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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1951
Page
6
A bridge lesson explains how players learn from errors and details a complex endgame where South uses a diamond A to manage trumps and force a discard, while West misplays by doubling a slam. The problem asks what card combination in a no trump should persuade declarer to avoid leading an ace on the opening trick.
Livestock prices mostly steady to higher with steers and yearlings mixed. Slaughter steer values around 36 to 37.50, cows 25, bulls 22 to 25, stockers 23 to 34, hogs largely steady with sows down. Feeder pigs around 19, butcher hogs steady.
This Day In History notes Edison received the first patent for a fluorescent lamp in 1895 but shelved further development due to radioactive concerns. An assistant allegedly suffered a poisoning incident, and Edison claimed ignorance on radium amid business troubles. Also, in Baraboo Wisconsin, sisters Melissa V Slisses and Velerye Brown, aged 90, celebrated their January 19 birthday at a local nursing home, claiming the title of oldest living sisters.
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