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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1956
Page
2
The Santa Fe railroad has donated locomotives water towers hotels abandoned stations and a lake site to Chanute and other communities. The gifts, while not charity alone, boost public goodwill and showcase imaginative PR in a business with solid profits.
A collage of jokes and musings on traffic, haircuts, political odds, Easter gifts, tax deductions, and world affairs. The writer parodies ideas from buses to martinis, imagining comic fixes for congestion and global diplomacy with playful, era voice.
Spring is officially here as a community notices the changing season. Gardens are planted, lawns raked, and households begin spring cleaning while river winds and warm rains revive ponds and fields. Children picnic, workers seek outdoor pastimes, and drivers enjoy cleaner streets and brighter days as spring arrives.
A city planner and council minutes recall that fifteen years ago city commissioners approved the park board plan. A Quenemo resident John Tucker was in town on business and Corner Cafe at 101 S Main underwent remodeling by the Ogg brothers.
Paula, a 21 year old Or employee at R St Donnelly s Crawfords ville Indiana, asks Dr Crane about a problem seen in a Sunday school class. The column discusses projection and ego defense, urging apology over scapegoating and noting that admitting fault strengthens love and respect. The piece ends with instructions to request a psychology chart from The Hooking Syndicate.
Relman Morin writes of a quiet New England Sunday morning. Church bells ring across the snow lit Common as small white churches with tall spires symbolize deep American tradition. The scene shifts to a church service with attentive families, counterpoint singing, and a gentle sermon, ending with a shared sense of peace.
Fragmentary OCR shows a post office entry for Ottawa Kansas with roles like editor and managing editor, advertising contact, subscription terms by mail for various periods, and indications of rate listings in a trade area. Details are partially garbled but indicate a local publication masthead.
A appears sparse TV radio schedule shows numerous stations KMBC WDAF KTJO KNBC and KTIO airing programs such as News Dramas and classic corners. The listings include show times like 6:30 1:30 10:00 and 4:30 with mentions of Dragnet and Tonight’s broadcasts.
TV Guide features Arlene Francis Jinx Falkenburg and Mary Kelly head to Monaco to cover Grace Kelly nuptials for NBC. Desi Arnaz signs Don Quixote with Desilu to shoot in Spain. Reginald Gardiner Eddie Bracken and Margaret Hayes star in Mr Belvedere on Fox Hour. Wendell Corey set as pathologist in The Probe. The Challenge based on Guide Post stories. CBS notes TV progress beyond feature films.
A fragment references the crucifixion scene with one malefactor railing at Jesus and asking him to save himself. It then presents a prayer asking for life to be a channel for expressing Christlike love. The text oddly shifts to claim a price of 25,900,000 dollars for Warner Brothers old movie supply.
Shaw opens a two week western Kansas swing as he seeks the Republican nomination. Warren W. Shaw vows intensive campaigning against incumbent Gov. Fred Hall, planning stops in over two dozen counties across the 5th and 6th districts. Lacrosse and shinny noted as American Indian games by the National Geographic Society.
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