Town boasting world’s largest in many feats
A stranger is shown a hyperbolic sales pitch about an idealized town with extreme claims. The guide lists superlatives such as the world’s largest movie theater seating 3200, the tallest building, the largest broadcasting center, a 850 foot tall hotel, 16 500 telephones, 800 car garage, and other record holders, all framed as incentives to move there. The piece satirizes booster culture and urban mythmaking.
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Strang
Neigh’ Eisenhower
Co- University
Jack Benny
Radio Nete 2
Tyre
Mearn
Nere
Babylon
Jackson County Boys Triumph in 4-H Judging Contest
Jackson County boys placed third fourth and sixth in the 4-H judging contest at the fat cattle show in Quincy. Hugh Sneads won showmanship and his brother Charles Sneads placed third. Kenneth Burton of Sneads led the judging with Howard Burton fifth. Three Jackson teams of nine boys competed among 36 exhibits from Hereford and Angus calves. The event, supported by the West Florida Livestock Association, drew participants from Swanee River west to Escambia.
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Marianna
Jackson County
Quincy
Fred Sumners
Hugh Sneads
Sneads
Charles Sneads
Kenneth Burton
Howard Burton
Angus
Hugh
Fred Wilson, Jr
West Florida Livestock Association
Swanee River
Escambia County
Baker Death Tagged Unsolved Mystery
Grenville Baker, a New York multi millionaire and Park Avenue social figure, was killed near Tallahassee in a jeep crash with a bullet wound. Leon County police call the case unsolved though Sheriff Stoutamire says it is closed. investigators questioned Baker's companions and found no clear shooter or motive.
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Tallahassee
Grenville Baker
New York
Park Avenue Society
Leon County
Frank Stoutamire
William D. Hopkins
Baker
Here
Thelma Griffin
Floyd Whiddon
Stay South theme frames Commerce Day panel at Alabama
In Tuscaloosa AP report panelists from business and University of Alabama commerce students discussed progress of the South since Reconstruction. H P Bigler of the Associated Industries of Alabama noted Alabama and the region moving toward front ranks with strong industry and promising agriculture. He cited 1947 per capita income near 3.5 times 1939 and the South’s 18 year gain of 5 percent of national income, with growth 43 percent above national.
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Tuscaloosa
University of Alabama
Alabama
H. P. Bigler
Associated Industries of Alabama
South
Bigler
Hotel Clearing House Keeps Boston Visitors Resting
Hugh R. Ferguson, 73, runs a unique hotel clearing house for the Boston Hotel Association. From a lobby desk, he locates beds for visitors when downtown rooms are full, arranging stays at outskirts and suburban hotels. He even books ahead for callers from distant cities like San Francisco.
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Boston
Hugh R. Ferguson
Ferguson
The
Boston Hotel Association
San Francisco
Blakely Cub Scouts Hold Monthly Meet
Blakely Pack 91 met at the American Legion Park for their monthly gathering. Den 2 performed a pantomime skit about a man driving a Model T Ford, with a final collapse. Attendees included John Prichett, Calvin Loyless, Bud Toole, George Jones, Den Chief, Bill Barksdale, David Bush, Tony Drake, Tommy Jordan, Buddy Sikes, John Reid Stovall, Billy Westbrooks, and attending parents IT Jordan and several Prichetts, Westbrooks, Layless, and Ben.
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Billy Westbrooks
IT Jordan
American families reach life insurance peak in 1948
San Francisco report from the Institute of Life Insurance notes a new high of 201,009,000,000 dollars in life insurance owned by American families. The 1948 rise of 15,000,000 lifts the average insured family to just over 6,000 dollars, with gains matching inflationary losses for the first time since 1945.
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San Francisco
The
Institute of Life Insurance Re
Hen lays nine inch circumference egg with three yolks
In Dunkirk Indiana Mrs Stephen Starr reports her hen laid a remarkable egg nine inches around an unusual find with three yolks. The claim highlights a curious poultry incident as shared by a local resident.
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Dunkirk
Ind
Stephen Starr
Hal Boyle To Speak To Alabama Editors
Alabama editors from towns and cities attend the 78th Tate Alabama Press Association convention in Birmingham. About 200 delegates gather at Tutwiler Hotel with J C Henderson opening, Ed Pierce presiding and Hal Boyle of the Associated Press slated to address the banquet.
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Hal Boyle
Alabama
Birmingham
Tate
Alabama Press Association
Tutgiler Hotel
J. C. Henderson
Alexander City
Association
Ed Pierce
Jasper
Clarence B. Hanson, Jr
James L. Brakefield
Chamber of Commerce
James D. Arrington
Mississippi Press Association
J. Russell Heitman
Associated Press
Warren Whitney
Victor Portmann
Kentucky Press Association
Gilmer imposes six mph limit on Cotton Belt trains
Gilmer city commissioners approved an ordinance requiring Cotton Belt Railway engineers to slow to six miles per hour within city limits. Violators face a maximum fine of 100 dollars.
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Gilmer, Tex
Gilmer City
Cotton Belt Railway
Rosborough joins VA Hospital staff in Atlanta
Dr. D. Rosborough, former medical director and superintendent of the Northwest Florida Tuberculosis Sanitorium in Marianna, has accepted a staff position at the Veterans Administration Hospital 48 in Atlanta. He resigned December 1, succeeded by Dr. Harry Cohn. Mrs. Rosborough, a Marianna native, is the former Alice Horne McPherson.
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Marianna
D. Rosborough
Northwest Florida
Vetseans Administration Hospital
Ogiethorpe
Atlanta
Rosborough
Santtoriarm
Harry Cohn
New Yorkers To Face Carolina Death Count
Conway, D C UP! Cainton H Kinghorn and Arthur Stanky freed to return to Westchester County N Y next March to face murder charges from a boating accident last Sunday A coroner jury ruled the Florida bound vessel swamped an outboard skiff killing Miss Ollie Mew The jury said the yacht passed too close and too fast causing the death while Miss Mew and 13 Page rode in the skiff
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Conway
D. C
Cainton H. Kinghorn
Arthur Stanky
Westchester County
N. Y
Ollie Mew
Miss Mew
Page
Yacht collision ties 75-foot craft at Bucks Port coast
In the South Carolina coast incident a 75-foot yacht owned by members of the eBaufort Realty Co of New York was left aground after an accident at Bucks Port. Stenley of Port Chester and Kingl0m of Mamaroneck described their belief they were keeping a safe distance from a nearby skiff.
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Maccamaw River
eBaufort Realty Co
New York
Bucks Port
South Carolina
Stenley
Port Chester
King10m
Mamaroneck
Keeps Wooden Horses Relic Of Slower Days
In Springfield Massachusetts two wooden horses named Tom and Jerry have stood in a harp tress shop window for 50 years. Bought by T. J. Regnier to align with old window display customs, the steeds reflect a bygone era of wooden horses in harness shops and wooden Indians outside cigar stores.
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Springfield
Mass
Dapple Gray
Tom and Jerry
T. J. Regnier
Burglars Fail to Crack Cape Way Diner Safe
In Quincy Massachusetts burglars could not force a small safe at the Cape Way Diner. They left a taunting card reading if we had more time we could have opened it. The safe was found empty.
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Quincy
Mass
Cape Way
Georgetown University Founded in 1789
Georgetown University, among the oldest in the United States, was established in 1789 as a Jesuit educational institution. It has grown into a major private research university with alongstanding history in higher education.
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Georgetown University
United States
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Max Truitt
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