First Village Unearthed As World's Earliest Town
Dr. Robert J. Braidwood and colleagues return from northeastern Iraq with what they call the oldest known village, about 7 000 years old, showing a peaceful community with three to four room houses, ovens, mud floors, and early crafts. The site yielded tools, pottery, animal bones, figurines, and evidence of early trade and social order.
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Chicago
Ill
Robert J.braidwood
University of Chicago
Iraq
Braidwood
Danger Season Arrives For Rural Pedestrians
A Chicago safety official warns rural pedestrians face higher danger as year end traffic rises. W. Dean Keefer cites a 42 percent higher death rate in late 1950, noting darker clothing, more night driving, and holiday travel amplify risks. Pedestrians should walk against traffic on country roads and cross only at intersections.
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Chicago
W. Dean Keefer
Kemper Group of Insurance Companies
Keefer
High School Students Serve as Town Officials
Albany Wisconsin high school students took over village duties for two days as part of a citizenship program. Ballots were prepared and an election held in the high school with students filling offices including village president board members Justice of the Peace chief of police and policemen.
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Albany
Wis
Albany High School
Justice of the Peace
Trees Die in Winter Too Without Proper Care
Dr Rush P Marshall warns trees die in winter just as in other seasons from drought storms and pests. Proper care including watering pruning cabling and careful construction can minimize damage and prevent death throughout the year.
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Rush P. Marshall
Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories
Cornwall Furnace and the Grubbs in the Revolutionary War
The Cornwall furnace in Pennsylvania supplied 24 tons of iron weekly and produced cannons for the Continental Army. Brothers Curtis and Peter Grubb tested and cast cannons, lent their workers from military service, and supported a salt industry essential for meat and fish curing. Washington and Lafayette watched the first cannons being cast, while Cornwall’s ore supply remained mined for over two centuries.
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Curtis
Peter Grubb
Pennsylvania
Cornwall
United States
Curtis Grubb
Council of Safety
Jersey
Army
Washington
la Fayette
Cornwall Furnace
Development of Infant Vision From Birth to Early Childhood
The text outlines visual development in infants from birth through early childhood. It notes initial blurry vision with 20/2400 acuity, gradual improvement to about 20/130 by age one, and reaching 20/40 between years five and six. It also explains the transition from two simultaneous images to binocular single vision as the brain fuses input.
Washington Command Post The Operations Division details
The new Army history book reveals the complex task of the staff that planned and directed early global military operations. It is the seventh volume in the U S Army in World War I series, part of nearly 100 contemplated volumes covering all war aspects.
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Washington Command Post
Carmi Times Publishes Letters for Community Improvement
Carmi Illinois readers submit practical ideas for local progress. A reader proposes a new factory to create jobs and boost county retail sales. A Carmi housewife urges replacing trees slated for removal to preserve town beauty.
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CARMI
Carmi “Times
Norborne town eyeing quirky rat cat industry
Norborne's weekly Democrat Leader reports a tongue in cheek plan by three Carrollton men to raise 10,000 rats and 10,000 cats on a Bell farm near Coloma with 180 acres. They foresee cat hides sold to the Government and cats traded for horse meat to sustain production, a venture labeled a closed corporation with no stock offering.
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Norborne
Coloma
Bell
Simpson
Johnson
Europe
Taylor
Danville Celebrates Centre's Historic 1921 Victory Over Harvard
Danville Kentucky marks the thirtieth anniversary of Centre College’s 6 to 0 upset of Harvard in 1921. Captain Norris and Bo McMillin recall marching to Soldier Field to face the Crimson then undefeated intersectional power. Town residents and students painted whitewash murals reading C 6 H 0 and the figures still adorn a water tank and warehouse wall.
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Danville
Centre College
Harvard
Norris
Armstrong
Praying Colonels
Bo McMillin
Soldier Field
Cambridge
Mass
Crimson
Machinery Threatens Old Dobbins Existence in Sd
A 1951 state assessment shows South Dakota farmers rely more on tractors and combines than horses. There are about 98 600 horsepower devices in use, down 21 000 from the prior year, including 85 000 tractors up 3 000 and 20 800 combines up 2 000.
