Watervliet Elks Clambake Moves to Aug 26
The Watervliet Lodge of Elks extends its clambake at Brookside Park West Sand Late to Aug 26 after an Aug 18 date shift. General chair Lawrence Kohoe leads the event with John Farrell treasurer and Martin M Behan secretary assisting. Events and entertainment planned. seven delegates head to a four day Elks convention in New York starting Sunday.
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Brookside Park
West Sand
Owly Ba
Biky
Lawrence Kohoe
John Farrell
Martin M. Behan
Watervliet Reports Food Drive Totals Amid Urgent Need
Gerald Firth announced final figures for the Watervliet Emergency Food Campaign aiding UNRRA. Edward J. Carroll led fundraising with 518 dollars and Fire Chief James J. Corbett reported 1300 cans collected by firefighters for the distribution center in Long Island during a citywide house to house drive by Girl and Boy Scout troops.
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Gerald
Firth
Genecnehole
Delve Dn
Wateryuil
Watervliet
United Nations Reliof and
Kehndlitalion Administration
Edward J. Carroll
Tiranetal Chifrpan
UNRRA
New York
James J. Corbett
Ube
Long Igland
UNIAA
Watervlidt Plans Children Event By Council
The Watervlidt council sponsors a annual felt day outing for children of Fairview and Sir Cok mans Homes to be held Sunday Aug 25. J Harold Anderson is general chairman with S Howard Decker cochairman and Francis A Decker leading the special transactions committee. Joseph Murphy treasurer. Subcommittees to be named later. A program of sports including races and baseball will be arranged. Refreshments served throughout the day.
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Watervliew Council
Koichis
Fairview
Sir Cokman
Snevdlom
J. Harold Anderson
Anderson
S. Howard Decker
Cochairman
Francis A. Decker
Joseph Murphy
Draft Boards Will Be Closed At Wateryliet
A notice from national headquarters changes Selective Service Board 36 to close through the Fourth of July weekend. The board will reopen Monday with the makeup day set for Friday, July 13. City offices also close. no mail deliveries but post office box service remains for holders. Postmaster William F. Pavier Jr. presides.
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Lato
Selective Service Board 36
Batuivay
William F. Pavier, Jr
Prisoners of Nazis Write Book on Them
Liberated inmates of Bavarian concentration camps compiled data for a book detailing Nazism from 1918 to 1945. General Lucian D. Truncott received the volume from Otto Aster and Gnidlles Brantz on behalf of Bavarian officials and the Red Cross.
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Munich GL
Lucian D.truncott
Bavaria
Otto Aster
Gnidlles Brantz
Bavarian Red Cross
Lumber Shortage Hits South African Housing Boom
Johannesburg reports a lumber famine crippling SA housing as many homes remain incomplete. Local timber is scarce and virtually all supplies must be imported, with European and Russian demand tightening the market and hobbling the national housing program.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Teeth Of Reptile Captures Used To Hold Animals For Food
A description notes that enike s teeth are pointed to restrain captured reptiles used for food, detailing a method to prevent escapes during handling and transport.
Green Island barbers push union drive and adds three shops
At Pie's Barber Shop on George Street Green Island barbers heard Frank J. Milanese outline union benefits and urged membership. Three village shops John Connery Gilbert Hebert and Samuel Ingrato joined the line union at the meeting presided by Gilbert J. Catone. A fire upstairs at 146 Hudson Avenue was extinguished by Gilbert Hose Co. with minor damage and no injuries reported.
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Green Island
Pie
George Street
Frank J. Milanese
Line Union
Aneeting
John Connery
Gilbert Hebert
Samuel Ingrato
Barbers
Gilbert J. Catone
Lee Troy Spcul
Old Haw Gives Up His Place on the Sun
Abraham G. Cole, 76, longtime Baltimore Sun reader forerunner and retiree, ends 80 years of service begun in 1896 as a news reader. Native Marylander, he plans more time around the house with wife Minnie whom he wed in 1894.
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Old Haw
Baltimore CP
Abraham G. Cole
Baltimore Sunpapers
Arunsh 5
Abell
Cole
Kype
Maryland
Minnie
Rent Boosted Slightly Says Detrail residents dispute
Mr and Mrs Lyle Van Dusen and their landlord dispute a rent increase from 60 to 300 dollars per month effective July 1. The landlord claims a modest rise while the tenants allege gouging in the rental terms.
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Detrail
Lyle van Dusen
Washington County Youth Wins Award at State Convention
A Washington County youth, B Mowied Clavitunund of Salon, won an award at the annual New York Association Future Farmers of America convention in Morrisville. The event recognized outstanding vocational agricultural work in high schools including supervised farming, cooperative activities, and club achievements within the Salem area FFA chapter and other county clubs such as Honstel Pall High, Hartford Central, and Cambridge Valley High.
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B. Mowied
Washington County
Ennyplo
Buroor
New York Association
Futuro Marmara
Morrisville
Cleveland
Mapleo Farmers Awards
Wee Ronakd RB
Babeorl
Vccasional
Washington Academy
Ernest A Smith
Jatin Niel
Rhode Island
Salemi
FFA
Young Farmers of
Salem
Ernest A. Smith
Fry
New York Association of Future Farmers of America
Moorrisville
Smith
Honstel Pall High School
Hartford Central School
Cambridge Valley High School
Cluh
In Sock Shopping It’s Brown for Whyte
In Yorkton Saskatchewan Brown of Willowbrah opened his general store for business May 3 1913 his first customer was Jimmy Whyte who bought a pale rat socks After 82 years in business Brown said not recently but as he was locking in for the last time a customer rapped on the door and it was Jimmy Whyte looting for a pair of socks
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Yorkton, Sask,P—Alp
Stowaway Wins Judge's Sympathy in Flight Case
In Honolulu, Pi-Toneph M. Litton, a merchant seaman, faced Judge Debhert B. Metzger after detailing his lack of legitimate transport. The court placed him on probation for stowing away in the baggage compartment of a C-54 Skymaster.
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Honolulu
Toneph
M. Litton
Debhert B. Metzger
Huton
Metzger
Notations From Salina Sock Worker Notebook
Notes from Salina Kansas notebook mention a couple breaking up at home with friends helping, a family income from four unemployed boarders, a woman owing forty five dollars for a recent funeral, and an applicant with one child Lilian who is three months old and owes six months rent.
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Salina
Kas
Lilian
Yaves
The Rubaiyat. OFR, Pendergraft in Worland Wyoming
An obscure excerpt from The Rubaiyat appears in a Worland Wyoming shop. The piece features fragmented lines about a poet and customer flow. The manufacturer delivers prompt service to defuse further verse and maintain sales.
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Worland
Ray Pendergraft
Census Backlog Spurs National Inquiry In 1800s Dialect
Fragmented OCR reads as a garbled note about a national census, references to South Africa and a director of Conwy, and an appeal to households to participate in a census. The readable bits point to a 19th century or antiquated context with unclear names and places.
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Conwy
Ilon
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