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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1956
Page
21
An entry notes a Saturday 10 a.m. timing for an event labeled as MMenty of Darking with limited readable details. The fragment preserves a specific time and day while omitting broader context or location. Further details are not legible in the source fragment.
A freight car carrying a secret government explosives shipment caught fire and blew up near Selkirk Kansas. Debris shattered windows across town injuring none, with a 300 pound steel piece flying into Main Street. Train crew moved cars away and no injuries were reported.
Lewis JG Lake Jr of Kentville Nova Scotia flew to Boston with his mother after doctors at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital repaired a narrowed main heart valve in a six hour operation led by Dr Dwight Harken. Lions clubs funded travel and care as Lewis prepared to return home and resume life goals possibly including joining the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Two Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints elders explain Mormon beliefs to Bridgeport area residents. Elder Phillip M. Eyring, visiting from Berkeley, supervises 11 elders in New England. Elder Gordon H. Hansen, from Logan, Utah, has spent 3.5 months in Bridgeport. The missionaries are unpaid and funded by personal means and friends. A church is at 511 Clinton Avenue with tentative spring construction plans.
Census figures show 1954 farm population of horses and mules at 4.1 million, down from a 1920 peak of 25.2 million, while tractors rose to 4.7 million. South states host over ten percent of equines with Texas leading in total horses and colts, and Missouri mules fall from 389,000 in 1920 to 22,000.
Medal of Honor winner Kelly, 36, aims to move his family from a $23‑a‑month apartment in Louisville to a $25,000 home in St. Louis next month. He survived major surgery and peritonitis after a wartime heroics in Italy and works as a buyer for a firm, with Ellsworth Webb assisting with the move.
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