Kisses Bow to Kilowatts In Modern America
Hal Boyle examines a playful view of marital life in mid century America. He jokes that the modern romance centers on electrical gadgets replacing traditional partnerships, advising husbands to keep wives engaged with a cascade of appliances from toasters to electric dishwashers and beyond. The piece ends praising Thomas A. Edison.
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Hal Boyle
Modern-Day
America
New York
Adam and Eve
Cleopatra
Mark Anthony
Romieo
Juliet
Tristram and
Isolde
Cyrano de Bergerac
Roxanne
Tommy Manville
Gadget Grintl
Murrin
Thomas A. Edison
Wild Elephant Kills Women In Ceylon
A wild elephant near Kandy in central Ceylon killed one woman and mauled another after charging a party of seven returning from a village fair. The elephant seized a man with its trunk but he escaped before it turned on the two women.
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Colombo
Ceylon
Kandy
Clerks Find Loot From Store In Box
Two stock clerks at S. Klein's Union Square found 62379 dollars hidden in a box of wooden spoons. The money, part of 74109 missing receipts, was in a Wells Fargo bag on a storeroom shelf. detectives call it an inside job with 11730 still unrecovered. Carlon, 19, and Hernandez, 27, alerted police after routine inventory.
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New York Vs
S. Klein
Union Square
John E. Carlon
Carlos Hernandez
Carlon
Hernandez
Wells Fargo
Carson
Pawhuska Power Problems Settled
Pawhuska voters authorize the city commission to sign a two year power contract with Public Service Co of Tulsa by a 639 to 1236 vote. Repairs continue on the city generator idle since July 12, limiting electrical appliance use such as air conditioners.
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Pawhuska
Okla
Public Service Co
Tulsa
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