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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1957
Page
12
Grand Prairie Texas residents witnessed a crippled jet crash after its pilot parachuted clear. The F9F-9 crashed into a farm yard injuring or killing multiple people, with a reservist and a local couple among the injured and dead.
You’ll get more fun out of summer activities by chewing cool delicious Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum.
The article discusses evolving body trends for the Miss America pageant with entrants likely to emphasize a larger waist and hips compared to prior winners. States represented include Montana Washington and New Mexico with contestants from New York Chicago Washington DC Hawaii Puerto Rico and Canada. Average bust waist hip measurements are cited as 35½-25-34½ versus previous Miss Americas 34-24-34.
Distier Conner grants DhNaree to Teme Bensuirt from Richard J. Benson in a formal acknowledgment.
A dense OCR style listing covers WDAF KM BC WREN KUTT and many others with stations, feeds, show names, times, and network notes. It strings together sports, music, news, old-time variety, and theater slots across August weekends, detailing program blocks, host names, and featured acts.
A readable crossword grid list with across and down clues ranging from twitching to tree, including soft mineral, sea bird, fortification, and various misprints in entries and numbering, presenting a typical newspaper puzzle with multiple theme and filler words. The clues mix spelling variants and possible OCR errors, inviting solvers to complete the grid with cross checks across 57 entries and down clues from 7 to 51.
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