Pre Campaign Activities Signal Busy Summer Ahead
The state campaign opens with rival races in Lexington Sumter and Colleton County. Senator R M Jefferies faces no opposition for re election while W W Smoak and D L Smith dispute governorship and agriculture posts. Candidates A Frank Lever R Beverly Herbert Olin D Johnston Tra C Blackwood Ashton H Williams W W Smoak and E B Jackson push policy debates on liquor taxation and highway bonds.
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Columbia
Lexington
Sumter
R. M. Jefferies
United States
Senate
State Senate
Colleton County
Toth
W. W. Smoak
D. L. Smith
A. Frank Lever
Marlboro County
Aikens County
Spartanburg
Ashton H. Williams
Florence
W. W. Smonk
Walterboro
E. B. Jackson
Aiken
Tere
Witter
Ashton HH. Willams
Claude M. Amano
Beaufort
Butlur Bh. Ware
Saluda
Congress
Washington
Cal L. Blease
Blease
Wensthiniten
James P. Byrnes
Leon W. Harris
Anderson
Wwe
Farmers and Taxpayers League
Richards
United State Senate
Mor
Garris
Mm Byrnes
Prees
South Carolina
Hertesmen
Smosxk
House of Representatives
Smioak
Williams
Shipping Board in Senate Inquiry Over Alleged Irregularities
The Senate has opened an inquiry into acts and doings of the Shipping Board and the Merchant Fleet Corporation amid charges by conspirator McCarl. Allegations include selling ships for far above or below cost, improper down payments, and dubious book keeping.
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Conpiraller
Senate
Shipping, Board
Merchant Fleet Corporation
McCarl
Flovt Corporation
The Sick Man of the Nation and Wage Struggles
The article laments a stalled Weeyear effort and argues against wage cuts, noting miners and producers suffer while industry resists. It portrays coal workers as tied to low pay, criticizes greed and competition, and predicts industry and government intervention as inevitable.
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Tabie Raines
Sat
Monumental memory of war dead and political doubts
Fragmented text laments the eleven years since famine and WWI deaths, noting memorials for fallen sons. It suggests many were victims of political and commercial plots, questions the goals they died for, and argues humanity should seek richer meaning beyond monuments.
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Audi
Winthrop College Announces Summer Session Courses
Rock THY and James P. Kinard, president, invite applicants to a summer session starting June 17 1986 at Winthrop College. Courses offer great variety with very moderate expenses and about 250000 dollars in July funding. Contact James P. Kinard for information at Winthrop College.
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James P. Kinard
Winthrop College
Rock Thy
Radburn Town Opens With New Safety Focus
Radburn in New Jersey completes a new town plan marketed as Tomorrow's Town. Streets in residential areas are designed as dead ends to prevent through motor traffic, with 30 parks and recreation centers placed for child safety. About 600 people now live where a farm stood a year ago, amid ample open spaces and dockings.
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Radburn
New Jersey
New York
Incieta
Airtel
Wiy
Miracles in new silk like artificial fiber by professor
A poorly legible report describes a professor at Weill University Montreal presenting a method to convert water into a solid tangible form to produce rayon like fibers from cotton or pulp. Dr Hibbert is cited praising progress toward factory manufacturing of wearable material.
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Harold Ji
Weill University
Montreal
Hibbert
Dollar Ro Dollar Rules World’s Largest Shipping Fleet
Eighty six years old Captain Ro Dollar heads a fleet of fifty ships and a lumber empire. He began work at eleven in Scotland earning sixty cents weekly and built a vast fortune through hard work. He commutes to a San Francisco office each morning and can summon Mrs. Dollar to pack for a trip aboard his own ships to China or around the world. Each voyage brings new opportunities for American trade and ship profits.
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Ro Dollar
Kia Mative
Scotland
Atea
Ico
Hasade
San Francisco
China
Dollar
Spelling Bee Winner Earns National Honor
Helen Jenson, a 14 year old girl from Council Bluffs, has won a prize of 2000 and the title National Spelling Champion after a contest in Washington. The piece notes the value of spelling skills, critiquing phonetic reading methods and praising memory image spelling.
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Helen Jenson
Council Alwifs
Washington
Sewepater Men
Crn
Unclear OCR Fragment About Teachers And Society
Fragment discusses teachers' status and respect, mentions Texas context and a mural, with garbled phrasing and missing details. No clear names, dates, or concrete events are discernible.
Berth Controt Mystery Stuns Local Readers
A cryptic OCR reading hints at a local berth control controversy involving city officials and a regional project. Authorities say details remain unclear as residents await further clarification on the proposed plan and its impact.
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Henry J. Godin
Broad Street
Audusta, Ga
Allon
Helling
alions Lombard _Iron-Wks. & Supply Co
Augusta
Zeerack Fe
Phillipa Mik
Magnesia
Phillips
G. C. Burns
Buna
Texas
Thedford
Cardo
Sumter Wheri
Womens Clubs
Ohare
New Texas
Wacher
Ty Bop PD Vey
Remeost Cies Ot
Berth Controt
Pridin
Wits
Staven
Asia
West
W. 4. Platt & CO
Aiken, S.C
Broad’ Street
Courtney's. Business College
S. C
Pittman and
Gregg
Realtors
Durban-Laird’s, Inc
Bonds Insurance
Geo. A. Durban, Pres’t
Aiken, South Carolina
Insurance
Asheville, N. C
Lsth
Southern Railway System
Ageaty
Syed
Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co
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