Middletown Journal Subscription Rates
The Middletown Journal lists local and mail subscription prices. In city area 30 cents weekly with Sunday edition. outside city 25 cents weekly with 35 cents Sunday option. Mail rates include 9 dollars yearly for Trading Area, 15 dollars outside, and 35 dollars yearly for all mail. Published weekly evenings except Sunday at 1007 First Ave Middletown Ohio. The verse from John 10 3 is printed.
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Birthday remembrance marks Shaw's century in Chicago
Chicago honors the 100th anniversary of playwright and pamphleteer George Bernard Shaw born in Dublin to impoverished Protestant gentry. The article recalls his life from poverty to London fame and his socialist views, noting his death in 1950 at age 94 with a gross estate over $1 million.
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Chicago
George Bernard Shaw
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Shaw
London
Training Begins At Home In Fight Against Brain Washing
Major William E Mayer describes findings from examining 200 returned Korean War prisoners and 800 records. He says brain washing is a learned process through daily lectures and small incentives that erode confidence. He argues home, school, and church training must build patriotism and character to resist indoctrination.
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William E. Mayer
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Korea
Marines
Army
Mayer
Gotham Summers Humble City Charm All Year
Hal Boyle notes New York City becomes a relaxed, genteel town in summer with fewer crowds. Cab lines shorten, theaters offer seats, prices drop, and locals enjoy a slower pace as big spenders leave for beaches and mountains.
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New York
New York City
America
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Middletown event draws seven hundred at gas and electric gala
Twenty years ago on a July Saturday, seven hundred people attended the Middletown Gas & Electric Company annual meeting at LeSourdsville Lake led by committee head C C Lamphier. Frank Schroeder of Cincinnati blocked a hijacking by misdirecting three bandits seeking his whisky cargo. Ray McComas, ex Manchester Hotel manager, aided in the Helen Clevenger murder case investigation in Asheville.
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Middletown Gas & Electric Company
LeSourdsville Lake
C. C. Lamphier
Frank Schroeder
Cincinnati
Rt. 25
Middletown
Ray McComas
Manchester
Helen Clevenger
New York
Asheville, N. C
Stassen Elbows Nixon as He Remains GOP Forked Tongue
Harold Stassen, former Minnesota governor and Eisenhower aide in charge of disarmament talks, calls for an Eisenhower Herter vice ticket. His remarks imply intra administration dissension and threaten the Eisenhower Nixon alliance, stirring Republican party tensions and possible defection among Midwest supporters.
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Dorothy Kilgallen and Minnie Pearl at the Grand Ole Opry
Dorothy Kilgallen hosts Minnie Pearl in a guest column celebrating Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry and its impact on American folk music. The piece recalls Opry stars who learned music young, the Opry’s broad appeal, and a letter from a couple seeking reconciliation through the music.
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Minnie Pearl
Star Comedienne
Nashville
Grand Ole Opry
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Madison Avenue
Ernest Tubb
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Judge Nashville
Hay
Rel Minta
Pannla
Minnie
Ryman Audittorium
Tennessee
Tin Pan, Valley
Frank Clement
Opry
Seasick remedies and typewriter color theories in quirky column
A humorous column touts seasickness pills shaped as yellow typewriters and matching color schemes for secretaries. It cites Mechazine as the active drug and notes broad tests, office aesthetics, and a satirical aside about redheads. It also shifts to praise for Grand Ole Opry, country music figures, and bachelor culture with social trivia and anecdotes.
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Grand Ole Opry
the Opry
Arle. Co
Byron
Don Juan
Stassen Accused of Circumventing Battle Act
The report contends Harold E. Stassen, Battle Act administrator, bypassed the 1951 act by deeming items once judged strategically significant as not for allied trade with the Communist bloc. It accuses him of misrepresenting facts and calls him arrogant and evasive in testimony, urging severe criticism.
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Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
Predicting Doom and Change for a Uncertain Year
Dave Regan reflects on doom predictions and the fear of change. A friend worries about upheaval as prosperity returns postwar, yet the narrator jokes the changes may come around Christmastime. The piece weighs optimism against anxiety about an uncertain 1956.
Seaway Lobbyed Congress With Lavish Junket
Washington coverage details how the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. courted Congress for more funding beyond $105 million. The plan included a July junket to Massena, New York, aboard a Military Air Transport Service plane, with senior lawmakers from Public Works and Appropriations committees, plus budget officials, many of whom balked or canceled. The effort culminated in a sparse delegation and sharp humor on Capitol Hill about industry influence.
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Washington
St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp
Congress
Lawrence Seaway Development Corp
Public Works and Appropriations Committees
House
Senate
Massena
N. Y
Mightly River
Budget Bureau
Seaway
Military Air Transport Service
Capitol Hill
Public Works and Appropriations
Public Works
Appropriations
Edward Thye
Minnesota
Seaway Corp
Hubert Humphrey
Thye
Humphrey
Thomas E. Martin
Iowa
Samuel Waugh
Export-Import Bank
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H. R. Danielian
Sen
Martin
Rep
William R. Williams
New York
Williams
Estrellita Stars Press Focus On Essentials Tomorrow
The stars advise concentrating on essentials now to achieve better results tomorrow. Ignore personal desires and frivolity and pursue serious goals, as effort will be worthwhile. leisure hours favor reading and music over group activities.
Horoscope Forecast for October 1956 to 1957
The reading notes a shift in work effort between October and December with improving monetary matters late August and most of November. Romance travel and social activity shine in October December and early 1957, while a child born today is predicted to be a brilliant conversationalist likely to excel in entertainment.
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New York
Monte Carlo Dress Code Demands Formal Garb
A casino enforces formal attire for patrons, while a Canadian educationist Dr Geoff Wheable advocates full year air conditioning in schools and abolishing summer holidays. A colleague at the next desk questions why car ads call certain models pleasure cars amid traffic and Sunday driving woes.
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