Your Name Is On Somebody's List
A look at how direct mail lists are built from public records and private databases. Firms compile names from colleges, professional licenses, memberships, and consumer activity, selling them for pennies per name. doctors and other professionals are heavily targeted while deaths notices feed donor lists.
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American Express
American Medical Association
Noody
O. E. McIntyre Co
Westbury
N. Y
Reuben H. Donnelley Corp
Chicago
Dunhill
Sheriff Sale Notice For Tioga Real Estate In Grayson County
Notice of two separate sheriff sales in Grayson County Texas. First, Tioga property of Unknown Owners, Lots 1 and 2 in Block 3 of PH Street Addition, Tioga, valued at 18.81 dollars, at 2 to 4 PM September 3, 1963. Second, Cecilia Lyons property Lots 149 and 150 in Block 12 of Waddill Addition Tioga valued at 117.90 dollars, with auction details to follow.
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District Court
Grayson County
Texas
PH Street
Tioga
G. W. Blanton
Lester Day
Sherman
Whitewright Sun
State OF Texas
Grayson
Tioga Common
15Th Judicial District of Texas
Cecilia Lyons
Waddill
Mailing of clubwomen praised with Cleopatra premiere
The text notes an area mailing to 15 000 clubwomen praising the film Cleopatra. It also mentions repeated sale of lists including wealthy single and divorced women and bachelors. A catalogue proclaims that voting club membership car ownership stock purchases all place individuals on a list.
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Congress
Dunhill
Germination Of Seeds Speeds With Radiation
The Department of Agriculture reports grain seed germination can nearly double with exposure to various radiation wavelengths. Drs S L Nelson and W R Kehr of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station led the experiments showing reduced hard seed and improved moisture uptake. Field tests await to confirm greenhouse results.
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Washingtonn
Department of Agriculture
S. L. Nelson
W. R. Kehr
Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station
U S Farm Production Estimates Cover Texas And Nation
The Agriculture Department released 1963 farm production estimates. Texas is forecast to yield 37.41 million bushels of wheat and 25.03 million bushels of corn while oats total 14.58 million bushels and rice 16.03 hundredweights. Peanut output is pegged at 217.6 million pounds and pecans at 40 million pounds. National figures show wheat at 1.1505 billion bushels and corn at 3.862 billion bushels, with rice 64.64 million hundredweights and oats 974.08 million bushels.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Texas
Pay Raise for U S Military Positively Impacts Texas
Senator Ralph Yarborough says a Senate passed pay raise for the armed forces is vital for Texas. He notes 177,000 service members in Texas in December 1962 and a last year military payroll around 725 million dollars. He expects higher retention and payroll savings to offset the cost. The mention of Harvard’s first printing press appears as an unrelated closing note.
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Washington
Ralph Yarborough
Texas
Senate
Yarborough
Kiss Expensive No Booth Hurt by Mysterious Woman
In Pontiac Michigan seventy-year old Andrew Smith reported to police that a stranger, about 40, who had been shopping for furniture, kissed him and then fled with his wallet containing $125. He said the kiss cost him the loss.
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Pontiac
Mich
Andrew Smith
Smith
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New York
Daily Mail
Harvard
Cornell
Hugo Dunhill
Dunhill International List
Children’s Aid Society
Saint Louis
New York Metropolitan
Whitewright
Member
Federal de
U. S
America
T. Glenn Doss
Fannin
Grayson and
Texas Press Association
the Sun
Bob Millsap
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