Subscription rates and outside area pricing list
Subscription rates for carrier and mail services are outlined for the Middletown News Journal and its editions. Rates vary by delivery type, with weekly carrier prices and yearly mail options including regional and outside U. S. A. charges. A biblical verse is included at the end.
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Evening Middletown
Sunday News-Journal
Evening Middletown Journal
Sunday News Journal
U.S.A
Jeremiah
Washington Happenings on Grain Prices and Government Role
David Lawrence outlines how U S government grain purchases shape prices, noting purchases nearing 375 million bushels of wheat and an export plan for 75 million more. He explains how market expectations, farmer selling, and speculative limits shift as supply rises, with the government still aiming for 75 million bushels and potential expansion to 500 million.
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Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
Marshall Plant
Europe
U. S
Ihs
Anderson
Overcharged landlord and veterans state bonus notices
A landlord faces a rent control board overcharging a tenant while a businessman explains he owns and occupies the property himself. Veterans should verify discharge papers for the state bonus, with March 1 expected filing but certificates may not be ready by then. organizations aiding filings will wind down as time passes.
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Rent Control Board
Lincoln and the unity quest across wars and ages
A meditation on Abraham Lincoln's strive for national unity seen alongside modern Cold War tensions. The piece argues human nature inclines to jealousy and greed, urges an Abraham Lincoln figure or united will to lead for global unity, and reflects on graft in Soviet Russia, wheat crops, and weather shaping 1948 prospects.
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Abraham Lincoln
America
Grant
Sherman
Jackson
Lincoln
United States
Worry Clinic advice on age, love, money, and marriage
Dr. Crane counsels Bert T. 22 and his 25 year old nurse sweetheart on marrying and living arrangements. He warns against joint rent with the brother and sister in law, urges saving to pay debts, and recommends establishing a private home first while evaluating maturity, honesty, and ambition rather than age alone.
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Bert T
Crane
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Bert
One Word Led To Another On Shoes And Fashion
Arthur Baer muses on shoes from barefoot origins to the New Look, noting how footwear reflects society. He jokes about historic footwear and fashion icons, from cavemen to Isadora Duncan, and end with advice on watching shoes along with hats and umbrellas.
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Arthur
Bugs” Baer
What will tomorrow bring on the Overland Limited
The author rides the Overland Limited from San Francisco to Chicago at sixty mph with air conditioning and luxuries. Parallel scenes show the Lincoln Highway and faster transport while Daniel Webster’s 1850s warning about vast western lands is recalled. Dreams of California growth captivate a plumber speaker who vows to seize future opportunities and wake up to life.
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San Francisco
Chicago
Daniel Webster
California
Questions and Answers Quiz Style Historical Inquiries
A footer of Q and A items covers topics from rare birds to abbreviations in dates. It asks which bird is rarest in North America, the correct placement of A and B C in dates, the average speed of a hockey puck, and details about Casabianca and St. Patrick.
Lincoln gifts a watch to cannibal island rescue hero
Hal Boyle recounts a tale from 84 years ago when President Lincoln sent $500 to buy gold watches for Kekela and the Rev. Kaukau after Kekela saved an American whaler from ritual execution on Hiva-Oa in the Marquesas. The watches later passed to Honolulu’s Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society.
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New York
Abraham Lincoln
Honolulu
Washington
Wilmont
Natural History
American Museum of Natural History
Hiva-Oa
Marquesas
Pacific Equator
Peru
Jonathan Whalen
Whalen
James Kekela
Alexander Kaukau
Kekela
Louca
Aaukau
Sume
Kekelas
America
Lincoln
Lippein
U.S. Ister
Kaukau
Willa
Une Luiten Sales
Robert Louis Stevenson
Wwe
Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society
United States
J. Kekela
Stassen Taft clash heats up in Minnesota Ohio gambit
In a new round of the GOP fight, Stassen invades Ohio while Taft targets Minnesota with visits in St. Paul and Minneapolis. Baldwin of Connecticut backs the Minnesota effort, stressing a youth-led party and international cooperation while praising Stassen. Taft’s St. Paul speech questions liberalism.
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Washington
NEA
Stassen
Taft
Twin Cities
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Ohio
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
Lincoln
Germantown
Raymond E. Baldwin
Connecticut
Baldwin
Mississippi River
Sen
Taftuarters
Lincoln Republican Club
Ramsey County
Roy E. Dunn
Chrie Carlson
GOP
Bernhard Levander
Rose Spencer
Levander
Luther W. Y
Edward J. Thye
Hennepin County
Dana Stone
Minneapolis Ag
Senator Baldwin
St. At
Old Guard
Edwin
Republican Old Guard
Beldwin
Tom Dewey
Continent-wide Pact Talk Hinges on Taxing, Labor
The piece quotes Harold E. Stassen and Robert A. Taft criticizing wartime deals and cabinet secrecy while urging better harmony. It notes Sen. Mundt and businessman Bernard Gimbel commenting on economic strength, labor relations, and unity for survival amid political pressures.
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Dave Regan
Uncle Sam
Four United Brothers
Moscow
Russia
Hitler
Stalin
Utopia
George W. Crane
The
Worry Clinic
Jack Dempsey
Fiji Islands
Pythagoras
Caligula
England
Tilly
Isadora Duncan
Erich Brandeis
United States Senate
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B. C
A.D
B.C
Hemans
Aboukir
St. Patrick
Ireland
Hal Boyle
Peter Edson
News of Washington
Congress
K. EK. Mundt
South Dakota
Harold E. Stassen
Robert A. Taft
Bernard F. Gimbel
Gimbel Brothers, Inc
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