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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1951
Page
4
Police comb Chicago's south side for Harry Williams, 25, who escaped Cook county jail by killing guard George Turley. Sheriff John Babb posted a $1000 dead or alive reward for Williams' capture.
Rio Grande College announces Charles E. Davis as new president starting in September after Dr. J. W. McDermott resigns to become secretary of the college’s $1,000,000 fundraising drive. Davis, 1926 Rio Grande alumnus and former Upper Sandusky superintendent, will lead the campaign with a Sept. 23 convocation to mark the 75th anniversary.
Born today on Thursday August 16 you show a talent for science and mathematics and may excel in analytical writing whether fiction drama or reports. You value precision and may seek perfection yet must avoid overdoing it. You are empathetic loyal reserved and fond of travel with a few close friends and a long life ahead.
A fragment discusses marriage prospects and life when traveling abroad. It mentions a Jerusalem bakery and explores ideals in love versus work, the influence of travel to foreign countries, and consumption in Palestine.
WPTW program director Robert Bubo, known as B. Bubp, spurts a Florida misremembered tale after he asks Western Union to airmail a spare glass eye. The operator misunderstands and finalizes the telegram to Wapakoneta, Ohio amid comic confusion.
In a wartime telegraph misfire Bubp insists on a real Ohio town Wapakoneta as the destination while an operator questions the claim. The exchange reveals the era’s military movement details with the 114th Corps traveling from Kansas to Port Riley by rail and bus, hauling heavy gear in a 40-truck convoy.
Cpl. Carroll G. Arndt of the 114th Combat Engineer battalion based at Fort Riley Kansas assists in rehabilitating the historic old post. The Fort suffered its worst flood in its history and workers undertake repairs and restoration to reopen the landmark.
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