Monarchs Pioneered Night Baseball with Portable Lights
Kansas City Monarchs, the famed Negro league club, first staged night baseball after testing fungo, ground balls, and line drives in Lawrence Kansas in 1928. Tom Y Baird, owner, recounts developing a portable lighting unit and launching a historic program that helped launch stars like Jackie Robinson Satchel Paige and Hank Thompson into major leagues.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Monarchs
Lawrence
Kant
Haskell Institute Indians
Monarchs
Tom Y. Baird
J. L. Wilkinson
Io Baird
Baird
Wilkinson
Jackie Robinson
Larry MacPhail
Courag the Lights
Cincinnati
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Philadelphia Hillsdales
Chicago American Giants
Briggs Stadium
Detroit
Robinson
Monarch Club
Enid
Okla
Old Association Park
Lindbergh
Joe Louis
Thompson
Paige
Mexican doctors warn on expanded social security program
Mexican doctors fear the growing government social security system will turn physicians into mere government workers. Dr. Alfonso Millan Maldonado urged a program of minimum wages, job guarantees, and better study opportunities, seeking a $25 monthly minimum for one hour daily of social security work. He asked President Miguel Aleman to approve the plan.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Alfonso Millan Maldonado
Mexican Medical Confederation
Millan Maldonado
Miguel Aleman
Confederation
Social Security Fund
Owls Lose Nest For Squirrel Dinner
Reported discovery of a hollow tree filled with millions of tiny bones prompts curious hunts by Sportsmen near Cedar Bayou. Cedar Bayou woods attract visitors and Albert Ulrich’s cornfield gates close amid ribbing and photo dites while the mystery of the squirrel cemetery remains unsolved.
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Deax
Cedar Bayou
Albert Ulrich
Née
Squirrel
Broadway kickoff proves lively in Utah university show
Salt Lake City reports opening night for Kiss Me Kate at the University of Utah delivered chaos and comedy. Leading man Jon Gevans nearly dropped co star Patricia Morison during a lift. Morison retaliated by kicking Gevans, sending her shoe flying. Supporting actor Duane Hill stomped on a box, breaking it, then finished singing with one foot in the boot.
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Salt Lake City
University of Utah
Jon Geyans
Patricia Morison
Miss Morison
Gevans
Duane Hill
Hill
Get Out That Mandolin Grandma It's In Style
The American Music Conference forecasts a mandolin revival this year as jazz and tenor banjo fade. The eight string instrument gains attention from radio orchestras and theaters across Europe including France Italy Holland Belgium Germany and Denmark.
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Chicago
American Music Conference
AMC
Europe
France
Italy
Holland
Belgium
Germany
Denmark
Jets Score Four MiGs In Korean War Action
Allied air forces conducted ten strikes against Chinese forces as UN defenders held a main line on Capitol Hill. The Reds briefly broke through after a fierce 24 hour barrage that fired 9,000 shells, costing them 192 casualties.
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Page One
Capitol Hill
Livestock Prices Report From Fort Worth Auction
Fort Worth market update lists live stock prices for cattle hogs and calves with several classes shown. Slaughter classes steady to strong while cows and yearlings vary between ranges. Hogs steady to slightly lower with sows steady.
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Fort Worth
Castle
Strang
Birth announced for Beverly Ann Baccus at San Jacinto
Mr and Mrs Edwin W Baccus of 205 Lafayette drive announce the birth of a daughter Beverly Ann born Saturday morning at San Jacinto hospital The infant weighed six pounds two percent ounces She has a sister Barbara Sue Grandparents are Mr and Mrs E D Baccus Huntsville and Mr and Mrs J S Scott Houston Vapor lock description notes fuel boiling and vapor formation in the line between tank and pump
Phillips Pipeline Buys New Facility
Phillips Pipeline Co a wholly owned Phillips Petroleum unit buys Shell Pipeline Corp line from McCamey to Brookshire Texas 394 miles long 10 inch diameter all welded. line parallels Shell Rancho 24 inch 455 mile pipeline from West Texas to Gulf Coast. announced by Phillips chairman KK Adams and president Paul Endacott. also notes obituary of Lucy Alice Lill 82 on Kansas homestead.
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Phillips Pipeline ‘Co
Phillips Petroleum’ Co
Shell Pipeline Corp
McCamey
Brookshire
Texas
Adams
Phillips
Paul Endacott
Rancho
New Pring
Shell, Phillips
West Texas
Gulf Coast
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St. Louis Browns
Hank Thompson
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E. Morrow
E. Hunnlentt
Delmos Daniel
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Wooster
Imperial Sugar
U. Waldorf
Admiratio Coffee
Alma Greens
del Haven
Uncle William
Coca-Cola
Queen Freeze
Vy Gal
Cin
Crisco
Carton
California
Bartlett Pears
Hormel
Steck
Baytown Sun
Allis-Chalmers
Beth Steel
Calumet
Hee
Canada
Cetotex
Chrysler Corp
Columb
Gas - Creole Pet
Crystal Oil
Cities Service
Cenc
Davidson Chem
Esseecere
Dow
du Pont Chem
Eastman Kodak
el Paso Natural Gas
Fairchild Engine
Freeport Sulphus
Gen Electric
Gen Motors
Gen Tire
Rob Gillette Saf
Goodyear Tire
Greyhound Bus
Gulf Oil
Gulf Stat Util
Houston Oil
H-L
Pca
Humble Oil
Imperial_ Oil
Interlake Iron and Nickel
Jupiter
Kirby Pet Libby
Liggett
Myers
Loew's Inc
la Land
Mack Truc
Mid
Mont-Dakota
Ohio
Packard Motors
Pancoastal Oil
Panhandle P and R
Penney's Inc
Phillips Pet Pute Oil - Richfield St. Regis Paper Cot Seasee
Sinclair ‘Oi
Woodley Pethea
O. Cotton
Jets
Stork
Che Shamrock
Houston
Constance Moore
Johnny Bachem
Nat Brandwynne
Hit Orchestra
Wow Krel
AY Evening Eye
Harlem
Easton—Bagtam Sun
Sien
Reveille
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Dick Easonberry Edwards
Cerum —Bible ‘School of the Air
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Warren Edwards
la Voz Mexicana
Cedars Drive
Tonite
Montarna
Korea
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Charles Starrett
Smoky Canyon
James Mason
Five Fingers
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Mariet ST. Rat Ehow
Peggy
Perbeau
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Ana Ladder
Gearline
U.S.A
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the Thief
Phillips Pipeline
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Kans
Lucy Alice Lill
Athens
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Jane Hyman
Eddie Cantor
Jennet Gleason
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Fryers
VEAL
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Libby
William Blackeye Peas
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Rosedale Olives
Reilly
Navi
Gan
Booth
Sie
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