Boy Loses Eye In Fireworks Accident At Lake Champlain
Fourteen year old David Oliver was injured while handling fireworks during a family camping trip on Lake Champlain near Whitehall. The right eye was ruptured and removed after initial treatment by Dr. Leslia White and transfer to Glens Falls Hospital under eye surgeon Dr. Leonard Hulsebosch.
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David Oliver
Tracey Oliver
Whitehall
Lake Champlain
Glens Palle Hospital
Oliver
Drought Wrecks Crops Across Northeastern Farmlands
The Associated Press reports a 62 day drought has ruined or damaged over 50 million dollars in crops across eight northeastern states from New Jersey to southern New England. Potato, truck crops, fruit and dairy losses are mounting with forecasts of higher damage if rain does not come soon.
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New Jaraey
New York
State
New England
New Jersey
Long Island
New York State
Erie County
N.Y
Eri
Niagara
Rial 1
Drought hit New England crops and dairy yields rise concerns
May and June brought low rainfall across New England and lower New York dairy herds saw milk production about two percent down in Putnam County. The drought spans vegetable, dairy and tobacco areas from southern Maine to Connecticut, with losses projected up to thirty to forty million dollars if rain remains absent.
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New York State
Los Prof F A Morris
Upstate
New York
Putnam County
New England
Maine
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Grant B. Snyder
University of Massachusetts
Grant
Connecticut Valley
Camp Yowochas Launches 1948 Season With Opening Float
The 1948 camping season opened at Camp Yowochas on White Lily Pond as more than eighty campers and their parents arrived for activities. After registration the camp was officially opened with a christening float by Mrs Vida Gheron, the camp director, who noted the raft was made possible.
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Yowochas
White Lily Pond
Mra
Vida Gheron
Case of Ernest Jones Transferred to Children's Court
Purauant to a writ of habeas corpus signed by Supreme Court Justice William T. Murray the case for Ernest Jones a Negro youth of 1 Vanderheyden Street has been transferred from Troy Police Court to Renexetaer County Children's Court.
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Pallee Court
Wannault
Degter
Hua
Owett D. Cotnnelly, Jr
Police Court I
Children’s Court
Jones
Connolly
Thomas J O Connor
Murray
Supreme Court
William T. Murray
Ernest Jones
Vanderheyden Street
Troy Police Court
Renexetaer County Children’s Court
Firemen Extinguish Two Blazes In City
The Troy Fire Department answered two still alarms yesterday. At 4:45 a.m. Pumper 9 fought a small fire in a truck owned by FP & E Inc on Peoples Avenue and Thirteenth Street, returning to the station at 9:04 a.m. Pumper 5 tackled a trunk fire in a tree at 1725 Tibbits Avenue at 3:15 a.m.
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Troy
Peoples Avenue
Thirteenth Street
FP & E, Inc
Tibbits Avenue
Navy spray pilot funds college work and travel
Harry J. Moore of Philadelphia, Penn State sophomore, flies a spraying plane on weekends reporting to classes Monday. He sprys cotton and potato fields forests and sometimes cities from South Carolina to New England. Moore plans an entomology major and forestryy work, seeing spraying as a broader career path.
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State College
NEA
Navy
Bes
Harry J. Moora
Philadelphis
Pennsylvania State College
Moore
South Carolina
New England
Moora
Penn State
Moore J
Hunter Bags Decoy Duck Not Otter
In a dawn duck blind a hunter fired at a decoy after an otter bit the decoy and sank it. He did not grab the otter and damaged the decoy as it died, noting it is illegal to adopt otters.
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Hunter
Moscow
English Towns Tax Receipts and Village Protests
The report notes English villages avoiding penny-tax payments while Sedgeford pays and funds local projects. It cites a fixed rate on real estate and mentions a village pit used to train a police unit to counter government actions. An army colonel linked to an attempted coup in October is referenced.
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Cigitpalbée On & Pound
Sedgeford
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