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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1955
Page
4
Classified car sale list features used autos with radios heaters overdrives and prices ranging from 125 to 995 dollars. Models include 49 Ford V8 2 door 50 Chevrolet Styleline Deluxe 2 and 4 door 48 or 50 Studebaker and more with notes on condition tires and extras such as back up lights white sidewall tires and seat covers.
Police reported yesterday that the clerk took 250 dollars from the till while inscribing ribbons with appropriate sentiments, a claim described as somewhat cynical by officials.
Emporia Kansan report announces Miss Shei Jean Bailey of Pratt Junior College as winner of the 1955 William Allen White Children's Book Award for Cherokee Bill, Oklahoma Pacers. About 27,000 Kansas students in grades four through nine voted, with an estimated 60,000 participants statewide.
Mr and Mrs Rolla Hall of Wichita visited his uncle Leo Hall and family Friday and Saturday. Galen Schmidt spent Saturday in Garden City with Beverly and Steven. Woody Calvin and children stayed in Sharon over the weekend. Leo Hall Patsy, and Mrs Joe Mills and Jane shopped in Garden City Thursday. LeRoy Lane Bobby and Billy attended a dinner in Larned Sunday. Dean Johnson and Stasia and Gayle shopped in Garden City Saturday.
London reports reveal the ex Marchioness of Bath remains lawfully wed to the Marquess despite a 1953 divorce. The couple secretly wed in 1926 before a public ceremony on October 27, 1927, a fact disclosed in memoirs. Lord Merriman ruled the divorce dissolved only the public wedding, not the secret marriage.
The weather service report by Warren L. Godson states commercial rainmaking experiments in the prairie wheat belt produced less rain than expected. It quantifies a one seventh reduction in rainfall where clouds were seeded compared with natural conditions.
A cleaning fluid burst into flames in a newly built Wichita home killing Lawrence Barton 21 shortly after midnight and Walter Lightfoot 22 about five hours later. Both men were cleaning a floor when the fluid exploded and flames enveloped the room.
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