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...American Press Association Directory this month showed that newspapers in towns of less than 20,000 increased by 194 to a total of 10,179 in 1938. All but a handful are weeklies. X. W. Ayer & Son's Directory shows that dailies declined last year from...
...Cradle of Liberty but, like Georgia and Connecticut, it has never ratified the U. S. Bill of Rights. This startling fact was certified by Librarian Denys P. Myers of Boston to Governor Leverett Saltonstall, who last week hastened to inform his Legislature. In 1790, when Amendments I to X to the Constitution were submitted to Massachusetts for ratification, "your honorable predecessors," said Governor Saltonstall, "failed to act because they became involved in an attempt to propose even more inclusive definitions of the rights of the people." Governor Saltonstall suggested that the forefathers' oversight be rectified on or about...
...donation of $500 to the Dental School Committee of the Phillips Brooks House Association, to purchase an X-ray machine for the committee's dental clinic at the Charlestown Boy's Club was reported today by Raymond Dennett, graduate secretary of Brooks House...
This week Mr. X was back in the hospital at Jackson, where for almost eight years he has puttered in the greenhouse wintering Jackson folks' plants for small tips, reading geographic magazines, historical novels and the World Almanac. Letters and inquiries by the thousands poured in to We, the People and to the hospital. At least 100 were sure they could identify...
...X's story seemed sound enough, but in its time We, the People has been hoaxed roundly, mostly before Young & Rubican now the producers, set up their elaborate checking system. Scooty was a Scotti dog, wrote a lady from Elgin, Ill., which she had come upon accompanying a tin cripple named Tim, hobbling toward Philadelphia to stay with a hardhearted aunt who didn't like dogs. The woman wrote that she had taken the dog, promising to give him a good home. Now Scooty knew a few tricks, and she was sure the aunt would let tiny...