Middletown Journal Subscription Rates and Note
The Middletown Journal lists per copy 5 cents and carrier 25 cents weekly rates for evening delivery with 35 cents weekly combined in Middletown. Mail options range from six dollars yearly in trading area to ten dollars outside, with U S rates at twenty five dollars. A biblical verse is included in the page text.
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Middletown Journal
First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
Evening Middletown Journal
Sunday News-Journal
Evening
Sunday News- Journal
U.S.A
Inflation Fight Gains Ground in Steel Price Cut Move
U S Steel cuts prices by 25 million dollars and refuses new wage hikes, a move aimed at halting inflation with broad economic impact. CIO head Philip Murray pledges no strike under the current contract, while observers urge broader price cuts to curb wage-led inflation.
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U. S. Steel Corporation
Philip Murray
CIO
Steelworkers Union
John L. Lewis
Murray
Republicans Set 15 Minute Speech Limit For Nominations
An editorial notes GOP speakers must trim remarks to fifteen minutes, hoping to curb filler and reveal the candidate the people demand. It recalls a Pennsylvanian incident where a speaker Forgot Pinchot's name during a grand climax after invoking a reform candidate.
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Goldberg
Pennsylvania
Pinchot
Birthday Cake and Compliments Move Restaurant to Gratitude
Dr. George W. Crane recounts a Chicago waiter Kirk P. quietly arranging a birthday cake with candles for a diner from Indiana. Diners praised him, the owner rewarded Kirk with a $25 check, and colleagues saw his value. The piece urges daily praise and invites joining a Compliment Club.
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Kirk P
Chicago
Kirk
Indiana
Benjamin Franklin
Congress Will Decide Military Spending After Unification Debate
Discussion notes that Congress, not the President or Defense, will determine military budgets for Army Navy and Air Force. Symington now argues for presenting cases to Congress, with each service seeking funding independently. The piece praises Congress as the ultimate arbiter and warns of delays if budgets are restrained by executive agencies.
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Washington
Congress
Secretary of Defense
W. Stuart Symington
Air
War Department
Executive Department
Symington
Army
Navy
Air Force
Economic Club of
Detroit
Executive Branch
Budget Bureau
Secretary of
Mr. Truman
James Forrestal
Byrnes
Hull
Stimson
Yalta
Europe
Potsdam
Forrestal
Soviet
Russia
United States
Peter the Great
Stalin
Great Britain
Germany
Japan
Derriere Dominates Paris Fashion Talk in 1948 Echoes
In a playful column from New York, Dallas and Los Angeles rivalry with Paris heats as the derriere enters fashion discourse. The writer jokes about back talk and bustle bows, notes evening wear options, and laments masculine silhouettes while praising a restored waistline and feminine silhouettes seen in 1948 spring styles.
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Paris
Martha Washington
New York
Dallas
Los Angeles
Fredericka
Fifth Avenue
Barnitz Donates Land for City Recreation Baseball Park
Twenty years ago W O Barnitz gave the city a two year ground donation near Fourteenth Ave for the Recreation Baseball League with a condition to keep weeds down and lay out diamonds Armco Association supplied a movable building for equipment storage George M Verity joined the Ohio reception committee for the World Conference of International Justice in Cleveland and a Paris marriage connected Miss Helen Bridge of Franklin to C W Shartle former president of Shartle Brothers Machine Co
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W. O. Barnitz
Fourteenth Ave
City Recreation
George M. Verity
Ohio
Cleveland
Paris
France
Helen Bridge
Franklin
C W . Shartle
Shartle Brothers Machine Co
N- Palys
Ants found lazy by Panama study and column twist
A columnist recalls Solomon and Aesop on ants then reports a five month Panama study finding only forty percent diligent workers plus twenty percent fair and forty percent inactive. Scientists spent time and money to debunk the ants as exemplary workers.
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Solomon
Panama
Aesop
Grasshopper
Stars Warn of Turmoil and Reckless Moves in Strained Times
Genevieve Kemble advises that intimate matters may steer the general state of affairs with confusion and heightened emotions. Postpone action until clearer vision, as estrangement and sudden crashes loom. Those born today face doubt and clouded ties, with possible issues of suspicion and upheaval.
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Court of Reason
North Dakota Chooses 1948 Golf Champion on Minnesota Soil
The 1948 North Dakota state golf champion will be decided at the Grand Forks Country Club hosted tournament held in July. The course lies across the Red River in Minnesota, making the event border-spanning.
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Grand Forks
North Dakota
Minnesota
Grand Forks Country Club
Red River
Sioux seek bridge from nomadic past to urban life
Hal Boyle profiles Rapid City’s Sioux Indians as they drift from reservation life toward urban existence. He notes population growth from Pine Ridge Cheyenne River Standing Rock and Rosebud reservations and describes three stages tent shack and house Indians as they pursue jobs and education while negotiating pressure from federal policy and white society.
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Rapid City
American
Pine Ridge
Cheyenne River
Standing Rock
Rosebud
William McGaa
Pine Ridge Reservation
Armco Dedication Marks Switch On of New Furnace
An Armco ceremony sees veteran Dave Regan hand over honor to W W Sebald as Orley Moses flips the switch on the new electric steel furnace. A public relations alert helped set the moment, witnessed by a large crowd despite unseasonable cold. The observer notes a Christmas letter to Santa regarding a magic wand, joking that wishing won’t make it so.
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Orley Moses
Armco
W. W. Sebald
Moses
Sebald
Santa Claus
North Pole
Forrestand Symington Debate on U S Rearmament Costs
George E Sokolsky discusses the Forrestal Symington debate on rearmament cost and policy. He questions American military disarmament after World War II and compares Soviet production with U S output, calling for transparent figures on Russian capacity and a balanced defense strategy.
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Russia
United States
Germany
James Forrestal
Forrestal
Questions And Answers Review
The Q A set covers King Arthur and Excalibur withdrawal from the stone as the sole act of Arthur, Pantelleria conquered by aerial bombardment without landings, radium emitting alpha beta and gamma rays, and Marco Polo dictating his voyage while jailed in Genoa to Rusticiano.
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King Arthur
Pantelleria
Marco Polo
Cathay
Genoa
Italy
Rusticiano
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Hal Boyle
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