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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1957
Page
4
A lively quarrel pits Arkansas City El Dorado and Winfield as the most sinful Kansas city. The piece notes Walnut Valley focus and jokes that Fredonia would top the list for most enjoyed sins.
The piece notes an Arkansas river basin program creating a new industrial empire in the Midwest with dams and power. It highlights Neosho and Verdigris valleys gaining water supply and flood protection, while Arkansas river development accelerates in the basin, aided by southwestern leaders and Congress. The outcome promises earlier reservoirs and regional benefits.
Victoria column surveys Canada revealing Europe built cars and two dollar bills in circulation. It notes 102 senators earning ten thousand yearly, Alberta residents to receive twenty dollars from oil royalties, and shifts in industry and culture from logging to tourism.
A reader describes following a drunken driver for about two miles in a rural area. The driver zigged into lanes and over the shoulder, forcing near misses with several cars. The witness hoped the intoxicated motorist would be injured in a crash, while condemning the lack of insurance and urging punishment.
The passage jokes about sales tax at five percent and gasoline priced with imperial gallons being larger. It notes no mosquitoes and no extra coins given for tips. It claims Queen Elizabeth appears on a nickel and explains highway signs mislead about speed limits.
Baker Manufacturing, a local dress factory, reports $89 000 gross for the first half of 1982 nearly doubling the prior year. The plant expands to 52 machines and 78 employees with a potential single day shift and two shifts only during rush periods.
In a rapid House debate, supporters pushed a School Bill as Russia closes the gap in literacy and higher education. Russia reports 4.3 million university and college students and 38 million in primary and high schools, while the U.S. has about 3 million in higher education and 38 million in school enrollment. Sam McConnell of Ardmore led the fight, but the bill failed. he retires at year end.
Jim D a 45 year old CPA at a New York convention felt sick from cold and delayed heat. Frustrated by three unresponsive calls he walked across the lobby wrapped in an Indian blanket, drawing attention and forcing the hotel to help. The hotel apologized with heat and a fruit basket, illustrating simple psychology resolving an impasse.
Hal Boyle reflects on two American eras the Gay Nineties and the Roaring Twenties. The piece surveys cultural icons, Prohibition era crime, and social changes, noting figures from Gertrude Ederle to Al Capone and the era’s lure of freedom and excess.
The piece recalls the Jazz Age as excess and spectacle with flappers, speakeasies, and trumpet smoke. It notes Pola Negri mourning Valentino and the 1929 crash ending the era, while Fitzgerald and Sam offer mixed praise for a wild but pivotal period. The quote defines a bull in Wall Street as a price-rise buyer.
A 1822 five dollar gold piece valued at about 15000 dollars is among the rarities shown at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D C. It is highlighted as a notable collectible in the exhibit.
A Wichita Eagle item notes a man claiming a salary he does not earn, as his wife allegedly does. Norton Telegram recounts a cannibal story where a child won’t eat anyone, and a Chase National Bank note shows odd client letters. An Australian furrier drolly drafts a request to credit funds after jokingly crossing a kangaroo with a raccoon to raise fur coats with pockets.
A listing of multiple daytime and evening TV slots shows programs such as Phil Silvers Last of the Mohicans Wyatt Earp Mickey Rooney and Broken Arrow with various game shows news segments cartoons and matinees. Numerous times and channel references appear across the schedule.
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