Red Cross Joins United Campaign in Kansas City
The American Red Cross agrees to merge fully with Kansas City's United Campaign, abandoning its separate March drive. The move ends duplication of effort and overhead, boosting the campaign's prestige and resources for the Red Cross and other health and charitable agencies involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
American Cancer Society
United Fund
American Red Cross
Kansas City
Big United Campaign
United Campaign
Red Cross
Variable in Death and the Hagelberger Case
The Hagelberger case shows a death sentence treated as variable due to public and political pressure. The president spared Hagelberger amid outcry after learning his partner’s sentence had been commuted, illustrating capricious life preservation not tied to crime severity. Abolishing capital punishment would curb such emotionally driven outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Hagelberger
Eisenhower
Hagelberger
The Odd Texture of Italian Money in Stresa
In Stresa Italy the writer notes Italian currency feels like torn scraps and stamps but praises its varied sizes and colors. Higher denominations like 5000 and 10000 lire resemble wallpaper and feature reclining queens and a medieval figure, with watermarked portraits and bold, faded lithographs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stresa
Italy
Hot Dogs Show Economic Mood in Nation
A humorous column argues hot dog consumption mirrors economic conditions. It cites that the average American eats eight hot dogs this month and about 50 this year, totaling an estimated 835 billion nationally. The piece notes regional differences and links slimmer hot dogs to tighter budgets while fatter dogs appear in better times. It references baseball influence and notes postwar price stability with minor fluctuations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New England
Avarice and the Ten Thousand Diecimila Bills
The passage notes that ten thousand bills, repeated, excite the possessor’s greed yet, when spent, prove to be mere money not a great sum. Three such amounts illustrate money’s illusion as wealth, challenging notions of value and abundance.
South Central paving finished and Second Street widening planned
Twenty five years ago new concrete paving completed on South Central from Ninth to Tenth while city commissioners prepared to start widening East Second south of the Memorial Building. A cattle tuberculosis retest was begun in Neosho County as part of an anti tuberculosis program led by H M Lefever. Mrs Diver and others visited Charlotte Diver at Camp Cauble. A Chanute man reported neighbors’ children harming his ferns. Earl Hudson returned from Caney. Ridge John Lorance sold raspberries in Chanute. Fifty years ago E C Ott planned a Santa Fe excursion from Kansas City to Chanute with $1.50 round trip. Christian Church roof work progressed as J J Gaughan left for McCook Nebraska.
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South Central
Ninth
Tenth
East Second
Memorial Building
Neosho County
H. M. Lefever
Board of
County Commissioners
D. C. Diver
Joan Jones
Marguerite Schmutz
Camp Cauble
Charlotte Diver
Chanute
Earl Hudson
Caney
Ridge
John Lorance
E. C. Ott
Kansas City
New Christian Church
J. J. Gaughan
McCook
Neb
T. N. Samuels
German Property Return Plan sparks lobbying and backlash
Washington columnist Drew Pearson outlines backroom lobbying to move a German property return bill onto the Senate consent calendar. The proposal would give half a billion to German firms tied to Hitler, funded by U.S. taxpayers, while private groups and public-relations firms push the measure. Pearson recalls a prior private relief effort in Berlin and notes the public counts as propaganda, failing to win friends abroad.
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Washington
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Hitler
U. S
United States
I. G. Farben
Bosch
Schering
North American Rayon
U.S.A
Olin Johnston
South Carolina
American Legion
Olin
Poland
East Berlin
Jimmie Riddleberger
State Department
Yugoslavia
Beetle Smith
The
Lions, Kiwanis
Rotary Clubs
VFW
Amvets
Chambers of Commerce
Worry Clinic column on Dr Milo and emotional growth
Dr Milo a 43 year old Chicago physician shows high IQ and success yet lacks mature emotion. He flashes large bills to seek display and is robbed twice, illustrating childhood conditioning shaping adult behavior. The piece urges empathy and mature self view and ends with mail instructions for Dr Crane's booklets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Crane
Milo
Chicago
Dr. Milo
Better English Questions and Answers
The piece lists five linguistic queries with concise solutions. It notes removing in and absolute, stresses the second-syllable accent for dictator, identifies reservoir as misspelled among options, defines propensity as natural inclination, and gives Morocco as the mesurably leather quality term starting with me.
