Future shocks and seaside dinners in a jet age piece
The piece envisions vast changes over 25 years driven by science and industry. Mail and rail travel shrink to minutes, television enables distant tours, desalination and subterranean energy unlock new living patterns, a four day week emerges, and leisure includes oceanfront Riviera casinos with seawater dining and novel staff practices as homes gain poolside dining and solarized life.
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Eugene P. Conser
Naional Association of Real Estate Boards
San Francisco
New York
Trailer ships and highway ports loom in shipping reform
Shipping authorities test trailerships that load trailer trucks aboard ships for direct highway delivery, reducing dockhand unloading and prompting plans for highway-adjacent port facilities with ramp piers and truck depots. The approach faces labor and logistics challenges and echoes broader port union tensions.
Seaway Completion Promises New Shipping to Great Lakes
The article notes a plan seen as promising for shipping, especially access to the Great Lakes, contingent on the completion of the St. Lawrence Seaway. It discusses anticipated improvements in trade routes and regional opportunities once the waterway opens.
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Great Lakes
St. Lawrence Seaway
Electronic highway scale to open on U S 1 near Woodbridge
The Star reports Virginia will complete the first electronic highway scale for weighing trucks on U S 1 three miles south of Woodbridge in Prince William County. Markets opened lower with steep declines in high priced issues. James Norman Hall, author of Mutiny on the Bounty, died in Papeete Tahiti at 64.
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Iower
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Wilson Bradley
Mardello Springs
James Norman Hall
Papeete
Tahiti
Dearmont Installed Clarke County Lions Club President
Dr. C. O. Dearmont of White Post was installed as president of the Clarke County Lions Club. Lewis Hyde and John Thornton won the Scotch Foursome golf trophy at the Country Club with a score of 4¢. A deed dated July 6, 1906 records Davis Johnson selling property on Fairmount Avenue to John W. Yeakly for 660 dollars. Miss Mary Willis Booker hosted a bridge party for Mrs. William C. Carson of Front Royal, with Clarke residents Miss Nannie J. Johnson and Mr. Grover Lee Carter marrying in Hagerstown.
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C. O. Dearmont
White Post
Clarke County
Lions Club
Lewis Hyde
John Thornton
Davis Johnson
Fairmount Avenue
John W. Yeakly
Mary Willis Booker
Bridge Whist
William C. Carson
Front Royal
Nannie J. Johnson
Grover Lee Carter
Clarke
Hagerstown
Thrifty Family’s Path From Debt to $100,000 Net Worth
In mid-1932 Mr. N. faced near indigence with $3,000 loan value, $4,500 mortgage and $40 weekly pay. Now assets near $100,000 with two children through college, $7,000 salary and $1,500 investment income. He attributes success to careful budgeting, mortgage payoff, frugal living, homegrown food and community barter, plus selective investments like GE and bank stock.
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Mr. N
U. S
Boy Scouts
Little Leagues
N’s
Girl Scouts
General Electric Co
Sam
How's Your I Q How to Score Based on 100 Questions
A 10 day quiz scoring guide grades memory by daily accuracy and labels ranges from Memory Genius to Good. Includes 10 trivia items covering oddities science Bible history language and literature with a Twain reference.
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Blumenbach
Michael Strogoff
Abraham
David
Jesus
Stalin
Mark Twain
Strength For The Day By Far
A clipped reminiscence notes Michael Pupin the Serbian born scientist who helped enable long distance calling. It cites his postulation that science supports hope of an ongoing soul and that heaven may be the real world beyond this life.
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Michael Pupin
America
Pupin
Rainfall Totals and Averages From Historical Record
Rainfall in the past 24 hours ending 8 30 today July shows 3.63 inches to date. The 1956 year-to-date rainfall reaches 19.35 inches with average annual rainfall for 43 years at 36.95 inches. Monthly averages from 1912 to 1955 include January 2.45, February 1.95, March 2.98, April 3.10, May 3.90, June 3.90, July 3.69, August 3.99, September 2.68, October 3.22, November 3.57, December 2.46 inches.
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Smehes
Great World Within Us Claims Divine Human Soul
A spiritual reflection argues that human intelligence is part of a higher reality. It asserts the human soul surpasses material universe and progresses toward divinity within an ongoing, unbroken cosmic continuity.
Television Schedule Highlights Across Five Channels
A dense listing of programs across channels 6 4 and 5 and 4 detailing time slots from 6:00 pm to 12:30 am. The lineup includes dramas comedies news sports variety classic films and color presentations featuring stars such as Dane Clark Dorothy Patrick Andy Devine Gene Autry and Milt Grant.
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Patti Page
Safeway Theater
Dane Clark
Dorothy Patrick
Andy Devine
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