Infants Paralysis Watch Tightens Amid Varied Early 1949 Data
National health authorities monitor infantile paralysis as heat increases risk. Last year’s 27,888 cases set a record, with 1,757 cases in the first five months of 1949 versus 1,226 in 1948. States show mixed early activity. vigilance remains essential to apply scientific lessons if an outbreak occurs.
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Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch
North Carolina
California
Texas
Virginia
Untitled note on disease defense and search for cure
The passage notes that powerful treatment methods exist and researchers have advanced in other directions. It states the defense against the disease remains imperfect but will be stronger this year if the enemy strikes again.
Virginia Bar to advertise legal services for public insight
The Virginia State Bar plans advertising campaigns to inform the lay public about the services lawyers can offer. The move aims to offset ads by lay agencies that have drawn business away from lawyers. The committee sees this as a defensive, PR driven step by a large modern profession.
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The
Bar
Legal Profession of
Virginia
Virginia Bar
Gas blast injures 18 in Raylass store disaster
Widespread damage follows a gas explosion at Raylass store injuring 18. The blast disrupts nearby streets as responders rush to the scene. Names of victims not fully confirmed in readable text. Local officials investigate cause and consequences for the community.
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Raylass
Henry Mencken
Dewey
New York
Moreno Dopes
Louis
Walcott
Authorities begin abolishment of Jordan Springs building
Langollen farm near Upperville reports $1000 worth of cows and heifers rustled. Winchester Research laboratory predicts June may be a notably wet month following rainfall of 7.700 inches.
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Jordan Springs
Langollen Farm
Upperville
Winchester Research Laboratory
Growers urged to insure crops against hail in 1924
Baker and Shryock encourage growers to insure corn vegetables and apples against hail. Star editorial supports local movement to swat flies. Richard Dix stars in Icebound at the Empire.
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Baker and Shryock
Star
Richard Dix
the Empire
Millwood businessman Thomas H. Shearer dies
In Millwood the well known businessman Thomas H. Shearer dies. Judge Atkinson purchases the Sarah Fritts farm for 930 dollars. Supt. Thomas Savage displays a cactus plant bearing forty blooms.
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Millwood
Thomas H. Shearer
Judge Atkinson
Sarah Fritts
Thomas Savage
Strength For The Day By Earl L. Douglas
The piece contrasts Solomon’s wealth power and learning with his unhappiness and argues that indulgence breeds discontent. It notes Ecclesiastes as a sobering counterpoint and urges reading it as a corrective to unchecked self indulgence.
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Earl L. Douglas
D. D
King Solomon
Solomon
Rone
How's Your I. Q. A 1949 quiz scoring guide
A reader quiz asks 10 questions with scores based on daily results. Questions cover Legion anniversary timing, office equipment brands, a childbirth symbol bird, boa constrictor hunting method, speed of light versus sound, craps terminology, a president’s nickname, Oscar statue name, Mister Roberts author death, crossgrain adjective use, and notes on atomic bomb history including the Alamogordo test in 1945.
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American Legion
L. C. Smith
Royal
Underwood
U. S
Monticello
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Mister Roberts
Pessimistic Painter by Hal Boyle
New York June 23. Artist Charles B. Knight recalls marrow tasting from a 10,000 year old woolly mammoth. He notes it tasted rancid grease and cites Siberian experiments that made others sick. Knight, 74, has painted prehistoric life since 1894 and studies dinosaur eras. He argues Cro Magnon man matched modern humans in ability and criticizes spiritual progress, calling modern man a deliberate fool.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Charles B. Knight
American Museum of Natural History
Knight
Europe
New York City
Protestant Leader Warns Against Catholic Anti Communism Crusade
New York theologian Prof. John C. Bennett urged Congregational leaders at their eight day assembly to resist communism with constructive options and to avoid becoming allies of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in its anti communist crusade. He argued for spiritual resistance to religious error and totalitarianism and noted world church tensions over a Shanghai World Council report.
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Mass
New York
International Council of Congregational Churches
John C. Bennett
Union Theological Seminary
World Council of Churches Assembly
Amsterdam
Bennett
National City Bank
The
Moscow Patriarch
Christians See Communist Threat as Lesser Evil in Some Regions
The speaker noted that in parts of Asia and eastern Europe Christians, judging their circumstances honestly, view communism as the lesser evil. They argue that resisting it could aid reactionary powers opposed to Christianity, which themselves clash with Christian values.
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Asia
Europe
Baltimore Club Plans Excursion to Boyce Meeting
Green Leaf Saving Club of Baltimore will run its first bus excursion to Boyce for services at Zion Baptist Church. Worship starts at 10 a.m. Sunday.
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Baltimore Club
Boyce
Green Leaf Saving Club of
Baltimore
Zion Baptist Church
Green Leaf club hosts two programs with communion
At 2 p m the Green Leaf club will present a program and at 8 p m an old time covenant meeting with holy communion. Refreshments will be served all day with Mrs Nao Satterfield of the sponsoring Workers Prayer band mistress of ceremonies.
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H. C. Johnson
Green Leaf Club
Nao Satterfield
Sponsoring Workers Prayer Band
The Star on Your Vacation Service Announcement
The STAR offers to send news during your vacation. Contact number 3424 for service inquiries and details on coverage while you are away.
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