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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1948
Page
3
Eastman Kodak announces a revolutionary slide projection system small enough for desk use and operable in a fully lighted room. Shown at the Master Photo Dealers convention in Cleveland, the unit is highly portable with a small screen requirement and wide use in business science education industry and sales and promotional work.
An Indianapolis truck driver Ted Canton age 26 was injured fatally Sunday afternoon after a collision with a passenger train at the Pennsylvania railroad crossing on State Route 98 near a Crawford County village. His cargo of toiletries and phonograph records spilled in the crash. Earlier in January Ovilla Bromely of Pittsfield Massachusetts was killed at the same crossing with cargo of tools and sporting goods spills.
The text describes a daily message puzzle from the US Patent Office. It explains counting letters in a first name, adjusting the count by rules, locating a key number in a grid from the upper left, and reading letters under checked figures to reveal a fortune message.
The report notes that nearly all items reappeared a week later after Tiro ministers declared a Consciousness Week and posted boxes for quiet drops to redeem Tiro’s name. A crowd gathered as the Canton driver’s cab burned and the fire department fought the blaze. the roadside cargo remained stacked with nothing missing.
Dr. Charles H. Freeman longtime chairman of Ohio Northern University English Department will be honored by Ada the university and the Polar Bear football team. The homecoming game against Muskingum College will be dedicated to him for 39 years of service.
NATCHEZ Miss AP Richard C Dana 77 a central figure in the Goat Castle murder case of 1932 dies after weeks in hospital. Dana and his guardian Miss Octavia Dockery faced charges in the death of Miss Jennie Merrill 68 whose estate Glenwood hosted 100 goats. Trials stalled as public sympathy grew and a Negro named Pearls was later identified as the slayer before authorities killed him. Dana and Dockery went free.
Gov Thomas J. Herbert and Rep Everett M Dirksen of Illinois will open the Summit County Republican campaign in Akron October 14. They will address a public meeting at the Mayflower Hotel at 8 p m through the old mansion and around the estate. K Y Siddall of Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati was elected president of the Controllers Institute of America at its convention.
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