Editorial Eye Disease Glaucoma Share Insight
The National Society for the Prevention of Blindness reports one million Americans lose sight to glaucoma with many more blinded by uveitis cataracts and retinitis pigmentosa. It argues science has not solved the threat and calls for intensified eye research, noting funding is only about one penny per person per year despite the high costs of blindness.
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National Society For the Prevention of Blindness
America
Sight Saving Month Proclaimed by Texas Governor Shivers
Gov Allan Shivers designates September as Sight Saving Month to promote eye care and support research against blinding diseases. The National Society for the Prevention of Blindness sponsors the drive and offers a free eye care folder to readers by writing Prevention of Blindness, 1790 Broadway, New York.
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National Society For the Prevention of
Pople
Texas
Allan Shivers
National Society For the Prevention of Blindness
National Society
Broadway
New York
Appliance Row and Local Offices Spur Town Talk
A Sun observation highlights East Texas commerce with Clem Bovar and Dickerson Whitcomb’s appliance stores on appliance row. Andy Anderson’s typewriter shop is labeled an appliance store, while Allen Meister’s new office building houses multiple firms and Rosene Zierlein’s law office across the street. Keystone Realty Co and infant-wear shop openings draw attention, as Brook Sasse eyes East Texas expansion amid a lively small-town business scene. The piece also notes a real estate board speech in Baytown and playful jabs at local professionals.
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East
Texas
Clem Bovar
Lee Dickerson
J. R
Doc) Whitcomb
Andy Anderson
Third and
Aft Texas
Allen Meister
Ed Clarke
Eildon Berry
Allen
Auch
Rosene Zierlein
East Texas
Keystone Realty Co
A. Stewart
C. J. Bailey
George Chandler
Gerald Fortney
Chandler
Gerald
George
Brook Sasse
Sixty Years of Marriage Celebrated in Temple Texas
Fred Hartmen notes the 60th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Honeycutt in Temple, eight of ten children surviving, the couple married in 1895 and never left Temple. Rufus Honeycutt shared clippings praising their parenting from the Temple Telegram. The piece weaves family details with local sentiment and a light aside about Baytown relatives.
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Temple
O. S. Honeycutt
Rufus Honeycutt
Baytohn
Rufus
Honeycutts
Temple Telegram
Texas
Pop Honeycutt
Tennessee
Mom Honeycutt
Cedar Creek
Mrs. Honeycutt
Vegetarian crusader Curtis Freshel Reflects on Meat, Marriage Faith
In New York City a curiously candid profile covers Curtis Freshel, a vegetarian advocate who credits his wife for his willpower. He recalls his Paris vegetarian union trip, his Detroit origins, and how exposure to stockyards first shocked him before ethical reasons convinced him to abstain from meat for fifty years.
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MR. F
Chicago
da Vinci
America
Freshel
Fis
Plato
Aristotle
Ovid
Voltaire
Tolstoy
Thoreau
Rousseau
Schopenhauer
Maurice Mineterlitek
Presho
Paris
Mr. I
Avenue de Vopera
Crile Pax
Maxini
New York
Curtis Freshel
Mr. Freshel
Central Park
International Vegetarian Union
Amp PyAn
Detroit
Ge_rand
States
Navy
A Bit of Washington on Capitol Hill Newsroom
Ed Koterra profiles Sid Yudain who runs a biweekly newspaper on Capitol Hill staffed by all 531 congressmen, each donating services and earnings of 22500 a year. The eight page tabloid, financed by Villam, features society like Rep Jerry Ford with Dutch royalty and Mrs Kerr plans an interior shop. It notes reporters enjoy press cards and coverage from Russia to Caracas.
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Washington
Land of Free Enterprise
Sid Yudain
Capitol Hill
Ralf Call
Congress
Yudain
Cades Aga
Villam
Albert P. Morang
Connecticut
America
Jerry Ford
Mich
Prince Bernard
Netherlands
Soostdijk
Coxa
Sen
Robert Kerr
Oklahoma
Kerr
Russia
Aga M
Cibtany
Regutar
Joan White
Washington Postman Times
Terald
vAny
Venezuela
Miss White
Independence
Mary Jane Truman
Miss Truman
Harry Truman
Teeth decay in children alarms parents and dentists
Washington report notes 50 percent decay in two year olds with 14 percent of females facing permanent decay by early adulthood. Dentists urge correct brushing after meals and snacks, using brushes with wide surfaces and small heads.
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Harman W. Nichols
Washington
American Dental Association
Association
Bright Shawl Author and Revolutionary Figures Quiz
A garbled column mixes literary questions and historical hints. It asks who wrote The Bright Shawl, who crossed the Rubicon, and which American Revolutionary signer from Savannah era Georgia died in a duel. It notes stage comic era figures, birthday trivia, and quotes, ending with a prompt to guess names from scattered clues.
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Riant
Gloucester
England
Charleston
Cerergin
Continental Congress
Tle
Wif
Lachess Mintesh
Georgia
St. Catherne's Island
Newark
Seriool
Jimmy Dorsey
Did You Know Highlights From The Curious Column
A scattered summary of miscellaneous facts notes the eye pupil’s light adjustment, Gatling’s 1862 machine gun, rapid-fire history, child mental health statistics, sockeye salmon, and nightly road-raising figures in the United States.
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Richard Gatling
Batista Leads Cuba Revolt Times in Turbulent Havana
Washington columnist Drew Pearson recalls Batista’s coup of 1952 and his rule, noting peaceful power transfer, controlled opposition, and rearming the army with seized Prio arms. Pearson reports Batista’s tolerance of exiled leaders, vigilantly opposing communism, and his pragmatic stance on Princeton and U.S. sugar policy amid Cuban ties.
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Drew Pearson
Havana
Latin America
Fulgencio Batista
Carlos Pino
Batista
Cubs
Batiste
Carlos Prio
Burke Hedges
Patchogue
Long Island
Cuba
Hedges
Prio
Uruguay
Argentina
Peru
Bolivia
Mexico
Pino
United States
Princeton
Geneva
Soviet
Russia
Floating Soap Disaster Traced to 1869 Accident
Try And Stop Me TVORY SOAP famed for buoyancy floats due to air bubbles whipped into molten soap. An employee’s forgotten machine in 1869 accidentally left a batch floating, a mischance that became a widely noted innovation.
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TVORY
Prestor
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