Hats Off to Customs Unit 175th Birthday
The Bureau of Customs, a Treasury Department unit dating to Aug 1 1789, serves at seaports airports and border crossings. It processed 158 million travelers in a year and employs 8,800 people. Notable figures linked include Hawthorne Melville Bancroft Arlington Robinson Henson and Washington. Customs duties funded the early government and still bring in vast revenue.
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Bureau of Customs
Treasury Department
United States
Customs Bureau
Chester A. Arthur
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
George Bancroft
Edward Arlington Robinson
Matthew A. Henson
Peary
North Pole
Bancroft
Hawthorne
Boston Customhouse
Melville
New York Customhouse
Robinson
George Washington
Washington
Congress
Great Britain
Aleas
Anoxia Misprint Sparks Editor Note Adventure
In a reflection on word errors in daily papers, the author explains confusing anoxia with anoxemia and recounts the incident, including an editor note clarifying the medical term. The piece humorously laments the realities of daily publication and the care editors take with medical references.
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Webster
Austin
Memorial Stadium
Baytown Sun staff and publishing details
The Baytown Sun Inc publishes afternoons Monday through Friday and Sundays at Pearce and Ashbel Baytown Texas. Office manager Robert K Gilmore and editor publisher listed along with circulation director tabyere and other staff roles. Subscription rates shown as 41 45 per month and 17 46 per year. Represented nationally by Texas Newspapers Representatives Inc and member of the Associated Press.
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Fred Hertman
James H. Hale
Preston Pendergrass
Beulah Mae Jackson
Robert K. Gilmore
Tabyere
John Wadley
Texas
Babson On Business: Labor Cost Rise For Firms Seen
Roger Babson argues labor costs will rise for most firms in coming years driven by upward wage and fringe benefits in unions and managements willingness to raise pay in boom periods. He urges employers and workers to cooperate to protect jobs while improving efficiency to offset higher costs. He cites health programs pensions holidays and insurance as rising employer burdens and stresses the need for productivity gains to preserve profits. He also warns of inflation and government wage controls and urges strategic cost cutting and investment in efficiency.
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Roger Babson
Babson Park
Mass
Sewer Extension By City Is Urged
Baytown studies urge extending public sewer to all areas due to clay soils and septic tanks. inadequate drainage, flooding, and transportation bottlenecks hinder growth. growth‑centered planning cites Baytown La Porte tunnel capacity, highway lane needs, and routes to I 10 as urgency items for urban study conclusions.
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Hustle
Bernard Johnson Engineers, Inc
Baytown
Wooster
Lakewood
Brownwood
Houston
Tabor
Bayport
Lower
Ship Channel
la Porte
State Highway Department
Harris
Galveston
Baytown - la Porte
North Main
Garth
Washington-Merry-Go-Round Historic Old 'Frisco' City Of Contrasts
San Francisco features contrasting insights as Drew Pearson notes in 1945 UN groundwork and current party divisions. He compares Eisenhower's Moscow visit and Khrushchev talks with modern frictions over the UN and U.S. policy. The piece traces shifts from peace dreams to partisan polemics in a city famed for its century of change.
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Drew. Pearson
San Francisco
Vivil
Nis
the Unified Nations
Arther Vandenberg
Michigan
Jeaders
Warren Austin
Vermont
U.S
New England
Henry Cabot Lodge
League of Nations
V. M. Molotov
Soviet Russia
Moscow
United Nations
United States
America
Republican Party
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lenin
Red Square
Red Army
Europe
Russia
Eisenhower
Truman
Kennedy
Johnson
Nikita Khrushchev
Camp David
Stte
Lyndon Johnson
Senate
Khrushchev
Admiral Poppy
Lincoln
Bayard Taylor
St. Petersburg
New York
Popov
Today’s Grab Bag and Spot of Fame Quiz
Quick quiz prompts cover famous figures and general knowledge. It also notes a 1945 atomic bomb test at Alamogordo and hints at a Kansas town linked to a historic cattle trail and Osage treaty.
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Alamogordo
Kansas
California
Trains and Mail Lines Through Fremont Era to 1866
Ruth Ramsey notes routes and events around Central Frese, including early wagon trains banding for protection against Indians near Fremont's 1845 expedition, 1849 overland mail establishment, 1850 monthly stage service, Santa Fe travel, and the 1866 Union Pacific arrival at Junction City, with a brief language note and reader trivia mixed in.
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Fremont
Overland Mail
Santa Fe
Union Pacific Railroad
Junction City
Squeeze yields six notrump slam from Sweden Israel match
In a World Bridge Olympiad clash Sweden and Israel, West faced a squeeze after a six clubs bid failed against spade lead. Israeli declarer Balaila Rozeanu reached six notrump, but bad splits and a late squeeze on West secured nine tricks and the contract’s success.
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North East
Siweden
Israel
J. Balaila
L. Rozeanu
Balaila
West
East
Declarer
South
North
Daily Crossword Puzzle King Feature Across Down
Crossword puzzle clues mixed with scattered letters and garbled terms. Reads like a print page header and stray entries from a June edition with inconsistent numbering and unclear answers. The piece mostly catalogs across and down hints without coherent solution data.
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AL Melinger
Hippocrates
Che Baytoun Sun
Babson
Areepee
Old
Frisco
Ite
Joan Fontaine
Olivia de Havilland
Horn Today
Mary Baker Eddy
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Roald ‘Amondsen
Haile Selassie I
Ethiopia
U.N
Tryove Lie
Clifford Gdets
Kathleen Norris
Barbara Stanwyck
Ginger Rogers
Ruth Ramsey
Frese
Know Your Bridge
B. Jay Becker
Deaier
Vainerchie
East Immaterial
Moham
Tion
Hill
Seaport
Angora Algiers
Hawsiian Bitty
Mark Gariend
Harden
Yenterday
Azan
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