Middletown Journal subscription rates and details
The Middletown Journal lists subscription terms for Middletown and surrounding areas. Rates include per copy 6 cents on weekdays and 5 cents on Sundays, with weekly and annual mail options for local and distant readers. The note also cites publication basics and a Psalm verse.
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Middletown
Ohio
S. Broad
First
Postoffice
U.S.A
Almoit
News-Journal Inc
Eisenhower's 1952 bid driven by duty to stop Truman
The account explains Eisenhower sought the presidency in 1952 to defeat Truman and shape federal state relations. Advisors Dewey and Lodge urged him, Truman’s decision not to run altered plans, and Eisenhower pressed to lead NATO duties before campaigning for the nomination. He later pursued a 1956 bid to advance his governance philosophy and avoid opposing Democrat programs.
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Eisenhower
Truman
NATO
Europe
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Henry Cabot Lodge
R-Mass
Lodge
New Hampshire
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Containerization reshapes U S steamship trade at port of San Francisco
The Wall Street Journal describes containerization as a new cargo handling method that promises big savings in time and costs. Ports like San Francisco use 24 foot aluminum boxes to move 20 tons of goods via a crane. plans spread as several lines study the technique amid rising costs and tougher foreign competition.
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Wall Street Journal
William R. Wood
Mr. Wood
San Francisco
Tata
U.S
Laurel Canyon Fire of 1959 Destroyed 36 Homes
A vivid eyewitness account describes the June 10 1959 Laurel Canyon blaze in Los Angeles. Firefighters battled flames racing up arroyos as residents faced losses from 36 homes with many uninsured. Neighbors and curious onlookers watched as drums played and photographers shot amid the chaos.
Cramer sworn in as Butler County judge at ceremony
FRED B. CRAMER was sworn in as judge of Butler County Common Pleas Court by Judge Gideon Palmer succeeding the late M O Burns. AN ESTIMATED 1 009 attended the Middletown Milk Assn all day outing at Armco Park on Manchester Road. FRANK SIMON conducted a university of Michigan band clinic invited by William Revelli.
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Fred B. Cramer
Butler County Common Pleas Court
Gideon Palmer
M.O. Burns
Frank Simon
Armco
University of Michigan
William Revelli
Middletown Milk Assn
Armco Park
Manchester Road
Eisenhower view of summits traced to Vienna with ministers in charge
President Eisenhower’s diplomacy ideas mirror 1814 15 Vienna Congress where foreign ministers held ultimate negotiating authority. He favored expert foreign ministers over summit talks, citing Khrushchev and Macmillan rail against the old approach. Dulles ran foreign policy with Eisenhower’s approval, while Vienna showed ministers could wield wide power without Congress.
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Dulles
Eisenhower
Europe
Napoleon
Kamboozler
Alexander
Khrushchev
Berlin
Geneva
Fisenhower
Nikolai Bulganin
Congress of Vienna
Congress
George Macauley Trevelyan
H. G. Wells
Eisenhower Urges Foreign Ministers to Exercise Authority
President Eisenhower favors allowing foreign ministers to exercise the great authority given them in the 19th century. He says the ministers should actively perform their roles and responsibilities in international affairs.
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Eisenhower
Meeting on a raft between Napoleon and Alexander I
The remark cites a 1807 meeting on a raft in the Niemen River near Tilsit between Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I as an example of disliked sui mit conferences. It highlights the unusual setting and the high stakes of the encounter.
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Suimit
Napoleon
Alexander I
Russia
Niemen
Tilsit
Paul Harvey Finds Vision Beyond Eyes in Blind Humor
The column reflects on blind individuals who uplift others, recounting Bill the blind lobby newsstand operator in Chicago and a Denver organist. It cites Rhode Island Chief Justice William E. Powers, blind since 1927, who declined an operation to restore sight and spoke of loving faces and inner clarity. The piece favors understanding the blind experience and the joy they provide despite endless night.
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Ness
Bill
Denver
Colo
William E. Powers
Rhode Island Supreme Court
Judge Powers
Estrellita Horoscope For Tomorrow and Beyond
The column advises progress through diplomacy over force and predicts a slow but eventual rise in job and financial status from late 1959 into 1960. It notes recognitions in October, prosperity from late November onward, stimulating social ties, and good romance periods in late November December and May June. A child born today is dependable though occasionally lazy.
Russian Khrushchev Visits Warsaw Amid Chummy Stirrings
The report notes Khrushchev’s arrival in Warsaw and a warm embrace with Polish leader Gomulka, mixed with humorous hints about the crowd’s reactions and light banter.
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Khrushchev
Warsaw
Gomulka
Local woman thanks blood donors after serious back operation
Mrs. Allen Selby of Franklin expresses gratitude to blood donors after a major back surgery requiring three months in Mercy Hospital Hamilton and a neck to hips cast. She plans further surgery in a month while recovering at home.
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Canyon
Los Angeles
Ted Fortney
Ted
Tiny
Allen Selby
Third St
Franklin
Selby
Mercy Hospital
Hamilton
Gossip in Gotham and Hollywood Spotlight Shifts
A collage of entertainment and political chatter spans Kilgallen’s page. European socialites anticipate an Aga Khan engagement to Sylvia Casa Blanca while Eisenhower privately backs Nixon. Gossip covers Borgnine Jurado divorce, Lee Grant’s faltering toe, and Maynard Ferguson resisting a rival offer amid industry ironies.
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Gotham
Aga Khan
Sylvia Casablancas
Eisenhower
Washington
White House
Nixon
Russia
Charlie McWhorter
Jim Hagerty
Ike
Julie London
Andy Williams
Random Historical Snippets and Zoological Facts
A collection of isolated notes covers the king cobra habitat in the Indo Malayan region its diet of other snakes quill pens use into the 19th century eucalyptus in Australia as a tree rival to cedar and redwoods Greenland named by Eric the Red three foot baby elephants eight to ten feet tall ambergris from sperm whales Prussian white eagle flag flag bearing arms Frederick the Great and river Rhone claimed as the swiftest river with speeds near forty miles per hour in sections.
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