Franklin and the unity myth in American history
A reflections on Benjamin Franklin warning against rumors of internal divisions, noting his role in the founding of the press and the Declaration of Independence. It highlights his pursuit of electricity, the rise of the Saturday Evening Post, and the enduring call for national unity despite enduring rumors of division. It also touches on whimsical modern ideas from Dr Selborne and playful comments about pyramids and toes.
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Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
America
Continental Congress
Pennsylvania
Ben Franklin
Saturday Evening Post
Cowpens
United Nations Security Council
London
Paul Remadher
Vincent Auriol
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital Gift Clarified in The Baytown Sun
The Baytown Sun explains that San Jacinto Memorial hospital was funded as a community gift from Humble Oil and Refining Co and local donors totaling about 2 000 000. Donations covered grounds and early site costs, with acknowledgments printed at the time. The piece contrasts misunderstandings about the hospital’s financing and urges clarification.
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Baytown
Costa Rica A Nation In Focus In Latin American Affairs
A reader notes Costa Rica is a peaceful democratic republic with a 1950s population near one million and no standing army. It exports coffee and bananas, has a small coast guard, and a capital at San Jose. The current dispute with Nicaragua draws Pan American Union mediation.
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Costa Rica
Gulf Coast
Navarro County
Texas
Eureka
Costa
Republic de Costa Rica
Houston
Columbus
San Jose
United States
Nicaragua
Pan American Union
Underwater premieres and wild movie stunts history
Hollywood notes recall extravagant premiere stunts from 1939 Dodge City moth episode to mid air debuts. Legends include a moth plague disruption delaying trains, aircraft carrier premieres like Flat Top and Task Force, and the ill fated I Wanted Wings mid air plan near San Francisco with stormy conditions and missing audience.
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Hollywood
Jane Russell
Silver Springs
Fla
New York
Dodge City
Cit
Kansas
U. S. S. Princeton
San Diego
San Francisco
Golden Gate
Bible Verse Paraphrase From Romans 6 13
A brief quotation highlights urging believers not to yield to unrighteousness but to present themselves to God as alive from the dead and to offer their bodies as instruments of righteousness in service to Him.
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God
You're Telling Me! A witty year by William Ritt and notes
A London woman sues a 73 year old man for breach of promise claiming she has waited since 1908 for marriage. A Peiping paper prints from right to left. Kangaroos ravage New South Wales crops. Leap year and public health cockroach study noted. Scotland girls arrested after tossing coal and milk bottles at 10 Downing Street. Unique Bundles for Britain delivery method mentioned.
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London
Jaly
Scotland
No. 10 Downing Street
Britain
Lennie
Anna Lucasta
Samson County
North Carolina
Pender County
University of North Carolina
Craven County
General Assembly
Domestic Oil and Coal Sectors Hit by Imports Decline
The 1914 minerals report notes U S crude oil output fell two percent and coal production dropped fourteen percent as cheap residual fuel imports and natural gas competition squeeze domestic markets. The Bureau urges Congress to consider quotas while Eisenhower opposes them, and forecasts a stable 1955 production outlook despite current declines.
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Harry Wilson Sharpe
Washington
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Eisenhower
Cabinet Fuels Resources Committee
National Coal Association
Congress
Bureau of Mines
Quick Knowledge Quiz From A Vintage Page
A collage of trivia and clues asks who blessed Jesus, lists Confederate generals buried in New Orleans, locates Millionaire's Row in New York, and defines amortization. It also recalls the Seven Years War North America offshoot, birth anniversaries, and a 1940s political note with names and dates.
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Jesus
New Orleans
New York City
North America
Hammarskjold Peiping Mission Ends Without Pact
Dag Hammarskjold faced tough bargaining in Peiping with Chou En Lai demanding concessions. The U N chief secured no final agreement as the U S stance on Formosa and funds remained unresolved. Release of 11 American prisoners would be piecemeal and tied to Chinese demands while Nehru rejected early meetings and Eskewed cooperation.
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Harry County
Texas
Oren
Drew Pearson
Washington
Dag Hammarskjold
United Nations
Peiping
Chou En-Lai
Nehru
India
New Delhi
Hardmarskjold
Madame Pandit
Hammarskjold
Leutenant
Red China
USA
China
United States
U. S
Straits of
Formosa
U. N
Cho
Sam Rayburn
Rayburn
Knowland
Chiang Kai-Shek
U.N
Chou
State Department
Geneva
Cial
Chow
Tachen Islands
Tachon
Arid Stop Me and The Stork Myth in a Holiday Broadcast
A fragmented broadcast from a Los Angeles station amid a holiday weekend parodies progressive education. Frances Merriam jokes on babies from storks while a car crash incident and a funeral are referenced through garbled lines and misprints.
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Frances Merriam
Los Angeles
Tivo Todey
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Roy Hofhlinz
Wharton Chamber of Commerce
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By Preston Pendergrass
Film Shop
Henry Thornberry
William Ritt
New South Wales
Australia
United States Public Health Service
Jren
Bureau
Central Press
Philip Dormer & Earl of
Cheaterfield
Maria Shearer
Grant Withers
Nils <Aasther
Sammy Angotl
Philadaphia
Jack O'Brien
Ring
Olin Dutra
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Acata
Philadelphia
Point
Valaine
Luvs
Simon Peter
G. T. Beauregard
A. G. Blanchard
Henry T. Hayes
John B. Hoot
Fifth Avenue
Sixtieth
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Graham Barden
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Ike Eisenhower
Roy Roberts
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