D F Youngblood dies, San Antonio industrial pioneer
D F Youngblood founder of Southern Steel Co. dies at 88. He led jail and prison equipment manufacturing, winning 40 patents and shaping remote control locking systems used nationwide. The firm ran 3000+ installations in 40 states, including Rikers Island and Harris County jail. He moved to Texas in 1895 and built a lasting industry legacy.
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Southern Steel Co
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Rikers Island
New York City
Lompoe
Calif
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Houston
U.S
D. F
Alabama
Texas
D.F
Presa
C. K. Quin
Public Service Company
Col. W. B. Tuttle
State Board of Education
First Baptist Church
Battle of Flowers
Joske's
Pioneer Marker Unveiling Honors Early Army Aviation
Next Wednesday at Ft Sam Houston Arthur MacArthur field will host a marker unveiling celebrating the birth of military aviation. Maj Gen Benjamin D Foulois retired will attend, recalling his 1910 solo flight as a first lieutenant leading Ft Sam's first airplane detachment. Col Vernon Burge and Sgt Herbert Marcus also receive honors.
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N.J
Foulois
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Wright Brothers
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San
Marcus
Chamber of Cammerce
Sleeping Habits and Back Disks Risk
Health Talk by Dr. H N Bundesen explains how sleeping posture can cause intervertebral disk rupture. It notes that nightly sleep on one side with a curved back can displace a disk, and that heavy lifting or a back blow can trigger rupture with pain radiating down a leg. Rest in bed with a firm mattress and boards under it to keep the back rigid.
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Coppright
King Fea. Syn., Inc
Fortune-telling puzzle using name letter count key
A brief game describes a daily numerical puzzle. Count letters in your first name, adjust by minus four if six or more, else plus three, to get a key number. Traverse a rectangle from top-left, read letters beneath checked figures to reveal a message.
Portraits By James J. Metcalfe Too Selfish
Poem-diary style confession from a writer named James J. Metcalfe describing personal selfishness and untruths that prevented a marriage. The speaker asks forgiveness and requests the beloved to forget him to protect her happiness. The text includes a copyright notice for Free Enterprises, Inc.
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James J. Metcalfe
Evermore
Free Enterprises, Inc
Winchell on Broadway Buzzes With Celebrity Scandal
Walter Winchell catalogs a frenzy of 1955 Broadway and Hollywood gossip. Brando and Brigida O'Shea mix in a restless scene while Pat Ward testifies in the Jelke case and stars like Eddie Fisher and Evelyn Keyes figure in social sightings.
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Marlon Brando
Brigida O’shea
Brigida
Pat Ward
Mike Todd
Shelley Winters
Nick Ray
Gloria Graham
Andy Carey ‘Jr
Lucy Marlowe
Mirror of Your Mind and Energy Feelings Study
The piece reports on emotional and economic security linked to family teamwork and farm upbringing. It cites researchers Bossard and Stoker Bell of Penn and notes Dr Terhune and Dr Gumpert on energy, happiness, and leisure, with reflections on mental wellness and nonmaterial values.
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Joseph Whitney
James H.S. Bossard
Eleanor Stoker- Bell
University of Pennsylvania
Wiliam B. Terhune
Your Daily Horoscope for February 27 1955
Frances Drake offers horoscopic guidance for each zodiac sign with Lent themes and spiritual prompts. Readers born February 27 are described as sympathetic and intelligent, able to work with patience and detail, yet prone to worrying.
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Weel
Salittarius
Capricorn
Conet
Longfellow
Gene Saragen
Elizabeth Taylor
King Fea, Syn., Inc
The Divine and Human Christ Balance in Gospel Truth
The New Testament presents Jesus as both God and man. Believing only in His humanity empties the gospel of its meaning, while acknowledging His deity without His humanity would deny His relatability. The Man Christ Jesus brings heavenly empathy and access to grace at the throne.
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Christ
Jesus
God
Christ Jesus
York
Tne
Sokolsky Clarifies Morse Party Shift and Record
George H. Sokolsky argues Wayne Morse’s switch from Republican to Democrat clarifies his political stance. He compares Morse to Churchill crossing aisles, notes Morse’s New Dealer roots, and asserts the move corrects the record rather than signals change.
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University of Minnesota
Columbia University
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Columbia
University of Oregon
Oregon
Roosevelt
Cayil
United States Senate
Wayne Morse
Senate
Dynamic conservatism and party split in Eisenhower era
In a 1955 King Features Syndicate opinion piece the author argues that defining party loyalty is impossible. He notes the slide of GOP and Democratic wings toward moderation or socialism, calling Wayne Morse clearly anti Eisenhower amid a national realignment.
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Eisenhower
Henry Wallace
Walter George
Harry Byrd
Congress
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wayne Morse
King Features Syndicate, Inc
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