Lights of New York and social bits from the era
A collage of anecdotes from New York society and entertainment. L. L. Stevenson recounts Miss Hattie tied to John Barrymore’s Hamlet garter moment. Other items include a teacher in an uptown school with a station wagon, Perry Como and Vivian Blaine at a theater, Danilova at Ballet Russe, a humorous hotel valet and a Stork Club moment with Sherman Billingsley.
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Ethel Barry- More
Ethel
Fair Feminine Sentinels
Perry Como
Vivian Blaine
Perry
Ballet Russe
New York Center of Drama and Music
Danilova
Sixth Avenue
55Th Street
Ziegfeld Theater
The
Seven Lively Arts
Alicia Markova
Anton Dolin
Market summary cattle hogs lambs and calves notes
Hogs 5 000 cattle 4 000 sheep steady good and choice barrows and gilts 140 lbs and up at 14 75 ceiling good and choice sows at 14 00 complete clearance cattle 9 009 calves gut choice fed steers top 18 00 best yearlings 17 70 all other grades slow weak heifers steady best 17 10 vealers weak 16 00 down sheep 1 500 spring lambs slow early sales weak most bids 25c lower than late Tuesday sheep steady deck good to choice native spring lambs 15 85 light lambs sorted off 12 75
Chicago Produce Market Report July 25
Market firm and unchanged with receipts 9,351 cases. Prices for extra firsts range 9.4 to 41.2, firsts 34.6 to 37.6, current 34.6, dirties 33.6, checks 33.1. Poultry receipts recorded 2 trucks, market firm and unchanged.
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Chicago
Certificates and stamps govern tire and gas purchases during wartime
Certificates not required for used farm implement tires and used car tires or inner tubes. certificates needed for new tires and used truck tires. Inspections needed for certificates. Various gasoline and heating season coupons valid through dates in 1945. Stamps for Sugar, processed foods, meats, and airplane stamps explained with validity and removal rules.
Chicago Grain Table from July 25
Chicago grain table lists open high low and close for WHEAT CORN OATS and other grains across Sep, Dec and May contracts with figures showing percent changes and rounding notes across the session in Chicago.
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Chicago
Chicago Cash Grain Oats Prices Mixed in Trade
Chicago cash grain notes show oats with mixed bids and varying heavies including 67% to 67% for mixed heavy 1, 69 to 6944 for red special heavy 1, and 69% for red extra special heavy 1, reflecting narrow trading in the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Friday Livestock Sale Promises Strong Demand
About 150 head of live stock were sold last Friday with brisk demand. The sale offered good bulls boars and calves and buyers have current orders. An extensive line of furniture gas stoves oil stoves cupboards dishes tools and an oil range were also available.
Iron Care for Waxed Crate Packing
A practical tip instructs to keep the iron polished by rubbing over wax coated boxes used for crackers and cakes. After each use wipe the sole plate with a damp cloth to maintain shine and cleanliness.
Like Bad Penny Dog Tag Returns to Owner
In New Guinea in 1943 Pvt. James Long lost his dog tag. A foreman at the ordnance depot kept thumbing through reclaimed brass when a tag was found and turned over to a nearby soldier who identified it as Long.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tooele
Utah
New Guinea
James Long
Private Long
Community and livestock sale notices from Iowa venues
Weekly community sale at Whittaker sale barn each Friday. Livestock sales every Wednesday at Midway Sales Company Colimburg Junction Iowa August 11 featuring a spotted Poland China bred sow sale. Karl Kellogg and Sons Winfield Iowa listed as organizers or traders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whittaker
Midway Sales Company
Colimbug Junction
Iowa
Karl Kellogg & Sons
Winfield
Wash cloths for babies in gauze or crochet binding
An excellent baby wash cloth can be made from three or four thicknesses of gauze bound at the edge with a ribbon or worked around with crochet cotton. Several of these make an acceptable present for a baby shower.
First Endowed Chairs at Harvard College Established
The Hollis Professorship of Divinity was created in 1721 and the Hollis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy followed in 1727 as Harvard College’s first endowed chairs.
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Harvard College
Hollis
Mathematics
Natural Philosophy
First American University Founded in Santo Domingo 1538
Early settlers established the first American university in Ciudad Trujillo now Santo Domingo in 1538. The institution served as an early Pan Americanist effort, training teachers to spread education beyond Hispaniola across both hemispheres.
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Dominican Republic
America
Ciudad ‘Trujillo
Santo Domingo
Hispaniola
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Werner Lowry
Ernest D. Reed
Kalona
Route 3
Carl Larson
Dick Bordwell
Call
Charles W. Jackson
Bildlbot
Lyle Davis
Grogan CO
East Adams
Dept
Ill
Montformery Ward & Co
Honeymead Products Company
Weil Drilling Modern Equipment, Co. L. Jannings
New London, Ia
Poone
Jwanted
Fenton
Vigortone Co
Cedar Rapids
Juanita Miller Butterbaugh
Rendezvous Ballroom
Uncle Sam
Maery
By Ken Reynolds
Parrow
W. F. Flynn
West Chester
Washington County
Washington Concrete Company
Montgomery Ward & Co
Don Mapel
Columbus Junction
Bud Mulcahy
Washington
Farrell
Glenn Dunbar
Richmond
Harold Mangold
South 2Nd Ave
George J. Breitenbach
Rigenhagen Orchard
Pioneer Drug
Pioneer
Ernest M. Jones
Crawfordsville
O. BE. Campbell
W. Monroe
DU Pont White
Rawleigh Products
Pleken
So. Ave. B
Reveblues
Geo. J. Breitenbach
Martin
Eclipse Lumber Company
Ead
FRIES
W. S. Duncan
Washington Oil Company
Jat Journal
Helman’s
Reister's Hatchery
Lights of
New York
L. L. Stevenson
Sentinels
Dixie
Mariner
Sherman Billingsley
Stork
Arlene Francis
Shirley Eder
Network
Billingsley
Arlene
Sherman
Shors
Chicago Cash Grain
Priday
Whittaker Sale
Journal
Harvard
First University
Reister
Armour & Company
Washington, Iowa
Armour Yards
Fred N. Smith
R. B. Hendershot
J.W. Mock
John Morrell & Co
Monroe, Iowa
Morrell
Monroe
Hendershot
Ottumwa
Mr. Hendershot
Jim Mack
KR. B. Hendershot
Morre
Pui Ments
John Morrell
Otsumwa
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