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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1957
Page
6
A would be robber entered a Washington Avenue bakery in Miami Florida and shoved a note claiming a gun and demanding money. The clerk Mrs Tilly Nadell lectured him on crime and the bandit fled after failing to regain focus on the theft.
Thieves bound and gagged night watch man Brian Healy during a raid on a Sydney razor company and stole about three tons of blades valued at around two million. Oscar Hammerstein II, famed lyricist, was born in New York City and wrote the words for Oklahoma.
Readers ask about camping sleeping bags versus cots and tent size for three. Advice favors sleeping bags and a 9x9 foot umbrella tent, with optional air mattress. Other letters seek federal Fish and Wildlife Service info, wedding gift ideas, attire, and pattern sources. responses provide practical, period-appropriate guidance and contacts.
Local page notes community events in Chanute Kansas for mid June 1957. Columns cover civic meetings, school notes, and upcoming public activities with brief notices from town organizations and schools.
A reader lists several pattern publishers including Paragon Needlework in New York Bacilla in Long Island City and Frederick Herrschner Co in Chicago along with the National Needlecraft Bureau for patterns. A letter asks for directions to make dolls from milk filter discs and is directed to Johnson & Johnson which offers a kit with discs and instructions.
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