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South Dakota
High Price Of Tin Gauses Pocketbook Pain
Ancient metallurgists called tin devil among metals. Uncle Sam suffers a sharp pocketbook pain as America depends on distant tin mines for pans cans bottle caps bells books toothpaste tubes. Since the Korean War began tin prices soared to record highs, prompting renewed wartime controls amid charges of price gouging. Southeast Asia remains the world’s major tin source.
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Sam
America
U.S
Southeast Asia
Burma
Thailand
Malaya
Who Controls Rice Supply Controls Asiatic Destiny
The article argues rice is the world’s key staple and that control of its supply determines the fate of Asia. It states rice feeds over half the world’s population and is the primary sustenance in Orient regions, making food security the central concern over democracy or ideology.
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Asia
Bread Storage: Refrigerator Keeps Mold Down
Storing bread in a refrigerator retards mold growth by lowering temperature. Relative humidity in most fridges runs about 40 to 50 percent, similar to pantry shelves, so chilling bread would not necessarily dry it out faster under normal conditions.
Crocodile Worship Across Ancient Egypt Motive and Fear
The article notes that crocodiles were both venerated and reviled in ancient Egypt, fueling feuds between towns. El Faiyum, 52 miles south of Cairo, was among sites once called Crocodilopolis or City of Crocodiles, where believers fed the animals bread meat and wine.
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Egypt
el Faiyum
Cairo
Crocodilopolis
Traffic signals by car horns in Belgrade police practice
Motorists in Belgrade and other Yugoslav cities signal directions to on duty officers by horn taps. One horn for straight, two for right, three for left, and officers respond with a white-gloved flourish. The method suits the region where motorists are few.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
New York
Chicago
Time Forgot Morocco as Time Passes in North Africa
Morocco remains a land where time seems paused and change is muted. Tribes in remote mountains still shun the camera, fearing it steals souls, while nonbelievers may enter far temples yet avoid Marrakech mosques.
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Morocco
Peiping
Calcutta
Marrakech
Korean Tigers Roam Mountains and Seoul Suburbs
Readable text notes Korean tigers roam Korea from Siberian forests and occasionally descend on Seoul. The animal is described as longer than a lion, with a shaggy coat, and Siberian tigers have been seen in suburbs of the capital, sometimes attacking people.
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Korea
Siberian
Seoul
Good Fruits The Sour Cherry For Planting
The sour cherry ranks among top fruit trees for planting and should be set in early spring. Transplanting after growth begins reduces survival. Early Richmond and Montmorency remain reliable varieties. Allowing poultry to run among trees helps control wormy cherry insects.
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Richmond
Montmorency
Mongoloid Tribes and the Discovery of America
A historical ethnologist discusses theories of American peopling. He cites early Asiatic migrations across the Bering Straits around 20 000 B C and notes similarities between Tibetan and American Indian groups in physique dress behavior and language.
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Christopher Columbus
Americus
America
B.C
Asia
Americas
Bering Straits
Himalaya Mountains
French Forest Assumes Entirely New Shape
The text describes a spring plan to set up SHAPE headquarters in a 60 acre site near Versailles. Barracks and an 18 wing office building will form a European Pentagon for Allied Powers in Europe. The French government designates part of the Forest of Marly as the permanent SHAPE site.
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Paris
SHAPE
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Powers
Europe
Versailles
Eisenhower
Pentagon
Presidential Shooting Preserve In the Famous Forest of
Marly
Russian Railroads Record Rail Accident Surge in 1934
In 1934 Lazar Kaganovich, then Commissar of Transportation, announced 62 000 railway accidents across the Soviet system. The report noted hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries while highlighting the loss of 7 000 locomotives and 64 000 cars destroyed. Only 19 000 new cars entered service that year.
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Lazar Kaganovich
Kaganovich
Maine Maple Syrup Output Near Sixty Thousand Gallons
Maine syrup production requires between forty and fifty gallons of sap per gallon of syrup and producers must draw sap at the exact moment to meet color standards. Maine's maple syrup output runs about 60 000 gallons with maple sugar adding roughly 15 000 pounds to the crop total.
