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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1955
Page
2
Editorial argues Ford signed a wage pact labeled as guaranteed annual wage but with capped 26 week unemployment and a fund reserve of 55 million dollars. It contends the plan stabilizes regular workers’ income and moves toward a guaranteed annual wage principle despite limits.
A word puzzle page lists across and down clues with numbers and partial theme hints. Clues include 4th U. S. President, measures of cloth, animals, colors, and body parts, plus abbreviations and chemical symbols, inviting fill-in answers across a varied crossword.
A sequence of clue like phrases and numbers including terms such as Anger 37 Irony 23 and various word hints. Entries mix sports gear objects and unrelated words with numerals 25 27 28 30 33 34 35 36 39 40 41 42 44 46 81. It resembles a crossword style prompt with scattered definitions and an instruction to identify terms.
McLeansboro fire department was called to Dale Thursday night about 8 30 when fire destroyed a store building occupied by Olan Irby used as a cream buying station. Fire origin undetermined. Several local residents and visitors are noted visiting family and relatives in nearby towns, with trips to St Louis and San Francisco mentioned.
Mrs. R. E. Harbour reports Arthur Maulding has returned to his Chicago home following a visit with C. H. Holland and Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Olsen.
The fourth annual Clay County 80 Club reunion drew 80 members all at least 80 years old. Oldest attendee J R Marvin of Clay City, who turns 100 in December, rides daily and mounts his horse unaided. The youngest member was Charles Judd, who just turned 80. Honorary members include Sir Winston Churchill and former President Herbert Hoover.
A sermon excerpt discusses reading as intellectual privilege and the call to love God with all heart soul and mind. It recounts a young man inspired by a preacher to explore new reading, finding mind and faith linked. Jesus’ command to think deeply is asserted as core to piety and action.
The piece urges proper manners about using business telephones for personal calls only in emergencies. It cautions against habitually using business lines to avoid payphones, and includes a prayer and a mind-stretching exercise from Roy L. Smith's Making a Go of Life. It emphasizes self discipline and reflection.
A terse instruction asks to say what you must, then end the call, yet requests a long chatty conversation. The user persists in seeking casual discourse after a brief directive, testing boundaries between task completion and extended chat.
An artist seeking a mountain home contacts a mountaineer who claims a suitable sale. The artist notes the view matters more than the house itself and asks if the view is good. The mountaineer responds with a wry admission that perhaps the view is the drawback from his porch.
The note describes Jim Brown’s new barn set among mountains woods and lakes with no other structures nearby, highlighting remote landscape. The scene focuses on rustic isolation and natural surroundings rather than additional developments.
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