Last Minute Maneuvers in Democratic Convention Race
Preconvention maneuvering by Democratic party leaders stirs interest in the Philadelphia convention scene next week. Factions seek to secure support for Truman or alternative candidates amid cautious talks and strategic positioning as delegates arrive. The Eisenhower prospect lingers, while anti Truman efforts aim to prod real action or reveal broader preferences.
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Truman
Ant- Bruman
Eisenhower
Ike
Hutan
No clear question on universities or prairie state support
The passage is a garbled query about finding good universities and how the Prairie State might support them. It lacks concrete facts, dates, or named entities to anchor a formal news-style summary.
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Peme
Prairie State
Labor Plan And Taft Hartley Law In Democratic Platform
The labor plank faces a tight line in the Democratic platform as it weighs promising repeal of the Taft Hartley Act. Democrats fear alienating party members who supported the law while courting labor support to sustain a postwar alliance. The piece notes the law’s passage by many Democrats and the general country consensus. It adds commentary on fireworks for a national holiday, Yugoslav and Russian communist moves, a grasshopper menace to crops, bad checks in Shawnee County, soil conservation progress, and a Arkansas college quarterback pay question.
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Congress
Moving to Market Ke Galley Potato Crop Bright but Uneven
The report notes plentiful potato cutlets this year with the harvest in progress and steady demand at no point collapsing. A past crop failed to generate sufficient demand, causing growers to worry about prices and marketing. Despite anxieties, growers eventually produced a respectable yield.
Late protests show unrest in eastern Europe and fears of Russian influence
Fragmented text details protests and dissatisfaction across eastern European satellites with communist rule. It notes Western powers' prior withdrawal to the Elbe, Soviet influence growing in the region, and concerns about small nations’ ability to govern freely.
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Russia
Marshall Tito
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Europe
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Berlin
Patton
Czechoslovakia
Missouri curators weigh future of mines program
The Kansas City Star reports faculty at the Riaouri school of mines near St Rella fpere want the program freed to expand. University curators favor concentrating state resources on major campuses, with the mines school seen as a legacy issue tied to Kansas and Bareewa town.
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Freedom by Force Then Quiet Sokol Pride in Prague
An analysis of Eastern bloc dissent notes that popular desire for liberty persists under totalitarian rule. The Prague Sokol congress draws American flags and supports former President Benes while shunning Gottwald, signaling broader unrest in Czechoslovakia, Finland, Yugoslavia, and beyond. The piece considers how police terror cannot quell this longing for rights.
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Airport Profit Boosts Wichita Municipal Revenue
Wichita July 8 business at the municipal airport shows a pet profit of 35,560 for the first six months, reported by Acting Park Board Director Emory Cox, nearly doubling the first half of 1947.
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Wichita
Kan
Park Board
Emory Cox
Barbs by MPL Cochran on school, talks, and waste plan
A cryptic column by MPL Cochran critiques schooling and public talks, noting surfers at beaches facing fatigue from constant lessons. A lecturer speaks bluntly, urging higher origin for discourse while questioning routines and misused picnic grounds treated as waste paper.
Old Home Town notes church, school, and family events
The Old Home Town section lists local items: Edd A. Wood resigns as Liberty Memorials high school's coach to take a Wichita post. Mr and Mrs Walter J Sauna announce son John Dunne born July 1. Mr and Mrs J Fred Broecker observe 26th wedding anniversary July 10. Rammie Moore hosts eighth birthday party with Gordon Howard Rob Kash John Williams Jimmy Mac Winton Winter John Jeedicke Jack Moore. Mr and Mrs A G Charles and Mildred Cutter spend weekend in Tonje. Julia A Hammond hosts dinner for sister Mary E Ham 75th birthday with Nelte Higgins and C Bewline. Jo Jennings noted as guest. Benedict to Green Mountain Falls trip for summer.
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Liberty Memorrs
High Scheel
Wichita
Walter J. Sauna
John Dunne
J. Fred Broecker
Rammie Moore
Gordon Howard
Rob Kash
John Wiliams
Jimmy Mac Winton Winter
John Jeedicke
Jack Moore
Mildred Cutter
Tonje
Sara
Julia A. Hammond
Vineland
Mary E. Ham
Nelte Higgins
C. _ Bewline oeputer
Oraday Irs
Jo Jennings
Benedict
Green, Mountain
Falls, Colo
Local notes and travels from Hannibal to Canada
Forty years ago Mise Maude Landia hag returned from Hannibal Missouri. Mr and Mrs T N Hanaoe left for Canada. Mrs Ida Locksn has bought the Kelster school of sewing. Mr and Mrs Asher regu reag Monday from their wedding trip to Colorado. C Mr Doane returned today Seam & wank's vinis in Kansas City. Mrs T M Varnum went today.
