Watervliet Receives War Salvage Flag for Scrap Drive
The General Salvage Branch of the War Production Board awards Watervliet a pennant for its scrap drive. At 3 p.m. city officials will receive it at the monthly Salvage Committee meeting in City Hall. Harry A. Willie notes a 120 pound per capita average with strong leads in old paper, cardboard, rubber, metals, tin cans, fats, and nylon hosiery. Alfred C. Meneely heads the publicity committee urging continued citizen effort through war’s end.
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Watervliet
War Production Board
Harry A. Willie
Willie
Edward Graham
Alfred C. Meneely
Meneeley
Watervliet Veterans Seek Old Phonograph Records Drive
Veterans of World War II in Watervliet appeal for old phonograph records to ship to troops. A patriotic women’s group led by Mrs. William H. Drake canvassed homes, collecting 500 records for a 1,000 pound total this year, with a goal of 2,700 pounds. Residents may leave records at the Masonic Temple Barrett’s Service Station or city fire houses. pickup and shipping to fighting zones will occur.
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Watervliet
William H. Drake
Fifteenth Street
American Legion
Samuel G. Wise
Masonic Temple
Barrett
Mr. Wise
Legion
Deaths and funerals in Cambridge and area
Obituary notices detail the deaths of Frank Lee Waite and several local residents including James Pollack James G Beale and Helen Ralph Along with service details, interment plans and list of bearers are provided for each funeral Also noted are civic and social acknowledgments such as a VFW tribute and a horseshoe tournament results The page also mentions a still alarm at Toohey Estate and resumed prayer meetings at Beacon Light Mission Chapel with service details and speakers
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Beacon Light Mission Chapel
Harry NX. van Antwerp
Quayle Plates and Rolls Fetch $3,600 at Auction
The Quayle dé Sons Corp in Albany valued at over $500,000 years ago saw its plates dies and rolls receive a single bid of $3,600 on the auction Tuesday. Receiver John Z. Benson, represented by George J. Hart, 2nd, rejected the offer. Presses, furniture and other equipment sold to more than 403 buyers totaled about $30,000.
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Quayle
Quayle Dé Sons Corp
Albany
John Z. Benson
George J. Hart
East Side Community Notices and Church Events
East Side Mrs John Ferra and the Parent Speaker Association plan a dessert bridge at 24 Winter Street Tuesday with reservations indicating good attendance. East Side Evangelistic Mission at 673 Pawling Avenue hosts a young people meeting Sunday August 1 at 6 PM and a service at 7 PM. A second Friday service follows on August 7 at 7 PM. Pawling Avenue Methodist Church children's choir rehearses tomorrow at 10:30 AM under Miss Effie Hogben. Trinity Methodist Church closes for August. Rev Frank Jay Reid and Mrs Reid and daughter Sonia are on vacation. Miss Shirley Green of 18 Park View Court visits Camp Yowochas in Gran ton for two weeks. Corp Ralph U Rehm of Camp Cooke, Cal, returns after a 20 day furlough with wife Dorothy Brust of 6 Victoria Avenue.
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John S. Butnes
South Main Street
South Glens Falls
Finch, Pruyn & Co
Glens Falls
Maude Buttles
Roland Cheney
Charles Buttles
Bernard
Charles
Frank
Albert
Richard
Shirley Levarn
Collins Funeral
Troy Burns Club
Morris Funeral Home
Fifth Avenue
Arthur Landmesser
Pawling Avenue Methodist Church
Oakwood Cemetery
Triumph Lodge
John Ferra
Parent Speaker Association of School 15
Prank P. Tash
Winter Street
East Side Evangelistic Mission
Pawling Avenue
Fev
R. A. Burdick
Effie Hogben
Trinity Methodist Church
Frank Jay Reid
Reid
Sonia
Tibbits Avenue
Shirley Green
Howard Green
Park View Court
Camp Yowochas
Granton
Corp
Ralph U. Rehm
Camp Cooke
Cal
Dorothy Brust
Victoria Avenue
C. A. Robson
Arthur Green
Berlin
Frank G. Braham
Warren
Merrick
L. I
Louis Trembley
Second Street
Elaine ‘Tilley
Civil Service Association
Albany
Asbury Park
Margaret Brazell
Osmond R. Eldredge
Frederick J. LeBlanc
Vera Alecnavic
Corp. Tech
Bennington
Camp Edwards
Mass
St. Stanislawg Hall
LeBlanc
Sophie Laboski
Nellie Stempek
Genevieve Labanowski
Ollie Siuzas
Mary LaPorte
Genevieve Rivard
Anne McShane
Irene Ugenski
Nellie Lavaniski
Nassau Fair Directors Named Change Sets New Dates
Three new directors were elected to the Nassau Fair board, including 2 Troyman and a former president of the Chatham Fair Association. John F. Williams announced that the Nassau County Agricultural and Liberal Arts Society moved the fair to Sept 22 to 25 to accommodate late crops after consulting Farm Bureau leaders and 4-H members. Previously the fair was slated to open Aug 1.
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Troyman
Chatham Fair Association
Rensselaer County Agricultural and Liberal Arts Society
John F. Williams
Chatham Fair Group
Irving Woodin
Schenectady
Edgar J. Rowe
Farm Bureau
4-H Club
Hoosick Falls to Host Evening Baseball Game
A 6 30 p m baseball game between two picked teams will be played on the Athletic Field, announced by Miss Dorothy Douglas. Umpires are Walter Burns and Dr George E Smith. admission is free and the public invited as the first in a series of summer events aimed at forming a local league.
