Health of Nation Improves as 1949 Ends the Decade
New York reports that the health of the nation improves in 1949 with death rates below 1948, infancy and maternal mortality down, tuberculosis and respiratory diseases at record lows, and cancer and heart disease showing small declines. Advances in vaccines, diagnostics, hospital construction, and public health education drive continued gains.
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New York
Louis I. Dublin
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Dublin
Sea Creature Puzzle and Word Fit from Vintage Page
A mixed word puzzle displays horizontal clues about a porpoise size beverage and various numeric and lettered hints. Vertical clues include mute night before event an scot rabbit scent heredity unit and more, forming a crossword style reader challenge.
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Georgia
Puzzle crossword clue answers list
The entry provides potential solutions to numbered puzzle hints: 25 Hydrocarbon 32 Bargain events 33 Card game 35 Climbing plants 36 Domesticated 41 Half an em 42 Ship 43 Jason's ship myth 44 Simmer 45 Exclamation of inquiry 48 Obtain 50 Mineral rock 52 Parent 54 Near.
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Jason
Singing Christmas Tree Wins No Audiences Yet
A poor New York couple on Christmas Eve discovers a thrifted pine can sing. The tree charms them with jingle bells and cranberries, then awakens a wealthy relative who envisions a singing tree industry. The tree fades sadly as the tale ends in reminiscence.
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New York
Santa Claus
Trivia questions from today’s grab bag
Questions cover currency portraits on U S one dollar bills the location of the first Civil War bloodshed in a city the last emperor of India the minimum age for U S Senate election and which part of a state was once Indian Territory
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United States
India
Indian Territory
Pioneering film maker and early American inventor profile
A memo fragment recalls a Quebec born film pioneer who helped launch motion pictures and discovered stars like Chaplin and Arbuckle. It also notes a Virginia born inventor from Rockbridge County, 1809, son of a farmer who created many farm labor saving devices.
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Denville
Quebec
Charlie Chaplin
Roscoe
Fatty) Arbuckle
Mabel Normand
Mickey
Molly O
Man
Rockbridge County
Virginia
Grain cutting machine inventor moved to Chicago
Central Press writer Lilian Campbell profiles the 19th century inventor of a grain cutting reaper patented in 1834. After improvements the device became a success and in 1847 the inventor moved to Chicago, where he built a farm machinery firm and died May 13, 1884.
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Chicago
Notable birthdays for Swarthout Sessions and Adler
Opera and radio star Gladys Swarthout is slated to receive birthday congratulations today along with composer Roger Sessions and author Mortimer Jerome Adler.
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Gladys Swarthout
Roger Sessions
Mortimer Jerome Adler
Your Future Vocational Influences for a Child
A brief forecast notes vocational direction next year with emphasis on obedience and thoughtfulness toward others as key traits for the child born under these influences.
Jane Porter Quotation on Nobility and Estate
A terse remark by Jane Porter contrasts a noble mind with a low estate, noting there is nothing clearer or more sensible than such a mind in hardship. The line echoes themes of virtue amid adversity.
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Jane Porter
Feast of Holy Innocents remembered with massacre tale
Town admitted to Union in 1846 and Woodrow Wilson born in 1856 mark key dates. In 1941 Japan invaded Sumatra during World War II and 1945 American novelist Theodore Dreiser died.
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Herod
Holy Family
Egypt
Union
Woodrow Wilson
United States
Sumatra
Theodore Dreiser
Jingle Bells Miracle Amid Withered Tree
Morning revealed a little tree withered overnight its star fallen. The young man demanded a song, but the tree had sung its own. The wife comforted him and declared they had had their miracle, a lesson that Santa cannot earn a living. Darien, Colombia marked as the first permanent European settlement in 1510.
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Hollywood
Bing ‘Crosby
Darien
Colombia
Britannia
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Lilian Campbell
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