Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Progress. In Portland, Ore., Mrs. Elizabeth Slaney called attention to a special feature planned for her new $175,000 drive-in theater: a button system for every car to bring a vendor on the run with a fresh supply of popcorn...
Lares. In Washington, arrested for toting an ice pick in the bosom of her blouse, Mrs. John L. Williams blandly explained: "I was moving and I just needed some place to carry...
First Lien. In Joplin, Mo., Mrs. Mabel Tarrant charged that her husband claimed he was justified in removing her false teeth to prevent her from visiting friends: he had paid for them...
Slight, dark-haired Mrs. Juanita S. Tucker is postmistress in the tiny hamlet of Christmas, Florida. Each Christmas for the past 15 years, thousands of letters came for postmarking and she lovingly stamped each with a small green Christmas tree cachet and the legend "Glory to God in the Highest." But then the Post Office Department informed her coldly that as a postal employee, she was not allowed by regulations to place "personal or unofficial indorsements" upon mail. Mrs. Tucker was crestfallen. Last week she wrote the Tampa Daily Times...
Local people had volunteered to do all the Christmas stamping themselves, but Mrs. Tucker was told that it was against the rules to turn over the letters to them. "Surely if a concession is made for any office," said Mrs. Tucker, "it should be made for Christmas ... I have again appealed to the Postmaster General to work out some compromise...