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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1951
Page
3
Redmond O Hla fee reports first buffalo hunt from Territory days. tracks found near a flower bed on O A Cargill ranch. Buffalo cows wandered through an open gate and surrendered quietly when volunteers pursued them. Cargill said he learned of the animals only after a neighbor complained of trampling.
Hollywood figures like Patricia Neal Janet Leigh and others take up boxing to keep curves and chest muscles developed while staying fit. Frankie Varrums at Universal-International gym hands out gloves to Shelly Winters Maureen O Hara Yvonne de Carlo Joyce Holden Piper Laurie Peggy Dow Beverly Tyler and Julia Adams. They note boxing builds coordination and can be useful in social scenes as well as fitness.
A fire resistant safe, akin to the Hiroshima survivor, will store a $100,000 collection of Lincoln letters and historical documents in Chicago. Gifted to Dr. Ralph Newman of the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop, it protects items including Lincoln’s draft order authorization, John Brown’s will, a 1776 militia appointment signed by John Hancock, and a Madison to Washington letter about Virginia’s ratification.
A 1200-foot earth filled dam will rise in the upper Columbia as part of the Wahleach Lake hydroelectric project by B C Electric. The $900000 structure with 80000 HP generator will cost $10600000 and require about 250000 man hours. Construction starts 1952 with a 13,600 foot tunnel to the powerhouse and a high tension line to Vancouver.
Fragmentary OCR recalls a prisoner aboard a vessel during a wartime event in Henry Maryland. The garbled text suggests a hostile incident or bombing connected to the period, with references to the Sunuidssitied Ade and Dial shat.
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