Kennedy Tactics Assure Lodge Rugged Race for Senate Post
A profile contrasts Joseph P. Kennedy and Henry Cabot Lodge in the Massachusetts Senate race. It details Kennedy’s family campaign machine and wartime valor, with Kennedy’s sisters and brother active in Boston. It portrays Lodge as a poised professional with a long political lineage and Marshall Plan advocacy. The piece notes the November 4 election as the decision point for Massachusetts and national politics.
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Kennedy
Senate
Vigilantes to Hunt Thieves Near Hibbing
Rural Farmers' Protective Association to patrol roads around Stuntz in response to poultry and produce thefts. Elmer Johnson says the group will guard farmers seeking legal aid after a shooting at Avery Billings turkey farm on Aug 10. Billings wounded one of four accused, Olson and the Greskis.
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Hibbing
Minn
Stuntz
Elmer Johnson
Farmers’ Protective Association
Johnson
Avery Billings
Billings
John Naughtin
St. Louis County
Harold Olson
Lawrence Greski
Olson
Billings Farm
Sunspots and High Prices Linked in Longshotted Study
Ottawa scientists launch long range solar studies using an 80 foot solar telescope to observe flares from sunspots and their possible effects on weather prices and life. Researchers note cycles of about 11 years correlate with storms rainfall crops diseases and even marriage and stock market variation.
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Dominion Observatory
Observatory
Ottawa
Ma Twa Lin
Ralph E. DeLury
Dominion
Mde
United Kingdom
Edison Anniversary Concert in New York
A Bryant Park noon concert in Manhattan marked the 75th anniversary of Edison’s phonograph idea. Oldtime Edison cylinders were played on a machine valued at about $30 years ago, with sound projected from a hidden horn to 200 listeners. The New York Public Library and a savings bank sponsored the program.
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New York
Manhattan
Bryant Park
Edison
New York Public Library
Korean Vets Get Answers to Questions
A Washington interview with Douglas Larsen explains VA loan options for veterans. It covers direct loans for homes in select areas, down payments for various home prices, double loans for Korean and World War I veterans, interest rate caps at four percent, and which purposes qualify for loans such as housing and business needs.
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Savings and Loan Associations
Study Reveals Wide Range of Animal Life Cycles
Research surveys show animals exist in many forms across life cycles from sexual to asexual stages. Scientists map transitions in development, reproduction, and growth across species, highlighting diversity and evolutionary strategies.
Hermitage Saved by Nashville Women for Tourist Shrine
Nashville women formed the Ladies Hermitage Association 63 years ago to block a Confederate home plan and preserve Andrew Jackson's Hermitage. The estate now attracts over 150,000 visitors, with doubled admission funds reserved for maintenance and future security.
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Nashville
Tenn
Hermitage
Old Hickory
Ladies Hermitage Association
Jackson
Texas
Great Britain
Houston
Rachel
Andrew J
Baker
Tennessee
Andrew Johnson
United States
Congress
West Point
Confederacy
Geo. J. Thomas
Andrew
Soldiers Home
Kashmir Abolishes Maharajah Rule For Elected Chief
The Kashmir Constituent Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution to end hereditary rule by Sir Hari Singh’s family. The Maharajah’s 21-year-old son Yuvraj Karatt Singh is sighted as leading possible first chief of state, though he is reluctant and the Maharajah opposes his son’s bid.
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The
Indian Radio
Kashmir
Constituent Assembly
Hari Singh
Yuvraj Karatt Singh
Yuvraj
Bombay
Patrolman Sleeper Nabs Unlicensed Driver
Albany report says Patrolman Warren Sleeper spotted a car from Illinois with no license plates traveling through states into Canada. He arrested the driver, describing Sleeper as wide awake and vigilant on the job.
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Albany
N. Y
Warren _ Sleeper
Illinois
Canada
Ellendale Girl Shows Champ of 158 Steers at Freeborn Fair
Butch the Hereford steer owned by Phyllis Hanson, 16, Ellendale, won the 4-H Baby Beef Show champion over 158 entries at the Freeborn County Fair. Raymond Miller of Oakland showed the reserve Angus steer. Other winners included Marlin Peters of Hartland with the grand champion beef heifer and showman title winner Leonard Wacholz of Alden.
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Albert Lea
Butch
Freeborn County Fair
Phyllis Hanson
Ellendale
Freeborn Fair
Raymond Miller
Oakland
Marlin Peters
Hartland
Leonard Wacholz
Alden
Allen Abbe
Heifer
Blame Searchlight for Saucer Reports in Worcester
In Worcester on August 22 residents reported a bright disc in the sky. police and reporters traced the light to a new filling station using a large search light to attract attention. The beam illuminated low clouds, creating the illusion of a flying saucer.
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Worcester
Mass
Welder Hagostek Keeps Trying Flinging Bottles Across Atlantic
New York starved romance tale follows Frank Hagostek an arc welder from Johnstown Pennsylvania aged 27 who after failing to win Breda O Sullivan a 23 year old milkmaid from County Kerry Ireland with an aspirin bottle proposal in 1946 keeps hoping. He returns by plane then throws another bottle into Jamaica Bay hoping to rekindle contact with Ireland. The constant tossing comes despite his two week visit lacking privacy and time for romance.
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New York
Frank Hagostek
Johnstown
Jamaica Bay
Breda O'Sullivan
County Kerry
Ireland
Hagostek
Oldest Illinois man flies to see daughter at 94
In Centralia Illinois Thomas Osborne aged 94, reputedly the oldest resident, balked at flying to Minneapolis to visit his daughter. after being told the trip would take four hours he decided to fly his first flight and brought his cane to look his age.
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Centralia
Ill
Thomas Osborne
Marissa
Minneapolis
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