The Piggly Wiggly store system and its origins
An analysis of the Piggly Wiggly chain tracing its Memphis Tennessee roots and describing the self service format with turnstiles aisles and cashier exit. The piece notes low operating costs high volume shopping and distinctive advertising as part of the experiment in price cutting and distribution. It also comments on broader trade issues and tariff policy in the wartime era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Saunders
Piggly Wiggly System of Stores
British Magneto Industry and Bosch’s Victory
A historical view argues free trade aided a German monopoly in magnetos before the war. It credits Robert Bosch of Stuttgart with first perfecting high tension magnetos, noting British firms faced high startup costs and Bosch’s early lead. Public advertising swayed car makers to Bosch, delaying British manufacturing despite eventual improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Bosch
Stuttgart
Bosch
Bosch Company
Etini
Magnetos for war use and British industry promise
In wartime Britain CA Vandervell & Co shifted to mass producing CAV magnetos for motorcycles and later aircraft. Fast ramp up faced material shortages and rising costs as imports dwindled. Production proved the British magneto industry could meet demand, but questions remain about fair returns on capital and future competitiveness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. CA Vandervell & Co
Bosch
The Optician Up-to-Date by the Optician of the Royal Arcade
The optician department in Perth proclaims up-to-date care with modern painless methods. It stresses the use of the latest instruments and assigns no drags, promising skilled, contemporary examination for all who consult Mr. B.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Optician
Royal Arsade
Perth
Lady Curzon Hosts Charity Visit at Norfolk House
A lighthearted report recalls Lady Curzon entertaining schoolchildren at her father's Alabama home and explaining Minerva the goddess of Wisdom. The piece notes her disciplined, charitable nature and describes Norfolk House in London loaned by the Duchess of Norfolk as the Royal Club for overseas women with opening attendance by Princess Louise and Australian guests.
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Lady Curzon
Alabama
Minerva
Norfolk House
St. James’ Square
London
Duchess of Norfolk
Royal Club
Old Howard House
George Tr
Norfolk
Club
Princess Louise
More Babies Wanted in Nation’s Rhetoric of Reform
A wartime style call extols large families and female workforce participation while condemning violence. It urges medical care and education for mothers and children, framing childbearing as national investment and critiquing wasteful, bulk programs.
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Outback
Pretty and Dainty Sweat and Pickle Recipes Remain
A scanned recipe fragment lists Vegetable Marrow Pickle with onions and spices, Tomato Sauce with tomatoes apples onions garlic and vinegar, Currant Loaf with currants sultanas and baking powder, plus Mushroom Soup base from onions and celery. The text shows archaic measurements and cooking steps, truncated mid sentence.
Practical Pickled Nuts and Savory Dishes From Pantry Notes
A kitchen guide details preparing preserved walnuts in brine with spice sachets, a grape chutney from grape pulp simmered with sugar and spices, and a bacon omelette with eggs beaten and cooked atop crisp bacon. It advises soaking beans overnight, simmering with mushrooms, mashing, and finishing with red currant jelly for flavor.
Beautifying the Home through Garden Shelter and Roses
A practical guide to garden layout and plant care outlining fences for wind shelter, tree placement, even flower beds, adequate footpaths, soil replacement, and lawns to enhance beauty. It covers choosing year round flowering shrubs and roses, pruning tips, grafted plants cost, bulb handling, and watering practices for summer without leaf wetness. It also mentions a basic glass house benefit for ferns and begonias and the joy of homegrown vegetables.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Longbottom
Hugh Watson
Hugh Dickson
Belle Biebrecht
William Allen Richardson
Household Hints on Furniture Care and Cleaning
Weekly table care uses a mix of turpentine and olive oil 3 parts equal. Rub with flannel and polish with a rag. Lemon peels clean copper. Butter and augur measure assets noted for ounces. Keep lemon rind at sink for soft hands with washing.
The Perfect Carburetter Of The Future In Motor Theory
An analysis of carburettors notes that no current design achieves the ideal mixture of petrol vapour and air at all speeds. It explains variability with RPM, discusses flooding at cold starts, and surveys devices like variable jets and choke tubes, plus vaporisation aids such as hot water jackets and heavy hydrocarbons.
Shaler Roadlighter promises glare free broad road lamp
A February issue review details the Shaler Roadlighter, a new non glare automotive headlight by C. A. Shaler Co. Tests claim a moulded optical glass lens with prisms directs light downward to illuminate the road ditch to ditch while preventing rays above 42 inches, providing wide, bright illumination and reducing glare for oncoming drivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stotes
Jens
C. A. Shaler Co
Shaler
Goodyear Akron Red Cross drive tops city support
Akron workers with Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company led a four day Red Cross solicitation raising 17 865 new members and nearly 4000 in gifts. The drive reached 40 000 members citywide about 35 percent of residents, with a tight race between factory and office units and strong participation from foreign-born workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
U.S.A
Red Cross
United States
Goodyear Tyre J and Rubber’Company
Goodyear
American Red Cross
Hiad
Wingfoot
Fragmented tale springs from vague prose
A garbled passage mentions Frain Melbourne Punch, a youth buying liquor with water, an explosion, and Dakota becoming minor. It cites Omar Khayyam and a ship’s prow line, with stray items like potted ham, wine, and steering an airplane, all tangled in warped text and unclear events.
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Omar Khayyam
Donts For Car Owners From An Early Car Manual
A list of cautions for motorists warns against engine dirt and lint, driving with throttled or retarded spark, overstrained brakes, and empty or dirty radiator, with reminders to check battery, tires, lubrication, and fuel. It emphasizes avoiding sudden braking, starting with transmission in gear, keeping ignition off when idling, and never using dirty water or a single funnel for radiator and fuel.
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Imesh
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Piggly Wiggly Stores
Ilanufarturer
Sagnetos
Meyer
Basel
Germany
England
Stowe
Lee
D. Elgard Brown
Dimensions
H.T
THE
Jong
Tours
the Narrogin Trading & Agency CO. Ltd
Bunbury
Carbur
Etter
RED Cross and
Frain
Melbourne
Mai
Dakota
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