Douglas School iNews highlights student activities
The eighth and ninth grade girls in Home Economics start a club while boys in Industrial Art form a directory corps. A class slogan claims Learn a new word a day makes the dictionary pay. Names listed include Lanier Turner Lincoln University and Anna Wonzer Storer College with other items from Washington D C and New Jersey vocational listings.
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Lanier Turner
Lincoln University
Anna Wonzer
Storer College
Sengadene Mitchell— Washinngton
D. Mary Wanser
Vocational Institute
New Jersey
Louis Gaither
U. S. Ares
Vivian ‘Taper—Manass
Spas
Catlett
Join The Navy And Go to School
The Navy offers expanded education options with USAFI correspondence courses and on ship or shore bases. Enrollment includes literacy training plus high school and college level subjects. 250 000 students enrolled last year. Enlistments open for men aged 17 to 30 at the Winchester Virginia recruiting station.
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Navy
United States Armed Forces Institute
Army
USAFI
Admiral Nimitz
U. S. Navy
Winchester
Hastings Chamber Stumped by Minnesota Inquiry
A Lanesboro resident asks the Hastings Nebraska Chamber of Commerce to send all information available. The chamber’s staff admits they are stumped by the unusual request and responds politely requesting clarification.
Veterans benefits and civil service hiring surge for veterans
Major Nial explains how veterans can pursue federal jobs while Civil Service rules restrict Medal of Honor holders from Boston and two other veterans. He notes President Truman may relax rules for medal recipients and urges veterans to seek openings in federal agencies, with Civil Service offices offering guidance.
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Washington, D. C
Jake Lindsay
Washington
Fort Meade
Jake
Houses of Congress
Truman
George Hall
George
Massachusetts
Boston
Civil Service Commission
Civil Service
Burglars Open Rear Window Of Chicago Tavern
Steve Dudas said a stubborn rear window kept him from opening it for years. Burglars pried in through the window at his tavern, then fled via a side door with a juke box a radio five cases of whisky and 75 dollars, Marquette police reported.
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Chicago
Steve Dudas
Marquette
Virginians Support War Ambulance Drive Campaign
Thousands of Americans in Virginia volunteer to drive ambulances in the war effort funded by the National War Fund. Governor Colgate W. Darden leads the statewide October drive with city campaigns merged into local community funds. In the photo left to right are Thomas W. B. Craven of Charlottesville attached to the British 14th Army in Burma, Thomas Onley Greenough of Proffit awarded a second Croix de Guerre for Syria service, and Lewis M. Allen of Winchester who aided Montgomery’s Army in northern Europe.
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National War Fund
Virginia
Colgate W. Darden
Thomas W. 8. Craven
Charlottesville
Burma
Thomas Onley Greenough
Proffit
Syria
Lewis M. Allen
Winchester
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Army of Liberation
Europe
Market Quotations From Baltimore and Chicago Livestock
Market notes from Baltimore show steady prices for produce and poultry with mixed demand. Cattle and calves trade largely unchanged with cows softer, hogs and sheep steady. Chicago quotes indicate active, steady to strong demand for hogs cattle and sheep with ceilings reached on select lots.
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Baltimore
Bas
U. S
Va. W. Va
Grimes
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Steels and blue chips lead New York stocks to eight year high
New York trading opened strong with steels and blue chip industrials pushing prices to a peak unseen in over eight years. Heavy buying followed a Washington tax cut influence and inflation expectations while penny stocks fueled active but cautious volume as brokers warned of potential bull market climaxes.
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New York
United Corp
Commonwealth
Southern
Washington
Local Markets Update Amid Daily Market Listings
Local markets are presented daily with corrections for typographical errors. The Star does not assume responsibility for such errors and advises readers to verify listings.
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The
Star
Price list for grains feeds and livestock as of period
The document lists prices for patent and patent brand grains by bag or cwt including corn yellow white meal and nondairy feeds. It also shows poultry feeds egg mash broiler grower turkey grower and grain by cwt with values, plus livestock categories with price ranges for steers heifers cows calves and hogs.
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Sean O
Aoe
Local Retail Market Prices for Livestock Feed and Grains
Readable prices list animals livestock and farm feeds. Includes lambs fat pigs shoats and pigs plus flour corn meal and various bran and mash mixes. Values shown per cwt bag or per 100 lbs with several items marked none or limited availability.
Local Graded Egg Market Standards Update
Local market report outlines standards for graded eggs and notes on medium extras trades and pullets. The item cites supplier practices and pricing signals seen in regional markets this week.
Chicago Grain Quotations Opening Prices Mixed
Chicago grain wires show corn futures firm at the open with most grains drifting lower. Wheat futures for Dec May and July are listed with small increments while corn shows several contract prices and oats rye and barley post modest moves.
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Chicago
Some Strikers To Work Again
W H Anderson says about 800 striking white collar workers at Baltimore Westinghouse Electric plants are expected to return to work Monday. A negotiating committee or mass meeting will take action to end the strike, though company officials report little production loss. Anderson says the strike caused a deep cut in Baltimore production.
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Baltimore
W. H. Anderson
Westinghouse
City and County Realty Transfers in Winchester Area
A list of real estate transfers in Winchester and surrounding areas including J W Rosenberger Co to Jane Patton for land east of Kerns Row. Sadie Finley to Alfred Lewis with 1 2 undivided interest in 21 E Pall Mall St. Viola Henkel to Mabel Robinson at corner S Stewart and W Germain St for 20000. multiple other deeds listed with buyer, seller, property location, and consideration.
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City of Winchester
J. W. Rosenberger & Co., Inc
Jane Patton
Kerns’ Row
Sadie B. Finley
Alfred Lewis
E. Pall Mall St
Viola M. Henkel
Mabel R. Robinson
S. Stewart
W. Germain
Charles E. McVay
Howard L. Patton
Winchester
Mervel W. Adams
J. T. Miller
Otis Stottlemyer
Bertha I. Calvert
N. Cameron St
Baillie Affleck Green
Centenary Evangelical Church
E. Cork
Handley Board of Trustees
Paul B. DeHaven
Eva M. Stretchberry
Susie M. Reid
Parkway
Charles J. Chapin
Gardiner W. Headley
Harris Addition
Woman seeks divorce after 3 months of marriage
Elizabeth Bohe Walker 85 files in domestic relations court for annulment or divorce and recovery of 33000 in real and personal property from husband Richard Walker 66. She says she believed he was the best man she knew but he changed.
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Los Angeles
Elizabeth Bohe Walker
Domestic Relations Court
Richard Walker
Mrs. Walker
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