Record corn crop in Pennsylvania tops 104 million bushels
Harrisburg reports the 1949 Pennsylvania corn crop at about 89,199,000 bushels, with a national record crop boosting grain prices trends. Wheat and oats forecasts rise, rye and barley also up, driven by a 5 percent rise in acreage and hybrid seed use. Costs of farm inputs may offset price declines despite strong yields.
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Harrisburg
Estia
State Department of Agriculture
Miles’ Horst
Agriculure
Pennsylvania
Horst
Indiantown Gap Range Barred for Six Weeks to Motorists
Brig. Gen. Frank A. Weber announced that motorists and residents must not enter the artillery range area at Indiantown Gap military reservation for the next six weeks due to firing hazards. The area is posted with trespass penalties. main routes Route 343 and 443 remain open but crossing barricades is prohibited.
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Harrisburg
Indiantown Gap Military Reservation
Frank A. Weber
Nok
Artillery Range
Blue Mountain Range
Manadx Range
Leveas
Fom Iere
State VFW Drives to Register Every Veteran Voter
Pennsylvania Veterans of Foreign Wars opened a drive to make every veteran a voter as thousands of World War II veterans reach voting age. State Commander Hartman said the campaign, mandated by the Encampment, will have 800 local posts name registration committees to register members and eligible family members. Local committees report after September 11 regardless of politics.
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Inburg
Pennsylvania
Veterans of Foreign Wars
JH. V. Hariman
V.W
V.F.W
Pittsburgh
Hartman
Tne
Gaa
Steel price rise lifts average 16.2 percent in a month
The Iron Age reports steel prices 16.2 percent higher than a month ago, 32 percent above last year, and 69.2 percent over 1929. It notes nonuniform increases amid a shift to F.O.B. mill pricing, predicting wide regional price variation and higher household item costs due to freight.
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Associated Press
New York
National Metalworking Weekly
No Change in Baby After Lourdes Visit
Pittsburgh July 28 A Giosonia mother returns from France with her 10 month old blind daughter Karen after a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. No change in the baby’s condition, but the mother Mrs Ruth Woods praises the Lourdes week as wonderful and calls Karen a real trouper.
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Pittsburgh
France
Our Lady of Lourdes
Ruth Woods
Lourdes
Karen
Free 15¢ Tooth Powder Offer from Wid noon Co
Advertises Brodhead dental plate powders claiming wearers sleep with teeth in tight and offering a tasteless powder free sample, 15 cents value, to prove it. Requests name and address on a penny postcard to Wid noon Co Keystone Building Kittanning PA Dept 4. Sold at drug stores nationwide.
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Brodhead
Widnoon Co
Keystone
Kittanning
Dept
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