Riverside Locals Update of Visits and Births
Riverside residents share travel and family news including Mrs. Noy G Green leaving for Park Rapids Minnesota to join her husband and in laws at a Long Lake cabin. An 8 pound daughter born to Mr and Mrs Sylvester Sharp in Riverside is noted along with several visits among local families and relatives from Des Moines Cleveland and Cedar Rapids.
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Riverside
Noy G. Green
Minn
J J. Green
Des Moines
Long Lake
Green
William Griffin
Sylvester Sharp
Rhiverside
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Ivan Cummings
Cleveland
Ohio
Nordyke
Miss Nordyke
Cummings
Mary Heck
Milo Stratsky
Cedar Rapids
Peter Rotenburger
Richmond
August Jean
Edward Rotenburger
Sallisaw Reverses No-Children Rental Rule
In Sallisaw Oklahoma July 19 tenants with children can rent apartments again as B F Sidemore a local landlord says he once barred families with kids but now welcomes them. The chamber chief backs the shift and declares the town will become the children’s center of the southwest inviting families into rentals.
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James Brinks
Los Angeles
Oklahoma
California
Sallisaw
Okla
B. F. Sidemore
Ife
Chamber of Commerce
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Tom Clark
Senate Judiciary Committee
Kansas City
Roger Slaughter
Hoover
Clark
International
Gold's Ductility Measured in Long Wire String
A gram of gold is described as so ductile that it can be drawn into a wire two miles in length, illustrating the metal's extreme malleability.
Royal Antelope Size Details for West Africa’s Tiny Ungulate
The royal antelope, a tiny true chewer on the west coast of Africa, stands about ten inches tall. This diminutive species ranks as the smallest among its group.
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Africa
Bob Hope stars in My Favorite Brunette at State Theatre
The film features Bob Hope as a tough detective mistaken identity in a comedy spun with Dorothy Lamour as his co star. The cast includes Peter Lorre Lon Chaney Jack LaRue and Reginald Denny with Ann Doran and Willard Robertson. Hope is chased by foreign agents and ends up in an asylum and Death cell before a comic escape.
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Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
van Dine
Philo Vance
Paramount
Bob
Peter Lorre
Lon Chaney
Jack la Rue
John Host
Reginald Denny
Ann Doran
Willard Robertson
Monsieur Beaucaire
Hope
Miss Lamour
Dottie
San Quentin
Spencer Tracy Seizes Challenge in Rugged Roles
Men of brawn and drive propel Spencer Tracy through memorable performances. Two portraits, Boy's Town and Captain Courageous, earned him Academy Awards. Tracy, a quintessential man's man, relishes the rugged type for inspiration and challenge.
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Spencer Tracy
Tracy
U S Steel Exports Hit High Levels Amid Shortages
Rep Henderson Carson told a House Commerce subcommittee exports of seamless and welded steel oil pipe run 428 percent above prewar levels as steel stays scarce at home. He cited Russia shipments averaging 1 451 tons monthly, far above 1935-39 figures. A car shortage looms with 100000 railcar orders backlogged. a bill to create a car service division was urged to divert cars and boost production.
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Washington
Henderson H. Carson
I. O
Russia
Soviets
Great Northwestern
Carson
Congress
William L. Lemke
N P
Interstate Commerce Commission
Tracy recaptures Stanley in film Stanley and Livingstone
Actor portrays Henry M. Stanley and ventures to England to trace the reporter’s triumphs. The Fox Theatre screens Stanley and Livingstone this Sunday with Richard Greene and Nancy Kelly as part of Tracy’s celebrated adventure film.
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Henry M. Stanley
England
Tracy
Stanley
Livingstone
Richard Greene
Nancy Kelly
Fox Theatre
Africa
Dr. Livingstone
Senate approves sea way project vote delays until 1948
Washington July 18. The senate foreign relations committee backs the St Lawrence Sea Way plan by 9 to 4 but postpones floor action until next year. The committee approves a resolution authorizing President Truman to implement the 1941 Canadian U. S. agreement.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
St. Lawrence
Senate panel backs Great Lakes waterway toll plan
The committee approved a navigation phase self liquidating through toll charges for a Great Lakes waterway. Arthur J. Vandenberg announced the bill’s formal report planned for early January. Majority members supported the plan while several senators filed dissents or reserved positions on the issue.
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Arthur Jf. Vandenberg
Mich
Vandenbergens
Arthur Capper
Kan
Alexander Wiley
Wis
Bourke
Wallace H. White
Aerial mapping fills Pacific blank spots previously charted by missions
Mission maps left many blank spots in Pacific charts filled by missionaries and traders. The army map service now maps the region with aerial photographs, making the South Pacific as well charted as Connecticut. Aerial remapping in the United States focuses on areas around army posts and valleys where engineers work on flood control.
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Pacific
Army Map Service
South Pacific
Connecticut
United States
Northwest crisis warned as wheat export boom grows
He warned the northwest situation is becoming critical due to a record wheat crop and expected heavy exports. Diversion of cars to that area could squeeze the east, he said.
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Northwest
Dog sacrifice in Indian tribe linked to spirits
An Encyclopaedia Britannica entry notes a tribe in India sacrifices and eats dogs during ceremonies. The practice is justified by the belief that dogs are the cleverest animals and most pleasing to spirits.
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India
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Kitchen Convenience and Low Work Counter Ideas
A design note suggests a pull-out board under the main counter at about 25 inches from the floor for sit down work in small kitchens. In larger kitchens a shorter, permanent lower counter can be built with knee and foot space. Any arrangement that eases work is worthwhile.
The Pipe Wrench
Water plant Supt Jordan and staff placed a new pump in service showing efficiency amid coal shortages. Residents Don Kiesey and Chas Caldwell update homes on South Iowa Ave while Gene Tucker returns from Lincoln for the soap box derby. Jay Carris’s work continues despite weather.
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Supt. Jordan
Supt
Jordan
Gene Tucker
Lincoln
Chas. Caldwell
South Iowa Ave
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Charles Coburn
Henry Hull
Cedric Hardwicke
Henry Travers
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Brookhart Law Office
Dr. Hess
Slrvice
Brunette
Co-Star
Hope, Lamour
Gaylord Pendleton
Mikel Conrad Leigh Whipper
Mary Conwell
Althea Murphy
Chico, Cal
Leonard Longmire
June Hogan
U. S
Rewkshaw
Bob Hope
Dorothy Lamour
Peter Lorreson
Chaney
Senate
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Britain
Elizabeth
Philip Mountbatten
Buckingham Palace
International Soundphoto
NAVY
Pacific Ocean
Eureka
Cal
Keith
Ivan
Ida
Don McClure
Co-operative Service Company
Co-Op Service Company
Mrs
Don Kiesey
Jay Carris
Don Pauls
Sam Lambert
Jim Easter
Evoready
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