Bell gadget spurs eight party lines in Gulch tale
A quirky column narrates Alexander Bell’s 1876 speech device reaching The Gulch with an eight party line trial. Residents spar over shared lines while wildlife and locals joke about the intrusion. Also noted are Fourth of July open house at Bergstrom AFB and a Bari Italy air raid dispatch signed by Michael Chinigo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Graham Bell
Gulch
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Ashley B. Packard
Austin
INS
Bari
Italy
Michael Chinigo
Naples
Placid
Chinigo
Parody Tones and Social Phrases in a Wry Editorial
The piece uses satire to critique education politics labor and social habits. It contrasts Uncle Sam with Red imagery and warns about careless security while recalling porch era values and the strain of limited means on families. It frames a critique of labor unions economic cycles and gender roles.
Building Authority Stirs Fight Over State Plan
The House hospital building finance proposal sparked a fierce fight over priority between institutions and building types. Critics warned a weakly constrained Building Commission could misallocate funds, while supporters argued existing boards know needs and plans, urging a compromise that preserves legislative oversight. Polio patterns and a Dallas doctor Dr. Graham Hall are also noted in the page.
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House
Graham-Johnson House
State Building Commission
Dallas
San Antonio
Temple
Anderson Foundation
Houston
Building Commission
Board of Control
Highway Commission
Friends of
Inside Labor Training Youth To Defeat Reds Urged
The piece argues the need to educate American youth in democratic methods to resist totalitarianism. It stresses that schools factories and unions must shape youth through practice and precept, showing democracy as a noble life and securing civil liberties education jobs and social security. It cites 1949 copyright and calls for united action by liberals and labor.
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America
Transla
Hitler
Stalin
New York Post Corp
Nuernberg
Ernest Wilhelm Bohle
Army
Bohle
Landsberg
American Civil Liberties Union
Meteor Crater like-worlds records tally
Q and A on meteorite falls count 1451 places worldwide with 500 in the United States. hair cutting theories. Daniel D Tompkins as VP with James Monroe. first mama papa dolls in 1820s Paris. twins mental equality. Grimes voting sick bed against Johnson impeachment. value painting defined. Alaska University enrollment 334 in 1947 with listed courses. two established churches in Britain. Lincoln letter to Greeley Aug 22 1862.
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Lincoln
Horace Greeley
Washington Worry Go Round Barkley Tales Soften Vishinsky
Secretary of State Acheson used Barkley stories to loosen Russian Foreign Minister Vishinsky at the Paris conference. The piece links Barkley anecdotes to Acheson diplomacy, recounts past Kentucky ties, and notes secret Air Force B36 tests and Judith Coplon case details.
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Barkley Stories
Soften Vishinsky
The
Bell Syndicate Inc
Washington
Acheson
Paris
Barkley
Visinsky
Russia
Alben Barkley
Vishinsky
Air Force
Muroc Base
Calif
Judith Coplon
Justice Department
Batory
FBI
H. P. Shapiro
Winchell On Broadway
A collage of Hollywood gossip and high society rumors. It cites Barkley charming Susan Vaughan, Bing Crosby in hiding on Long Island, Greer Garson's Paris rendezvous, and various marriages engagements and legal notes surrounding public figures and entertainers.
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Douglas
Movietown
Audrey Totter
Pat van Ivar
Victor Orsatti
Dorothy Ford
Ralph Roberts
Chaillot
Alicia Baker
Zillionaire
Florida
Ming
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Graham Hall
Hall
By Smith
Reds
Victor Riesel
Jean and
D. Dubinsky
International Ladies Garment
Meteor Crater
Arizona
J.S.G
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E.C.M. A
Daniel D. Tompkins
G.B.H. A
James Monroe
Tompkins
G.S.N. A
Eleanor St. George
France
le Bon Genie
Johann Maelzel
Andrew Johnson
Grimes
Iowa
Senate
University of Alaska
British Isles
F.R.W
Church of England
Church of Scotland
Canterbury
York
Abraham Lincoln
M.mck
Drew Pearson
Kentucky
Navy
Chuck” Yeager
Coplon
Shapiro
Oked
Miss Coplon
New York
Boyfriend
Gubitchev
MAN About Town
Ralph Bunche
Randall Jacobs
Philly
Secy
Kimball
Defense
Johnson
John Kee
Walter Reed
Communist Party
Dept. of Justice
Rosamond Dodge
Hoffman Estate
H. P. Nelson
Southampton
John Whartons
Anthony Blisses
Jo Ann Sayers
Elspeth Eric
Mary Lewis
Lew Stone
Margaret O’brien
Dorothy Schiff
Post
Ted Thackrey
Idaho
Reno
Sinclair Lewis
Michael
DeGaulle
Aly Khan
Aga Khan
Bernadette
Estelle Manville
Gromyko
Anatoli
Kapurthala
Anita del Gado
I. Patchevitch
Marlene Dietrich
Frederic Wertham
Austin American
Texas
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Press
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