FLASHES OF LIFE FLASHES OF LIFE
A string of brief, quirky items from various locales and odd happenings. Robert Carpenter in Pine Meadow is assaulted by a motorist after his clothes catch fire from burning matches. In Sparta mules react to drought with renewed plowing to harvest escaped cotton. In Kansas City a doctor notes a long wait outside St. Luke's Hospital as a couple arrives.
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Sparta
Kansas City
Ed P White
St. Luke’s Hospital
Landon’s Early Years Chronicle From Campus to Pipeline Work
A photo feature traces Alf M Landon’s youth and rise from a Wisconsin birth to Oklahoma oil field work with a Hungarian crew. It recalls his home letters for money, his K U campus nickname Fox, Phi Gamma Delta leadership, and reforms he backed in law school including gambling ban, debt collection, and budget cuts.
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Oklahoma
K. U
Alf Landon
Fox
Law School
Phi Gamma Delta
Landon
Murder Tonight in Sussex Village Spotlight
In a quiet Sussex village on January eighteenth, Dale Shipley visits Ferney House for dinner with Captain and Mrs Reeves while Lois Everest hides tensions behind London polish. Nancy Featherstone awaits a key guest, while Doctor Chambers offers banter, hunting talk, and clues to a distant, unsettled social web.
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Sussex
Dale Shipley
St. Leonard
Ferney House
Nancy Featherstone
Reeves
Miss Everest
Miss Featherstone
London
Doctor Chamber ’S
Sydney Chambers
Tubby
Nellie Reeves
Fox fur neckpiece theft lands man in jail
Nathan Sonnenschein chased a fox fur neckpiece thief after a fox ran through a broken window at a fur store. He told police, My cat ran in through that broken window. Alton, Illinois, report notes a separate softball game where Hileya Howard pitched a seven inning 6 0 no hit victory with 18 strikeouts for the Pacemakers.
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Kitty
Chicago
Nathan Sonnenschein
Sonnenschein
Alton, Is
Hileya Howard
Pacemakers
Night Owls
Tallahassee Caps Virtually Clinch in Series Opener
Tallahassee Caps built a 6-2 victory over Albany as Perry pitched seven innings of six hit ball. Al Annino homered and Bob Secheffing added a single and double for the Travs, with Rex Bowen driving in two runs in the seventh. Noddy Siragusa started for Albany, allowing four hits in six innings before Hoyt Leamon finished.
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Perry
al Annino
Bob Secheffing
Albany
Travs
Rex Bowen
Noddy Siragusa
Hoyt Leamon
Missing Georgian Is Back With Relatives
Statesboro Georgia June 16 E G Cromartie who had been missing for three weeks was back in Georgia with relatives today coming home just after lunch. Police rider 16 Lawrence Wood Meetill And tomorrow murder drops into this cheerful gathering.
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Statesboro
E. G. Cromartie
Georgia
eCopsrider
Lawrence Wo Meetellt
Golfer’s hole-in-one followed by bee sting
John McKinley of Chicago joined the Associated Press hole-in-one club with 68 others, but was stung on the leg by a bee as he watched his 175 yard shot drop at Westgate Country Club. The week brought 69 new aces, bringing total to 595 as New Hampshire added W. R. Rice of Claremont.
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Paul Mickelson
Associated Press
New York
John McKinley
Chicago
John
Westgate Country Club
Howie Roberts
Chicago Daily News
McKinley
New Hampshire
W. R. Rice
Claremont
Newport
Idaho
Nevada
Texas
California
Soviet backs private property protections in new constitution
Moscow reports the government will extend official support to private home builders via increased credits from the Housing Corporation. The constitution shields private property including homes and household goods with strong protections while allowing state ownership of essential city housing.
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Moscow
Soviet Housing Corporation
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