Calico Queen Contest Adds Two Entries at Taylor Fair
Ten or eleven contestants vie for the 1955 Calico Queen title at Taylor County Fair. Votes cost 10 cents each, with ballots counting 100 votes. New entrants include Claire June Tekdes and Judy Coughlin, both St Augustine High students, tied to local families and sponsors. Coughlin is 16, Tekdes 17, representing school and community groups.
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St. Augustine High School
Calico Queen
Priddy
Te Fair
Jordan
Claire June ‘Tekdes
Judy Coughlin
Miss Takacs
A. J. ‘Takacs
E. Main Street
Variety Ramblers Orchestra
Helen Bassett
Miss Coughlin
Germain Coughlin
W. Main St
Behood’ Choir
Sodality
Was
Sophmore’ Clas
Negro 80 Held In Shooting Of Kin Near Osage
Isaac Jones an eighty year old Reverend from Everettville is jailed in Morgantown after allegedly admitting to fatally shooting his son in law Wille Guyton near Osage during a feud over treatment of Guyton's wife Lydia. A neighbor reported Jones armed with a gun after a kitchen confrontation. Mrs Guyton was hospitalized in shock.
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Isaac
Jones
Everettville
Morgantown
Wille Guyton
Osage
Guyton
Lydia Guyton
Lydia
Guytons
High School Honor Students Named in Delta Nu Chanter
The article notes a list of individuals connected with Delta, Nu Chanter, and school clubs including modality, the school paper, national Who's Who, choir and choral club, G A A, plus serving as junior class secretary.
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Delta
Nu Chanter
Modality
G.A.A
Penitentiaries Study Noise Impact on Hearing Workers
Six hundred inmates in four federal penitentiaries partake in a cooperative study with the U S Bureau of Prisons and Public Health Service to measure how loud factory noise affects hearing. A control group of 150 inmates works in quieter prison hospital and maintenance areas to compare results.
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Central Press Association
Washington
Mng
United States Public Health Service
United States Bureau of Prisons
Federal Prison Industries, Inc
Tthe
Reward Offered For Murderer In Kansas City
The Motor Car Dealers Association of Greater Kansas City planned to announce a reward today for the killer of Mrs. Wilma Allen, wife of prominent dealer William R. Allen Jr. The group previously paid $500 two years ago for the kidnap murderers of Bobby Greenlease, whose father is also a local auto dealer.
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Kansas City
Motor Car Dealers Association of
Greater
Wilma Allen
William R. Allen, Jr
Bobby Greenlease
Famed Star's Body Sent to Brazil for Services
Film producer David A. Sebastian planned to fly to Rio de Janeiro with the body of his wife Carthen Miranda. Last rites of the Brazilian bombshell were held at a Roman Catholic service attended by over 300 film colony figures. Miranda died Friday of a heart attack.
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Brazil
Hollywood
David A. Sebastian
Rio de Janeiro
Ginger
Dafteer
Carthen Miranda
Miss Miranda
Taxpayer Really Hits Bottom Of The Barrel Des Moines Iowa
Polk County Auditor Harold Anderson notes an Iowa taxpayer mailed a $10 gold certificate from 22 years out of circulation. Hamilton County sets tavern license fees at 15000 and package liquor stores at 1000. Marilyn Durham objects to her father painting a ping pong table green preferring pink.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Polk County
Harold Anderson
Mcleansboro
Hamilton County Board of Supervisors
Marilyn J. Durham
Marilyn I
Cow Ties Up Panama Canal Traffic at Gatun Lock
A cow was found swimming in the Gatun Lock chamber in Panama Canal Zone on Monday blocking traffic. Officials towed the animal from the lock and sent it on its way by land.
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Panama
Panama Canal
Gatun
Hossy
Uncle Sam sued by dancer for government hindrance
Craddock, a 65 year old dancer, claims the federal government blocked his career after an accident. He seeks relief in a suit framed as a challenge to U S authority, alleging deliberate hindrance of his profession while detailing a 20 year term likely noted in prior filings.
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Francisco
Craddock
Matte
Ind
Paul McCourt Suffered Critical Injuries in Coal Truck Crash
Paul McCourt of Webster remains in critical condition after a loaded coal truck overturned near Brownton Thursday. At St. Marys Hospital in Clarksburg doctors report chest injuries including punctured lungs. Friends appeal for all blood types as large quantities are needed for potential surgery.
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Paul McCourt
Webster
Clarksburg
Brownton
Friends of the McCourt's
St. Mary's Hospital
McCourt
Bu ‘Taxi Co
Craigmore Coal Co
G, 0. P. Leader Dies Jasper Ind
Michael J. Hanrahan aged 68 an Indiana Republican leader died after a Sunday accident He charged the bus driver with reckless driving and sought damages of 200 000 dollars Officials reported he had one leg shortened by the crash
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Jasper
Ind
Michael J. Hanrahan
Indiana
Former Taylor Matron Dies in Ohio City
Ellen Clyda Barnell 71 a former Taylor county resident died August 7 8 30 a m in Memorial Hospital Painesville Ohio Born Summersville December 24 1883 daughter of George and Mary Armstrong Bayes widow of Angela Barnell Survivors include one foster daughter Evelyn Knight of Painesville one brother H D Bayes Rosemont one sister Elizabeth Wease Detroit two grandsons Robert and Harold Stuart Friends may call at H D Bayes Rosemont Funeral Wednesday at 2 p m Rev H Carson officiating Burial at Kingwood Cemetery under McGumphy Mortuary director The era of American clipper ships ended with the Civil War.
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Ellen Clyda Barnell
Taylor Country
Memorial Hospital
Painesville
Ohio
Summersville
George
Mary Armstrong Bayes
Angela Barnell
Evelyn Knight
H. D. Bayes
Rosemont
Elizabeth Wease
Detroit
Mich
Robert
Harold Stuart
Puneral
H. Carson
Kingwood Cemetery
McGumphy Mortuary
Theft Probed At Astor Mine Near Flemington
State Police probe two thefts at the Astor mine near Flemington. A July 29 discovery involved a 3 h.p. Wisconsin Air Coach Electric Motor with no value listed. An Aug. 8 theft took 2,400 feet of wire valued at $800, stretched between two mines.
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Astor
Flemington
Gates
Infant Zepernick Dies After Birth in Nashville
Graveside services were held on Saturday in Nashville Tennessee for Paul Werner Zepernick infant son of Mr and Mrs Werner Zepernick of Nashville who died shortly after birth on August 5 The mother is the former Clara Fordyce daughter of Mrs J For-
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Nashville
Tenn
Paul Werner Zepernick
Werner Zepernick
Nashville, Tenn
Clara Fordyce
J. For
John F. Nuzum 71 Native of Taylor Dies
John Fredrick Nuzum, 71, native of Taylor, died August 8 in Weston Hospital. He was born April 1, 1884 in Taylor County, son of Charles Wacum and Home Weston will direct the services. The obituary notes he was the third child and third son in the Zepernteks family.
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John Fredrick Nuzum
Weston’. Hospital
Taylor County
Charles “Wacum
Home
Weston
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