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Maine
Grateful America Remembering Lafayette in Public Honors
In 1900 children saved pennies to present France with an equestrian statue of Marquis de Lafayette. The statue was placed in Square du Carrousel near the Louvre as a tribute. American homage spanned eight counties and numerous towns cities streets parks and schools named for Lafayette.
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America
Marquis de Lafayette
France
du Carrousel
Louvre
Tin and its impact on feudal power and society
The article traces tin’s role from breaking feudal grips to shaping crafts and industry. It notes pewter utensils used by all social classes, the high status of English tinners, the birth of photography on pewter, and the tin can’s military and urban influence enabling nations to rely less on local food production.
Tiger menace across Asia haunts jungles and towns
The great cat remains feared in India, Mongolia, Burma, Indochina, Malaya, Sumatra, and Java. Tigers terrorize jungle villages and outskirts of Singapore, with reports of humans killed daily in some areas and ongoing man eater danger in Thailand.
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Asia
India
Mongolia
Burma
Indochina
Malaya
Sumatra
Java
Singapore
Thailand
Moon Pockmarks Attributed To Meteorite Bombardment
Astronomers propose the craters on the moon result from bomblike impacts by meteorites. Without an atmosphere to slow and cool incoming bodies, the surface bears the resulting pockmarks.
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Moon
Earth
Christmas program draws large crowd at church in Snyder
Sunday school attendance reached 44 as Rev. H. J. Kemp led services at 9 30 am. A Christmas program drew a large crowd. Jean Woods visited Mrs. Milo Prust. Marjorie Tryon and Janet Hollenbeck called on Ruth Pittenger. Ralph Tingley returned from San Diego via ship Bon Homme Richie after months in Korean waters. Adam Lichtenberger home from Paris hospital recovering well. West Union postmaster delivered late mail. Janet Hollenbeck received a Tokyo wire instructing no more letters from Wayne Heighton.
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H. J. Kemp
Jean’ Woods
Milo Prust
Walnut Prairie
Marjoriealist
Marjorié Tryon
Janet, Hollenbeck
Ruth’ Pittenger
Clarence
Sarah, Hollenbeck
Janet
Bobby
Carol Etcinson
West Union
West Union Post Office
Janet Hollenebck
Tokyo
Wayne Heighton
Adam Lichtenberger
Paris Hospital
Raymond Tryon
Ralph Amstot
Christmas Gatherings Around Five Points Families
A holiday roundup notes Rev A C Northcutt visiting East St Louis for Christmas. Cincinnati visitors Eugene Morgan and kids join relatives in Five Points. Local families Glenn Wilhoit Homer Hendrix Ina Galeener and others attend a North Center party. Paris guests join Christmas with Forrest Baker and Rex Withoit families. Multiple dinners and social gatherings occur among Morgan, Gard, Linton and Hendrix clans near Christmas.
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A. C. Northcutt
East St. Louis
Eugene Morgan
Danny
Kathy
Cincinnati
Sylvan Morgan
Lila
Glenn Wilhoit
Donna
Joycé
Homer Hendrix
Forrest Baker
Rex Withoit
Alan
Glenn i Withoit
Maurice
Joyce
Chester Linton
Lloyd Hendrix
Harold Hendrix
Mra
Lon Linton
Nazarene and Evangelical Churches Plan Weekend Services
The Nazarene church cancels Saturday night and Sunday services due to bad weather and icy roads. Sunday school at 9:30, morning worship at 10:30, N P S at 6:30, evening service at 7:30. revival ended with good progress. Evangelical United Brethren schedules morning worship 10:30, church school 9:30, prayer service Wednesday 7:30. Zion church fifth Sunday program at 7:30 with special music and speaker.
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Dorothy Ahleman
Emanuel
William Ziegler
Zion Church
Zion
Richard Miller
Wm. Abel
Methodist
Patty Flenner
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E. C. Kance
Popular Street
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