Baseball attendance boom spans major and minor leagues
Public At Bat notes record attendance across major and minor league parks as baseball enjoying a nationwide surge. It cites New York Yankees and Dodgers leading gains, Giants approaching 1 million, and Pacific Coast League Los Angeles Seals surpassing prior IL marks with projections toward 700,000.
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Yankees
Feer
Brooklyn Dodgers
Ebbets Field
Flatbush
Dodgers
New York Giants
Polo Grounds
Giants
Baltimore
Montreal
Seaboard
Los Angeles Seals
New York Begins Superhighway
New York moves forward on the 486 mile Thruway a future express route from Manhattan to Lake Erie. The $202 million project aims for five year completion with no tolls funded from the state reconstruction fund. It will include a landscaped median wide lanes and grade limits to improve visibility and safety.
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New York
Captioned Drinking Scene in Shirley Temple Film Sparks Debate
The Roanoke World News notes the anti drinking protest by the Women's Christian Temperance Union led by Mrs D Leigh Colvin regarding Shirley Temple in RKO's The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer. They urge cutting the scene as youth imitation risks, citing Temple's influence and past opposition to alcohol in her films.
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RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
Shirley Temple
The
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
D. Leigh Colvin
RKO
Shirley
Mrs. Colvin
Hollywood
Andy Hardy
Pity the Poor Male War on suits and hems tightens civilian fabric
A Civilian Production Administration spokesman says 15 million men will still lack suits by end of 1946 and possibly into late 1948. He suggests keeping women's hem lines high to push fabric toward menswear, while questioning sportswear production amid suit shortages.
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Civilian Production Administration
Washington
CPA
Paris
Police Training School draws 25 applicants in Winchester
Chief of Police C. W. Holls reported about 25 applications for the Winchester Police Training School to open Monday. Bernard W. Hodgson sustained second degree burns when a gasoline torch exploded in the freezer room of C. L. Robinson Ice and Cold Storage. City Manager S. Lee Grant said seal coat street treatment will cover nearly all major thoroughfares not yet treated.
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C. W. Holls
Winchester Police Training School
Bernard W. Hodgson
C. L. Robinson Ice and Cold Storage Company
S. Lee Grant
Legion post installs officers at Yellow Springs cabin
Members of Robert Y. Conrai Post No. 21 American Legion met at Dr. Ralph Sapp’s Yellow Springs cabin and installed officers with Claude M. Grim named new commander. A long distance telephone record was set when R Ando of Tokyo spoke with relatives in Tokyo, hosted by Miss Rage McDonald at Berryville. The Messinee Municipal Band returned from South Boston Va where they won $50 and fourth in the grand feature parade.
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Robert Y. Conrai
American Legion
Ralph Sapp
Yellow Springs
W. Va
Claude M. Grim
R. Ando
Tokyo
Miss Rage McDonald
Berryville
Messinee Municipal Band
Boston
Winchester butchers seek relief from peddler competition
In 1921 the Winchester butchers petitioned the Common Council for relief against foreign meat peddlers via favorable license charges. A South End Hose Company meeting noted a serious problem: hose shortages. Mrs Clary Robinson of Missouri visited Mrs James L Robin.
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Winchester
Common Council
South End Hose Company
Clary Robinson
Missouri
James L Robin
Sinus Infections in Children Warned as Serious Health Risk
Physicians caution that frequent colds in children can mask sinus infections that threaten health if chronic. Causes include poor diet and enlarged tonsils. diagnosis relies on nasal discharge location, nasal swelling, X rays, and transillumination. Treatment targets drainage and overall health under physician care.
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Roscoe L. Pullen
Louisiana
Trade talks with Sweden spark Kremlin propaganda concerns
Washington weighs a bilateral Swedish trade deal seen as a potential world trade bloc risk. The piece argues the agreement’s most favored nation clause broadens impact beyond Sweden, warns of censorship and propaganda from Moscow, and calls for congressional oversight to expose facts and defend democratic accuracy.
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Washington
Rickstag
AFL
Moscow
Russan
Germany
United States
Sweden
Russia
Propaganda and freedom in a democratic split critique
The text argues that propaganda and censorship in Russia fuel group paranoia and a stagnant intellectual climate behind the iron curtain. It suggests democratic societies must confront similar abnormalities with truth and freedom, comparing Soviet leadership behavior to domestic issues.
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Russia
Brooks Atkinson
Russa
Have You Stopped Growing or Thinking Is Your I Q
A column urges city ordinances to keep public clocks accurate and warns against living by outdated beliefs. It questions if readers have stopped thinking and growing and notes the danger of relying on stopped clocks for life guidance. Page 2 contains a 10-question quiz with varied trivia.
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Russa
Stalin
Japan
United States
Russia
Moscow
America
Tryig
General MacArthur
State Department
Senator LaFollette
Wisconsin
Republican
Progressive Party
Sahara Desert
Equator
Florida Has Longest Coast Line Among States
Florida has the longest coastline of any state, asserting its prominence in geographic features. The remark notes Florida's extensive coastal boundary as a fact about state geography.
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Wee
Florida
Train Crash Nightmare and Reckoning in Nin a's Wake
Don Corbett recalls a deadly wreck on a Pullman with Nina Gilmore after a bombing like scene. Passengers sit frozen as a dog whimpers, a corpse lies in the aisle, and Corbett tends Nina while the car empties toward Loch Lomond and grim uncertainty.
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Loch Lomond
Nina
Corbett
Pullman
Glen Argyle
Nina Gilmore
Don
Lazarus
Europe
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