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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1948
Page
4
Wallace weighs a 1947 third party run shaping a volatile national race. The plan faces varied state laws and party reactions with possible Democrat turnout impact and Republican gains if Wallace siphons Truman votes. Fortune cites a strong 1948 business boom despite postwar inflation and labor unrest.
Mrs. Blanche Henderson traveled to Ogden last Wednesday to visit her parents Mr and Mrs W D Hope. Mrs Hope had a major operation in an Ogden hospital and her reports say she is as well as can be expected. Blanche returned home Sunday evening to go back to Ogden later in the week. Mrs Veryll Pederson hosted a youth leadership meeting at her home last Wednesday evening.
Names of attendees at a wedding dance in Oxford and a temple gathering, plus visits from Mink Creek and Hawaii. Events include a ladies club luncheon with pinochle prizes, and residents like Ervin Davis traveling to Logan for medical care.
In a chat at Bill Websters over beer and prozels townspeople discuss ancestry. Doc Hollister traces Scotch English roots, Will Dudley’s ancestry from Pennsylvania mining stock, and Skip Powell’s family as Holland brewers. The piece notes diverse origins shaping local tastes in music history and beer.
A collage of wry lines about marriage, class, faith, and courtship. Snippets on old maids, housekeepers, church conventions, soldiers boasting, mothers and babies, and social mores weave through humor about money, virtue, and city life.
A classroom quip shows a teacher asking a new pupil for the letter after A and the pupil replying that all letters come after, delivering a playful twist about wisdom and learning. The exchange highlights wit over a basic alphabet question.
The item laments the end of an old unit as time has taken its toll and no mileage can be reversed. It notes the machine remains only as a gluey memory if it still runs at all.
Social round in Pocatello and Preston features Swan Lake holiday dance with Mr and Mrs Nord Westover hosting a midnight supper for guests Verl Rarndall Douglas Hadley and families. Numerous visits from Moscow Ogden Logan and Downey residents mark Christmas week with hospital, temple, and home gatherings.
A sequence of holiday gatherings in the Provo area traces visiting relatives and neighbors. Harry McCopy returns to BYU in Provo for the weekend, with families from Pocatello and Preston attending dinners and midnight suppers. Attendees include Gibbs, Kay, Heckert, Jorgensen, Kingsbury, Haviland, Barnes, Henderson, Gambles, Petty, and others across multiple households.
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