Frigid Blast Breaks Up Across the Nation
A weekend Arctic front loosens its grip with rising temperatures in the Great Lakes and Central Plains. Cold pockets linger in the Northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest as a dust storm hits Southern California and heavy snow gates Lakeport. Low readings include Pembina and Willmar around single digits to teens in multiple states.
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Chicago
Middle Atlantic
Ohio Valley
Great Lakes
Central Plains
Rockies
Pacific Northwest
California
San Francisco
Bay Area
Lakeport
Pembina
N. C
Willmar
Effingham
Ill
Quncy
Spokane
Wash
Bishop
Calif
DAILY CROSSWORD ACCROS AND CRYPTOQUOTE PUZZLE UPDATE
Crossword clues span across and down from 1 to 44 with scattered theme hints. A Cryptoquote by Longfellow provides a coded quotation. readers are invited to decode using substitution rules.
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IBS
Longfellow
False report on voting rights spread by local figure
A collection of brief notices reflects busy life with local opinions on voting, theater seating upgrades, shoe woes, a threatening town remark, and a graveyard proverb about friendship and death.
Stare Sparks Clash Over Display at Local Gathering
A woman perceives a man’s gaze as rude and vulgar as he stares at her display, prompting conflict at a neighborhood event. The incident highlights tension between lingering attention and personal boundaries in public spaces.
Hoover Commission Finds Waste in U S Medical Care
A Hoover Commission task force led by Tracy Voorhees criticizes waste and duplication in federal health services. It notes 24 million people receive some government care, and the Veterans Administration alone may spend more in 1949 than all 1948 federal health spending. It urges defining beneficiaries, reducing hospital overlap, and exploring veterans health insurance with government premiums.
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William F. Arrogast
Washington
Capitol Hill
Veterar
Herbert Hoover
Veterans Administration
Congress
Hoover
Army
Tracy S. Voorhees
Athens Wins Eighth District Tourney For Fifth Straight Year
Athens earns the annual Eighth District Division basketball tournament title and will host games at Athens High School on March 5, 4, and 5 with the participating teams from the district.
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Athens
Ala
Alabama High School Athletic Association
No title available
An interviewer visits an actor to discuss his new contract. The visitor reveals he is from the income tax office, not a newspaper, and asks for details about the generous weekly salary.
Gloomy Thought by Frank Whittemore
A fragment poem quotes a hallway mood and a mysterious hog in the bathroom arriving first. Frank Whittemore signs the brief meditation on waiting and wrath with stark, surreal imagery.
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Wrath
Frank Whittemore
No Indians There in Hell Murals Joke and Court Gag
A Denver post recounts early Montana murals depicting hell with white figures angering Indians who point out the absence of natives. The priest alters the scene with red faces in hell. Other material includes Goofs and a jurist gag about Cicero and a hog theft, and a coffee with no cream joke.
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Denver
Colo
Post
Montana
Earth
Hell
UN failings and Asian upheaval warn of a global crisis
DeWitt Mackenzie weighs Indonesian republic turmoil, UN weakness, and a rising Asiatic bloc. He warns Bolshevik influence and imperial legacies threaten Western safety as India and Nehru urge anti imperialism and self determination, with the UN framed as a catalyst or stumbling block. The piece ends by noting the UN doorstep is awaiting crisis.
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United Nations
India
Netherlands
All-India Congress
B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya
Asia
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
England
Room and board fixtures secure mortgage default
The notice describes room and board fixtures, including a Warm Morning Heater and an Electric Water Heater, deemed part of realty and security for a mortgage. The sale aims to pay indebtedness, with proceeds applied per the mortgage terms. Reconstruction Finance Corporation as transferee. Leader, Tenenbaum and Perrine, agency counsel, December 27, 1948 and January 3 and 10, 1949.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Leader
Notice of Foreclosure Sale by Reconstruction Finance Corp
Default on a secured mortgage from 1947 led Reconstruction Finance Corporation to announce a public foreclosure sale in Morgan County Alabama. The property at Lot 5 Block 12 Dedtur Land Improvement and Furnace Company's Addition No 1 to Decatur Alabama will be sold at public outcry for cash on February 3 1949.
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William D. Tanner, Jr
Martha Mae Tanner
Collateral Investment Company
Alabama
Birmingham
Morgan County
Security Savings Bank
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Decatur
Towit
Dedtur Land, Improvement and Furnace Company
Decatur Land Company
Moulton Street
U. S. 31
Wolverine Avenue
White Way
White Way Pure Milk CO
Athens leases vacant lot for free public parking
The City of Athens Alabama leases a large vacant lot three blocks north of the public Square on North Marion Street to ease traffic congestion. The graded gravel lot is open to the public at no charge.
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Athens
Ala
City of
Marion Street
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