Sanitarium Gets Safety Equipment
Mayor John J. Ahern and the Department of Public Safety announced new safety measures for Pawling Sanitarium. An auxiliary fire alarm box No 814 will link to the Trey Fire Alarm System with Troy apparatus ready to respond. Additional fire doors escapes boiler covers and signal-station wiring will be installed after a conference with Catherine Bross.
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John J. Ahern
Department of Public Safety
Pawling Sanitarium
Trey
Troy
Mayor Ahern
Frank M. Ames
Carl A. Smith
Thomas Larkin
Thomas J. Larkin
Catherine R. Bross
USO Entertainer Lucille Blankton Arrives at McGrath Alaska
USO entertainer Miss Lucille Blankton of Seattle arrived with a troupe at McGrath garrison on Monday. She became engaged Friday to Lieut. William B. Ludiker and married Saturday before departing with the troupe for other Alaskan posts. Local troops say a notable social stir followed. Alaska fur shipments in 1943 totaled 2,048,942 dollars, with marten, beaver, muskrat, mink, and Arctic white fox pelts listed.
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USO
McGrath
Alaska
Lucille Blankton
Seattle
Wash
Miss Blankton
William B. Ludiker
Easton Place
Tulsa
Okla
Junea
Orthodox Rabbi Sees Rebirth of Jewish Learning in Chicago
Orthodox Rabbi Dr. Saul Silbur, head of the Hebrew Theological College, predicts Chicago will become a world center of Jewish learning after the war. He notes students study Talmud from rare volumes, time-honored Sabbath observance, and eight years of rabbinical training as they prepare to lead traditional Jewry in America.
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Chicago
INL
Saul Silbur
Hebrew Theological College
Munich
College Temple
Silbur
United States
Israel
WAC Salutes Son Before Embracing at Fort Riley
Fort Riley Kansas UP report recalls the moment when First Lieutenant Avery C. Gilleland’s mother Pvt. Helen G. Westmoreland of the Women’s Army Corps from Lufkin Texas wondered whether to salute first. She chose to salute and then hugged her son in a rare display of military family warmth.
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Fort Riley
Kan
Avery C. Gillelana
Gilleland
Pvt
Helen G. Westmoreland
Women’s Army Corps
Lufkin
Tex
Postwar guidance urged by college graduate leaders
Teachers and rabbis from his college boost morale and foster better Jew non-Jew relations. He says that the young graduate will aid Jews in the postwar era and that the world will need guidance and spiritual inspiration, strengthening American life.
War Price and Ration Board panels formed in Hoosick Falls
E A Palmer spoke on food rationing and P J Fox on gasoline mileage as two new panels for Hoosick Falls War Price and Ration Board outline functions. Lloyd Waters Frank Burns and Jay Cottrell named to mileage panel Julia McGarvin Mrs Janette Greene and Jacobd Pitney to food panel Seward presided Patrick Flannery attended Leo Hynick nominated by United Rubber Workers to board and Joseph Cuddihy to be retained.
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Albany Opa
Hoosick Falls
E. 5. Palmer
P. J. Fox
Peter A. Seward
Lloyd B. Waters
Frank M. Burns
Jay Cottrell
Julia McGarvin
Janette Greene
Jacobd Pitney
Seward
Patrick J. Flannery
Troy- Rensselaer County Ration Board
Alice King
Margaret Whitter
Leo Hynick
United Rubber Workers
Joseph Cuddihy
Howard Hills
Petersburg
Waters
Albany
Basic English Assailed as Inadequate for Conversation
New York report notes Basic English promoted by Winston Churchill faced criticism from a regional group of speech professors who argued it lacks sufficiency for natural conversation. The discussion followed Churchill’s Harvard University reference to the simplified language system.
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New York
INS
Winston Churchill
Harvard University
Debate on Basic English Lexicon at Americas Dialect Meeting
At the meeting of the Americas Dialect Society a speaker argued that reducing vocabulary to 850 words is impossible. He said a workable basic vocabulary requires at least 1,250 words to be practical.
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The
Americas Dialect Society
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Boston & Maine Railroad
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Noble & Wood Machine Co
Lukie
Ladies’ Auxiliary of
Ancient
Order of Hibernians
Anna Casey
Democratic Town Committee
Morgan Burke
Camp Upton
James Kinney
Bert Baker
Albany Hospital
George Dewar
Mary Meflelian Hospital
Cambridge
Henry McMahon
North Hoosick
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
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