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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1956
Page
6
Home owners are urged to gather receipts and records for annual tax forms. Key deductions cover mortgage interest, real estate taxes, and property damage with rules on carry back carry over losses and capital gains from home sales. Keep detailed records for at least three years.
When the Declaration of Independence was adopted in July 1776, one-fourth of the Continental army was without weapons. Muskets were scarce, Benjamin Franklin advised bows and arrows, and New York ordered militiamen without guns to arm themselves with shovels, pickaxes and scythes.
Rosanno Brazzi, the popular Italian actor, receives lavish gifts from U S fans after national and international fame. He notes 30 000 letters monthly since Summertime and jokes about a Tulsa Oklahoma Cadillac gift while pursuing a film career in Hollywood and a future role in South Pacific.
In Oak Cliff Dallas 19 of 38 precincts reported unofficial results showing 8,862 against beer sales and 6,506 for. Voter turnout was lighter than expected as dry forces led early in the local option election. Earlier in Texas the dry side carried in McLennan County and Bastrop’s Elgin area. wet wins occurred in a Harris County segment including Baytown and Deer Park.
Northeastern report notes record flooding along the Monongahela River and its ram paging path into Pennsylvania. Dams protected Pennsylvania towns but over 100 families evacuated from two West Virginia towns. Most evacuees returned once the flood crest subsided early today.
Officials reported no injuries after a derailment prompted transfer of uninjured passengers to forward cars. The crash involved a wheel that Tyler said could not have been detected in routine inspection. The train was inspected in New Haven, Conn, less than an hour before the wreck and one blocked line was cleared for the Monday morning commute. In a separate note, Brazzi appeared genial in person as he does on screen.
The text explains that lacrosse and tokonhon, a stick ball game also called shinny, flourished among American Indians before Europeans arrived. It also notes Delaware’s nickname the Diamond State reflecting its small size and great significance.
The English writers Wordsworth Coleridge and Southey were nicknamed the Lake Poets for living in Cumberland and Westmorland. A porpoise school communicates by whistling among its members.
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