Washington's Seamy Side: The City as It Was in 1858
The Washngton Evening Star editor Theodore Noyes described a chaotic early city with sewer gas, rats, poor streets, and no water, contrasting it with today’s status as the capital of a democracy. A rat control campaign funded around $75,000 a year has reduced pest problems, though rats persist for vigilant cats.
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Eye Street
N.W
Washington
D. C
Washington Evening Star
Theodore Noyes
Canberra
Camelot
Merlin
Baghdad-on-the-Potomac
Noyes
American Museum of Natural History
United States Public Health Service
Europe
Peta
When People Vote They Win
An off year analysis from the June Economic Outlook by the CIO argues mass registration and voting best guarantees liberal progress. It notes voter turnout patterns in past off years and questions whether Democratic or Republican gains reflect habit or apathy. The piece also warns of wartime profiteering and surveillance fears, touching on telephone taps and FBI recordings.
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Congress of Industrial Organizations
Aon
CIO
Senate War Investigating Committee
Mesd
Samuel Johnson
Washington
FBI
Truman Irritable At Press Conference Amid Changing Times
Truman displays irritability at a press conference over John O'Donnell's alleged lie. Doctors cite presidential duties, not health, as the cause, with routine routines described. Also noted are Bikini atom bomb effects and various agricultural stats detailing cotton acreage and wheat shipments to Europe.
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Truman
John O'Donnell
O'Donnell
FDR
Col. Wallace Graham
White House
Record 46 Corn Crop Forecast Sets New U.S. High
The Agriculture Department projects the largest U.S. corn crop on record, with a near record wheat harvest and favorable conditions. Corn may reach 9.84 billion bushels, while winter wheat could hit 857 million and oats around 1.47 billion. Acreage shifts show wedges of gains and losses across states.
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Virginia
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Florida
Tennessee
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Mississippi
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Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Europe
Washington
United States
Department
Kansas
New England
South Dakota
Nebraska
North
Larelina
Badger Iowa: Co-Op Center Built By Community
In Badger Iowa a small Lutheran town with under 400 residents built a robust cooperative economy over decades. It started with a stock and grain association, followed by a Farmers Grain Elevator, a long standing Cooperative Telephone company, a petroleum co op, a co-op credit union started in 1938, and an ABC labeled co-op store. The system, praised by a state bank examiner, supports banking, groceries, meats and electrical goods while sustaining local enterprise. Community members discuss future co op ventures like teen entertainment and a playhouse, embodying rural collaboration.
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Badger
Iowa
E. L. Kirkpatrick
Stock and Grain Association
Farmers Grain Elevator Company
Co-Operative Telephone Company
Petroleum Co-Operative Organization
Co-Op Credit Union
Towa
State
Autoist Offers Fine After Running Red Light
A Greeley woman phoned the police to admit she ran a red light at a downtown intersection and offered to pay the fine. Desk Sergeant Ira Timken was stunned by the caller and joked that if all drivers were as conscientious there would be no traffic problem.
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Greeley
Colo
Ira Timken
Man Remembers Dentist After Decade Passes
In Sumner Washington a local dentist Dr. C. L. Tolefson received a surprise payment from a patient treated ten years earlier. A forgotten money order and a name found in records revealed the backstory. The patient explained job loss and later prosperity allowed repayment and sought the doctor’s forgiveness.
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Sumner, Wash
C. L. Tolefson
Denlist
Young Farm Boy Runs 60-Acre Dairy Near Auburn
In Auburn Washington 15 year old Jimmy Marshall operates a 60 acre farm without help. He tends a herd of purebred Jerseys, milks 12 cows daily, and handles spring work after his father B L Marshall was killed in an accident last January. A capable athlete and scholar, he plans to continue farming and building a dairy and hog operation.
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Auburn
Wash
Jimmy Marshall
B. L. Marshall
Jimmy
Climber Knits from a 120 Foot Forestry Lookout
Mrs. Merle Lucille McDaniel serves as fire watcher atop a 120 foot tower that once guarded against a Japanese invasion. Her daily routine runs 9 to 5 with regular knitting and reading between hourly scans of a 20 mile area using binoculars.
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Zarata
Muiss
Merle
Lucille McDaniel
McDaniel
Forestry Department
War Department
Mississippi
Bicycling Cat Returns with Four Kittens
ROYALTON VT Abbie a bicycling cat returns home with four kittens after a year away. She disappeared near the Russell summer home in Maine while on a cycling trip with Mrs Homer Russell and children. A newspaper story helped locate Abbie about two miles from the disappearance site.
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Royalton
Abbie
Homer Russell
Russell
Maine
No Wedding Honking Ordinance Enacted in Monessen
Monessen officials pass a new ordinance banning excessive horn honking to display joy at weddings. The law prohibits loud tooting by vehicles and imposes police punishment for violations. Newlyweds are urged to celebrate more quietly under the measure.
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Monessen
Atomic Bolons En Route to Bikini
W Stuart Symington assistant secretary of war Senator Millard E Tyde Maryland Postmaster General Robert E Honnegan and Gae E Sullivan assistant postmaster general are shown en route to Bikini.
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W. Stuart Symington
Millard E. Tyle
Maryland
Robert E. Honnegan
Gae E. Sullivan
Bikini
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