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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1956
Page
2
A Boston vending firm has removed penny vending machines from subways as selling for a penny is no longer economical. Inflation has pushed the penny from many stores and even the penny postal card was ended by the post office. Only parking meters and coin collectors remain as uses for the one cent coin.
A reflective column comments on longevity gender gaps and fashion aiming with humor at handbags. It notes Truman memoirs and art ages, speculates on a 30 hour work week, and mocks editorial zeal. It cites Ben Franklin and Nellie Wren while touching desegregation and Kansas fiscal sessions.
Abridged column recalls events from the past including Mrs Carrie B Winger injured in a fall on the ice, Mr and Mrs J S Haynes celebrating a Golden wedding anniversary, a Quenemo visitor named Ogle, a Pacific soybean special train drawing a crowd, Winters taking MM factory management, Ward store notes, starch sale at seven pounds for 25 cents, the Blair family and Mrs J B Deford planning wintering in the South, and a revival underway at Wellsville.
The piece notes daylight lengthening by two minutes daily and predicts three more minutes come March. It urges readers to plan yard improvements and home projects, from trellises to shrubs, with TV time used for thinking and sketching ideas, acknowledging few plans may become reality.
Governor Fred Hall frames the 1956 Republican primary as a rerun of 1954 when he pledged to “throw the rascals out” and won a strong mandate. He has since weeded out the old guard, facing persistent opposition from top GOP bosses, the legislature, and newspapers as he seeks reelection with grassroots support against the machine once more.
The senatorial probe into auto marketing questions phantom freight and Detroit plus pricing while noting the shift from one price to horse trading. Dealers gain less per unit as merchandising evolves with a nontransparent new car value, and the real cash difference is king.
Dr. George W. Crane argues newspapers rally thinking and disseminate sex education and psychological guidance. He cites high school changes, a million copies of Sex Problems in Marriage, and reader letters guiding marriages, crediting Wisconsin journalism for youth counsel. He notes a 59 yard UCLA TD by Chuck Holloway in last season’s Washington State game.
A dense OCR of a television schedule lists Channel 5 CBS early shows G E Theatre Alfred Hitchcock plus numerous local segment names. It includes KMBC News WDAF Top of Evening WDAP Morgan Beatty and various fan clubs, job clinics, boxings and music segments with times attached and multiple station abbreviations.
Radio schedule fragment lists EMBC programs and KC hours with times around dawn to afternoon. Mentions EMBC News REAP and a next Sunday church program. Contains multiple station identifiers WDAF K.C. and miscellaneous weekday and weekend entries.
PORTSMOUTH New Hampshire The Navy laid the keel for its fourth atomic powered submarine the first built at a naval shipyard The USS Swordfish named for a World War II submarine lost in the Pacific after sinking 21 enemy ships and damaging eight It is expected to be completed in 1959 It will be 257 feet long and have a crew of eight officers and 75 enlisted men.
Multiple church notices with pastors and service times. Michael Moriarty leads Maas parish on first and third Sundays at 10 30 a m and second, fourth and fifth Sundays at 10 30. Pomona Assembly of God lists Pete W Ratziaff as pastor with services and times. Methodist page lists George M Bolcourt as pastor with Sunday school and worship times. Emerald St Patrick’s and Stather Jack Harringtos entries included with various mass times and weekly prayers.
A solemn prayer reflecting on the birth life death and resurrection of the beloved Son. The speaker asks God to grant eternal life and to make believers worthy of the glorious promise through Christ Jesus. Amen.
Historical notes recount that some superstitious people held that the small green liverwort plants could treatment liver ailments, reflecting folk remedies from earlier eras and beliefs about plant-based cures.
Sunday services and Sunday school times for numerous churches across Quenemo, Rantoul, Williamsburg, Wellsville, Centropolis, Richmond, and nearby areas. Includes pastors names, worship and choir times, youth and BYF gatherings, midweek prayer and Bible study, and radio broadcast notes where present.
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