Plastic sewing tips and honey market note collide with graveyard crash
Home extension column offers plastic fabric handling guidance and Fortisan Saran curtain fabrics with cautions on shrinking and wrinkling. Honey crop outlook ahead of 1953 market, plus storage tips for extracted comb and creamed honey. An Indianapolis man teaching his wife to drive in a graveyard crashes his car into a tombstone. no fatalities, vehicle in pieces.
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Fortisan
Saran
Michigan State College
Fortison
Florence Ranh
Ykor
Indianapolis
Tombstone
Rising Food Prices Shrink Farmer's Share of Grocery Dollar
An agricultural economist notes farmers now receive about 44 percent of the retail food dollar, down from 52 percent in 1946, as costs rise along the supply chain. He cites higher wages, processing profits, and freight rates as key factors in persistent price hikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. T. Hartwig
Michigan State College
Hartwig
Syccér
Federal Trade Commission
Planning Better Motels and Vacation Accommodations
Free bulletins R-302 and R-304 from P. D. Gibson, Extension Agent, offer planning guidance for motels and resorts. The guides cover site selection, layouts, room design, sound control, insulation, parking, and seasonal expansion, with examples for American and European resort plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. D. Gibson
Harrison
Dc. A. Gunn
Department of Land and Water Conservation
Michigan State College
East Lansing
Isabella County 4-H News Enrollment and Club Updates
Isabella 4-H news reports Vernon Center 4-H Club enrollment for winter projects including handicraft electrical and clothing. Officers are Larry Strange president Dave Smith vice president Beverly Furnam secretary Tommy Smith treasurer. Members urged to complete summer project reports by October 26 for credit and to organize winter clubs in communities with five or more interested members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernon Center
4-H Club
Pearl Fetters
Leona Crowdet
Ciffiicers
Larry Strange
Dave Smith
Beverly Furnam
Tommy Smith
Sarne
TV Actress Reuses Nylons To Create Boudoir Lamp Shade
Daphne Dore demonstrates transforming worn nylon stockings into a boudoir lamp shade using fabric dyes and simple needlework. Other re dyed nylons become head scarves pin curl concealers pot holders artificial flowers corsages sachets and small dolls dresses for crafting in 1954. Ruth M Hall plans a book Teen Craft for Girls detailing these projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daphne Dore
Ruth M. Hall
Elmhurst
Local Observations and Farm Field Runoff Results
A reader notes scenery along US 27 near James Hill and reports on Kenneth Rockey’s tiling plans for poorly drained low ground. It covers Leelanan run off plots on Emmet sandy loam with 7 percent slope, showing corn losses up to 15.89 tons per acre downslope and smaller losses across the slope, plus alfalfa-brome meadow losses and implications for crop rotation effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Hill
Ohio
Kenneth Rockey
Kenneth
Kasmis
Krawczynski
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Department of Information Services
East
Landing
Business & Professional Directory
McEwan St
Clare, Mich
K. Hammerberg
Mid
Clark, Michigan
Royal Akins
Hast City
Clare
Michigan
Gaimérac
Clare Phone
H. J. Ballard
Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery
R. Clare
Mich
DR. C.B. Neff
Fifth St
City Hall
Bob Kremer
Central Life ‘Insurance Co
Des Moines
Iowa
Midland, Michigan
Hospital Accident and ‘Health
ML Pleasant
Paul Marsh
Clare Clinic
W. Fifth St
E. J. Gershon
Gershon
Osteopathic Physicians
R. H. Strange
M. D
Offich Agurs
Collen
Dr.n. B. Stirling
Clare, Michigan
DR. G. C. Born
West
Fifth Street
DR. H. A. Bugbee
Optometrist
W. 6Th Stroet
D. A. Jondrow
Optometrists
Hyes
Offich
Clarh
White
Isabella
Robert Acker
Isabella County
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Deane Meredith
Clare County
C Fm
Northland
Ford
McEwan
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