Chicago's Stockyards Await Billionth Animal
Chicago officials plan a grand welcome for the billionth animal entering the world's largest livestock market since 1865. A walkie talkie system will record each arrival at three gates. The event may arrive next week with a $1 a pound exhibition price, reflecting historic price contrasts.
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GOP Campaign Slogan Faces Frontline Attacks in 1954 Fight
Democratic forces ready a frontal assault on the GOP slogan "peace progress and prosperity" as foreign policy becomes a pivotal issue. DNC and labor leaders blast Dulles policy as palatable to the Old Guard while Senate leaders Knowland and Dirksen plan heavy campaigning to defend the platform.
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Soldier Educator Barrows Dies in California
Maj. Gen. David Prescott Barrows, age 81, dies of a heart attack at a family gathering in Orinda California. He served as University of California president from 1919 to 1923 and taught there 1910 to 1943. Barrows led the 40th National Guard Division from 1919 to 1937 and wrote syndicated columns 1943 to 1949.
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University of California
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Philippine Islands
William Howard Taft
Rior
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Siberia
40Th National Guard
Coffee supply to outstrip consumption eyed by ag department
The Agriculture Department said world coffee production should move ahead of consumption starting next summer, easing the supply. It did not forecast whether the anticipated easing would trigger a price drop.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Nine Injured As Passenger Train Derails Near Baker
Milwaukee Road Hi awatha No. 16 derailed after hitting a washed-out track about eight miles east of Baker Montana. Nine people were injured, none seriously, with six stretcher cases. A flash flood washed out 460 feet of track and 1,200 feet more were ripped up. The train carried 22 aboard. 160 passengers were in the coaches that overturned.
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Lawton Constitution Yesteryears Briefs Ten Years Ago
Almanac of mentions from ten years ago includes the death of Albert Seeloe Apache Indian, R B Gillock Lawton pioneer services, Velora Reed returning from Washington DC, Johnson undergoing major operation in Dallas, traffic laws drive planned, Jaycees organize, Indian child dies at Mt Scott, Judge E L Richardson named Demo convention chairman, chapel at Cameron, Lawton Constitution buys capital interpretative articles, county sewing rooms asked, cattlemen to build dam east of Craterville.
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Lawton
Velora Reed
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Cameron
Craterville
Labor Day Dilemma and Fun Ways to Waste Time
Hal Boyle laments Labor Day as a forced break for workers and bosses who cannot stay idle. He cites Twain on work and play, then offers lighthearted tasks such as reading love letters aloud, writing to a congressman, leaf study, and pondering work versus leisure. The piece blends humor with social observation on labor and time.
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NW York
Aetter
Mark Twain
Cab Driver Charged After Punching Deputy In Civilians Clothes
New York report states taxi driver Jacob Goldstein 43 was charged after striking a man in the jaw whom he later learned was Alfred J. Panareia a deputy police inspector in plain clothes.
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New York
Jacob Goldstein
Goldstein
Alfred J. Panareia
Busmen Delay Action On Strike
Oklahoma City September 6 Fed conciliators face a September 19 deadline as Local 993 members of the Amalgamated Union of Street and Railway and Motorcoach Employes vote to allow time for talks The union seeks a 15 cent hourly raise and contract protections while City Bus Co cannot afford a raise officials vow to avoid a work stoppage potentially affecting about 25000 riders
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Oklahoma City
Tom Pritchard
Ethan Walker
W. P. McCoy
St. Louis
City Bus Co
Robert Bowers
Pritchard
Crosley Marks 20 Years With Cincinnati Redlegs
President Powel Crosley Jr. celebrates twenty years with the Cincinnati Redlegs, outlining his long association and impact on the club.
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Powel Crosley Jr
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Tulsa Burglar Flees Jail For Third Time
Bryson Blalock a 25 year old Tulsa burglary suspect escaped from Norman authorities for the third time in less than two months He is charged with breaking into a Norman motel He has prior escapes from Cleveland County Jail and from Central State Hospital His latest escape followed a patrol encounter in Oklahoma City where a shot was fired but he fled.
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Okla
Tulsa
Bryson Blalock
Blalock
Cleveland County
Central State (Mental) Hospital
Oklahoma City
Egyptian Israeli border clashes claim drivers and shepherds
In renewed border violence on the Israeli Egyptian frontier an Israeli spokesman reported a Jewish tractor driver and three shepherds killed. The driver’s bullet-riddled body was found near tracks to the Gaza Strip while the others died during an Egyptian raid on a shepherds’ camp a mile from the frontier.
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