Detroit War Department switchboard installed at Union Guardian Building
Michigan Bell completes the largest initial telephone switchboard installation in Michigan for the U S War Department Ordnance Tank and Automotive Center in Detroit. The 8 position board handles 800 lines and 180 trunks with 3 434 pair cable and 50 000 feet of switchboard cable. Final expansion to 24 positions and 2 200 lines will surpass the Ford River Rouge plant.
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Michigan
Union Guardian
Detroit
War
Department
Ordnance Tank and ‘Automotive Center
Michigan Bell Telephone Company
Army
Bell System
Michigan Bell
Western Electric Company
Chicago
Western Electric
Army Center
Ford
Conservation Week Stamps Promoted by Michigan Clubs
Michigan United Conservation Clubs and 185 affiliated groups announce Conservation Week stamps depicting outdoors scenes to fund local and statewide conservation projects. The Rod and Gun Club handles local distribution with revenue split between local clubs and statewide efforts. Stamps, priced twenty five cents per sheet of twenty four, will be sold at Clare county businesses.
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Michigan United Conservation Clubs
Michigan
Lake Michigan
Rod and Gun Club
Clare County
Clare Chamber Plans Autumn Program In Wartime Economy
The Clare Chamber of Commerce announces an autumn program with a one year membership covering 1942 and 1943 to save costs during the war effort. Directors, including an acting leader in O. D. Bayes absence, urge renewed support to maintain the home front. The next meeting is Tuesday evening October 20 with Clare Public Schools teachers as guests, in charge of Chester Richard and Austin Bates.
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Post Office Department
Army Postal Service
War Department
United States
Army
A.P.O
Continental United States
O. D. Bayes
Chamber
Gyp
Chamber of Commerce
Clare Public
Chester Richard
Austin Bates
Pantothenic acid linked to delaying gray hair in rats
Nutrition researchers report diet influences hair color in rats. Pantothenic acid from foods like liver eggs molasses peanuts and whole grains may prevent black hair from turning gray and slow salt and pepper graying, though it does not stop aging to reddish brown.
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University of Illinois College of Agriculture
Pigs Routed by Signal Corps Phone Line Prank
Nicholas Scalera mess sergeant in a signal corps construction company near Lecompte Louisiana used a field telephone line rigged at pig nose height to shock roaming intruder pigs. Whenever pigs appeared a KP cranked the line and delivered a stinging jolt that drove them away.
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Nicholas Scalera
Signal Corps
Lecompte
Scalera
Transportation of Explosives by Railroads
A railroad association notes that in recent years U S and Canadian railroads carried billions of pounds of dynamite black powder and other dangerous explosives without any loss of life highlighting safety records across North American lines.
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United States
Canada
Newspapers join forces to avert scrap shortage
The Michigan Council of Defense launches a statewide Neighborhood War Clubs plan to mobilize every household in war work including salvage nutrition consumer information and war stamp sales. Lt. Col. Harold A. Furlong says the program will enable every person to do a real job in winning the war and ensure neighborhood level execution.
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Michigan Council of Defense
USDA
Michigan
Harold A. Furlong
Council
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U.S. Treasury Dept
WSS
Sentinel
The
Clare Sentinel
WAR Dept
Bell Telephone Co
Clare Chamber Commerce
Houghton Drug Store
Sternaman Studio
Hougi
Clare
North Star Grocery Company
Libbys
EACO
Dot
Farmer Peet’s
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