Life on Mars: women rule and long lives in satire
A tabloid Christmas issue promotes a sci fi spoof by Dr. Gernsback about Mars. It paints a matriarchal, secretive society with 2 billion bred Martians, long lifespans, telepathic communication, zero traffic, and a famed actress birth at 2,500 years, plus a five-woman conclave ruling for 3,000 years.
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Not Dorsey Mayle From Barbour County Denied
Dorsey W Mayle of Taylor County asks the Grafton Sentinel to explain he is not the Dorsey Mayle of Barbour County who is held for action by the Taylor County Circuit Court on burglary jewelry store charges.
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Grafton Sentinel
Dorsey Mayle
Barbour County
Airmens Plane Crashes Into Savannah Marsh
J A Lyles, tolling of Highway 17 bridge over the Savannah river, recalls a huge plane passing directly over his riverside home before it struck the marsh. He described the scene as looking like the world was on fire as the aircraft crashed into an old rice paddy within the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge.
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J. A. Lyles
Savannah River
Savannah National Wildlife Refuge
Rose Queen Now Proud Mom Survives Sea Hazard
River mists and the shifting tidewater marsh channel made the boat trip to the burning plane site hazardous as darkness fell. Col. Frederic E. Glantzberg, commanding officer at Chatham Field, and Col. W. H. Hanson went to the Savannah sugar refinery wharf to direct the first attempts to reach the burning aircraft.
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Savannah
Brooklyn woman shot in subway seeks artificial limb
Olga Trapat, once a Brooklyn resident, lost a leg when a gun hidden in a box was fired by a girl thinking it a camera. Now three years later she distributes Christmas gifts and hopes for an affordable artificial limb while awaiting recovery and rehabilitation.
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Olga Trapant
Brooklyn
N. Y
New York
Truman avoids opinion on three day week fuel emergency
President Truman declined to state whether the three day week created a fuel emergency at yesterday's news conference. He said he would act if an emergency arose, possibly by seeking an 80 day injunction under the Taft Hartley act, which he has not used to date.
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Truman
Appeal Court Reverses Coal Companies Silicosis Claim
The appeal board withdrew payments after Alaska Coal and Raleigh County Coal and Coke argued Adkins was guilty of willful self exposure under the silicosis act. The supreme court found no facts to prove the companies' contentions, leading to a third reversal by the appellate judges.
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Supreme Court
Appeals board orders zero benefits for Adkins case
The appeals board ruled Jess Adkins of Logan ineligible for disability payments after a review urged by the Supreme Court. The case centers on an order increasing his disability from 30 to 35 percent, with questions unresolved by the prior panel.
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Peal Board
Jess Adkins
Logan
Adkins
Supreme Court
Prisoner Wartime Experiments Involving Adrenaline Recalled
Wartime records reference a prisoner cohort subjected to adrenaline based experiments. The report notes use of adrenergic agents in controlled tests, with outcomes and ethics under scrutiny. Specific names or dates are not fully legible in the surviving text.
Tiny Brooklyn premature baby weighs one pound eleven ounces
Mrs Theresa McKenna twenty of Brooklyn gives birth to a two percent month premature infant in a New York hospital. The baby tips the scales at one pound eleven ounces, a surprising weight for a newborn.
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Brooklyn, N. Y
Theresa McKenna
Yale chief notes gain over year ago period
The Yale head cites a sharp improvement over a six percent lag from the prior year for the January first to period, signaling better performance in the same week of 1948. The remark contrasts with the department store lag and frames the early 1948 period as showing progress.
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YALE
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