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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1956
Page
2
Editorial notes Republicans push back on Democratic claims about President Eisenhower health. After San Francisco convention he golfed at Pebble Beach and appeared vigorous, with White House saying he is fully recovered from his operation and no longer convalescent.
A post office insider explains the evolving slang terms such as nixie for undeliverable mail and balloon for a large mail pouch. The glossary also covers hot mail for special service, hash mail for nonurgent mail, and killing a pouch for intercepting a pouch. The jargon speeds meaning and reduces formal language across offices.
A Chicago hotel veteran waitress recalls earning $200 weekly in New York and juggling two jobs in Chicago to cover taxes. She notes political talk with a Black cab driver who backs Stevenson and Democrats over Mississippi killings, while opinions drift to Miss America and forebears’ wagon journeys. The column ends with mockery of the 1956 party platform and Harold Stassen.
Auld Lang Syne notes Charles Topping travels east last Friday to inspect Franklin county lands and Ottawa city lots while away. S. Leopold adds a cigar and tobacco shop display in Ottawa offering premium cigars. Logan Hunting seeks office as Representative. Rev H J Hoover, former Baker University historian, dies at 54 in Baldwin. Waverly fire destroys three two story buildings causing 25000 loss, Commercial Hotel initial site, Fear’s building, and McDuffie’s undertaking shop burned. Ed C Little Republican candidate to address Fifty Sixers reunion in Lawrence at G A R hall on September 14.
New York opinion column argues the vice presidency must be a fighting role, with both parties favoring a four fisted executive. It contrasts Kefauver and Nixon and mocks Throttlebottoms, warning business leaders to avoid political lobbying by overbearing staff. The piece ends with a peach fritter recipe fragment.
Classified header shows Ottawa Herald page elements with trade ads and notices. Mentions publisher supervisor, advertising manager, mechanical supplies, and postal service context on Main ondays and Holidays.
Dr George W Crane counsels Opal G 22 and other wives on restraining jealousy when husbands love another. He urges acting devoted, maintaining idealism, and sharing experiences like meals games and affection to cultivate love. Psychologists promise methodical attraction using prescribed actions and praise.
Rey Henry explains how widows and mothers of deceased workers may collect Social Security at 62 under three main rules, depending on the deceased husband’s covered work and death dates. Eligibility hinges on length of coverage and timing, with conditions for mothers who lost a child and provided support.
Last minute program changes hinder full accuracy for Monday August 27 listings. KTJO-Dinner Music KMBC-News WDAF-Top of Evening 6:30 WDAF-Morgan Beatty Bee Time 300: KTJO-News WDAF-Henry Taylor 7:30 KMBC-Firestone WDAF-Festival 8:00 KTJO-Special WDAF-Telephone Hour KMBEC-News 8:30 KTJO-U.N. Story WDAF-Music KMBC-Lawrence Welk.
The listing shows a 9:00 am slate with KTJO campus news, WDAF Fredericks, KMBC jazz, and WDAF bands followed by a 10:00 am block featuring WDAF news and KMBC B. B. Dilson.
A devotional fragment invokes the Psalmist sentiment on work and prayer. It offers a blessing for daily labor and asks for strength and vision to honor work as service to God through Jesus Christ.
The notice explains that monthly pensions depend on a breadwinner's Social Security earnings, averaged over years with up to five years dropped for low wages. Typical payments range from 30 to 81.40 dollars, rising with higher earnings. Eligible individuals may apply before November 1957 and retroactive payments can cover 12 months.
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