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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1958
Page
9
Fragmented OCR lists names, addresses, and dates from vital statistics notices including births and marriages. The readability is poor with numerous typos, but several individuals and locations appear, alongside hospital references and scattered dates.
Annulments granted amid a tragic sequence as a two month old infant died after a long automobile journey across five states. A doctor attributed the death to an illness unresponsive to treatment, with parents Otis Wil Shelton and Shela Hams involved. The accident chain began when the infant died in transit near Lakeview, with vehicles separating and a later collision causing a fatal end.
Two pilots in separate planes reported sighting an unidentified submarine near the Victorian coast. Defense officials dispatched reconnaissance aircraft and ships to search but found nothing. The search continued as authorities assessed the threat.
A reader of the period notes multiple divorce petitions and party names listed in a long legal notices segment. The document records numerous plaintiffs and defendants including Imogene, Meys, Le, and Patterson families, with various surnames and initials, indicating a broad filing of divorce actions across many pairs.
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