Date of Thanksgiving Confusion and Lincoln’s Role
Editorial notes on Thanksgiving date history from 1862 to 1941. Traces shift from last Thursday tradition to Roosevelt’s fourteenth month proclamation, Lincoln’s influence, Pilgrims’ harvest origins, and evolving religious observance. Includes references to 1621 harvest festival, 1623 revival, and English drought relief.
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Congress
F. D. Roosevelt
New England
Abraham Lincoln
Pilgrim Fathers
Lincoln
England
Debate on filling White House vacancy and vice presidency
The article surveys proposals to reform how second on the ticket is chosen. It notes Butler’s call for a special election if a Vice President takes over in year one or two, and recalls Truman’s 1945 plan favoring Speaker and President pro tempore as first and second in line. It explains constitutional hurdles and timing issues for applying any plan to the 1956 Vice President selection.
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Paul M. Butler
Democratic National Committee
Butler
Truman
Congress
House
Senate
Thanksgiving as Family Day Would Strengthen Our Nation
Washington notes urge making Thanksgiving a wider family day beyond the nuclear unit. The piece argues that gathering families across states is hard yet vital, proposing a national holiday or an alternate date to unite loved ones and reinforce national strength through family ties.
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Illinois
California
United States
What About Thanksgiving Ivan
A columnist reflects on Ivan Sinvenchov and the plight of Russians under totalitarian rule. He contrasts a Thanksgiving heart with a regime that denies dignity, calling for freedom and the pursuit of happiness while urging empathy for those suffering under oppressive governments.
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The
Carbon Fuel Co
Ivan
Beckley Newspapers ads and subscription rates note
Public notice style in a Beckley page includes subscription pricing and carrier terms. Details cover mail rates for daily and Sunday editions, West Virginia tax, change of address requirements, and carrier contractor responsibilities. The notice names Beckley Newspapers Corporation and local editors and AP affiliation.
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Csseccss
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
American Women Use Less Perfume Now
New York column notes that American women are using less perfume than eight years ago while deodorant sales jumped 98 percent from 1947 to 1953. It also mentions skin safety, annual necklace cleaning, cold peaks, Kurt Baum boxing days, vermouth herbs, a dog welfare idea, and women buying 55 to 60 percent of men’s wear but with a declining share.
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New York
Metropolitan Opera
Kurt Baum
Prague
Max Schmeling
Kurt
National Dog Welfare Guild
Daily miscellany of quotes and quizzes from Kinard to Showa era facts
A collage of observations and trivia touches on Thanksgiving prayers by James C Kinard, fashion choices of Papa, U S blind counts, Ella Logan’s career, ear versus eye reaction times, hearing impairment estimates, Hirohito’s Showa era, life expectancy forecasts, urban crime odds, nerves cooling tricks, and humorous takes on aging hairpieces and fashion.
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Hirohito
America
Margaret Firth
Conrad Nagel
New York
Stevenson outlines 1956 path for Democrats
In a first post announcement speech Adlai Stevenson argues Democrats must persuade voters to replace Republicans in 1956. He cites America’s strength, promises better governance, criticizes Eisenhower era farm policy and foreign policy tough talk, and accuses Republicans of catering to special interests while advocating more foreign aid and tax relief within a moderate frame.
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Washington
Adlai Stevenson
America
Stevenson
Eiisenhower
Military Men in News At Home and Overseas
Airman Dennis F. Taylor promoted to air man first class at Hamilton AFB California. Taylor serves as aero medical technician with the 41st Air Rescue Squadron, part of a global lifesaving organization. Rescue squadrons have flown over 13,000 missions aiding more than 72,000 people in distress.
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Hamilton Air Force Base
Calif
Dennis F. Taylor
Glen White
41St Air Rescue Squadron
Calla V. Taylor
Taylor
Korea
Saudi Arabia
Tulle
Panama
What’s The Answer What’s The Answer
A quiz appears on page with questions about U N voting patterns and public figures. The text shifts to brief bios: Airman Taylor a life saving rescuer trained in France and Morocco, Francis Anthony Bodnar, a Jayhawk graduate enlisting in 1955 at F A Bodnar Beckley, and Ray Vance aboard USS Intrepid with Sixth Fleet, wife Rosemary Blake, amid NATO maneuvers and Mediterranean cruise.
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Amarillo Air Force Base
Tex
Francis Anthony Bodnar
John Bodnar
Wickline St
Oak Hill
Air Force
F. A
Intrepid
Norfolk
Mediterranean
Ray Vance
Beckley
Rosemary Blake
Sophia
Sixth Fleet
Harpo Marx Birthday Fact and Family Note
Birthday notice for Harpo Marx born November 23 1893 in New York City. The Marx Brothers were five brothers with nicknames Harpo Groucho Chicco Gummo and Zeppo. Harpo is noted as the most talkative despite silent stage persona and each brother has pursued solo entertainment and business ventures.
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Harpo Marx
New York City
Marx Brothers
Harpo
Groucho
Chicco
Gummo
Zeppo
Juvenile Husbands and Financial Babies in The Worry Clinic
Case Q-303 uses a baseball metaphor to critique immature adult behavior in marriage and finance. It contrasts a four year old Johnny’s six strike longing with adults who borrow against future income, rely on in laws, and neglect budgeted living. It notes rules of marriage like patching up quarrels nightly and fidelity, urging readers to live on present budgets and seek practical aid like a Budget Booklet.
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Johnny
Are Television Comedians Dying in TV's Fast Lane
Long chat with Fred Allen and others on TV humor in 1960. Discusses careers of George Gobel Jack Benny and Jackie Gleason and how TV monsters new contracts and stale material press comics to reboot. Notes Stephen Potter humor and current showbiz moves, marriages, and future of standups in a rapidly changing medium.
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George Gobel
Memory Lane
Jackie Gleason
CBS
Bernard Baruch
General Motors
Fred Allen
The
Lambs Club
Fred
Town Hall
Stephen Potter
Potter
Time Magazine
Joe McCarthy
Gene Autry
Jonathan Winter
Winter
Hollywood
Jack Benny
Groucho Marx
Phil Silvers
Sgt. Bilko
Andy Griffith
Elia Kazan
Arkansas Traveler
Budd Schulberg
Joey Carter
Ruban Blue
Provenzano
Air Ace Co
Frank Gabreski
Shaw Air Force Base
Sumter
S. C
Canada
Hig Mgr
Bullets Durgom
Jack Smart
Godot
Betsy von Furstenburg
Factographs Timothy Day Factoid
The text states Factographs Timothy as a name for a type of day and notes the average person has about 125,000 hairs on their head. It presents two isolated facts without context or events.
Answers 2 Knowl and Kefauver era
The snippet lists items including Knowland Kefauver, an era, six per cent from a U.S. Public Health note, a six cent increase, Portugal, a claim of well over half, and a neutral stance.
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Knowl
Kefauver
Knowland
U.S. Public Health Service
Portugal
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Food For
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