Mistaken Year of 1953 Pulls in a Parade of Blunders
A humorous litany of missteps from 1953 ephemera includes a Trenton man shooting at a bush, a $100 bill scavenger, a puppy finding money, a TV order exchanged with a wife, a Toronto girl warning of a snarling fox, a Wolf and a gluey basement, a TV dealer returning one item, and a Los Angeles boy struck by a streetcar who asks for comic books on ambulances.
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Harold Sinclair
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Keene
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Elmer Schaeffer
Esther Eville
Iowa
Virginia Benson
Percy Benson
Toronto
Animal Kingdom
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Humane Society
Roy Greer
Dennis Jensen
Los Angeles
Dennis
You Jes Lissen Here Mr Engineer and the drunk driver arrest
A Chesapeake and Ohio freightengine halted when a car barreled toward it. Charles O Windoffer 59 paid 128.50 in Peru Ind after drunken driving charges. In Salt Lake City a 3 year old Indian faced drunkenness charges with a judge ordering 6 months plus 30 days for contempt. Milwaukee Judge Michael Sheridan 84 celebrated a birthday with about 4000 adopted children and joked about his intelligence.
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Chesapeake & Ohio
J. M. Behle
Charles O. Windoffer
Peru
J. Patton Neeley
Salt Lake City
Milwaukee
Michael S. Sheridan
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Sheridan
Do You Agree Youth Must Be Strong and Tax Paying
A slogan attributed to Harry Iman and co creator of Senger Sanper urges youth to be strong unafraid and a 4 percent better taxpayer than their fathers, highlighting civic duty and self reliance.
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Harry Iman & Comandublat
Potato Gas Disaster Stirs Avon Fire Dept
A Los Angeles blast blamed on a potato plugged gas pipe. a family had moved out, stove disconnected, and potato leakage ignited by a water heater pilot. Avon fire brigade faced delayed calls due to lack of a nickel for the phone, prompting new advice to keep coins beside pay phones.
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Los Angeles
Avon
Rubirosa Reaches N. Y. to Marry Babs Hutton
Porfirio Rubirosa arrived in New York amid reports he will marry Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton. The Dominican foreign office said the ceremony will be at the Dominican consulate general with a high official sponsor, date unspecified. Rubirosa, once minister plenipotentiary in Paris, was dismissed for misconduct.
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New York
Porfirio Rubirosa
Woolworth
Barbara Hutton
Ciudad Trujillo
Bubiroan
Miss Hutton
Foreign Office
Rubirosa
Miss Huttton
Paris
Los Angeles
Idlewild
Zsa
Zsa Gabor
Herosa
Las Vegas
Nev
Miss Gabor
Newark
New York Daily Mirror Today
Flor Trujillo
Danielle Darrieux
Doris Duke
America
Prince Maivani
Kurt von Haug‘swite-Reventlow
Cary Grant
Prince Igor Trowbetz OY
Reds Win Prestige Success in Indochina Drive
Vietminh forces push through Laos seizing Thakhek and severing the Mekong frontier. French reinforcements pour in as pilots bomb Vietminh concentrations north of Thakhek while airlifts continue supplying northern Laos. The campaign yields prestige and political gains but faces tough counteroffensive challenges.
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Reds
Indochina
Hanoi
Leut
Thakhek
Mekong River
Thailand
South China Sea
Laos
Thakehk
Mekong
Vietlane
Luang
Prabang
Haiphong Port Tension Escalates Amid Propaganda Push
Reported dispatches describe buses from Saigon to Haiphong 64 miles east of Hanoi. The plan centers on amplifying propaganda value, while a claim that a docking could be split and a scare in Thailand prompts rapid northern reinforcements.
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Haiphong
Eest
Hanoi
Thailand
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