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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1958
Page
3
An editorial notes that 570,000 Kansans enrolled in a major insurer this year, suggesting about half the state is insured. It argues pay-while-well plans boosted access, forecasts rising demand for nurses doctors and bigger hospitals as more people gain coverage.
A California town votes three to one to legalize poker with concerns that shady variants remain outlawed. The item comments on Eisenhower precedents and oddities from White House parakeet burials to coinage debates, ending with a note on a Shetland pony selling for sixty thousand dollars and pondering Percheron value.
Rand emphasizes economist Roger Babson blaming overindulgent consumer appetite for housing cars and luxuries. He says savings lack, education funds, and life insurance vanish as production lags wages. Babson also targets labor leaders and government, while noting political blame yet asserting consumer greed drives downturn.
Tribune Files recalls a Humboldt 2 resident studying dentistry who reportedly laid an egg shaped like false teeth and brought it to Chanute on Saturday. The piece also notes a Chanute merchant receiving 11 silver dollars dated 1884 as part of counter hoarding efforts.
Mrs Rosetta Ramp of 502 W Ist writes that Americans neglect the open Bible and the privileges it underpins. She cites Psalms 11 3 about foundation and urges continued verses in The Tribune to remind readers of duties and freedoms.
A collage of quirky lines from local and regional papers. The Haskell County Monitor jokes about farm problems and droopy stomach muscles while the Topeka Capital notes politics as trouble finding and misapplied cures. The Concordia Blade puns on a tiny beer barrel and old fashioned drinks.
Smithsonian proposes a secret deal to acquire the Hope diamond as a centerpiece for a new mineral hall. The plan reportedly trades several industrial diamonds. the McLean estate had resisted sale amid believed bad luck linked to the jewel.
Dr. Crane suggests naming a newborn after notable historic figures or virtues, listing many masculine names with meanings and encouraging parents to balance tradition with personal preference. A sample list includes George Washington Crane style choices and biblical names, with guidance on pronunciation and social fit.
The Chanute Tribune and The Daily Times merged into a consolidated publication under Chanute Publishing Company. Editor Ernest W Johnson and Advertising Manager James E Sheridan are noted, with standard publishing schedule and AP affiliation. Subscriptions are outlined for local counties and surrounding areas.
Practical advice covers peeling apples with hot water to save time, cleaning oiled floors by pinning a cloth to the broom, preserving fine lace with magnesia powder, and mending a wool sweater by basting a patch on the wrong side and darning through the patch for strength and shape.
A dense list of prime time and daytime programs across stations KOAM KOTV WDAF KODE including Dragnet Sea Hunt Gunsmoke and Playhouse 90 with multiple talk shows news weather sports and serials. Specific times and channel allocations appear throughout the day.
New York author Beverly Merrill argues Europe is culturally dead and that the U S is the new Western culture center. She runs a phonograph firm recording medieval music in full for a projected ten album series praised by music scholars. The project records early English love songs and tests performers’ talents while offering a peaceful mood. The target audience spans professionals and intellectuals, with growing interest from jazz fans.
The questions ask about grammar and pronunciation. They cover correcting a sentence about getting John to go inside, the pronunciation of ogre, identifying a misspelled word among surreptitious surveillance susceptibility and surliness, the meaning of replete, and a word beginning with em meaning a beginning.
The passage recalls President Taft delivering his National Geographic Society lecture without his glasses. A spectator lent glasses with the same prescription, enabling him to read the address despite the initial hurdle.
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