Consumers Cooperatives Meet in Chicago Hear of Year's Business
Two million cooperative members across the United States report last year’s total business at $600000000 as consumer coops expand from distribution into production including refineries, fertilizer plants, a paint factory, flour mills, and a cooperative town Greenbelt Maryland with 900 homes.
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Consumers’ Cooperatives Meeting
Chicago
Consumers’ Cooperatives
E. Oo
Cooperative Movement
Cooperative League of the
Phillipsburg
Kas
Mt. Vernon
Ind
Regina
Saskatchewan
Rooks County
Alliance
Ohio
Baltimore
Indianapolis
Alliance and Maunee
Auburn
Outlook
Mannheim
Superior
Wis
Greenbelt
Samson Feasting on Lion Question Urges Udga Tablets Ads
A question about Samson feasting on a lion leads to an advertisement for Udga Tablets. The copy claims sufferers of stomach ulcers indigestion and related pains should try a 25¢ box with a money back guarantee at Baker's Drug Store and drug stores nationwide.
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Samson
Baker’s Drug Store
Koreans Oppressed Under Japanese Rule Dr Bull Warns
Dr Bull discusses Korea under Japanese domination detailing religious life and self government before occupation. He describes 20 million Koreans, 450 thousand Christians, and their churches led by native leaders with missionary teaching guiding gospel sharing. He denounces oppression and calls for prayer and sacrificial living.
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Far East
Dr. Bull
Bull
How Many Questions Can You Answer Quiz Book Ad
An advertisement for the Haskin Quiz Book offering 750 questions on politics history biographies and more. Readers are urged to order a copy by sending ten cents with a coupon from the Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau directed by Frederick J. Haskin in Washington DC.
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Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederick J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Why Pekoe and Oolong Tea Names Began
The article explains that Pekoe and Oolong are corrupted forms of Chinese terms. Pekoe, from pak-ho, means white hair and refers to young leaf down. Oolong, from oulong, means black dragon and describes blended black and greenish yellow leaves.
Auto Makers Announce 1940 Vehicle Output Value
The 1940 model year produced 4,285,000 passenger cars and trucks with a wholesale value of 4.0475 billion dollars. There were 31.4 million registered vehicles in the United States and 45.4 million worldwide. US motor vehicles used 22.044 billion gallons of gasoline in the year. Employment averaged 426,000 in related factories with weekly wages of 13.76 million dollars. Exports totaled 271 million dollars despite wartime cuts to overseas markets.
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New York
Automobile Manufacturers’ Association
Car Makers Association
United States
Army Recruits Promised Fall Recreation to Build Combat Readiness
The War Department announced broad recreation programs for new army recruits funded by a 2.527 million appropriation. The plan includes two 1000-seat theaters per cantonment, expanded movies, dramatics, athletics, books, and music, with traveling libraries and extensive sports. Local commanders are to organize widespread competitions to support physical development and morale.
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Washington
War Department
Congress
First Conscripts to Receive Local Bonus in Flats
In Olyphant Pennsylvania the first man drafted from the Flats section will receive a local bonus. Joseph Kranick, proprietor, collects three pennies from cigarette package vending machines totaling about five dollars and will donate the funds to the section’s first conscript.
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Olyphant
Pennsylvania
Joseph Kranick
Fugitive Michael Kotowski Dies After Tapping Power Line
In Wilkes Barre an 18 year old fugitive, Michael Kotowski, who had fled from a reform school, climbed a high tension electric line tower seeking a path home and was killed when he touched the line. Police say he lived in a cave for six months.
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Wilkes-Barre
Michael Kotowski
Robert Hughes
Ashley Borough
Kotowski
Radio Highlights Preview of 1940 Campaign Talks
A radio schedule lists 6:15 WISV discussion on youth voting with Amherst students, 8:30 WMAL historian Louis M Hacker on capitalism, 9:35 WMAL Rockefeller on Pan American highway, 10: WRC Bob Hope trio for laughs, 10:15 WJSV Norris address on Issues of the 1940 Campaign, 10:30 WRC Willkie Q&A session following his remarks.
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WISV
Gene Tunney
National Foundation For American Youth
Amherst
WMAL
Boys
Louis M. Hacker
Columbia University
Nelson A. Rockefeller
National Defense Council
Americas
WRC
Bob Hope
Brenda
Cobina
Jerry Colona
WJSV
George W. Norris
National Committee of Independent Voters
Roosevelt
Wallace
Wendell L. Willkie
Beg
Britain’s naval blockade shapes World War II strategy
The piece argues Britain will press its all out naval blockade to starve Germany and the Axis, while Hitler and Mussolini’s Balkans move may yield limited territorial gains but drain Axis reserves. It likens Britain to a bulldog clinging to the throat of its foe.
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Europe
Berlin-Rome
Balkans
Hitler
Mussolini
Bri
John Bull
Britain
J. Bull
England
Germany
Axis
Mediterranean
Bids Extended By University To Press Fraternity
Sigma Delta Chi extends bids to eleven juniors at Washington and Lee University in Lexington Virginia. The new members are journalism students Raymond Whitaker Fredericksburg Virginia Harold Levy Trenton New Jersey Richard Wright Arlington Virginia Robert Campbell Asheville North Carolina Edward Burks Lexington Virginia Walter Downie Sanderson Texas Gordon Alford Lewiston Idaho George Woolfenden Birmingham Michigan Theodore Snyder Clifton New Jersey Charles Garten Charleston West Virginia Marshall Johnson Manassas Virginia.
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Lexington
Sigma Delta Chi
Washington and Lee University
Raymond B. Whitaker
Fredericksburg
Harold R. Levy
Trenton
N. J
Richard T. Wright
Arlington
Walter G. Downie
Sanderson
Texas
Gordon G. Alford
Lewiston
Idaho
George A. Woolfenden
Birmingham
Mich
Theodore R. Snyder
Clifton, N. J
Charles T. Garten
Charleston
Wes Marshall Johnson
Manassasa
Canada To Get Niagara Power For Defense Effort
The United States and Canada announced a wartime agreement to pursue hydro electric projects in the St Lawrence river basin to assure power for defense. Ontario would gain immediate use of additional waters at Niagara Falls to bolster Canadian industries and defense capacity.
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Washington
Total Defense
St. Lawrence River
State Department
Uniteds
Ontario
Niagara Falls
Woman Forgets To Feed Meter In Salisbury
A Salisbury motorist parked at a meter in Salisbury Maryland on October 15 and forgot to feed the meter. She received a painless parking ticket for a dollar and, after a brief apology, found another ticket on the car for a second missed payment.
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Salisbury
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