Editorial on undelivered Christmas packages and Marquette football
The piece notes over 500000 Christmas packages could be returned due to bad addressing or packaging and argues for clearer addresses and better wrapping. It questions football at universities, highlighting Marquette’s move to drop intercollegiate play to focus on academics, and cites broader trends toward intramural athletics and reduced emphasis on football. It closes with biblical verse and sharp asides about office memos and public perception.
Gossip Column Snippets On Politics And Household Life
A collection of playful vignettes notes social quirks from New Orleans Mardi Gras to household conflicts. It riffs on integration fears, forgotten men, political spending, and evolving toys while poking fun at a newly appointed Secretary of State and other public life ironies.
Clips and Quips from Parsons Sun
A collection of wry sayings and light quips from the Parsons Sun includes a remark on committees of executives and a sharp line about promises in courtship. One item suggests testing a speech with one’s spouse before delivering it.
Veterans share stories and marbles in neighborhood visit
T N Samuels 88 and C A Griffin 96, Civil War veterans, visited 101 year old William H Thacker east of town. They exchanged gifts from Chanute G A R post, and discussed early American history for an hour. Also noted Chanute high school basketball victory and author W W Graves new novel The Broken Treaty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. N. Samuels
C. A. Griffin
William H. Thacker
Thacker
Samuels
Griffin
America
Neosho County
W W. Graves
St. Paul
Annals of
Osage
Osage Mission
Kansas
Wall Street Firms Dominate Early U S Cabinet Posts
Washington report notes three eastern banking houses Dillon Read Brown Brothers Harriman and Chase Manhattan Bank held key posts in prior administrations and are repeatedly considered for top roles. The piece discusses influence over the economy and foreign policy through defense treasury state and World Bank leadership with names like Dillon and Kennedy figures.
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Wall Street
U.S
Washington
Brown Brothers Harriman
Poland
Baltic States
Germany
Chase Manhattan Bank
Pearson Companies
Secretary of Defense
World Bank
Treasury
USA
Edmund ‘Pat’ Brown
Sen
Clair Engle
California
Kennedy
George Killion
San Francisco
American President Steamship Lines
Jesse Tapp
Bank of America
Killion
Brown
Democratic National Committee
Loew's Theatres
Henry Wallace
Douglas Dillon
Dillon
Eisenhower
Lon
Treasury Department
It Takes Blizzard to Melt Cold Hearts in New York
AP columnist Hal Boyle notes a 17 inch snowstorm reveals New York as a community again. strangers greet each other, share cabs, and helpfulness rises as the city softens its robotic pace, suggesting regular blizzards might reveal its humanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.Y
Hal Boyle
New York
America
Garcia
Kansas Statehood Tug of War and Civil War Origins
Kansas and Missouri factions clashed over statehood as the slavery issue split the nation. The 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act let settlers decide, sparking rapid mobilization, Emigrant Aid aid, and pro and anti slavery action that laid the groundwork for Civil War tensions ahead of Kansas’s 19th birthday and the 1961 Civil War centennial events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Statehood
Kansas City
Missouri
Congress
New England
Chanute Tribune Publisher and staff list page
Chanute Tribune announces publisher Dwight McCreight and department managers James Sherman, Dwight Wallingford, Fay Clopine, Ward, and Dorsey Osborn. Details circulation, office locations, postal class, and subscription rates for Chanute Kansas and surrounding counties.
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Chanute Tribune
Highlang
Chanute, Kas
Chanute Publishing Company
Dwight McCreight
James €. Sheridan
Dwight Wallingford
Fay Clopine
T O
Ward
Dorsey Osborn
Press
Television Log Highlights for December 14 1960
TV guide style listing showing prime time and daytime programs across stations KOAM KODE KOTV WDAF and others for Wednesday December 14 1960 including Wagon Train Aquanauts Price is Right My Sister Eileen Perry Como I’ve Got a Secret Peter Love U S Marshall Weather News Sports Jack Paar Close Up and late night selections across multiple channels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wagon Train
Wanted
Eileen
Perry Como
Peter Love
Mary
U.S. Steel Mear
U.S. Marshall
Jack Paar
Ian Murray
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Johnny Midnight
Loretta Young
June Allyson
Young Dr. Malone
Eyewitness News
Saint
Daddy
Bat Materson
Border Wars and Free State Struggles in Bleeding Kansas
The article recounts the Kansas Missouri border conflicts from 1854 to 1860. It notes Missouri voters crossing into Kansas, raids, killings, and arson amid pro slavery vs free state tensions. It covers Lawrence and Lecompton clashes, the Marais des Cygnes massacre, and John Brown’s role. It ends with a probate court notice in Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cygnes
Kansas
Fort Scott
Kan
Brown
Harper’s Ferry
John Brown
Missouri
Language exercise corrections and definitions
The questions ask to correct a sentence about audience opinion of a prize fight, provide the pronunciation of eleemosynary, pick the misspelled word beautious, define insouciance, and find a ju- word for a secret political group. Suggested corrections and answers: 1. It’s just as I expected, the audience doesn’t like the prize fight. An audience is a group of listeners. 2. Pronounce elle-eh-maw-see-nah-ree with stress on the third syllable. 3. Beautious. 4. A state of being carefree indifferent or thoughtless. Pronounce in-suh-shee-ans with second-syllable stress. 5. junta.
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Editorial
United States Post Office
Milly
John
Chicago
Post Office Department
University of Marquette At
Milwaukee
Marquette
University of Chicago
Ivy League
Wichita Eagle
Interoffice
Enid
Okla
Havior
New Orleans
Truman
Fort Knox
Joh
Parsons Sun
Tribune
Chanute High School
Montgomery County High School
Independence
Chanute
Earl Banks
William Gray
Clyde Budd
Jackson
August Anderson
Ruth
Mae Filson
Bertha Hanna
Inez Barnes
Edna Davis
Elsie Gough
Drew Pearson
Dillon, Read and Company
Hitler
Gotham
Manhattan
Kansas- Missouri Border
J. R. Anderson
Kansas Territory
Chanute Kas
Member
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Focal News
AP News
Allen, Wilson and Woodson
S. Evergreen
Lantz
Four States
Ithe Chanute Tribune
Sante
Three Stooges
S.ae
Danava
Koam.tv
Kode.tv
KOTV
Wdaf.tv
D.T
P.m
A.m
Arswutitavwsa
Kansas-Missouri
Kansas Territorial
Buchanan
Union
Lawrence
Lecompton
Topeka
Sam Jones
Free State
Pottowatomie Creek
Ossawatomie
State OF Kansas
Elizabeth Kepley
State OF
L. F. Kepley
J. F. Kepley
Erie
Balch & Bailey Attorneys
Bulova
Miss Liberty
Tioga Hotel
Bidg
Charlie
Doan
Philco
Christmas
Pioneer
Junto
Epidaurua
Greece
John T. Edmonds
Scherel
Booe
Aura M., Evans
Aura R. Evans
Ethel M. Fleming
Elizabeth S. Fleming
Aura M. Evans
Ann Hum. Mer
Ethel M. Fleming and
Elizabeth S Fleming
Balch & Bailey
Harmie B. Montgomery
DE Bonis Non
Harmie B Montgomery
George W. DE Donaldson
KSP
Rex Hamilton
Sete
John Hamilton
Topeke
Jonn Hemilten
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