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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1951
Page
11
The Baltimore and Ohio rail line between Zanesville and Parkersburg may be abandoned due to losses. The diesel doodlebug train on the Muskingum valley route lost about $22,000 in the last year, according to B and O officials.
Mr and Mrs H F Dearth and children Jean Neil Ilene Dale Ralph Ann Clif fie and Mrs Ruth Dearth attended the wedding of their son Coe to Donna Saylor of New Marshfield on June 23. Other locals and friends noted visiting relatives and attending events in the area. Edina Dearth
Sydney reports the University of Queensland creating a place names committee to study meaning and pronunciation of Queensland towns. Plaques will detail origins in major towns. GI soldiers in World War II struggled with Aboriginal names like Coonabara gran Mundabullangana and Bunge waragai, with one word stumping many as "the place where the lightning struck."
Hollywood reports Betty Hutton, famed for her loud onscreen antics, is quiet at home recovering from surgery to remove corns on her vocal cords caused by years of vigorous yelling. Doctors say the nodules result from overuse and will heal with rest.
A four pound four ounce bigmouth buffalo was caught in Moon Lake per Mississippi game and fish commission. The mouthless fish appeared healthy aside from being thin and is believed to have no mouth with algae strands found in its gills. The age is estimated at about three years.
In Hastings Nebraska Navy sailors teased Marines by a trained cocker spaniel that rolls over on the word dead. The joke turns on the dog pretending to be dead when asked to choose between Marine service and death.
In Budapest Newsport reports state factories will stop labeling Hungarian tennis rackets with cosmopolitan names. The paper criticizes current quality and aristocratic names like Lady Lord Admiral Oxford as signaling cosmopolitan tendencies and says factories will adopt newer names.
The Englishman adopts a military inspired fashion shift with tighter jackets, slash backs, and narrow cuffless trousers. The Tailor and Cutter praises the change as a reaction to postwar sartorial exuberance and Hollywood excess.
Eels migrate from American and European streams to warm Atlantic waters near the equator to spawn and die. The young eels then head back to the same homes their parents left.
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