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Dorothy Douglas
Walter Burns
George E. Smith
Miss Douglas
White Creek
Duce Sought to Restore Rome Grandeur of Ancient Rome
Washington era profile of Mussolini notes his first decade in power 1925 1935 brought social reforms and public works while curbing freedoms. It describes his regime as orderly and efficient yet suppressive of speech and strikes with a corporative system under one party.
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Richard G. Maslock
Washington
Mussolini
Rome
Italy
Fascism
Vatican
Pontine
Fascist Party
Ziu Tope
Germany
Lipari Islands
Sicily
OVRA
Zamboni
Bologna
Albany cost accountants meet for Executives' Night
Salem William Collings of Troy visits sister Miss Minnie Collins and others are in town visiting relatives. Robert J. Watt AF of L speaker at the Albany Chapter NA of Cost Accountants first session. William Hewitt program director announced at the fourth directors' meeting at Shaker Ridge CC Loudonville. Executives' Night will focus on Employee-Management Relations.
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William Collings
Troy
Minnie Collins
Harold Rice
Bronxville
Ella Safford
Bernard Lynch
New York
Cost Accountants
Robert J. Watt
American Federation of Labor
Albany
National Association of Cost Accountants
William Hewitt
Shaker Ridge Country Club
Loudonville
Wallace Estate Letters of Administration Issued
Lieut. Gov. Thomas W. Wallace died in Schenectady July 17. Surrogate William W. Campbell issued letters of administration to widow Beulah Wallace. Estate exceeds 10 000 in personal property. Garner Avenue residence held in both names. Wallace, 43, left two minor children Thomas W. Wallace Jr. and Mary Wallace who share the personal property under law.
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Thomas W. Wallace
Schenectady
William W. Campbell
Schenectady County
Beulah Wallace
Wallace
Garner Avenue
Critique of Wallace regime links fascism to communism
The author argues American big business and Mr Wallace’s government foster fascist and communist elements, comparing Wallace to Mussolini and Hitler. He warns that postwar debt and job readjustment will force domestic changes, while blaming mobs and graft for eroding the nation’s freedoms.
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Europe
United States
Mr. Wallace
Wallace
Michigan
Mussolini
Chicago
Jersey City
Boston
Albany
Hitler
Albia Men Plan Fifth Ward Honor Roll Board
Albia Men's Club approved plans for a Fifth Ward Honor Roll board, submitted by Ralph E. Winslow of RPI, to be placed at Pawling and Spring Avenues. Grounds to be planted, funds to be collected by next week, with bids invited from general contractors. Thomas A. Maguire received a gavel as entertainment followed the meeting.
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Fifth Ward
Albia Men's Club
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Pawling Avenue
Ralph E. Winslow
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Pawling
Spring Avenues
Albia Men’s Club
Troy
Thomas A. Maguire
James Downey
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Pennant
Hiawatha Court
Order of Amaranth
Robert Beveridge
Latham
Ant
Muriel Bates
Brotherhood Park
Anna Wardella
Irene Bene
Ees
Frank Lee Waite
Cambridge
Mary McClellan Hospital
Edmund
Martha Waite
Florence Frisbie
Lee Waite
Helen Waite
Cambridge Baptist Church
Burton Jones
Woodlands Cemetery
James Pollack
J. W. Burns’ Sons
Arthur Johnston
John Myers
John Dayton
Ralph Pollack
Edward Sargent
Mt Ida Cemetery
Mr. Beale
James G. Beale
A. R. Fox & Son
Thirteenth Street
John Stuart
Third Presbyterian Church
John
Athol
Earl
William Beale
Elmwood Hill Cemetery
Trojan Post
V. F. Ww
Bert Grace
Harry Scheck
John Blair
Charles Hanson
Frank McLoughlin
William Bailey
Harry Fleming
Joseph H. Stapleton
Saratoga Springs
Geneva
Hoosick Falls
Kathleen Stapleton
Katherine Stapleton Hart
Anna Stapleton
Treat
Comar
M. J. Stapleton
Helen T. Ralph
Helen
Dorothy Ann Jones
Joan Worris
Mary M. Hodak
Sarah Morookian
Ann Sivers
Schuyler Park
William
Joseph O'Connell
High School Park
Toohey Estate
Twenty-seconds Street
Broadway
John E. Bassett
Mary
Ann
Fourth Avenue
Elizabeth Dahlem
Old Orchard
Charles Richardson
Buffalo
Henry A. Martterer
Martterer
Burnes
Vincent J. Addis
Anna Forstner Addis
Rensselaer
Lutheran Hospital
Brooklyn
Frank P. Volke
Michael Felock
George Dillon
Flushing
L. 1
Paul, Frank
Walter Addis
Long Island
East Side
Firestone
Congress ST
5Th Ave
Nassau Fair
Mary Fairbanks
River Road
Ann Marie Grennan
William Grennan
First Street
Grennan
Ann Marie
Bert Baker
Avery G. Halli
Hoosick
Baker
Clan MacIntosh
James Dryburgh
Becket Street
Norman Scott
David Bell
Robert Dewar
Duce
Richard G. Mussock
Associated Press
Parliament
Senate
Edda
Bruno
Salem
Albia
Quandt’s
QU. Funeral Home
Waterford
Cee
Shangri-La
Member
Federal Home Loan Bank
the Banking Department of the State of
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