Lonesome Rivers saga of bankers and betrayal in frontier grit
Denver forces a proxy vote and a cash bargain with Alderton at a saloon while plotting control of the bank. Alderton collapses with stomach pain on the street after a confrontation with Eads, yielding a secret paper. Tom Weber watches a tense home scene as lingering danger looms over Helga and Charlie Weber.
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Atock
Denver
Alderton
Hal
Jeff
Eee Alderton
Amos
Marshall Eads
Eads
Ead
Mike Denver
Jeff Alderton
Tom Weber
Charlie Weber
Helga Weber
Helga
Princess Prefers Servantless American Home
Italian princess Marcella Borghese visits American cities and深embraces servantless homes with electrical appliances. She admires working women and says America is wonderful, loving the pace and independence. She plans to return after gathering her twin sons in Lisbon and visiting Rome Florence and Capri.
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Marcella
Ese
Santa Antelo
Santa Polo
Baniaez Oids
Coulis
America
Anyz Ptt
St Lst
Princess Margm
Corporation Presi
Paul Borghese
Italy
Borghese
Rome
Florence
Capri
Europe
Lisbon
Francesco
Clean Carpets With Blue Lustre Shine
The ad touts Blue Lustre as a modern carpet cleaner marketed as the latest scientific advancement. It promotes applying foam with a long-handled brush and letting it dry before vacuuming, likening the process to playing shuffleboard. Douglas Drug is listed in the copy.
Canada Drafts Dictionary of Canadian Language
In Edmonton, AP reports Canada is building a 25 000 word dictionary of terms and usages that differ from Queen's English and American speech. Dr. M H Scargill of the University of Alberta announced the project, saying it will take two to three years and aims to discover what Canadians talk about and what is uniquely Canadian. Examples include Splake a hybrid game fish from Jasper National Park and Banker a Newfoundland fishing term. Separate school and chicken herring illustrate regional usage.
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Edmonton
Alta
Canada
Canadian Linguistic Society
M. H. Scargill
University of Alberta
Scargill
Splake
Jasper National Park
Banker
Newfoundland
Grand Banks
Britain
Iin
Veto Looms For Omnibus Farm Bill
Washington AP report notes Secretary Benson may urge a presidential veto if Congress passes the omnibus farm bill approved by the House Agriculture Committee. Benson criticizes the measure as loosely drawn, warns of dairy quotas, higher prices, and weaker dairy competition, while predicting administrative proposals will prevail soon. The prompt ends with a non sequitur about Carls Cavern’s constant 56 degree temperature.
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Ovid
A. Martin Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
House Agriculture Committee
Eisenhower
Illinois Governors Serve As Ex Officio Illinois Central Directors
Illinois governors have sat as ex officio directors of the Illinois Central since 1851 under state charter. Each governor reportedly receives about $5,000 annually as a board fee, tied to the railroad’s ownership and revenue arrangements. Adlai Stevenson, campaigning for president, faced questions over gifts from the railroad and hotel accommodations.
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Chicago
Illinois
Ilinois Central Railroad
Adlai Stevenson
Adams
Eisenhower
Bernard Goldfine
Boston
Miami
Fia
Herald
Stevenson
Illinois Central
Associated Press
Congress
Misonis Central
Iinois
Air Force bands seek musicians at Lowry and Chanute bases
T/Sgt John Byrne, a local Air Force recruiter, says urgent needs exist for qualified young men and women to fill band vacancies at Lowry Colorado and Chanute Illinois. Women already serve in Norton California, and openings call for players of clarinet oboe bassoon flute and saxophone with auditions arranged by the Chanute bandleader. Contact Sgt Byrne at Mt Vernon City Hall Tuesdays 12 to 3 PM for information.
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Air Force
Lowry Air Force Base
Colorado
Chanute Air Force Base
Illinois
John Byrne
All Women
Air Force Band
Norton Air Force Base
California
iAir
Chanute Air Force iBase
Sgt. Byrne
City Hall
Mt. Vernon
Board member comments on Stevenson attendance and payments
A 1952 remark notes Stevenson attended board meetings regularly. It states under the arrangement payments are fees and not gifts.
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Stevenson
Forestry Fund for Carbondale Funds Approved
Southern Illinois University announced 42000 approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee for a forest research center in Carbondale. The center, run with the U.S. Forest Service, seeks funds for a wood products pilot plant and the Kaskaskia experimental forest in Hardin County. Announcement came in a Dirksen message.
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Carbondale, Til
Southern Illinois University Today
Senate Appropriations Committee
Forest Research Center
Carbondale
Uiversity J
U.S. Forest Service
Kaskaskia
Hardin County
Sen
Dirksen
R-Ill
New Jersey lacks a lieutenant governor and senate rules govern vacancy
The state has no lieutenant governor and the president of the state senate assumes the governor’s duties when the governor is absent. The arrangement places the senate president as acting governor during temporary absences or vacancies, reflecting New Jersey’s constitutional framework.
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New Jersey
Senate
Douglas School Named After Stephen A Douglas At Freeport
The Freeport Illinois board of education selected a $650000 grade school now under construction to be named the Douglas School. The naming honors Stephen A Douglas, who debated Abraham Lincoln in Freeport on August 27, 1958. Freeport already houses a Lincoln School.
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Freeport, Ill
Douglas
Board of Education
Stephen A Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Freeport
Lincoln
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