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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1948
Page
5
A vast deposit of soft coal or black shale has been discovered in western Australia, according to Radio Australia.
Mrs. Mary Krijger a 42 year old resident of Berg en Terblyt Limburg Netherlands arrived in Hoboken to visit families of three Frankfort Ohio soldiers she has tended graves for three years in Margaten Holland She adopted the graves of Merrill Hughes Tony Seyfang and James Kinney after meeting GI Charles Hughes who sought Merrill Hughes grave She tended the graves by cycling or driving to the cemetery and kept flowers on display in her home saying she felt duty to those freed by the Americans.
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Middletown Post No 218 approved plans to equip its ceremonial drill team with standard American Legion uniforms. Immediate purchases will cover basic needs while full outfitting is briefly delayed, enhancing the team’s appearance at functions and funerals led by E. B. Sickle as uniform chair and Ray Brown directing the drill team.
The American Clay Farming Company plans a temporary shutdown after a warehouse fire yesterday. President Joss Stoffer estimates $15,000 in damage and says salvage of stock is key to resume operations. The article notes the earth's magnetic poles lie about 1,200 miles from the geographic poles.
The Methodist Rural Fellowship calls for better trained and paid country ministers. The demand will be presented at the quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Church opening in Boston tomorrow.
Johannesburg reports on ancient rock paintings near Rhodesia’s ruins suggesting links to Phoenician or Egyptian traders. Abbe Breuil notes figures resemble those found in Brandenberg, with a white Mediterranean woman depicted. He cites Rhodesia's role in historic gold and ivory transit and questions early explorers’ presence along Africa’s east coast.
Leon Henderson denounces Henry A. Wallace's third party as a hideous masquerade masking police state aims. He says its principal supporters include people who waver on the Russian line.
Dr. Akin L. Muegel aged 34 was turned over to federal authorities on charges of uttering fraudulent narcotic prescriptions for personal use. Roy Anderson of the U S Narcotics Bureau took the physician into custody.
A two alarm fire in the downtown Cambridge building caused about $20,000 damage last night. Six firemen were treated for smoke sickness and another firefighter suffered a lacerated hand.
Doctors at St Mary’s Hospital X rayed a bobby pin stuck in 19 month old Theodore Leo’s bronchial tube and said surgery was needed. The pin was expelled when the child coughed, ending the need for operation.
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