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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1952
Page
5
A quirky recap notes planes fly below sea level in places like the Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea while submarines dive deeper. It also explains the humorous pun on the elbow bone the funny bone and recalls Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s long Civil War march to the sea.
Harman W. Nichols reports from Washington on Al O Camp return from Mato Grosso Brazil after two years filming for United Artists Strange World. Temperatures reach 120 with nights around 101. natives seek river water to cool, mosquitoes scarce. Three natives killed during filming. crew crossed 10900 miles by horse and river craft. film made with Brazil Bolivia Peru governments. O Camp recalls warm Amazonian two years and wonders if he would repeat it.
Airways route numbers mimic highways with north south odd and east west even. The term chow for food originated with American soldiers in the Philippines. Three families supplied six presidents Adams Harrison and Roosevelt. Braces is the English term for suspenders. Canal locks enabling passage through land of jewels date to 1481 with competing claims by Italy and Holland. Cement use existed in ancient times but its secret was lost and rediscovered in the 18th century.
The Greene Circuit Court in Vacation schedules Owen Wymer versus Lula Wymer for divorce. Plaintiff’s attorney Raymond Powell files complaint with non-residence affidavit, setting appearance for September 13, 1952, with hearing to proceed in absentia if the defendant fails to appear on September 15 at Bloomfield Court House.
In Taylor Wisconsin a mother watches as six of her eight children show polio symptoms. Beatrice, 20, died last week. Dennis, 9, is ill. Ardella 12 and Bernard 14, and Helge Jr. 16 are in a St Francis hospital ward in La Crosse in critical condition. Susan and Merle, 7, are monitored. parents seek aid from local polio funds.
The limestone formations in Carlsbad Caverns were laid down in a shallow sea about 200 million years ago. The article notes that roughly 140 million square miles, over 70 percent of Earth's surface, is covered by seawater. It mentions the bottle tree as an Australian species with denuded foliage and a rounded bulging trunk. It also states Jupiter reflects about 44 percent of sunlight, and that dark bands on fish scales signal approaching winter.
LINTON MILK CO lists Milk Grade A quart at 20¢ Grade B quart at 19¢ Cereal Milk pint at 22¢ for local sale and delivery. Contact phone 143 for inquiries and orders.
Canadians are experiencing a postwar industrial boom with expanding oil, gas, hydro power, and rail projects. Alberta’s oil boom, new pipeline from Edmonton to Vancouver, and vast natural resources lift living standards. American investment drives cross border cooperation strengthening democracy and free enterprise in North America.
Dora Lee Livingston of Yazoo City has been chosen Miss Mississippi for 1952. She will compete in the Miss America contest in Atlantic City New Jersey. She is described as having brown hair and blue eyes.
A horse collided with an automobile injuring the animal and a pig was killed after a pig crossed a motorcycle in Mansfield Ohio. No humans were reported harmed in the incidents.
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