Returning Home for Burial Sets Presidential Precedent
The piece recounts how Presidents and other notable figures chose burial sites near home or in places linked to their lives. It notes Washington established the home burial precedent, with others like Jefferson, Lincoln, Coolidge, and Monroe following similarly. It cites the National Selected Morticians on the universal urge to “go home” after death.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
Hudson
Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Arlington National Cemetery
Andrew Johnson
Greenville
Tenn
Johnson National Cemetery
Ulysses S. Grant
Ohio
Illinois
Grant
Riverside Drive
George Washington
Capitol
Washington
Congress
United States
Thomas Jefferson
Monticello
Charlottesville
James Madison
Montpelier
Martin van Buren
Kinderhook
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Oak Ridge
Springfield
Statehouse
Calvin Coolidge
Vermont
Warren G. Harding
Marion
Canton
William McKinley
Hollywood
Richmond
James Monroe
John Tyler
Monroe
Nashville
James K. Polk
Polk Place
Andrew Jackson
Pyramids
Egypt
Unblock Your Digestive Tract with Carter's Pills
An old ad promotes Carter's Pills claiming to unblocks the intestinal tract to relieve indigestion and headaches caused by constipation. It urges taking the pills as directed and notes a 25 cent price at drugstores.
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Nature
Carter
Robberies staged in zig zag building split LA and BH
Two burglaries in adjacent cities occurred in the same zig zag building. In Los Angeles $40 was taken from an upstairs safe while Beverley Hills police found a downstairs safe missing $3,500. The boundary line caused the split in jurisdiction.
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Los Angeles
Beverley Hills
Boundary Line
Woman denied sugar for unborn baby by ration board
Portland ration board denies a request for ten pounds of canning sugar for an unborn baby. When asked the baby’s name, the mother quips she wants to prepare canning before going to the hospital.
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Portland
Ore
Ration Board No. 1
Reconversion Cost Seen At About 3 Billion Dollars
The Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion estimates the total cost to reconvert plants now producing war materials to civilian use at about 3 billion dollars.
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Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion
Public sale of city lot in Winchester Virginia
The trustee will offer unimproved Lot 41 Liberty Heights Addition for sale at public auction in front of the County Court House Winchester Virginia on Saturday July 7 1945 at 11 oclock A M The lot fronts 35 feet on Douglas Avenue and extends 133 feet southward Terms require one third cash with the balance in two equal annual installments supported by purchaser bonds and a deed of trust as security.
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Winchester
Virginia
Douglas Avenue
Said Avenue
Liberty Heights
Night surface feat by submarine Zero earns notable honors
Pearl Harbor reports the RS submarine Zero under commander Lawson P. Ramage scored 15 hits with 19 torpedoes in a brilliant night surface attack south of Formosa. Ramage received the Congressional Medal of Honor. crew details include McCrory and Holleran among others. The mission involved multiple ships sunk or damaged amid heavy escort fire and close-quarter maneuvers.
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Army
Air Forces
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Cerain
Lawson P. Ramage
Ramage
Thatcher St
New London
Conn
Zero
Raake
W. McCrory
Carlisle
J. M. Holleran
Mars
McCrory
Formosa
Enging House
Submarine Zero Honored With Regret Over Name Change
Back at sub base crew recall Zero's lone war patrol on the surface sinking four Japanese ships. The final tribute was a formal regret adding the word fighting to the submarine's name.
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Sub Base
Special Radar Tests For Navy RADAR Applicants June 12
Travelling recruiters from the Navy Recruiting Station in Washington will hold a RADAR examination at the Winchester Post Office on Tuesday June 12 starting 10:00 a.m. The test is the standard Navy RADAR exam and seeks men aged 18 to 30 with math physics and electricity knowledge. Seventeen year olds may enlist with parental consent before turning 18.
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A. Nebelkopf
CMM
USN
E. J. Niemyer
Navy
G.st
Washington
Winchester
Mead
Winchester Recruiting Station Test Details
The Winchester Recruiting Station lists contact Winchester 4201 for those unable to attend at 10 on Tuesday morning. A later test session is available the same day for interested individuals.
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Winchester
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Phet. Idden
Rose Garden
Hyde
Mount Vernon
Pac
Jefferson
Berryville
Boyce & Clarke County
Yin
Thur
Stet
Northern Virginia Power Company Electricity
Saad
Gail
Diag
Herbert
Larrick
U. S
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Miller & Anderson
E. Boscawen St
Youn
Wark
Miller’s Hardware and Household Supplies
Hersheys
TRC Pedk
Firestone
Firestone Scientific
VCC
Firestone Auto Supply & Service
N. Braddock St
Cammer Tire CO
Handley School
Haldeman
Loudoun
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