Hot-Shot Stock Sales Tactics Warned by SEC
A fast talking stock salesman may phone you from New York or Canada pushing a hot stock. The SEC targets boiler shops where many salesmen tout risky shares at high prices. Victims include small wage earners. a New York loft seen as a boiler shop featured three minute timers and repeat calls. Three fourths of Mexico sits on high plateaus.
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Washington
New York
Canada
Securities & Exchange Commission
SEC
Manhattan
Few In Service Expected To Vote
The Defense Department says about 3,000,000 voting age in or with the armed forces, but few are expected to use absentee balloting for the November 6 election. Pentagon notes voting facades and state-by-state rules complicate the process for 3,000,000 scattered personnel and dependents worldwide.
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Washington
Defense Department
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Air Force
Coast Guardsmen
Pentagon
New Mexico
How It Started About Fifty Years Ago In Ireland
The text recounts Captain Boycott, an English land agent, whose harsh rent collection led to widespread local punishment. Tenants refused payment, workers quit, shops shunned him, and even passersby avoided him. He left Ireland, becoming a ruined man, and the term boycott originated from his ordeal.
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Ireland
Captain Boycott
Boycott
Federal aid reaches 390000 college students in 1954
The National Science Foundation reports nearly 390000 students benefited from federal programs in 1954. About one fifth of graduate students and one sixth of undergraduates received aid averaging over $1000 per student. Veterans predominated the beneficiaries with others holding scholarships and fellowships from various agencies.
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Washington
National Science Foundation
Texans Fatten on U S Payroll
The Eisenhower administration added about 6,700 persons to Texas federal payroll in the six months ending June 30. Texas total federal employees reached 118,800, up from 112,100 at year end 1955, placing Texas fifth among states in federal employment. California led with 233,100, followed by New York at 186,000, and Washington, D C, at 232,706.
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Washington
Texas
U. S. Civil Service Commission
California
New York
Washington, D. C
Killjoys to Aid Kilroy Morals in English Play Centers
In Stargate England six U S Air Force officers will visit squalid bars and amusements frequented by subordinates to ask if their mothers would approve. They will mingle in Nottingham Lincoln and Gainsborough to gauge moral approval. Maj Donald Kline, age 39, led the plan saying officers should join airmen in their leisure. Average hourly earnings of railway employees rose 1.68 percent from 1939 to 1955.
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Stargate
England
U. S. Air Force
Nottingham
Lincoln
Gainsborough
Donald Kline
Is Your Medicine Cabinet O K
A reader is urged to inspect and clean the family medicine chest checking for expired items and rusted blades. The article lists essentials such as iodine, first aid bandages, eye drops, aspirin, smelling salts, and burn salve for home safety.
Wart ads and notices from local shops and services
Classified list of rental, sale, and service notices from West Main Street and Whitewright area. Includes elderly couple rental, TV for sale, two houses, lighting fixtures, flowers, life and hospitalization insurance, farm tractor tires, wiring supplies, gas appliances, and weekly grocery specials. Firms mentioned include Joe Cook, Stephens Bryant, Dollarhide Hardware, Hannahs, Paul Stephens, Stan's Auto Supply, Dawson Butane, plus a phone contact FO 4-2574 and 5-2969.
Merchant Price Practices Promote Budget Balance
The merchant who sets and advertises competitive prices defends the market. By offering fair pricing, merchants help customers balance budgets and access better value.
Card of Thanks for Mrs. W. M. Cox
The family of Mrs. W. M. Cox thanks friends for sympathy after her death. They appreciate the flowers food and kindness shown. The note ends with the family sign-off.
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W. M. Cox
D. C. Hassler
Sam Donihoo
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