Harris County Votes in Two Elections on Saturday
Editorial urges Harris County voters to participate in two simultaneous elections Saturday July 28 1956. A county wide bond issue totaling 23.5 million accompanies a 15 million road bond to fund rights of way for freeways and flood control. Also on the ballot are 7.5 million for flood control and 1 million for a juvenile detention home amid rising delinquency. Three racial propositions are listed with no stated action promised.
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Harvis County
Harris County
Flood Control District
Baytown
City of
Houston
Voter Guide Debuts as Baytown Women’s League Publishes Guide
The Baytown League of Women Voters distributes a Voter’s Guide with background on nearly every candidate for the Saturday election. It features ten questions from the league, candidate stands on vital issues, and important dates on the 1956 57 politics calendar, urging Texans to vote. Letters to the Sun defend the U S Marine Corps while debates over training methods and discipline prompt calls for reform and justice in Sgt McKeon’s court martial at Parris Island.
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Baytown
League
Texas
U. S. Marine Corps
Marine Set
Matthew C. McKeon
Parris Island
Sun
Marine Corps
McKeon
AfeKieon
Sgt. McKeon
Randolph Pate
Economic history notes on market cycles and shocks
Babson Park analysis argues foreign markets support prosperity with dips. The author traces stock-market cycles over 100 years, citing Civil War boom, Lincoln’s death tumble, Black Friday, fires, bank failures, stock exchanges closures, Garfield assassination, panics, and major disasters like the San Francisco earthquake as unexpected events shaping markets.
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Babson Park
Burton Crewe
New York
Ringling Brothers
Pittsburgh
Lincoln
Boston
Cooke and Company
Stz
Garfield
Henry 3
James FB
Keene
Ans
Grant
James R. Keenean
Auddenly T Company
Slesaty RI P
Pilinian
Rcompan
Latmne Securit
Securitas Venice
Larga
Norapanick
San Francisco
History of Stock Markets and Economic Cycles Through War and Peace
The piece traces U S government and court actions affecting business from the early 1900s to the 1940s, noting railroad consolidations, stock market highs and crashes, World War I and II impacts, gold withdrawals, and credit shocks. It discusses prosperity, declines, recoveries, and attributes growth to installment buying, wage gains, pensions, and home purchases. It closes with a cautious view that no major collapse is foreseen, though an unforeseen event could prick the bubble.
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Supreme Court
Great Northern Railroad
Northern Pacific Railroad
New York Stock Exchange
S. S
Lusitania
Europe
Wis Eid
Burton Crane
Danish exhibitor coins wind powered film ferry scheme
Jorgen Jensen bridged a market gap by running a 2 passenger ferry named the Scarlet O Hara to sell Gone With the Wind tickets between Denmark and Sweden. He then added a second boat and expanded staff to about 290, boosting profits as Danish exhibitors struggle to afford American films. He plans further services while a Scandinavian postage stamp design and a mud room craze are noted.
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Jorgen Jensen
Slocknoden
Denmark
Jensen
Brat Jensen
Somne
Stockholm
Islo
Landrona
Copenhagan
Sweden
Tia Lex
Jpam
Jensen Ihow
Beewuld & Young Man
Traily
Oth Ind
Hacangyle
Yaema
Industrious Postmen Branch Out Into Other Fields
Washington United Press reports U S postal workers diversify beyond mail delivery with concurrent callings. Charles A Distributes letters and preaches, a Woodside Baptist pastor in Queens. T. Griffin of Grand Prairie sells gospel songs, Ed Breen in New York acts in a TV show and writes essays. Frank tours the Midwest with chalk talks and a heavy crayon creating a Christmas piece titled tinkle toes.
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Harman
W. Miccoll
United Press
Washington
Gener
Arthur Fed
Dads
Charles A Dis
Woodside Community Baptist Hh
Queens
Bamnit Dark Baptist Church
Edward Breen
New York City
Frank
Midwest
Try And Top Me By Bennett Cerf For His Seventh Birthday
Johnny receives a shiny new bike with strict safety warnings. A neighbor discovers the bike’s chain damage days later and performs necessary repairs, remarking that Johnny will soon fix chains himself once he is older. Johnny protests, saying he can do it faster but avoids getting his hands dirty.
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Bennett Cerf
Johnny
Johny
Teo
Easy Knowledge Grab Bag Riddles and Biographical Snippets
A jittery collage of trivia prompts and a biographical sketch of a World War II era air force officer. It mixes questions about rivers and languages with a narrative about a New Yorker born officer rising to lieutenant general, plus tangential notes on English etymology and cultural references.
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Airc Forse
Anton Guam
Lane Vonand
Air Vitsearey
Phoenis Civic
Halla
Lawtity
Meleioir
the Weis
Jas
Guy Lombardia
Spawatanian
King
Fairless Absence Hemmed Steel Strike Talks
Washington report notes Ben Fairless former head of U S Steel, known for labor sympathy, is absent from talks, while roadblocks emerge. Bethlehem Steel and National Steel push hard positions, and the Boulware take-it-or-leave-it tactic gains traction as negotiations wobble toward a potential strike.
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Washington
Ben Fairies
U. S Steel Corp
Fairless
Dave McDonald
United Steelworker
Ernie Breceh
Ford
Harlow Curtice
General Motors
Megula
Lem Boulware
General Electric
Westinghouse
U. S. Steel
John Stephenss
Mark Twain first author to use a bpewriter in 1878
A snippet notes Mark Twain in 1878 as the first author to employ a bpewriter. It mentions masks at costume balls tracing to Italy and claims about two million visitors to the Ameren Museum of Natural History in New York. It also states that bees, including bumblebees, produce honey.
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Mark Twain
Italy
Ameren Museum of Natural History
New York
Q and Quaradly
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