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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1949
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription prices for carrier and mail options with regional rates. The page also includes a Bible verse from Philippians 4 8 about thinking on things that are true honest just pure lovely and virtuous.
The piece compares Herbert H. Lehman and John Foster Dulles as likely major party Senate nominees to succeed Robert F. Wagner. It notes Dulles as a conservative foreign affairs voice and Lehman as a seasoned NY governor, with both offering costly sacrifices and urging candidates with integrity. It also critiques big government and highlights Lewis S. Rosenthal’s plan for a $300 billion economy by 1954 through tax cuts and private-led growth.
Washington AP outlines the A B C method to compute NSLI dividends for about 16 million veterans with policies in force through 1948. It shows how to multiply years, insured amount, and age based rates to estimate each share, notes payment timing through 1950, and explains surplus origins and special handling for surrendering policies.
Dr. George W. Crane discusses the psychology of motorists at a safety convention. He explains why people become rude when driving, contrasting courteous behavior as pedestrians with aggressive driving, and notes how speed intensifies temper and irritability on the road.
The piece argues that slowing from 50 mph to a stop feels more frustrating than dropping to 5 mph, as time and distance matter. A 60 second pause at higher speeds seems longer, provoking irate reactions and rude horn blasts, especially toward women drivers, though pedestrians may be kind moments later.
Genevieve Kemble presents a September 20 outlook urging quick action and shrewd planning. She predicts benefits from decisive handling, new agreements, and well organized efforts, plus potential profits from realistic, well managed plans. The piece notes a birthday insight and remarks that large transport planes burn about 90 gallons per hour.
The author asserts belief in real magic beyond tricks, citing birth growth love faith conscience and memory as daily marvels. He equates magic with God, life, healing, and the persistence of being alive, urging readers to recognize wonder in everyday existence.
The piece roams from the lure of college to parental anxieties about modern campus life. It notes most Americans support daughters attending college but parents face nagging worries about housing, study pressure, finances, and social fit, fearing outdated advice from the prior era. It closes by acknowledging thousands of girls still go to college each year and survive.
Eleanor Steber, 33, famed Metropolitan Opera soprano and native of Wheeling, West Virginia, returns to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston to award two scholarships she founded. She credits her early support and notes American singers now compete worldwide with strong teachers and venues at home.
George E Sokolsky cautions that Britain relies on American aid and favors to export and stabilize the pound in a postwar plan. He warns of hidden concessions to Britain in trade and price deals for rubber and tin, urging public scrutiny of possible Anglo American understandings.
In a Michigan town butchers launch a promotion as meat sales wane. The piece hints at a seasonal shift and a light, rural tone as people anticipate the sleeping porch scene.
Dave Regan Here And There extols Dallas as a superb city after a week of visits by two ex Ohioans. They praise cleanliness, friendly people, and absence of industrial smog, noting warm welcomes and repeated invitations to return.
A concise Q and A rundown covering where the first Congress met in 1789 at Federal Hall New York. Robert Ingersoll’s Civil War colonelship. King Albert I of Belgium’s 1934 death by fall at Marche des Dames. Nevada as first to use gas for capital punishment. Nevada’s size ranks sixth but remains the smallest by population.
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