to receive 200 dollars monthly from 230 thousand estate if employed as housekeeper for Pauline Wanamaker. Saphar declines.
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A H. Stein
Ervil W. Bentley
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Misses Gray
South Union Street
John M. McWhorter
Scotch Hin Mome Bureau
Lee Ashton
Marjorie Gould
New York Power & Light Corp
Emma Alexander
Withiam St. Nennstiel
Ernest Beattie
Benjamin O. McClellan
Esther Stefert
Norristown
INS
Millicent Saphar
Rachel E. McVickar
Whitemarsh
Urge Civilians Not To Travel After Dec. 17
The Record reports Office of Defense Transportation urged civilians in Troy and New York communities to give up all pleasure trips on trains or intercity buses from December 17 to January 10 and to defer travel whenever possible. Director Joseph B. Eastman said crowded travel conditions offer no excuse to ignore the request, noting that holiday travel could hinder rail and bus service for armed forces furloughs and essential business travel.
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Record Newspapers
Washington, D. C
Troy
New York
Office of Defense Transportation Today
Joseph B. Eastman
ODT
Eastman
Senator Gillette Urges Tax on Farm Land Transfers
Washington senator proposes a heavy graduated tax on profits from second transfers of farm property after 1943 to curb speculative land booms. He cites wartime farm losses and mortgage strains, noting profits would be taxed at 90 percent if sold to a speculator within two years, easing to 30 percent after five years and zero after six. The plan aims to restore affordable rural land prices based on soil production value and aid homeseekers.
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Washington
Gillette
D-Ie
Grilette
Wave cooks boot sailors from galleys
New York dispatch reports the Navy's first WAVES cook and baker school graduates have joined ships galley staffs aboard the T. S. Hunter. The 12 week course taught canning and budgeting skills. Graduates include Rose MacFarlane and Eunice White with others soon to follow.
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New York
Navy
T.s.hunter
Gerald R. Blosser
Rose MacFarlane
Port Mulls
Eunice White
Portland
Grace Sterling
Oakland
Cal
Histher Kimmick
Dayton
Shirley West
Knoxville
Cleo Mortensen
Spenser
Blanche Trudelle
Harrisville
N. H
Stella Ellis
Caldwell
Ida
Helen Vail
Toledo
June Cox
Mason City
Evelyn Palmer
Nodaway
Veda Harbourt
Scio. O
Helen Williams
Greenville
S. C
Locomotive Heats Glenwood School After Fire
A stationary Inland Steel locomotive, sidelined by a fire, still provided steam to heat 20 Glenwood Manual Training School buildings. Trustee and Inland president Fred Sykes arranged a special switch and pipe connection to the blower system, restoring heat within an hour.
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Chicago
INS
Inland Steel Co
Glenwood Manual Training School
Fred Sykes
The
Inland Company
Miss Dorothy Van Wert Returns From Leonard Hospital
Schaghticoke Miss Dorothy Van Wert has returned from Leonard Hospital. Mrs E L Moon confined to home for several days. Mrs Chester Hack entertained the Bridge Club at her home. Mrs Catherine Ralston entertained at her home recently. Two tables of ecards were in play. Miss Anna Mae Spillane of Troy spending several days with her sister Mrs Alfred Lesson and family. Mrs Nellie Batt returned from Rutland VT guest of sister Mrs Ethel Semith. Mrs Frederick Clum hosted Linrain Club with three tables of bridge after luncheon. twelve members present.
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Dorothy van Wert
Leonard Hospital
E. L. Moon
Chester Hack
Bridge Club
Catherine Ralston
Anna Mae Spillane
Troy
Alfred Lesson
Nellie Batt
Rutland
Ethel Semith
Frederick Clum
Linrain Club
Work Clothes Get Cleaning Preference
Area officers of the Manpower Commission are instructed to consider essential activities for a new dry cleaning establishment. Regulations aim to prioritize cleaning uniforms and work clothes, then household fabrics, with procedures to save manpower. They urge weekly pickups, nonoverlapping routes, and customer self-mending where possible.
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Troy
WMC
Elminate
Professors Find Like Weds Like in a Survey
University of Chicago professor Ernest W Burgess and Stanford’s Paul Wallin studied 1000 engaged couples and found similarity in traits boosts marriage likelihood. Religion, family background, social interests, and courtship behavior emerged as key factors with religious similarity most important. Father and son Sage and Charles induction on the same day noted. both drafted within hours of each other.
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Chicago
INL
Ernest W. Burgess
University of Chicago
Paul Wallin
Stanford University
Rochester
UPI
Victor E Sage
Gates
Charles
Army
Navy
Youth centers turn unused spaces into teen havens
The article highlights how cities across the United States are launching youth centers to provide safe hangouts for teens. From Moline to Radford to Columbia, students lead efforts, turning auditoriums and schools into rec spaces with snack bars, game rooms, and dance floors, reducing delinquency and giving youth a constructive outlet.
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Ties 15 & Recreation Center
International City Managers Association
Civic Council
Moline
Ill
Radford
Columbia
Kalamazoo
Mich
Portage
Wis
Eugene
Ore
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