Virginia Farm Families Still Lacked Telephones in 1950 Census
An analysis by L. B. Shetrick of Virginia farm household telephones shows 23.7 percent had phones in 1950, up from 18 percent in 1920, with Virginia faring better than the national average. A new REA radio telephone trial near Alsop in Fredericksburg uses automatic radio links for isolated farmers on a party line.
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Blacksburg
Virginia
L. B Shetrick
VPI
Virginis
Dietrich Seidein
Dietrick
REA
Fredericksbureau
Alsop
Five Mile
Yorks
Widow of former mayor runs boarding house at 90 Lincoln
Mrs Jones, 90, uses crutches yet manages an eight room boarding house in Central Town named for Abraham Lincoln. She is widow of a former mayor, resident for 80 years, whose father was a Union soldier. Her husband died in 1903 after seeking aid from Andrew Carnegie for the public library in New York City.
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Mincoln
Mrsra Jones
Tines
Abraham Lincoln
New York City
Ancorew Carmegie
Hollywood Column on Joan Crawford’s Behind the Scenes Support
A Hollywood column portrays Joan Crawford as a behind the scenes booster who shaped careers by recommending actors for parts and staging publicity. It cites tests for Flamingo Road co stars, fundings for medical care, and acts of aid to staff, then lists birds as trivia with trumpeter swan leading heavy weight.
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Hollywood
Joan Crawford
Wba
Robert Young
Alan Curtis
Angvses
Flamingo Road
David Brian
Erreen
Sam
Jack Palance
Virginia Gibson
Joan
Miss Crawford
Allgles
Virginia
Marion Morgan
Eleanor Parker
Eleanor
Hollywood Hospital
Studio
Wual
Fay Ray
Fay
Birthday tribute to Ralph J Cordiner founder of Schick Inc
The piece notes Ralph J Cordiner born March 70 1900 in Walla Walla Washington son of a wheat farmer and ancestor of Charters E Wilson. It mentions his World War II veteran status and Whitman College graduate who rose to preside over Schick Inc. and serve on the War Production Board. It also recalls a historic question about the last Continental Congress survivor, dated August 29 1837.
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Ralph Jarron Cordiner
Walla Walla
Wash
Charters E Wilson
Cordiner
Whitman
Schick Inc
John Brown
Virginia
Congress of the United & Ites
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F. Goodrich
Roy Rogers
King of
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By Ray Gotte
Roscoe
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Flondie
U.S. Patent Office
Chic Young
INDIE
HENRY
Carl Anderson
Secret Agent X-9
By Mel Graff
TOE Cty Hospital
Big Sister
Shes
Corrigan
Secu
Biorgan
MTS
U.S
By Les Forgraves
Cadburn
Etta Kett
By Paul Robinson
Sizzle Sisters
THE
Beauty ParAloe
Mugg and
Skeeter
By Wally Bishop
Napoleon
PA Asus
Winchester Furniture CO
South Main St
N. Loudoun ST
Winchester
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