Butler Winds Up Texas Peacemaking Campaign
Butler wraps up a Texas border to border tour focusing on unifying the state Democratic Party before the 1956 election. He meets with National Committeewoman H Weinert in Seguin then heads to Houston to speak with Jesse Jones, and visits John Nance Garner in Uvalde.
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Butler
Texas
Seguin
Tex
Paul Butler
H. H. Weinert
Houston
Jesse Jones
Commerce
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Uvalde
John Nance Garner
Sage
Texas Democrats
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Allan Shivers
Shivers
National Organization
Democratic Advisory Council
Garner
Adlai Stevenson
VFW in Iowa Elects Leaders at Encampment
The Iowa Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and its auxiliary elected new officers at the annual encampment. Edgar M. McConnell of Oakland was named district commander and Joseph G. Maher of Muscatine senior vice commander.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Des Moines
Benjamin Howden
Council Bluffs
Merle S. Bird
Forest Miller
Leon
Keith Nolan
Adair
Dorothy Christiansen
Boone
Ivan Woody
Newton
Walter Rose
Charles City
Edgar McConnell
Oakland
Henry Bauman
Sac City
Elizabeth Warford
Lloyd E. Gary
Denison
Longest Eclipse Since 717 A.D Shocks South Asia Viewers
The total solar eclipse tracked 7 minutes across Ceylon and much of South Asia with Harvard and British-Ceylonese teams recording infrared and corona data. Clouds limited sightings outside the central Ceylon site while observers in other nations reported partial views and related notes on history and gender milestones in Britain.
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South Asia
Ceylon
Harvard University
South China Sea
New York
Hayden Planetarium
United States
Canada
New England
Archbishop Says He Finds Money Anyplace
Archbishop Richard J. Cushing boasts he can find money anywhere as he helps locate two missing $1,000 checks during a scholarship dinner in Boston. The checks were hidden under the podium while John H. Dobbins and associates scanned the area. The archbishop then retrieved them, joking that he could have found the money sooner.
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Boston
Richard J. Cushing
John H. Dobbins
Dobbins
Thoughtful card wins over spelling in kid’s note
In Charlotte Doug Gaines, a second grader, made a card for his mother calling her "The best mother in the world" and "The king of mothers." When asked why he called her king he answered simply I couldn't spell queen.
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Charlotte
N.C
Doug Gaines
Doug
Printer Captures Missing Dog After Handbill Reward
In Allegan Michigan printer Herbert Wise printed handbills for a missing dog. His son Jimmie eight shouted there the dog was seen and the pair captured the animal earning a three dollar reward. A note mentions shellac used to fix loose drawer knobs.
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Allegan, Mich
Herbert Wise
Jimmie
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