Car Travel Then and Now Aboard 50,000 Mile Tour
Herbert Hover, 81, and his wife Mara, 72, set out on a 50,000 mile motor tour through the U S Canada Mexico South America and the West Indies. They recall 1908 cross country trips with a Maxwell and primitive gear. Hover has driven over a million miles without a crash and plans more journeys despite earlier doctors warnings.
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Herbert A. Hover
Bronxville
N. Y
Hover
Mara
U. S
Canada
Mexico
South America
West Indies
Tijuana
Mevrico
New York City
The Richer Life by Edgar A Guest
A reflective poem about growing older and observing sly, money driven figures. It contrasts rough speech and grasping conduct with honest, courteous living. The speaker asserts that true riches come from integrity and gentleness, not wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar A. Guest
Notices in Grayson County Court Divorces and Estate Accounts
Legal notices field core actions including a divorce petition in Beulah Williams versus M I Williams with a February 20 1950 return date and final settlement account for Roy Lee Nichols estate to be heard January 23 1950. Clerk J C Buchanan records. The item mentions medieval ties between doctor master and professor.
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State of Texas
M. I. Williams
A. D
District Court of
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Texas
Beaulah Williams
S. V. Earnest
Nancy Drake
State of
Roy Lee Nichols
Loevia Mae Nichols
Said
Said County
J. C. Buchanan
J.C. Buchanan
Marguerite Berry
Yearfull of oddities and misfortune from 1949
A Time Magazine miscellany recounts global quirks and mishaps from 1949. It notes prison humor in Salt Lake City, a British judge fining a nose bite offender, a dentist’s letter to Jack Carter, rodeo mishap in Melbourne, and various oddities across cities including St. Louis Miami San Antonio Mobile Manistee Long Beach and Los Angeles.
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Salt Lake City
London
G. £. Croxford
Arthur McCartney
Manhattan
Jack Carter
Melbourne
Reginald Cakebreak
St. Louis
Delphia Mercurio
Miami
Fred H. Krautzmann
James
San Antonio
Mobile
Mildred Rice
Manistee
Mich
John Schultz
Long Beach
Calif
Ralph M. Grove
Los Angeles
J. H. Fisher
Time Magazine
U. S. Population Hits 150,500,000 Mark in 1949
Metropolitan Life statistics show the United States reached about 150,500,000 population at the end of 1949. Infant mortality fell to 31 deaths per 1,000 live births and the death rate averaged 9.7 per 1,000, the year’s lowest on record.
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New York
United States
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
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Miller
Gaines
Freda
Ruth Pratt
Hannawa Falls
A.clinton Wilmerding
Plainfield,n.j
Philadelphia
Life Insurance
Stephens & Bryant Insurance — Real Estate
The
Fort Worth
Reader’s Letters
OI News
Fort Worth Press
Sun
Atlantic
Puerto Rico
First National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Roddy Kilowatt
Community Public Service Company
Your Friendly Electric Company
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