Antelope Herd Gets Second Chance in Mono County
California fish and game completes trap and transplant of 30 antelope from Lassen to Benton Meadows in Mono county. The 230 mile Nevada truck journey delivered animals in good condition with two destined for Sacramento zoo and others dispersed to improve habitat amid past losses from development.
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Mono County
California
Division of Fish and Game
Lassen County
Nevada
Benton Meadows
Susanville
City of
Sacramento
Bert F. Knowles
Pittman - Robertson
High Sierra
Tanning Industry Foresees Exceptionally Busy Year
The piece forecasts a busy year for tanning with Americans buying about 485 million pairs of shoes in 1950 and requiring 5.5 million prime cattle hides plus horsehides for leather soles. It traces tanning from ancient times to modern improvements and notes wide global inequalities in shoe affordability, while stating Americans will purchase over three pairs per person this year.
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United States
Reducing weight by cycling beats long walks
A short bike ride can replace seven miles of walking to shed a pound faster. Cycling tones leg muscles, firms and shapes them, countering the belief that exercise makes legs bulky. European cyclists are cited as examples of shapely ankles and calves.
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Europe
Night Safter Beacons Glow With Bottled Sunlight
Traffic safety markers are forecast to use bottled sunlight to glow after sundown. These efficient phosphorescent road markers and paving blocks would be charged by light and then illuminate for several hours, acting as storage batteries of light for nighttime safety.
Banana storage and ripening temperatures
The text explains bananas suffer from refrigeration while noting 57 F as ideal to start ripening and about 60 F as best for ripening, with most fridges at 35 to 38 F too cold for storing bananas.
A Tiger With Big Teeth on Socialism and Heartened Voters
Morley Cassidy of the Philadelphia Bulletin surveys Australia and New Zealand where voters ousted socialist governments in favor of free enterprise and competition. He cites voter fear of nationalization and quotes J. F. Williams of The Melbourne Herald describing socialization as a tiger with big teeth. The piece contrasts Britain’s Labour program with U S concerns and warns of a Federal socialization push at home, urging appreciation of freedom and work for purpose.
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Morely Cassidy
Philadelphia Bulletin
Australia
New Zealand
J. F. Wiliams
The
Melbourne Herald
Britain
Labor Party
Morley Cassidy
Gems of Thought: Labor and Joy in Work
A compilation of quotations emphasizing labor as the source of blessings and joy in work. Mary Baker Eddy praises blessing through effort while Phillips Brooks links joy to engaging in one’s tasks. The fragment alludes to a man who does not work, suggesting a critique of idleness.
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Phillips Brooks
Lincoln Memorial Fluted Columns Represent Union States
The Lincoln Memorial features 36 fluted columns symbolizing the states that existed when President Lincoln died. This architectural detail highlights the Union’s composition during his era and its commemorative purpose in the monument.
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States of the Union
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Charles M. Schwab
Journal Today
A. W. Telephone
Spiering
Greensboro
Cae
Boo
Coca-Cola Company
Easton Coca-Cola Bottling Co
Easton, Md
Coca-Cola
Mary Baker Eddy
W. T. Lockerman
Denton
Lincoln Memorial
T. A. Tobin
Chiropractor
Easton
Reem
Eastern Shore Public Service
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