Farm Buying Power Still Shows Gains Well Above Cost of Living
The Northwestern National Life study finds farm buying power outpaced the cost of living over the past decade. It notes net annual income per farm rose from 702 dollars in 1939 to 2,915 in 1948 and about 2,800 by January 1949, with wages up 130 percent and living costs up roughly 28 percent since June 1946, despite unemployment and inflation nuances.
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Opa
Family Economics Bureau
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
America
Poultry House Cleaner Uses High Pressure Sprayer
A new method for poultry house cleaning uses a high pressure sprayer that pulverizes dirt and drippings and blasts them away. Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation developed the sprayer, claimed to clean faster, cheaper, and more easily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation
Hormones May Limit Frost Damage in Time
American apple growers facing heavy financial losses from spring frosts may soon beat the cold with a hormone aided spray. Tracers and hormones could keep buds closed until danger passes, sparing damaged fruit and saving millions in annual losses.
Man Lived Ten Years in a Clothes Closet
A New York man who hid in a clothes closet for ten years resists leaving, crying he wants to go back inside when freed. Reports say several similar cases exist, including Elmer Twitchell and his nephew Pastrami Twitchell who also stayed concealed for a decade.
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New York
Elmer Twitchell
Pastrami Twitchell
War Era Absurdities and Cabinet Quips From Odd Ball Notes
A collage of quirky wartime quotes and satirical remarks from Daily snippets. Involving Elmer, Thaddeus Swivelhead, Ala Z Boogie, H K Stuffinbox, Jarvis P Waite, and others living in unlikely places like drawers, shelves, and filing cabinets as they react to postwar prices, politics, and radio. Includes jokes about Truman’s cabinet, John L. Lewis, and a racehorse practice flight to Churchill Downs.
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H. K. G. Stuffinbox
Jarvis P. XX
Waite
Woodrow Wilson
America
TV and Radio News Highlights From 1940s Entertainment
Andy Becker joins the CBS daytime serial as a doctor in training while his mother’s theatre influence sparks early stage interests. Cathy Downs knits dresses for a fashion layout and plans to recreate them. Variety Time spurs an ambitious vaudeville picture Make Mine Laugh by RKO. Horace Heidt to stage The Kids Break Through on Broadway this fall. Patric Knowles polishes his rusty Spanish in México during The Big Steal location shoot, mistaking soup for soap.
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Andy Becker
Dr. Malone
RKO
Horace Heidt
Patric Knowles
México
RKQ
The Fiction Corner Seeks Country Acclimation Tale
Inspector Ben Odell notes city folk struggle in rural settings while Detective Rod Upshur visits Round Pond for a summer vacation. Rod, raised in a large city, finds country ways unfamiliar yet detects human nature quickly as Henry Graves, camp owner, seeks help.
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Ben Odell
Rod Upshur
Round Pond
Rod
Murder by Two in a River Feud Unfolds
Rod Upshur pieces together a river murder in a feud between Hallams and Spencers. Jed Thomas and Punk Hallam clash as a shooting and missing boat point toward foul play. Rod hints at a concealed crime and presses for arrests amid mounting tensions.
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Jed Thomas
Rod
Upshur
Hallams
Spencers
Herm
Punk ‘Hallam
Pat Spencer
Hisself
Pat
Hallam Farm
Punk
Jed
Thomas
Es peranto and Liberty Bonds in WWI clues
Pattern No 5932 describes hot-iron transfer for four alphabets and stitch 3. Es peranto question asks meaning. It also notes World War II War Bonds and asks what bonds were called in World War I, answer Liberty Bonds. Mentions geographic gap “Between Martinique and Puerto Rico.”
Crossword Puzzle Clue List From A Single Page
A compact word puzzle page lists crossword clues for across and down entries including 5 valley poet 9 donkey 10 musical drama 12 rage 13 attendant spirits Rom Rel 14 fuel 15 water French 17 thrice mus 18 pals 20 an awn 23 border 27 pressure marks 28 town announcer 29 native of Denmark 30 huts 31 lift 33 viper 36 club 37 distress signal 40 mount 42 open boat Eskimo 44 conical tent 45 like malt 46 covered with dew 47 God of Jove Gr myth down clues include goddess moon Rom myth 2 units of worl 3 part of to be 4 woods 5 fashion 6 simian 7 furnished temporarily 8 one of the Great Lakes 9 paper container 11 ventilate 16 exclamation 18 flower 19 courage 20 say further 21 narrow inlet geal 22 tavern 24 perish 25 jellylike substance 26 bitter vetch 28 a period dress 30 crested 35 conduit hawk parrot 37 fodder vat 32 monastery 38 cereal 33 division grains of a play 39 firmament 34 vehicle 41 gull Eur 43 disfigure
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Denmark
Great Lakes
Geal
Also Mentioned on This Page
HY. Phillips
Hitler
Vishinsky
Elmer
Thaddeus
Ala Z. Boogie
Truman
John L. Lewis
Olympia
Churchill Downs
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Journal of Commerce
Washington
Christ
Thonks Head
Grace Aol
Gtages
Inez Gerhard
Sandy Becker
Cathy Downs
Allied Artists
Massacre River
Fiction
Henry Graves
Punk Hallam
Spencer
Punk Halam
Itluste
Bao
Lindbergh
Paris
Leeward Islands
St Louis
Liberty Bonds
Martinique
Puerto Rico
Wother
U. S
Simian
Poe
Pussle
Iserign
Prince Albert
Ile and
Floyd Mercer
P.A
J. L. Richerson
IH. J. Reypolds Tobacco Company, Winstop-Balem
N.C
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