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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1947
Page
3
A nostalgic critique from a reviewer visiting Madison Square Garden laments the modern circus smell and glamour. The piece blends satire on show business with notes on cost and politics, mentioning Hoover Dam and a jewel theft sentence. The tone mixes charm, food humor, and wartime memory.
The passage jokes about Truman’s bowling alley being a symbol of influence and recounts a fanciful dream in which the President throws a bowling ball. It mentions Henry Wallace catching his thumb, framed in a light political humor tone.
Leaks in the cofferdam of the Grand Coulee dam were sealed in 1937 using betonite, a soft volcanic ash that swells into hard compact clay when moistened, increasing its mass to many times its original volume.
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