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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1948
Page
5
Yardlights rank as highly useful on farms providing light for chores at dawn and dusk and deterring intruders. Strategic switches in house barn milk house and garage ease use. Traditional three or four wire switches cost more for long runs while newer relay controls offer 115 volt or low voltage options, sometimes as a one wire system.
The American Iron and Steel Institute reports major expansions in steel ingot and blast furnace capacity will add nearly five million tons by 1949. U.S. ingot capacity has risen to 94,233,640 tons, with about two million more planned this year and next. Coke ovens and finished-product capacity for sheet, strip, and tubular steel also rise to meet strong demand.
Biographical note outlines Benjamin Franklin’s early self education in swimming from Thevenot’s strokes, his lifelong delight in the sport, and his role as an early proponent of athletics in American schooling.
Agents establish a foreign fur operation in Buenos Aires with Canadian beavers and mink shipments. A breeding program aims to create a colony in Argentina, expecting eventual arrival of 2,000 kin to supply fashionable furs for Buenos Aires clientele.
South Dakota spans 76 000 square miles with 700 square miles of water and is larger than all New England. The Black Hills host lakes and camping sites. Mount Rushmore features busts of Washington Jefferson Lincoln and Roosevelt carved into the granite face.
The text notes a rising role for paper in industry and households. Functional papers are adapted for packaging frozen and dried foods, textiles, and even replacing belt materials in factories. Custom papers resist water, chemicals, heat and sunlight, and are overproof, airtight, odorless, and non toxic.
County Agent reports the Caroline County Farm Bureau picnic will run Friday July 23 from 10 a.m. to about 4 p.m. The 4-H dairy call show occurs 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Judge Dr. Gordon Cairns will preside. Afternoon events include entertainment and beauty judging starting at 1 p.m. Families are urged to bring lunch and swim gear.
The Chesapeake Bay Ferry System lists daily and Sunday bus connections with ferry service between Romancoke and Claiborne for vehicles. Boats depart at 7:40 7:00 and 9:40 9:00 and continue at intervals through 7:40 PM 7:00 PM, with all Claiborne departures linking to Matapeake an hour later. Connections arranged via Red Star Motor Coaches, with links to Baltimore, Annapolis, and Washington operators.
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