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Newspaper
Coronado Compass
Location
Coronado, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1947
Page
6
John van Guilder discusses how including a person in scenic images can provide scale for rough dimensions, as in photomicrographs of cast iron and dramatic falls. He advises using figures wisely, facing toward the scene’s center, and avoiding placing people too close to the camera to keep the view the focus.
A list of U S state names in order from 1 Oregon to 48 Minnesota with occasional misspellings and spacing errors. The sequence includes all states from Oregon through Minnesota, intended as a quiz answer set.
Coronado falls to second place in the Inter-City Traffic Safety Contest as National City rises to first after a pedestrian death last week. La Mesa records no deaths or injuries for four weeks while El Cajon and Chula Vista have none for three weeks. Chula Vista moves from seventh to sixth and Oceanside from sixth to fifth as San Diego stays fourth with one death and 32 injuries in the week. INTER CITY CONTEST STANDING Jan 1 1947 to Apr 15 1947.
A Coronado businessman returns to his office to find a secretary’s note confessing a light house cleaning. The message boasts tossing junk from filing cabinets and desk areas while the boss was away, promising a tidier appearance for a few days.
An excerpt from a Southern Pacific Train Primer outlining railroad slang. It defines terms such as hog and hogger for locomotive and engineer, highball for a clear track signal, reefer for a refrigerator car, and deadhead for a rider on a pass, among others.
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