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The Middletown Journal lists subscription options: per copy 10 cents weekday and 5 cents Sunday, city routes 60 cents weekly, mail within trading area seven days 15 dollars per year, outside trading area 20 dollars, and outside USA 38 dollars per year. Subscriptions payable in advance. Published daily by News Journal Inc. Founded 1857.
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Alfred P. Sloan remembered as a leading industrialist and philanthropist
The obituary highlights Alfred P. Sloan as a pivotal General Motors figure from 1923 to the early 1960s, noting his business leadership, philanthropy, and efforts to humanize industry. It also promotes Girl Scout Week March 6 12, tracing the movement back to its Savannah Georgia birth on March 12 1912 and praising its character building, discipline, and social value.
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Mr. Sloan
General Motors
United States
Savannah
Georgia
Congress Urged to Cut Domestic Spending as War Costs Rise
A national wartime budget surge with about 13 billion dollars for Vietnam is expected to widen deficits and fuel inflation. The article argues for sharp cuts in nonessential domestic spending to offset war outlays and avoid higher taxes or living costs, echoed by Representative Ford.
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Viet Nam
Hanoi
Ford
Congress
Jim Bisher Blacksmith A Car Drives to Race Horse Shoes
Brady, a village blacksmith now shoeing horses in a car, works with aluminum shoes for racing horses. He adapts to modern methods, notes costs, and describes horse handling, trimming, and safety, with family details and a close view of daily life in the trade.
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Aqueduct
Belmont
Saratoga
Hialeah
Thoms Brady
Pat
Dan Patch
Mike
Brady
Dennis
Dad
Virginia
Amerigo
Victory Shoe Company
Baltimore
Alfred P. Sloan Jr Philanthropy as a Communist Lesson
Washington reflects on Alfred P. Sloan Jr death at 90 and his philanthropy. The piece contrasts American free enterprise with communist systems, noting Sloan's $10 million foundation and his belief in individual initiative. It praises business leaders who donate to science, medicine, and welfare.
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Soviet Union
Red China
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
Mr. Sloan
America
General Motors
Alfred P. Sloan, Foundation
United States
Philanthrophy
George Washington
Charles A. Beard
Heywood Broun
Charlie’ Beard
Rome
Beard
Brooke Seeks Senate as Nation's Only Negro Candidate
Boston report on Edward Brooke the nation's sole serious Black candidate for U S Senate. articles discuss his cautious stance on civil rights, Romney connections, past party switch, and white voter dynamics. Potential vice presidential lure and liberal GOP plotting frame Brooke's candidacy and race in 1968 context.
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U. S. Senate
Edward Brooke
Brooke
Michigan
George Romney
Tom
Romney
Washington
Gov. Romney
Senate
Goldwater
Democratic Party
Nelson Rockefeller
William Scranton
Daniel Evans
Ancient Lore and Historic Labels Across Civilizations
Ictor was the mythical fluid for gods while Hammurabi’s Code stands as the oldest written law code. The Union and Confederacy used different names for the same Civil War battle Stone's River and Murfreesboro. In 679 A.D. Bulgarians, a horseman tribe, crossed the Danube subjugating Moesia.
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Stone's River
Murfreesboro
Danube
Moesia
Honest Kentuckian Handsome Gesture Earns a Free Violation
Dave Regan recounts a likely true tale from Middletown where a Kentuckian whose car broke down on I-71 stopped to help. He arrived at Ashland after the Highway Patrol. He left $3 for the attendant and provided his name and address to cover any extra costs. He then continued on his way.
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Tom Stubbs
Middletown
Diogenes
Tom
William H. Barton
Highway Patrol
Ashland
Ohio
Kentucky
Stubb
Barton
Mansfield
The New Isolationism and Beard’s Legacy Across Wars
John Chamberlain reflects on Charles A Beard and the shift from isolationism to active containment after World War II. He argues the 1930s antiwar stance gave way to embracing power and alliances, while current calls for disengagement echo Beard’s warnings. The piece laments lost warnings and warns against repeating history.
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New York
Europe
George Washington
Britain
Hiroshima
Washington
Charles A. Beard
U.S
Rome
America
Asia
Dominican Republic
Cuba
Soviet
Russia
Red China
Africa
Beard
Japan
Manchuria
Indo-China
Permanent press trend and prank at Vermont college
Industry leaders hail permanent press as a durable fabric breakthrough with no wrinkles. Advertisements promise sharp, neat clothing while old irons seem obsolete. In a lighter note, pranksters at a Vermont college wallpapered a room with about 100000 sheets of newsprint in a chalked spectacle of mischief.
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