Middletown Journal Subscription Rates Page
Advertising style list of subscription prices for the Middletown Journal and related Sunday News Journal. Details include per copy 5 cents, carrier 25 cents a week, 35 cents weekly for evening bundle, and annual mail rates ranging from six dollars to one thousand dollars plus odd USA rate. The fragment ends with a Bible quotation.
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Middletown Journal
First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
Evening
Sunday News-Journal
Sunday
News-Journal
Sunday News- Journal
U.S.A
Thessalonians
Picket lines frame a clash over art and politics
The piece contrasts protests against German pianist Gieseking with looming boycotts of Soviet composer Shostakovich. It notes Shostakovich's siege of Leningrad, his likely support for leftist aims, and the argument that free speech should outpace picket lines. It also previews John L. Lewis's mining strike, its costs, and political tension over the Boyd Bureau of Mines appointment and future labor law.
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Walter Gieseking
Dmitri Shostakovich
Shostakovich
Gieseking
Europe
Ilse Koch
New York
Leningrad
America
Kremlin
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Senate
James Boyd
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Boyd
Congress
Bossy the Guernsey cow questions praise for pigs
In a Dr. George W. Crane worry clinic vignette a gentle cow Bossy meets Jerry the pig and learns that praise should be given while alive. The piece urges giving kind words and affection to neighbors and family, noting gifts in a will lack the giver and promoting a 30 day three-compliments habit to lift spirits.
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Jerry
Bossy
Ilass
New York Senate vacancy sparks constitutional dispute
In a debate over two New York seats, critics say the Senate has failed to declare a vacancy in the senior senator’s chair, noting Charles Wagner’s absence since May 1947 and Irving Ives’s burden of acting as dual representative. The piece questions Senate rules and suggests a fix.
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Washington
United States Senate
New York
Union
Senate
Wagner
Irving Ives
New York State
Dewey
Congress
Barbs and Breaks in Christmas Times and Crime
A humorous observation on postholiday setbacks and the value of a level head. A Kentucky jail escape by an ex-aviator is noted beside a vandalized beauty shop in Arizona. The piece promotes a Compliment Club mail program and a Dr Crane psychological chart, urging praise and giving.
Walter Johnson remembered by Bugs Baer at Babe Ruth game
Baer recalls meeting Walter Johnson in a locker room before a charity indoor game with Babe Ruth. Johnson, a farm boy with dignity, explained why he preferred the word throw to pitch, noting that after a throw he cannot throw the next day. Baer praises Johnson’s gentility and manly conduct.
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Joe DiMaggio
Walter Johnson
Joe
Johnson
Babe Ruth
Walter
Bugs
Garden
Armory
Mike Martin
Joe Engle
Harry Harper
Horoscope and On Decision Making Amid Weathered Doubts
The column blends Hal Boyle style Sunday horoscope notes with a long New York AP column on decision paralysis. It cites March dates, astrology insights about feelings and birthdays, and a critical riff on modern indecision, urging firm will and practical thinking. The piece contrasts mystic guidance with the era of reluctant choices, featuring a digression on executives and a Wong Tu quip.
Dark glasses and true achievement, a columnist muses
Erich Brandeis discusses the psychology of dark glasses in society and media satire. He notes celebrities wearing shades to seek attention, argues real accomplishment needs deeds, and cites feats such as a Seattle clam Championship winner and a Fredericksburg student tossing a dollar farther than George Washington.
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New York
Stork Club
Hollywood
Chicago
Pump Room
America
Seattle
Charles Harding
Fredericksburg, Va
Rapahannock River
George Washington
Guests of the Kremlin serial in News Journal
Five Doolittle fliers recount 14 months of internment in Russia in a straightforward, homeward bound narrative by Lt. Col. Robert G. Emmens. The men describe hunger poverty and longing for home as they face captivity, with a tone free of propaganda and heavy politics.
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Kremlin
Russia
Tokyo
News ~ Journal
Robert G. Emmens
Emmens
State
Defense Departments
San Antonio
Texas
Sokolsky warns of Sinkiang’s regional power and Pan Turanian links
George E. Sokolsky outlines Sinkiang as a vast, strategically vital region in western China, home to Turkish Moslems and Tungans, with Russia pressing to build influence. He traces historical empires, Mongol conquests, and Buddhist spread, warning of Pan Turanian movements tied to Moscow, shaping future global power.
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China
Sinkiang
Europe
Kashgar
Yarkand
Khotan
Urumtsi
Turfan
Tarim Basin
Seljuks
Osmanli
Balkans
India
Afghanistan
Russian Turkestan
Alma-Ata
Russia
Central
Western Asia
Vienna
North Africa
Israel
United Nations
Chiang Kai-Shek
Soviet Russia
Sin Kiang
Turkey
Azerbaijan
Iran
Kurdistan
Central Asia
Great Britain
France
Germany
Gengshis Khan
Tibet
Kashmir
Korea
Japan
Greece
Palestine
Chiang Kai- Shek
Kirghiz
Kazak
N.L.D. McLean
Dobrudja
Bulgaria
Mongolia
Questions and Answers on Johnson Impeachment and Purple Finch
The Senate vote on President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment ended with 35 guilty and 19 not guilty, falling short of the two thirds needed for conviction. The Purple Finch is not actually purple. the male is an old rose color while the female resembles a sparrow, named from a painting that depicted the bird as purple.
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Congress
Andrew Johnson
Senate
President Johnson
Johnson
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George W. Crane
Air Corps
David Lawrence
Kentucky
Arizona
Saute
BOR
Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Hal Boyle
The
Genevieve Kemble
Stars
Casino
Minnesota
Cialize
Wong Tu
Wong
Erich Brandeis
Capetown
Dave Regan
George E. Sokolsky
Moscow
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