Middletown Journal subscription rates and notes
Middletown Journal publishes rates for daily and weekly delivery. Details include in city carrier 45 cents per week, outside city area 40 cents, six day mail in trading area ten dollars per year, seven days outside trading area seventeen fifty, and international thirty five dollars. Postage paid in advance. prayer verse cited.
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Disarmament Talks Propose Open Skies and phased cuts
The article outlines a semi secret London process where U S and Soviet negotiators discuss disarmament steps. Stassen proposes open skies style inspections, staged reductions, universal ban on fissionable material production, and future talks on missiles and space weapons while Zorin’s July 8 remarks show shifting Russian concessions.
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Valerian A. Zorin
U.S
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Harold E. Stassan
Eisenhower
North Pole
France
Ussr
Black Sea
Stassen
United States
Soviet Union
States to assume costs for federal programs under Eisenhower plan
President Eisenhower urges a three part task force to identify functions states can finance and manage, advise on revenue adjustments, and define future needs for state or federal action. He cites slum clearance and disaster relief, arguing states could gain more value per dollar and reduce federal overhead while restoring local control.
Secret Mail Keeps Postman Busy in Youth Echoes
Hal Boyle reflects on growing up in a large family with secret letters from ads and magazines. He details mail-influenced fantasies from ventriloquism to self-improvement schemes, the postman’s intrusions, and a torn letter about developing bigger busts that altered a boyhood dream.
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New York
U. S
Pressure groups as an American legal force and threat
George E. Sokolsky critiques American pressure groups that employ paid legal staffs and test cases to influence rulings. He accuses them of shyster practices, notes their political power, and cites Jencks Mallory Supreme Court decisions as evidence of their impact on the FBI and public policy.
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Cincinnati
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Jencks
Mallory
Supreme Court
Congress
Ann Harding
Judy Tyler
Wyoming
Gail Russell
Dorothy Shay
Warner Brothers
South
Band of Angels
Sidney Poitier
Yvonne de Carlo
Yvonne
Clark Gable
Times
Birdland
Jack Durant
Broadway
Latin Quarter
Lunch filibuster in the senate sparks chatter
Washington observers note a humorous scene as Sen. Chavez and Mrs Chavez dine in the Senate dining room. The gathering features prominent figures like Kerr and Humphrey, with jokes about speeches and politics. Senators share meals while discussing civil rights, budgets, and present affairs.
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Robert §. Kerr
Oklahoma
the Treasury
George M. Humphrey
Senate
Akhtar Sulaiman
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
Pakistan
Irving Ives
New York
Begum
Frederick Brown Harris
Harris
Brooklyn’s 64 year status ends as it becomes a NYC borough
A 1898 shift reduced Brooklyn from a separate city to a borough of New York City. The piece notes that had Brooklyn remained independent it would rank as the nation’s third largest city today. It follows with quips about wives beating husbands and witty anecdotes from Philadelphia diners and public figures. It also discusses Bookbinder’s restaurants and a joke about astrology.
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Brooklyn
New York City
United States
Merle Oberon
Lady Korda
Bruno Pagliari
Plymouth
England
Capri
Herb Brownell
New York
Averell Harriman
George Raft
Central Park
Theatre Under the Stars
Pamela Rank
Europe
Stewart Barthelmess
Gloria Case
Status Quo
Everlasting Safety Razor Blade Rumor Emerges
A subscriber recalls a friend inventing a razor blade that stays sharp for thousands of years. The inventor allegedly sold the process to a major razor firm which kept it from market. Similar claims surface about the zipper being blocked by button makers.
Old Bolsheviks purge noted and other unlikely news
A mixed mock news snippet notes V. M. Molotov purged from the Communist party, oddities about Old versus Ex, a grandma chasing a burglar, a ski factory fire destroying 10 000 pairs, a charity straw berry auction at 300 dollars, tuna matches off Nova Scotia, a Napoleon vote in France, a tomb debate in Turkey, King Gordius of Phrygia, rapid tobacco auction sales, and stone rain near Pumphrey Australia with saucer theories.
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V. M. Molotov
Communist Party
Soviet Union
Estrellita Horoscope For Tomorrow’s Readers
The forecast offers a mild, tactful outlook with humor for tomorrow. It notes opportunities in career or home expansion by late October and favorable personal relations through year end, with cautions to be conservative financially in August and November and suggests a sensitive, moody child born today.
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