Fragmented Notes Reach Across Time on Money Myths and Inventions
A jumble of items mentions speculative values for male and female babies, a survey payment gag, a Rockford headline misread, and a real estate sale notice in High Point North Carolina. It also notes aging jests about witnesses and shows trivia on old advertising and watches, ending with a remark on a silent blasting agent by DuPont.
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Hooper Research Organization
Rockford
MacArthur
Scarborough
England
Superior Court of
Guilford County
High Point
Edgar Snider
Herman J. Bryant
North Carolina
Carolina
Albert Einstein
Ingersoll Company
Ingersoll
Screen Actress HORIZONTAL VERTICAL eM See
A fragmented crossword style clue layout lists various terms such as Father Birds Type of Stringed instrument Lincoln's nickname New Zealand Carry native fort Jumbled type Assist type and other entries. The OCR-like text appears as a grid of hints without coherent narrative or context.
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Lincoln
New Zealand
Utah Farm Bureau in Communist Ties Probe Sparks Federal Interest
Washington lawyers study a Utah court record detailing a Farm Bureau report on Representative Walter Granger's bill to separate agricultural extension from the Department. The piece cites testimony by Paul Crouch Howard Rushmore Manning Johnson and Robert Cruise McManus but fails to prove the Farmers Union as a Communist influence.
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Ritter Iille
Salt Lake City
Utah
Washington
Farm Bureau
Utah Aegressman
Walter Granger
Rele
Department Agriculture Extension A
Granger
9 Farm Organations
Farmers’ Union
Paul Crouch
Howard Rushmore
Mannin Johnson
Robert Cruise McManus
Union
Kremlin fears over atomic bombs echoed in note
A Gromyko note signals mutual fear of nuclear attack between Moscow and Washington. The piece notes Soviet concern about U S bases in Europe and Washington's lead in bomb development, while predicting Moscow seeks time to catch up. It concludes that the fear of atomic attack grips both capitals.
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Harry Ferguson
Stalin
Andrei Lyeonioay
Britain
France
United States
Europe
Moscow
Leningrad
Stalingrad
America
Gromyko
West
Kremlin
New York
Wash
San Francisco
Winston Hill
Birthday Day Trick Turns Lead to Trump Management
In a bridge hand analysis a player gives away a trump trick as a generous birthday gift. The bidding was cautious and the play explored how sacrificing a second trick impacts the game. The example shows how drawing trumps and ruffing clubs can still allow the declarer to run diamonds and make the contract despite an early lapse.
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West
East
Nerous George
Dummy
Declarer
George
South
Old Press Telegraphers Recorded for Historical Archive
A feature recalls Morse code press telegraphers and the 12 inch recording set to join Library of Congress archives. Ralph Cubed, Jack Goulette and Cahall ran the Times Washington bureau link to New York using Phillips code on fast lines.
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Harman W. Nichols
W. Ton
Dot
Ralph Cubed
Washington
New York Times
United States
Times
New York
The
Cahill
Jack Goulette
Ralph Graham
Cahall
Home Office
Morse
Petrillo Backs reluctant pianists at AFM convention
James C. Petrillo, head of the American Federation of Musicians, urged during the AFM convention that the government discriminates against American musicians by favoring foreigners. He appealed to U S and Canadian parents to stop their children from piano lessons until a guarantee of a living in music is provided.
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New York
James C. Petrillo
Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
AFM
United States
Canada
Barber Shops Now On Press Agents List
North Dakota game and fish department says it will send copies of its news releases to every barber shop in the state to improve publicity after disappointment with newspapers and radio coverage.
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Bismarck
N.D
North Dakota Game and Fish Department
Five Day Bewilderment From Boone Biography Snippet
John Mason Brown recalls Daniel Boone admitting a five day bewilderment during his years in the untracked woods. The piece also notes a feud between early Blue Ridge doctors and local drugstore owners over drug prescriptions.
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John Mason Brown
Daniel ~ Boone
Blue Ridge
Mount Jackson
Sam Bissell
Dr. Canfield
Sam
Carson
Bennett Cerf
King Features Syndicate
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Ton Street
BEA
J. Alien Austin
Aoe
Los Aameres
DuPoint
Minute Market
Russia
Piedmont Airlines
Chicago
Cincinnati
Charleston, W. Va
Wilmington
Louisville
Connecting Airlines
Oann Tesson
Jacoby
Val
Morse Telegraphers
Library of Con
By Bennett Cerf
James J. Metcalfe
Cope
C.A. Auffmordt & CO
Fourth Avenue
N.Y
Wachovia
Southeast
Federal Deposit Insurance
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
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