Opium dens raided in Singapore amid anti addiction push
Dr Chen argues opium habit is curable as raids intensify with 2,000 dens reported, 1,000 dens raided, and 300 smokers jailed. Police pledge to crush import and distribution networks with cross border tracing to curb supply from Burma Thailand and the Middle East.
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Straits Times
Singapore
J. A. Parker
Dr. Chen
Customs Department
Malaya
Urma
Thailand
Riot disrupts service at Istian Church in Idaho report
An unclear U.P. despatch describes a riot during prayer at Istian Church. The report notes police radio chatter and that the incident involved a junior class group traveling west on an unspecified route toward Idaho. Authors and exact details are garbled.
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U.P
Istian Church
Idaho
Maynard Fire Destroys Part of Old West End House
Maynard fire caused about 20,000 in damages to the West End House at 171 Main Street yesterday afternoon. Fire Chief Philip Wilson said the blaze likely started from a carelessly dropped cigarette near propane tanks in front of the building, as Stow and Acton departments aided for over three hours to bring it under control.
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Maynard
West End House
Main Street
Philip Wilson
Stow
Acton
New Nasal Drug Drilitol Combines Two Antibiotics
A new nasal preparation called drilitol contains two antibiotics and has shown effectiveness in preventing and treating a wide range of upper respiratory tract disorders including the common cold.
Ice Devil Tale at Old Faithful Inn
A winter keeper at Old Parthips Inn recalls a legend of the ice devil as a tourist visits the park. An elderly visitor asks about the old Fountain and the inn’s isolation while a man named Alex shares a haunting winter memory of a couple and their dead baby, buried until spring.
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Old Parthips Inn
Alex
Millie
Yellowstone
Grove
Mey
March
Ioen
Aléx
Grim death signs cut Maine auto fatalities
Maine credits its sixth place national safety ranking to death signs along rural highways. Since 1949 the Maine highway commission has erected white crosses on red backgrounds noting date and number killed to deter crashes. About 300 markers extend from Kittery to Fort Kent, helping lower deaths per 100 million miles from 5.9 in 1949 to 4.8 last year.
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Augusta
Maine
The
Highway Commission
Kittery
Fort Kent
Commission
Railroads paid payroll taxes in 1951 equal to pre-1922 total taxes
Class I railroads paid the Federal government as much in payroll taxes alone in 1951 as their total taxes, federal state and local, of all kinds in any year prior to 1922, according to Railway Purchases and Stores.
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Railway Purchases and Stores
Stassen Presses Labor Leaders Over Eisenhower Speech
Ex governor Harold Stassen acts as Ike’s envoy to union chiefs urging restraint on endorsing Stevenson. He meets Meany and Green to seek tacit or delayed support, offers Ike a pre-speech review, which is refused, and final talks hinge on independent convention voting. Meany insists leaders decide on merit. Real estate lobby pressing Cain re election via $1 chain letters.
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Harold ‘Stassen
Ike
A. F. of L
Stassen
Bill Green
Stevenson
Green
A. F. of
Enidorsing Stevenson
Meany
Eisenhower
Executive Council
Yalso
Finaly
Washington
Harry Cain
Modern progress owed to American hands and labor
The piece argues that industry, labor, and the American people earned twenty years of progress, not the New and Fair Deal. It cites improved home comforts and appliances as results of American ingenuity, criticizes devaluation and inflation, and urges readers to recognize their role in modern progress rather than political claims.
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Stevenson
Truman
Brannan
Benjamin Franklin
Edison
Harry Hopkins
Dean Achegon
General Electric
Westinghouse
Owen Lattimore
Sunday Dinner All-In-One Pot Roasted Chicken
A home style Sunday meal features pot roasted chicken with vegetables. Prepare a three pound broiler for four servings, brown in fat, simmer with water onions carrots potatoes green beans, then serve. Dessert suggests raisin applesauce with vanilla sauce. Includes savings bonds mention.
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Nike A & P Service
Government to turn over ventures to private owners says council
The Council of State Chambers of Commerce urges privatizing government enterprises including the Post Office with a large annual deficit. It cites Senator Ferguson’s plan to review federal programs for possible return to local or private control and notes government sales like the Provo steel plant deal and the Big Inch pipelines as precedents.
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Donald Haas
C. A. Nicholson
Apartment Owners’ Association
Washington State
Cain
Tidelands
Eee
Council of State Chambers of Commerce
Washington
Council
Post Office Department
State Council
Homer Férguson
Michigan
Republican Party
White House
Congress
Provo
Utah
U.S. Steel Corporation
Government to Sell War Plants to Private Industry
Discussion of government ownership of munitions plants hydro electric and atomic energy facilities and post offices. Charles E Wilson proposes converting government bonds to stock in new companies to run former public assets with government guarantees.
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Post Office
United States
Post Office Department
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Charles E. Wilson
Deense Mobilizer
U.S
Fiddler Walt Starling Preserves Old Tunes From Father to Grandchildren
Nettleton farmer Walt Starling, 70, built his first fiddle at 11 and cherishes tunes learned across generations. He recalls a rural childhood, notes songs hundreds of years old, and says his children and grandchildren carry on the family musical heritage with ties to Nashville radio fame and military service.
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Nettleton
Walt
Starling
Shiloh
Dren
Nashville
Tenn
Ole Driver
Korea
Sidr
Ling
Biarling
Bos
Bisa
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