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Newspaper

Gravity Independent

Location

Gravity, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 30, 1950

Page

2

Old St Christopher Medal Returns in Broken Pullman Tale

A Broadway column recounts how dancer Jean Armstrong recovered a rosary and a St Christopher medal after a series of misfortunes. The item first appeared with a neighborly girl during illness, vanished amid hotel losses, then reappeared years later on a Pittsburgh station platform, ending as a mysterious comeback.

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Dancer Joins The Student Prince Tour After Late Fare

A dancer, stranded after missing a 7 22 schedule, returns to a hotel with nearly nothing and gets an offer to fill in for a few weeks for The Student Prince at Nixon theater. The Pittsburgh 7 22 wreck involves a freight collision injuring no one as two berths are damaged.

Prince Nixon Jean Pittsburgh

Obadiah Little Murder Mystery in Old Farm Town

Obadiah Little, disliked by many for sharp bargains and foreclosed mortgages, is found killed by a rock thrown through his window. Neighbors Moses Morris and Oscar Jones report observations of Obadiah reading by the window. prints and hoofprints are found. Suspects include Roscoe Norbert and others who hated him.

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Five Hours Dead On Roscoe Farm Mystery

A tense scene unfolds at Obadiah's farm as Doc reports the corpse has been dead about five hours following a blunt instrument blow. Owen returns with a tall rawboned man named Roscoe, while suspicions rise about the weapon and the killer.

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Obadiah Murder Plot Unfolds In Confession

Narrator accuses Moses of killing Obadiah after a quarrel over a mortgage and a cow. The tale outlines staged evidence with a stove poker, a lamp, a rock through a window, and a discovered body five hours after a sunlit day. Oscar Jones arrives during the inquiry.

Crossword Puzzle 61 Down and Across Clues

The page lists numerous crossword clues across and down with numbers and varied word lengths including unsubstantial breeze frosted fortification exhibition river belg parastic insects seaweed employed for wages skins chart part of toward to be the lee skip as matured a stone salt on water marsh prepare for draw publication stupefy custom one doze who Greek paints letter stringed midaal goddess of discord before seize amazon cetacean insect expression of sorrow having two forms an intimate quick left hand aide of a ledger

Last Week's Answer Puzzle Clues Mixed and Incomplete

A garbled list of crossword like clues includes pen-name of Charles Lamb rodents withered unfamiliar terms and partial phrases. No coherent question or full set of answers is present hindering reliable solution or pattern recovery.

Charles Lamb

Radio and film notes from early Hollywood circles

Hollywood chatter recalls Berry Kroeger’s early radio surge in 1930s, Charles Laughton’s famed voice at a New York luncheon, and mixed reactions to Stromboli. Debbie Reynolds debuts at Warners and signs a term contract with MGM after Three Little Words, with mention of her Girl Scout achievements and merit badges.

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Taxpayer subsidies loom large in government spending

An article surveys broad subsidies costing taxpayers over a billion dollars yearly, from senate restaurant meals and barber shop costs to mail, transport, farm price supports, oil and gas tax breaks, and maritime subsidies. It cites the Commodities Credit Corporation and the U S United States Lines among key programs and notes the aim to keep U S business at home and potential troop carrier use. It mentions a bipartisan commission proposal to address coal industry crises and projects 1950 census data predicting seven states gaining 15 congressional seats.

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How Law Stalled Over Social Security Tax Debate

The senate finance committee debated a House bill to overhaul Social Security. A witness urged that hotel tips not be taxed for Social Security, but the discussion stretched long over the details of tips amount frequency and totals for employees.

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