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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1956
Page
2
The piece notes prices rising from two bits to a dollar and beyond with some cities at 2.50 while tips become common. It highlights fathers with five sons earning 75 dollars weekly turning to frugal grooming, and comments on a barber shortage as apprentices dwindle. The article hints at innovation to DIY solutions.
A jokey column notes haberdashers pushing caps to the crowd while a Stutz car remains a status symbol. An exchange hails Alben Barkley as the Senator's Senator, near Henry Clay in notoriety. Army veterinary corps totals 466 personnel serving 124 horses and 314 mules, provoking taxpayer sting. Automobile production falls 30 percent from last year, dampening a presumed buyers' market. A local housewife jokes about Mother's Day pedestal pride. Princess Margaret suffers a traffic accident, with a dent humorously marked. The Class of 4 nears graduation and faces job experience needs. A quip links epilepsy and rock n roll dancing prowess.
Auld Lang Syne notes Jacob Louis bringing fine liquors to Ottawa. Three cows rescued from high river water after a bridge fall. City areas flood after heavy rain. William Wheeler elected president of the Library Reading Club. Whisker at 90 cents on Kansas City market. James Pendergess sustains a severe hand cut in a shop mishap. Dr Giley treats. Littlefield family visiting town. Judge Jones says police court business dull. warm weather dampens crime activity. After floods, fishing improves though seining is poor.
A reader couches into a night of magazines serials and TV instead of yard work. The narrator battles distractions as the wife interrupts, delaying chores while chasing ongoing stories and a buried book. Repeats of evenings end without progress.
In a candid profile Martha Scott, famed for angelic roles, discusses tiring of typecasting. The Missouri-born actor recalls early radio work with Orson Welles, stage witches, and TV sojourns as Moses’ mother, while pursuing richer, nonrepetitive characters and rejecting the Miss Bishop image.
The body of actor Louis Calhern aged 61 will be cremated in Japan and his ashes returned, MGM said. Calhern died Saturday night in Nera, near Tokyo, from a heart attack. His family requested cremation and he is survived by his relatives.
The column explains the educational booklets offered by Dr George W Crane as a non profit service. Readers can request titles like Sex Problems in Marriage and Public Speaking by sending 20 cents and a stamped return envelope. Authors and physicians often refer patients or clients, sometimes anonymously, to these booklets to aid with marriage, sexual counsel, or public speaking issues.
Although peacock meat is described as dry and tasteless, it was frequently consumed in the Middle Ages, reflecting dietary habits and regional preferences of the period.
Fragmentary OCR hints a dated classifieds style item mentioning subscriptions and names such as Gry Beetaker Dee Bull and Howard Headey. The garbled text suggests a period notice or ad list with multiple author names and duration terms like one month and three months, plus possible place markers and stray terms. The readable content is sparse but indicates a subscription notice or listing with names and time frames.
TV schedule notes show last minute changes for May 15 across NBC CBS and ABC outlets. Entries list various shows from Dinah Shore News to The 64,000 Question and Captain Kangaroo with inconsistent times and channel references.
A devotional prayer seeks divine guidance for the day. It asks for the Holy Spirit to govern labor and to direct energies toward service for others as an act of worship to Christ the Savior.
A radio grid lists May weekday evening lines across KTJO KMBC WDAF and others. Programs include News Dragnet Dinner Music Show Time and late night sports plus talk and music blocks, with dates May 15 and May 4 noted.
A high Soviet police official told visiting French Socialists that the USSR will abolish concentration camps within 18 months leaving only ordinary prisons and corrective labor colonies. He described camps at the Tula complex 80 miles south of Moscow where nonpolitical prisoners work in factories.
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