Our greatest problem at Lansing is idleness
An editorial argues the Hut cinson reformatory and state officials urge more productive work for inmates. It proposes creating internal industries and supervised outside labor at sites like the State Fair grounds to cut penal costs and speed rehab, while noting unions resist unpaid state labor competing with private jobs. The piece urges union collaboration on prison labor programs.
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Lansing
Hutchinson
Kansas
Jean Sharks
Counting Days Until Christmas And Other Holidays
A columnist muses on why people count days to Christmas more than to Veterans Day or July 4th. The piece notes shopping habits, gifts, and timing, observing how readers and newspapers track shopping days while wondering about the value of such counts.
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Alaska
China
Auld Lang Syne Echoes 83 Years Ago
A reminiscence notes a long-forgotten kiss described as a warm moment under pale moonbeams with a humorous sound imitation. The city’s financial statement lists five retail and one wholesale liquor licenses, with license fees of 250 dollars for retailers and 125 dollars for the wholesaler. Ottawa market prices list eggs at 10 cents a dozen and various staples, and Miss Josie Mull moved her dressmaking business to a new location over J. W. Burton store.
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Ottawa
Josie Mull
J. W. Burton
City moves to curb traffic violations and adds officer duty
Forty years ago city officials vowed to halt speeding and traffic violations. Frank Juleson became a special policeman and motorists must halt when signaled by an officer. The board of education planned eight lots at Eleventh and Cedar for a ward grade school facing Ottawa University, with four bought from Joan Ashton and four from C. P. Robinson. Jennie Porter returned to Central College after a vacation, Alva Bailey joined Security State Bank, and Fred Brombacher moved to a desk job in Boise.
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Frank Juleson
Board of Education
Eleventh and
Cedar
Ward
Ottawa University
Joan Ashton
C. P. Robinson
Jennie Porter
Central College
Lexington
Alva Bailey
Security State Bank
Fred Brombacher
Boise
Ida
Getting In Shape And The Shape Of Things To Come
A collage of satirical reflections on sports, cars, marriage, taxes, doctors, and politics. It lampoons athletic training, auto sales terms, wedding vows, taxation, physician workloads, British scandal, Republican lessons, television politics, and future plastics in appliances.
Lifetime Search For Truth By Dean Of Foreign Newsmen
Joseph E. Sharkey, 80s era AP diplomat and war correspondent, reflects on a career built to seek and tell truth. From Harvard beginnings to covering riots, revolutions, and international conferences, he recalls Emersons creed and a life spent roaming the globe with Beatrice at his side and honors from France Belgium Greece.
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New York
Joseph E. Sharkey
Richard Harding Davis
Ernie Pyle
Paris
Cambridge
Mass
Sharkey
Harvard University
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Associated Press
Emerson
Korea
Ireland
Greece
Russia
Siberia
Admir Kolchak
Dreshky
Omsk
Adm
Kolchak
Bolshevists
Washington
Genoa
the Hague
Lausanne
Locarno
Geneva
League of Nations
France
Belgium
Beatrice
Napoleon
Mysterious Vacuum Found in Tonawanda Attic
A 46-year-old vacuum cleaner was found in an attic in Tonawanda New York. It did not work on electricity as its turning wheels resembled a baby carriage and began to suck up dirt from the rug. Silent movies are now used to teach lip reading to the deaf.
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Tonawanda
N. Y
Policemen Today Are Smart And Versatile
Dr George W Crane argues policemen are intelligent and well educated citing Northwestern University Traffic Institute and mental testing. He links driving behavior to ego, inferiority, and discipline, notes car as extension of self and urges a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Automobiles while suggesting a student project on personality tests based on car treatment.
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Franklin M. Kreml
Northwestern University
Traffic Institute
Liberal Arts
Crane
Yor
Hopkins Syndicate
Melott
Ind
the Hopkins Syndicate, Inc
Ottawa Herald Subscriber List Patchwork
New and renewal subscribers listed with names and routes across Ottawa and nearby towns including William Richards route 4 Frederick Wood route 4 Frank Caple route 3 Ottawa C E Ebick revue 1 Wellsville James Ware route 1 C A plus partial data.
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Ottawa Herald
William Richards
Frederick Wood
Frank Caple
Ottawa
C. E. Ebeck
Revue
Wellsville
James Ware
C. A
Subscription Rates By Mail and Area Details
The notice lists subscription rates for in area and outside area mail deliveries. It shows prices for one month three months six months and one year, with figures 2.60 3.75 7.00 4.00 in area and 2.0 5.58 10.00 outside area, indicating monthly and longer-term options.
Television program changes hinder sting accuracy
Last minute program changes prevent full accuracy of the televised stings. The adjustments affect scheduling and on air timing, leaving uncertain details about the plan and participants.
TV Guide Listing for Thursday September 20
Broadcast schedule lists evening programs across stations KMBC WDAF and WDAYF. Includes news recaps sports shows game nights and entertainment segments with times from 6:30 to 10:00 PM and a Disco Show closing.
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NBC
CBS
ABC
Eddie Fisher
Sky King News
Jimmie Pierson
Thester
Frankie Laine
Eddie Arnold
Frenkie Laine
Rosemary Clooney
Mark Saber
Rk Saber
Tu Manchu
Kangaroo
Kengs
Garry Moore
Arthur Godfrey
JaiTson
Preston Adial Stevenson
People's Choice Frontier M.D
Annie Oakley
Playhouse
Highway Patrol Playhouse
Arthur Murray
Bob Cummings
San Francisco
KMBC
WDAF
WDAYF
Morgan Beatty
KALBC
Truth Or Conseq
Kmbc—Newa
Wdaf— Sound Fire
KMBEC
Siete Ene
Dilson
Social Security tax hikes begin January 1
Ray Henry outlines the 1970s Social Security tax increases for employees and self employed, the creation of a Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and the future four scheduled rises through 1975 to fund expanded benefits for seniors and disabled workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Ray Henry
Wide Search For Labor Figure in Acid Blinding Case
FBI and Manhattan DA staff widen nationwide hunt for Theodore Rij 43 a dressmaking firm executive linked to racketeer John Dio Dioguardi 42 alleged ringleader in the Riesel case Rij believed to be Dio’s bodyguard and driver of a car used to transport participants in the acid attack on Victor Riesel on April 5 near Broadway Renewed manhunt follows the street assault details from U S Attorney Paul W Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
FBI
Manhattan
Victor Riesel
Theodore Rij
John
Johnny Dio
Missing Dresses Not Stolen in Shipment Mixup
FBI reports 92 Pauline Trigere dresses valued at 250000 were misdirected in transit from Kansas City to Louisville. The cargo briefly disappeared from a Kansas City air terminal dock before turning up in New Orleans.
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Kansas City
New Orleans
FBI
Pauline Trigere
New York
Louisville
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Sesson
JPH
Boatler
Sae
George W. Crane
Mgain
Postoffice
Kan
Guy Snedaker
Beiter
Don Huls
Don Shipman
Howard Hoadley
Radio
By Ray Henry
Local Dayar
Cbs-Tv
Abc-Tv
Channel 13
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