Greats linked by gout in Hal Boyle column
AP writer Hal Boyle muses that Alexander the Great and many famed figures suffered gout, linking poets, soldiers, scientists and statesmen. He then asks readers where they would choose to live and notes most prefer home, with Keokuk as a example for neighbors and romance in one’s own city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyle
Majorca
Riviera
Bahamas
Bali
Tahiti
Halmahera
East Indies
Limbuktu
Sahara Desert
Keokuk
Brazil
Eisenhower Calls Postal Pay Rise Inflationary
President Eisenhower branded the proposed 546 dollar yearly postal workers pay raise as inflationary after the House Post Office Committee approved it. Rep. Taber said the President expressed concern at a White House breakfast with 34 Republican House members. Vice President Nixon discussed education aid, the gas bill and civil rights at the same gathering.
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Washington
Eisenhower
House Post Office Committee
Rep. Taber
Republican House
White House
Taber
Nixon
SIU Alumni Office Attends National Conference
Robert Chaniel of Southern Illinois University alumni office will attend the 42nd general conference of the American Alumni Council at the Huntington Sheraton Hotel in Pasadena California next week.
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Robert Chaniel
Southern Illinois University
American Alumni Council
Huntington-Sheraton Hotel
Pasadena
Calif
Summer Band Concerts Begin at West Frankfort Park
The West Frankfort Community Park opens a weekly Thursday summer band concert series starting July Fourth led by entertainment director Miss Alice Hoye with Alan Crawford and Theodore Pas chedag directing. Friday and Saturday shows continue all summer with Miss Howe and Kenneth Barger presenting a musical review at 7 30 p m featuring Sharon Penrod Sherry and Lynn Simpson of Johnston City Georgia Meagher with Mary Jane Harp in a piano duet and Jarma McKee reading. The Mildred Hall Dance Revue caps Saturday nights.
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West Frankfort
Alice Hoye
Perk Entertainment
Miss Howe
Kenneth Barger
Sharon Penrod
Sherry
Lynn Simpson
Johnston City
Georgia Meagher
Mary Jane Harp
Miss Meagher
Miss Harp
Jarma McKee
Mildred Hall
Rhode Island Adopts Decoration Day as Legal Holiday
In 1874 Rhode Island became the first state to declare Decoration Day a legal holiday. The move recognized commemorations of veterans and national remembrance traditions within state law.
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Rhode Island
Murphysboro Pastor Heads to Honduras Mission Seminar
The Rev. Ed Weltge pastor of St. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Church Murphysboro and wife will join a group of clergymen for a missionary seminar in Honduras departing from Miami Monday. The church notes its long history sending missionaries as doctors nurses and teachers to Honduras since the 1920s with 21 workers currently there. Substitutes will lead Murphysboro services during Weltge's absence.
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Ed Weltge
St. Peter's Evangelical
Honduras
Miami
Weltge
Murphysboro
Everett Lynch
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Marion
Jewry Phyne
Prairie’ du Rocher
Rhyne
Southern Illinois University
Congressman Gray Seeks Veterans Support For House Bills
Letter from Congressman Kenneth Gray asks World War I veterans to write to Chairman Olen E. Tague in Washington to support Veterans Bills HR 52 HR 358 and HR 5054. Hugh Grimes Commander World War One Veterans Herrin Illinois also signs.
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Kenneth Gray
Olen E. Tague
Committee On Veterans Affairs
House
Washington, D. C
Hugh Grimes
Herrin, Ill
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Hal Boyle
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John Barrymore
Kubla Khan
Guy de Maupassant
Martin Luther
John Wesley
Isaac Newton
Charles Darwin
Talleyrand
Samuel Johnson
William Pitt
Alfred Tennyson
General Winfield Scott
Edward Gibbon
Francis Bacon
William Harvey
Pepski
Akes
William Pepski
Cloquet
Steve
Jeff
Center
Jim
Alan Crawford
Theodore Paschedag
Swindell
Oldsmobile Sales and Service
Oldsmobile
Gmac Financing
Matic
Oddsmobile
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Illinois
Weller
Little Egypt Optical CO
West Cherry Street
Herrin
Burke’s Cafe
Cookie’s Cafe
North 14Th Street
Sunny Brook
Glenmore
Zinfandel
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Gilbey’s Gin
Case Bill
RED Top
ABC Liquor Stores
Washington Street
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