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Canada
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Kelster
Asher Re‘gureag Mondar
Colorado
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Seam & Wank
Vinis
Kansas City
T. M. Varnum
Platform for Americans by SAMUEL and PETTENVLE
A broad political platform argues socialism weakens freedom and urges Americans to defend private enterprise. Proposals include restoring work incentives, stopping property confiscation, deporting aliens with un-American ideas, tightening immigration, limiting federal aid, applying anti-trust laws equally, abolishing mass rioting rights, ensuring freedom to work and bargain, constitutional limits on federal power, cutting taxes and waste, balancing the budget and stopping inflation to keep America solvent and free.
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Samuel & Pettenvle
Europe
Asia
Lsbor
America
VA to begin WWII veteran dividend refunds
The Veterans Administration plans to start reviewing 14,000,000 GI life insurance policies before dividend payments can begin. VA spokesman Sheena Derby said most World War II policyholders will receive dividends, but amounts and exact payment dates are not yet set.
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Veterans Administration
Sheena Derby
NI VA
Push War on Rats Tries Electric and Blade Traps
Washington reports the national committee on rat control receives reader letters about new traps. One inventor describes an electric eye powered electrocution trap, another offers a blade trap with replaceable blades. Officials prefer traditional spring traps over novel rodent devices.
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National Committee On Rat Control
Thomas William Mann
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Jewell
Kan
Courter
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Noted Criminal Lawyer Lost Two to Executioner
Boston July. William Rei Scharton, 76, famed criminal lawyer who faced execution twice in his career, dying after 38 murder defendant losses. He dismissed most homicide participants as dumb except Abraham Faber, a brilliant graduate who defeated him in one of two major cases amid a ruthless spree of killings and robbery.
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Abraham Faber
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Faber
On the Air Waves HOREZONTA 18 Pictured actress 13 Mistakes 85
Puzzle clues mix common cross word style entries including chemical symbols and person names. The list blends hints for number 18 22 24 27 30 41 44 48 59 across diverse categories as a quirky themed wordplay item.
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Geraint
Rooftop Orchard Tales From a Manhattan Farm
New York writer Hal Boyle recalls a friend who runs a penthouse rooftop farm atop a seven story Manhattan building. Orchids brighten when watered weekly with humid vapor, soil is hauled up in sacks, and wooden crates serve as planters. The farmer adapts to city limits, buying soil, containers, sand, peat moss, and fertilizer, while noting the courtship of space and family life on a rooftop garden amid growing vines and trees.
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New York
Manhattan
Burbark
Terrace
Burs
Etfanate 1
Farmer dies rescuing dog in Connecticut River
Northampton Mass July 8 a 55 year old farmer Michael Kabelek drowned while attempting a rescue of his dog from a swift current in the Connecticut river. He went into the water to save the animal but could not reach safety.
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Topeka
George Knapp
State Board of Agriculture
Kirwin Dam
Knapp
Solomon River
Kirwin
Portis
Farmer
Northampton
Mass
Connecticut
Michael Kabelek
TV Radio Listings and Evening Newscasts Summary
July edition radio and TV listings outline multiple broadcasters KMBC WDAF WDAP WREN and WBAN across evening segments. Mentions include music piano host names Guy Lombardo and Einert Davis, crime epigraphs, sports segments and variety news updates. The page lists schedules, time slots like 3 45 and 6 30, and program titles across stations with brief notes on features and guests.
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Jerry Warne
Pieree
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Einiet Davis
Guy Lombardy
Guy Lombardo
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Works
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Fisherman Rescue After Farmer Sinks in River
A farmer fell into the river when a stick he threw slipped from him. Kabelek and his wife Garet looked on as he sank. Bystanders reached shore, and police and firefighters recovered the farmer’s body.
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Garet
Helpl
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Building permits tally in Manhattan for six months
Report shows Manhattan Kansas building permits for the first half of the year totaling 488 97 dollars against 244 553 dollars in the same period last year. Authorities note growth in activity and cite local development momentum during July.
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