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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1948
Page
9
Children form strong attachment to a toy described as a whimsical giraffe clothes tree. The article notes a full size pattern available and lists affordable lumber yard materials. Step by step directions explain cutting tracing painting and assembly to recreate the toy.
A trivia teaser asks seven questions about language, invention, and science. It covers varieties of nords, bifocal classes, word counts in English, lipstick use among teenage girls, ships damaged by postwar mines, electricity from electric eels, and daily perspiration.
A garbled listing presents figures and claims including numbers like fourteen thousand and seven hundred thousand, a Benjamin Franklin reference, a claim about teen girls using a product, a count of two hundred fifty one, and a note on an electric eel generating intermittent direct current. It ends with a weight range from 25 to 70 ounces and a hotter weather caveat.
The piece notes U S concerns over Chiang Kai-shek amid rising Communist pressure in China. Senator Connally questions Chinese leadership and U S aid strategy while Russia backs a U N mediation plan on Berlin.
The Bramuglia proposal seeks joint control of Berlin currency and calls for a neutral expert commission to resolve the Berlin currency issue. It envisions a complete lifting of the blockade once the Soviet zone mark is introduced, with Western powers debating timing and currency controls.
Deflation and inflation fight back and forth as President Truman weighs defense spending shifts. Economists note living costs eased slightly from October to November, but warn heavy military outlays could revive inflationary pressures and lift the 15 billion defense ceiling.
A pamphlet by the National Association of Real Estate Boards accuses planners and socialists of pursuing state socialism through public housing, opposing the Taft Ellender Wagner bill and signaling broader fiscal restraint. The piece argues no housing solution will emerge without more rental units, while Truman pursues limited defense spending and a reduced draft.
Physicians at the American Medical association interim session in St Louis were warned to volunteer in sufficient numbers or face a special draft. Dr James C Sargent said many doctors would join the military in coming months and that while a draft would be undesirable it may be necessary to ensure medical care for soldiers.
The United States distributed record food to the world in the last crop year ending July 1 while improving domestic nourishment. Exports totaled 19 347 000 long tons, the largest shipment by any country in a single year, surpassing the prior crop year by 187 000 tons.
The Rev. Kurt Szkalla, touring Moscow in disguise, says millions of Christians across the western Soviet Union form an underground church opposed to the Moscow Orthodox church. He cites activity along the Don and Dnieper rivers, with leaders being vigorously persecuted by Soviet authorities.
Washington Digest columnist notes Christmas 1945 1946 and 1947 memories from Nuernberg to a river trip near a palm lined coast. He cites the London conference collapse the pope's message and praising the Marshall plan as a hopeful sign of Europe’s economic cooperation under Paul Hoffman.
A town dance serves thin refreshments when a hillbilly belle jokes about filling the program. A lone wayfarer is attacked by three assailants but fends them off. a police officer notes the scuffle, and the hero jokes that his fight was a railway porter’s skill, not ju jitsu.
Christmas shoppers can streamline gifting by selecting Camels cigarettes and Prince Albert tobacco from a local dealer. Ready wrapped in holiday style with space for a personal greeting, these popular gifts save time this season.
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