Boy Scout toads and global travel among quirky 1950s notes
A 17-year-old Louisville Boy Scout counselor rears about 80 horned toads from Texas, planning to show them at a Bloomington convention while seeking food. In Toronto a six month old visitor drools at Idlewild before a Glasgow trip to see her grandfather. In San Francisco a consignment of Kansas City steaks is airlifted, and Ivy wins Miss Venus at a nudist camp contest in England. A Baltimore arson case ends with a wife confessing to start a fire after a quarrel.
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Louisville
Glenn Chesnut Jr
Texas
Glenn
San Antonio Chamber of Commerce
San Antonio
Bloomington
Ind
Elizabeth Grant
Toronto
Ont
New York
Idlewild
Glasgow
Scotland
Gramps
ST. Albans
Eng
Ivy
Venus
London
Brunette Isewlt
Kelly
Baltimore
Ups
Mary E. Love
Steel plants speed return of output in new steel contract
Pittsburgh report notes the basic steel industry, backbone of America's industrial might, roaring back toward full production under an unprecedented three year no strike contract. The agreement ends labor tensions and promises resumed output across major mills.
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Pittsburgh
Vpi
America
Monongahela Flood Ignores City as Steel Strike Ends
Flood waters from West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania surged down the Monongahela River causing at least nine deaths and widespread damage estimated at two million dollars. The steel strike ending signaled workers returning to plants as barges sank, bridges closed, and Canonsburg evacuated, while the region faced rising river crests and potential production delays at mills reactivating after the five week stoppage.
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Fittsburgh
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Monongahela River
Federal
Pittsburgh
Ohio River
Monongahela
28 Rescued After Boat Collision Off German Coast
An excursion boat Hubertus collided with a trawler and sank in the North Sea near Buesum Germany. All 28 aboard were rescued, including eight children, amid the coastal resort area incident.
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Buesum
Germany
Hubertus
North Sea
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