Christmas Post Office Rush Ends in Humboldt News
Humboldt post office returns to normal schedule after a two week holiday rush that peaked around Christmas week with tens of thousands of mail pieces daily. Local families held multiple Christmas dinners with relatives from Kansas City to Chanute and Wichita joining in, as visitors from Sherman Oaks to Nevada joined the gatherings.
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Humboldt
Ray Middendorff
Munson
Harold Breshears
Sue
Kansas City
Bert Thompson
Mike
Buckner
Earl Munson
Sharon
Elsmore
Harold Johnson
Janice
Gene
Pamela
Lavenburg
Linda Lantz
Chanute
J. G. Breshears
Albert Middendorf
Larry
Linda
Leroy Storck
Ray Middendorf
Ronny
Bobby
David
Waldo Adams
Lawrence Crawford
Earl Seefeldt
Jane Adams
Iola
Floyd Higginbotham
Robert Roush
O. H. Roush
G. C. van Nice
Fred Bartholomew
M. A. Scott
Ottawa
John Bartholomew
Emporia
Leo Plake
Beverley and
Wilford
Clifford Plake
C. H. Bartholomew
Dorothy
Ray Brown
Phyllis
Kathy
Ralph
Steven
John Kester
Wichita
L. A. Mathewson
Clarence Bartholomew
Los Angeles
Warren Works
Jerry Dietrichson
Charles W. Strieby
Norman
Okla
Jimmy Harrison
New York
Rose Marie Harrison
Minnie Towles
Ioa
William T. Towles
Towles
Bertha Griffitts
Ida Hallahan
Jake Hallahan
Shields
N.D
Hallahan
Breshears
Henry Wulf
Helen Grother
Walter H. Wulf
Dolores
Walter Jr
Robert Wulf
Miss Grother
Lloyd Johnson
Sally
Mike Foster
Great Bend
Mrs. J. G. Breshears
Benedict
J. Frank Stevens
George McMillin
Larry Pruitt
Lees Summit
Jim Brown
Abner King
Nevada
Edsel Kelley
Las Vegas
Nev
Edna Scribner
Earlton
Gummed Tape Used To Mend Broken Turkey Eggs
Roy Hunt of the Conservation Department's Mason game farm repaired broken wild turkey eggs with gummed tape after a mowing accident. Eight eggs were salvaged. five hatched into healthy poults, two of which were taped.
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Lansing, Mich
Roy Hunt
Conservation Department
Mason Game Farm
Hunt
Iowa Out of Step in Highway Financing
University of Iowa economist Robert H. Johnson says Iowa spends 3.3 percent of personal income on road costs compared with the national 1.8 percent. He notes Iowa ranks high in road mileage but low in vehicles, income, population, and land area.
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Iowa City
Retail Trade Growth in Kansas Listed in October Report
The University of Kansas Bureau of Business Research reports October retail tax collections at 3,632,489 dollars, up 2.3 percent from a year earlier and marking the sixteenth consecutive rise vs the prior year. Through October, sales taxes total 37,157,544 dollars, up 7.9 percent from the first ten months of 1954, with a 12 month gain of 9 percent from November 1954.
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Lawrence
Nebraska
Kansas
Retail sector gains and losses across industries outlined
The report shows general merchandise up 13.7 percent and food up 0.3. Furniture rises 10.8, farm and garden 9.6, lumber and building 8.2, unclassified retail 4.9, and apparel 4.7. Declines appear in manufacturing and trade 4.6, public utility 1.3, and professional and personal services 0.9.
Bear Wrestlers Needed In Wildlife Research
Wildlife researchers in Grand Marais Michigan study bears up close using traps and anesthetic to tag and weigh them. They tried to capture small bears with light traps but lacked an experienced bear wrestler for handling 315 pound black bears, ultimately retiring the search.
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Grand Marais
Mich
Nature
1955 review shows prosperity and laughs in year end look
HAL BOYLE surveys 1955 as a year of broad prosperity with high national income and plenty of humor. Highlights include loan offices thriving, pork prices easing, a TV prize of 100000, Churchill’s retirement echoing, and philanthropic turns by the Ford Foundation.
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Hal Boyle
New
York P
Alabama
Republican Party
Winston Churchill
Harry S. Truman
Moro pirates spoof naval uniforms in Sulu piracy spree
Reports say a band of Moro pirates active in the Sulu archipelago seized $15,000 in booty valued items and livestock, then fled in garb resembling Philippine Navy marine uniforms. The audacious disguise signals a bold new tactic by the group operating from the southern Philippines.
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Manila
Philippines
Sulu
Philippine Navy Marine
Buffalo Birthday Honors Eli Wiss Aged 93 At Sprague Cafe
Mr and Mrs Walt Davis and other Buffalo residents hosted a Friday noon dinner at Sprague cafe for Eli Wiss on his 93rd birthday and for Billie Hickey celebrating his seventh. Guests included Davis Pool Hickey families and Topeka Denver Joplin and Emportia connections. Ruth Dame baked the cake and many local relatives attended the Christmas gathering.
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Ella’ Wolfe
Topeka
George Hess
Glen Apt
Connie, Randall and Linda
Southampton
N. Y
Oley Apt
Bessie Apt
Chanute
Howard Lamb
J. L. Walker
Claude Bra‘zill
Wichita
Dan Markham
Bob Puckett
Mas
George Baker
Harold McGaugh
Paula
Mary
Dan
Mike
Othel Stanfield
Ronnie
Barbara
Cindy
Susan
Willard Stanfield
Harry Emmitt
Buffalo
Walt Davis
Bill Pool
Gene Hickey
Sprague Cafe
Eli Wiss
Billie Hickey
Wiss
Davis
Pool
Hickey
Carl Sewell
Tommy
Bert Mitchell
Joplin
Gene Davis
AEF
Denver
Gordon Offenbacker
Gorda Lee
Ruth Dame
Paul States
Randy
Dale States
Lawrence
Joe States
Emporia
John States
Clinton Darst
Lucille White
Amity ‘Club
80 Year Marriage Ends with Hartley Death in Idaho
Benjamin Hartley aged 96 died Monday night ending an 80 year marriage with Drusilla Hartley. The Kansas born couple married November 24 1875 at age 16 and lived as farmers in Kansas before moving to Idaho in 1938. Survived by widow Drusilla three sons 15 grandchildren 51 great grandchildren and 51 great great grandchildren.
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Sagle
Idaho
Benjamin
Drusilla Hartley
Hartley
Hartleys
Tennessee
Bonner Springs
Kas
Kansas
Leo
Four Million U.S. Vehicles Scrapped in 1954
The year 1954 saw about four million motor vehicles scrapped in the United States. Industry data show substantial disposal reflecting postwar vehicle aging and regulatory changes.
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U.S
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Gene Christian
East Main
Voss Siti Titans
Neosho County
Wilson
Woodson
Allen
Iowa
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Santa
You
Ford Foundation
Johnny
Geneva
Notre Dame
New York Yankees
Heinz Nordhoff
Afl-Cio
Jather
Wilson Pitman
Fred Awalt
F. M. Kamm
Dean Blackwood
G. D
Jim
Bill Brown
Betty
J. P. Jones
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Company
Independence Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Inc
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Buick
Mitchell Motor Co
East Oak
Chanute, Kansas
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