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Newspaper

Baytown Sun

Location

Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 24, 1956

Page

8

Rogers Rejects Will Rogers Style TV for Politics

William Ewald reports Wil Rogers Jr says television has no place for political commentary like his late father. He moved CBS TV Good Morning to Chicago and San Francisco, promising an objective show but delivering a four ring circus with stunts in lobbies, elephants, and razzle dazzle as delegates mingle amid convention coverage.

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Across Hellespont and mythic names in a quiz word list

A garbled OCR style item lists clues and answers across mythology, names, languages, and miscellany. It includes Greek myth figures, a Czech Slovak president, music terms, articles in French, and various concise clue fragments on nouns, adjectives, and phrases.

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First Oil Well Credit Debate on Viewpoint

Washington dispatch compares Kentucky and Pennsylvania claims to credit for the first oil well. Data shows Titusville Pa drilled the first well in 1859, with Kentucky’s Wayne county brine well earlier but not for oil. U.S. crude output totals and state leaders are noted with historical context and accidents.

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Indiana University Born In Blooming ton In 1820

The Indiana university at Bloomington was founded in 1820 as Indiana Seminary and chartered as a university in 1838, marking its early development into an established state higher education institution.

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