Berkshire Eagle Tu Tuesday October 20 1939
The Berkshire Eagle reports Tuesday edition dated October 20 1939 with local news highlights and community notices from Berkshire County.
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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1959
Page
13
Buffalo Letter Appears Before It Is Mailed
A Buffalo letter arrives at 2:30 a.m. and is postmarked for 3 p.m. the same day, suggesting a clerical error in the postmark stamp. The item appears in a newspaper classified ad section under a "Good things to Eat" column, noting a "Delta 10-1 inch table saw" as a curiosity or gag.
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Buffalo NY
Myron Blakeney
Okie
Delta
Johnson Sees Democracy's Future Shaped by 1960s Leaders
Author Gerald W. Johnson, a Baltimore journalist and historian, outlines his view of American democracy's trajectory. He argues World War I and 1917 marked a turning point, predicts dynamic future governance, and discusses Kennedy Stevenson Humphrey and Nixon as likely actors in the 1960 race.
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Gerald W. Johnson
Mr. Johnson
Baltimore
Pittsfield
Leonard van den Honert
Ameén
Americ
U.S
Johnson
Arman
Sarre
Adlai Stevenson
Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Stevenson
Mrr. Johnson
Minnesota
Hubert Humphreys
Massachusetts
John F. Kennedy
Ked
Kennedy
IK Kennedy
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Kagon
Nixon
Hubert Hump
Humphrey
Westover Jet Crashes Killing Two Airmen at Templeton
Westover Air Force base identified two airmen killed in a crash near Templeton during a training flight. Capt. James T. Axeley 38 of Coudersport Pennsylvania and South Hadley Massachusetts and 2nd Lt. Peter A. MacBurnie 27 of Caribou Maine and Fairview Massachusetts died aboard the jet from the 337th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. The trainer aircraft went down in swampland by an old cemetery, leaving both men's families with widows and three children each.
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Templeton
Westover Air Force Base
James T. Akeley
Coudersport
South Hadley
Mass
Peter A. McBurnie
Caribou
Maine
Fairview
Axeley
Gloria
MacBurnie
Gwendolyn
Westover
Williams Struck by Misfortune at River Bank Fishing Trip
Henryetta Oklahoma report says Reverend B L Williams went ashore fishing, caught no fish, and fell from a boat losing his rod and reel his glasses and boots in the river. Local witnesses describe a mishap during the outing.
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Hwenryetta
Okla
B. L. Willams
Woman Learns You Cant Get A Man With A Gun
In Elkton Maryland a former girlfriend forced the reluctant groom Robert K Worrell 68 from his bed at gunpoint and compelled him to accompany her to the marriage license bureau in Moorestown New Jersey The bride to be is jailed in a case that highlights threats used to secure matrimony.
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Elkton, Md
UPI
Robert K. Worrell
Moorestown
N.J
Angeline Sailer
Burlington, N
Sailer
Worrell
Q Son
Elkton
Edgar A. Startt
FBI
Startt
December Draft Stays at 9,000
Washington reports the December draft call remains 9,000 draftees, same as October and November, with all allowed home for Christmas. The total inducted since the Korean War began reaches 2,490,430. An unrelated incident details Angeline Sailer and Alex Olson allegedly forcing a marriage, with Sailer jailed on concealed weapon and kidnapping charges after a disrupted ceremony in Elkton.
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Washington
UPD
Army
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