When Will Gratton’s Rain End In Grafton Storm
Gratton’s relentless rain tests aging infrastructure as runoff overwhelms Main street sewer joints between St John’s and Lusadder. City crews repair broken lines and reset streets, illustrating that once adequate sewers may fail under powerful natural events. Public debate continues over future resilience and timing of a dry period.
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Gratton
Westerby
Main Street
St. John’s
Lusadder
Marth Street
City Street
City Hall
Grafton
Nature
Sterday
Maine Potato Subsidy Sparks Debate on Prices
Richard B. Cole writes in the Wall Street Journal that Maine potato farmers grow the most in the nation and profitable subsidies have kept prices high. Farmers argue surplus storage and government support create inefficiency and call for a return to normal supply and demand pricing and less artificial subsidy.
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Richard B. Cole
Wall Street Journal
Maine
Cole
World Bank Benefits Reach Workers Across 46 Nations
World Bank analysis notes large scale planning aids national economies and individual workers in 46 nations. It funds rehabilitation and new projects, requires careful loan security, and conducts thorough investigations before lending. Production growth aims to balance imports and exports and raise workers’ living standards.
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Nat al Barrows
Chicago Daily News
International Bank
Europe
World Bank
United Nations
Louis Retires as a Boxing Great in Final Yankee Stadium Fight
Jersey Joe Walcott defeats Louis in his twenty fifth and last bout at Yankee Stadium New York ending a storied career. The bout follows Louis’s signature patient stalk and sudden bursts of offense, a fitting close to a long era of clean, professional boxing.
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Yankee Stadium
New York
Joe Walcott
Louis
Lou
Joe Walcett
Dewey would try to clean only parts of government
James Marlow explains Dewey would face limits in firing officials beyond the executive branch. Civil service rules protect most judges and many lawmakers staff, leaving Dewey to target non civil service appointees, cabinet heads, and agency chiefs while balancing the need for capable personnel. The piece notes the Capitol to Senate Building tunnel as a side fact.
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Truman
Dewey
Legislative Branch
Congress
House
Washington
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Jana
Roosevelt
Maritime Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Floods Cause Wide Damage Across Grafton Area
Heavy rains and flash floods inundated Blueville and other districts, damaging homes, stores, and the B&O depot. Power lines, telephones, and roads suffered outages while crews cleared debris and restored services. Affected residents faced extensive cleanup as rainfall totals rose to 5.57 inches for the month with more showers forecast.
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Monongah Division
J. B. Bradford
Clarksburg
Bridgeport
Weston
State Road Commission
Kring
Charles Jarrett
Monongahela Power Company
Carr China Company
Webster and
Webster Pike
City Hospital
Meadland
White Front
Blueville
Fetterman
McARTHUR Retired Railroad Worker Poole Career Highlighted
The article recalls Poole final years of service and health wishes as he retires from the railroad. It traces his youthful start with circuses including Barnum and Bailey in 1897 at age 14, then Adam Four Claw and Sells Brothers in 1898, before joining Norfolk and Western as a water boy in Ashville Ohio where a brakeman’s foot injury occurred.
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Gentry Brothers Dog
John Robinson
Wallace Brothers
Baltimore and Ohio South Western Railway
Western Line
Chillicothe
Detroit and
Toledo and Trenton
Springfield
Ohio
Pennsylvania Railway Company
Columbus
Grafton
Parkersburg
Poole
B. & O South Western Railroad
Aap
William M. Green
Arthur Hale
W. H. Brimson
E. R. Scobille
Scioto River
William Kinney
Trene
Philadelphia
Walter
Ashville
Sorry, Anne, Alec, and a War Bride Dream
Anne Forester faces a troubling memory lapse about her fiancé Lieutenant Commander Alec Doremus after a cable announces his discharge. As Don Ogden probes, Anne recalls Hawaii, wartime romance, and the fear that love might be a dream, while planning a careful path to future security and a possible wedding.
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Anne Forester
Alec Doremus
Navy
Donald Ogden
Anne
Don
Red Cross
Alec
Trousseau
Stone House
Koolan
Hawaii
North
Jersey
John
Mr. Dixon
Network rivalry and Yugoslav crisis headlines update
Radio and TV battles hold weekend schedules as ABC CBS and NBC unveil new programs while Moscow debates Tito. Western diplomacy centers on Cominform pressure including Yugoslav cooperation with the Soviet Union and a potential easing of wartime property and funds disputes between the United States and Yugoslavia.
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New York
ABC
CBS
MBS
Hooper
Inbc
Tex
Jinx
NBC
WSM Nashville
Jimmy Durante
Prince Bertil
Sweden
Jack Pearl
Jean Hersholt
Denmark
Jimmy Melton
Capitol Cloakroom
Paul Whiteman
Abbott and Costello
Gordon MacRae
Lionel Hampton
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Kremlin
Tito
Cominform
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Yugoslavia
Russia
United Nations
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Republic of Yugoslavia
United States Yugoslavia finance talks near final agreement
Washington reported near-final talks on a roughly 39 million dollar deal between the United States and Yugoslavia over nationalized American property. The disclosure linked to ongoing Cominform tensions with Tito’s government, while official comments stressed no confirmed connection between the money settlement and the Belgrade dispute.
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Tito
U.S
Ygoslavia
Yugoslavia
Nazi PL
Washington
United States
Yugola'ia
Marshal Tito
Belgrade
Tito seeks leeway with the West for scarce reconstruction aid
Informants say Tito aimed to secure a free hand from Western powers to obtain vitally needed machinery for rebuilding Yugoslavia, and may have met Soviet objections. The detail noted that the Russian censor allowed an uncertain line of reporting.
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