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Morocco
Chanute Tribune highlights and misc. notices
The Chanute Tribune includes local news and notices from Highland Chanute Kas with advertising and subscription details. The page lists editors publishers and staff, and outlines mailing rates for Neosho Allen Woodson counties and additional counties.
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Chanute Tribune
Highland
Chanute
The
Daily Timesett
Chanute Publishing
Ernest W. Johnson
James Fehrenbach
Mgr
Clips & Quips Television Opin hints at gentle satire
The passage mocks television education claims and child guidance with joking lines about deodorant throat remedies and breakfast habits. It mixes humorous quips about foreign place names and a local hero anecdote, ending with a courtroom-tinged exchange on initiative and safety.
Wedding Attendees Farm Bureau Picnic and Visits
A Cana county social note lists visits among families from Lone Elm Fredonia Wichita Coffeyville Independence Chanute and Osburn Creek. It mentions Mitzi Fraser visiting grandparents, Farm Bureau Ladies hosting an all day picnic, and Glen Roy Bergs on vacation while attending Walter's wedding.
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Lone Elm
Noah Powell
Connie Jean
Wichita
Junior Fraser
Mitzi
Tillie Matney
Fredonia
Harley Fraser
Ralph Hudson
Coffeyville
Harry Berg
Hudson
Charley Copeland
Arthur Greens
Karl H. Berg
Dale Johnson
Independence
Roy Berg
Wayne
Mitzi Fraser
Harry Stiles
Jessie Osburn
Farm Bureau
Osburn Creek
Glen Roy Berg
Walter
Fraser and relatives visit in New York and Kansas
Howard in Syracuse hosts Harley Fraser and family with Bob Fraser in Neodesha. Holloways from Paola visit Stiles. Denney Tefft and Douglas families attend Riverside Park picnic in Independence. The U S government earns about 54 million dollars annually in royalties from roughly 500 million dollars in minerals mined on federal land.
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Howard
Syracuse
N. Y
Harley Fraser
Bob Fraser
Neodesha
Clarence Holloway
Paola
Harry Stiles
Everett Denney
Benn Tefft
Junior Douglas
Riverside Park
Independence
U.S
Schedule fragment from early TV listings
A sequence of time stamps and program names appears, showing a day’s broadcast blocks. Entries include news and weather, talk shows, soap operas, and variety segments with associated times such as 7:00 a.m 9:15 a.m 11:30 a.m and 6:30 p.m.
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Johnny Carson
Liberace
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Benson
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West Berlin
Riddleberger
Pearson
Dr. Crane
Oak Park
Hades
St. Paul
Crane
Hopkins Syndicate Inc
Mellett
Ind
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Leuben
Kas
Rudi
Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Neosho
Allen Wilson
Woodson
Sai Tes
Schenectady
Poughkeepsie
Hackensack
Plaintiff
Dean
Doan
Oxfords
Buster Brown
Florsheims
Terry
E. Main
Robert N. Allen
South Santa Fe
Chanute, Kansas
F.d.1.c
Ford Theatre
Pour Star Playhouse
Video Theatre
Bob Cummings
Dragnet
Clima
Fishin
Ways Auly
Ding Dong School
Joplin
Ernie Vacs
Jopain
Koam-Tv
Kotv — Channel
Wdaf-Tv
Kswm-Tv
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Art Linkletter
Studio Kitchen
Bob Crosby
Joan
Mrs. North
Terrytoon
Homemaker
Walter Cronkite
Movie Museum
Doug Edwards
Superman
Johnny Jupiter
Topper
My Friend
Flicka
Dr. Hudson's Journal
Playhouse of Stars
Star Stage
Mama
Susie
Riley
Elizabeth
Public Defender
Our
Miss Brooks
Mel Shaw
Sixth Row Center
Philco
Pioneer
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