Are you superstitious or not in survey of beliefs
Read readers share views on luck and superstition. Mrs Bernie Howell says she is superstitious yet cautious. Roy Simmons denies luck beliefs and ladders. Nancy Caldwell enjoys four leaf clovers but doubts talismans. W A Gray sees fate governed by a higher power. Mrs DP Killion calls superstition folklore yet notes danger in ladders and broken mirrors.
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Hal Martin
Bernie Howell
West Thirteenth
Roy Simmons
Florida
Nancy Caldwell
Ong
W. A. Gray
DP. A. Killion
Harrison
Married Hired Farm Hands Want To Operate Own Places
Iowa State College survey shows most married hired men wish to farm for themselves. In 1940 over half of Iowa’s 20,000 hired hands were married and the number has since grown. Hired men feel they cannot save enough to start alone, despite high wages. Separately, legal notice from Potter County Texas commands appearance for final settlement of the estate of Mardis E. H. Dollar with publication requirements for August 1948.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College
Robert Rohner
Iowa State
Rohner
State OF Texas
Potter County
Elienor Suse Ann Dollar
Mardis E. H. Dollar
Potter
Texas
Amarillo
Loren Jones
Blanche Calhoun
W. M. Adams
J. P. LeNeveu
Goodness Time Does Fly Up and Down
A brief note observes the rapid passage of time with playful exclamations about time flying. The fragment hints at a cultural or poetic aside without clear context or identifiable entities.
B-29 Flies Low Over San Antonio Street Scene
Carl F. Flagg a civilian photographer at Fort Sam Houston recalls youngsters playing outside his home as a huge B 29 bomber roared overhead and a dilapidated model T Ford rumbled by. The amazed children kept their eyes on the road and did not look up.
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San Antonio
Tex
Carl F. Flagg
Fort Sam Houston
Tunnels Turned Into Mushroom Farms at Kellogg Venture
Merced, California. C. C. Kellogg bought 16 miles of abandoned Yosemite Valley railroad including four concrete tunnels. He converted them into mushroom farms with 24 foot high vaulted spaces and interior temperatures of 58 to 60 degrees. Trays line the tunnel floor and will rise in banked levels as production grows. Humidity is maintained by underground water seepage.
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Merced
Cal
U.P
C. C. Kellogg
Yosemite Valley
Kellogg
Mushroom Tunnel Farms
Pig Inn Squabble Over Permit For Grand Avenue Cafe
Neighbors again protest Ernest Thrasher beer permit for the Grand Avenue cafe at 1107 Grand. Hearings mark the sixth court session on the case, tracing back to Willard Innes operations and earlier protests over disorderly conduct and nuisance.
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Ernest Thrasher
Dhes Et
Willard Innes
Bottle Type Feeding Trials Hit Calves In Two Cities
In Mexico City Emilio Checa tested a milk feeding system using a mechanical nipple at udder height for calves. About 200 farmers report better development versus natural nursing. In Fergus Falls Minnesota Dr. H J Larson promotes bottle babies to save money and reduce disease while improving productivity.
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Fergus Falls
Minn
Otter Tail County
H. J. Larson
Larson
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Clarence Hodges
North Cedar
Borger
108Th District Court
W E. Gee
Gee
Mca’ Cer, Okla
Indian Territory
California
Detroit
Mary Wanley
Mexico City
Emilio Checa
Telefonos de Mexico
Ceylon
Chile
Cary Grant
Myrna Loy
Melvyn Douglas
Paramount Theater
Blandin S
Lede
Osborne
Aviatrix Club
N. Fillmore
Rip" Ramsey
N. E
Ar Ua Uuea
KEDA
Tri-State
American Broadcasting CO
KFDA
Martin Agronsky
Hollywood
The
Lone Ranger
Meador Lowrey
United Press News Wire
West
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