Twice Told White House Tale Retold
Washington historian notes recount a Truman anecdote about Adams and a nude dawn swim in the Potomac. He cites Anne Royall as the reporter and John Quincy Adams as the diarist swimmer, concluding the tale rests on dubious facts but remains a vivid story.
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White House
Baukhage
Washington Fine Arts Commission
Truman
Front Yard
Adams
Mr. Kelly
John Quincy Adams
Potomac
Anne Royall
Washington
Huntress
Paul Pry
The Tithe Debate and an Old Kent Farmer’s Struggle
A London dispatch recalls Archibald Edwin Waddell, 72, near bankruptcy over tithe payments in Kent. He and others fight a feudal debt kept alive by law across decades, with seizures and mounting coercion. The piece notes tithe history, abolition timelines, and the quirky aside about royalty and dentistry.
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Congress
London Daily Herald
Romney Marsh
Kent
Archibald Edwin Waddell
Waddell
Southern split threat over civil rights bill politics
Truman faces Southern Democrats angry over four civil rights proposals including a federal anti lynching law and end to Jim Crow in transport. Dixie convention talk rises as he plans a national commission against job discrimination. Brannan leads food saving drive amid meat and egg shortages, with government selling eggs abroad. spring shortage predicted.
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Congress
Senate Labor Committee
National Commission
Allen J. Eliender
Dem
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Joint
Congressional Committee On Civil Rights
Justice Department
District of Columbia
Alaska
Hawaii
Jackson
Miss
Walter Sillers
Mississippi
House of Representatives
South
Administration seeks nationwide self rationing plan
The administration failed to push Congress for rationing and price control but aims to boost voluntary food conservation. Representatives from 18 consumer, producer and distributor groups met with Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson to outline a nationwide self rationing drive.
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Congress
Clinton Anderson
Miss Nora Martins Crowned Miss United Nations 1948
In New York the Brazilian ambassador Carlos Martins' daughter Miss Nora Martins was announced Miss United Nations of 1948, showing diplomats need not be aloof. In Washington the landlord Sam Yachter faced tenant heat and hot water complaints, offered to give away his building but found no takers.
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Washington
Nora Martins
Carlos Martins
United Nations
New York
Sam Yachter
Victor Herbert
Sigmund Romberg
Don
Laniece
Rockets and the future of interplanetary travel
A discussion of early spaceflight ideas and goals from a British Interplanetary Society perspective. Experts foresee rockets reaching space and planetbound missions within years, with instruments and satellites paving the way before human travel.
Wood River Mayor Holds Five Jobs and Civic Drive
Wood River Illinois mayor Lawler D. Humphrey, 51, juggles mayoral duties with work at Shell Oil's Roxana refinery and active youth recreation. He leads a Junior G Man club, develops playgrounds and a ball park, and coordinates all duties within a 24 hour day, driven by enthusiasm and public service.
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Wood River
Ill
Guy
Lawler D. Humphrey
Shell Oil Company
Roxana
Humphrey
Frank Starkey
Country Doctor Prescribes for Self It’s School
In Harrisburg Pa a pioneering medical education venture sponsored by the Pennsylvania Medical Society gathers about 840 rural and small-town physicians for a 10 week program. Classes meet one eight hour session weekly at six centers. Instructors from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia cover diagnosis and treatment with up to date techniques.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Medical Society
Alentown
Johnstown
Oil City
Wilkes-Barre
Williamsport
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Charles W. Smith
Medical Society
No Problem for Him Long Lectures Through Recording
Burlington Vermont reports that Professor Robert Long of the University of Vermont, struck by laryngitis, records his lecture and plays it back in class using a recording machine, allowing him to teach without speaking.
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Burlington
Robert §. Long
University of Vermont
Farmers Strengthen Neighborly Tradition in El Paso
EL PASO ILL Strengthening and tradition of neighborliness between El Paso villagers and Wondford county farmers began three years ago with 50 farmers aiding in cleaning streets and yards after a storm. Using tractors axes and saws they cleared fallen trees brush and debris, hauled debris to a dump and shared a dinner in two El Paso cafes. The program traced back to 1914 when 180 farmers hauled 700 loads of dirt into town for park development. In 1918 villagers reciprocated by organizing shock troop brain harvesters during a farm labor shortage.
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EL Paso
Ill
Wondford County
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Henson
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Texas
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40Th Street
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Iree
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