Non-productive Time Shaped by WPA Legacy Seen in Gas Main Job
The author notes pick and shovel workers on a gas main lay in Chicago wasted more than half of paid time. He argues non-productive hours raise production costs, echoing WPA-era habits and linking time waste to higher prices for the public. He also cites farm groups pushing flexible price controls to curb rigid parity.
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Patterson
WPA
Chicago
Park Avenue
New York City
Let Bedroom of Youngsters Reflect Hobbies and Interests
A guide on designing a child’s bedroom to mirror hobbies and interests. Emphasizes letting the child help decide decor, including activities like model building, biology, and art, with sturdy furnishings and durable fabrics to suit boys’ rooms.
Design Your Childs Room For Neatness And Space
The article offers practical tips for children rooms including heavy oilcloth dressers shelves built in for toys drawers or a closet with drawers to reduce clutter. It suggests double decker beds for multiple children, bulletin boards for reminders, and choosing bed coverings and color schemes to balance tailoring with a girlish touch while maintaining easy upkeep.
Divorce Tragedy Echoes in a Minneapolis Letter
A reader from Minneapolis laments the costs of divorce and the pain of postmarital friendships. The writer recalls youthful neglect, financial strain, and mental cruelty leading to separation, alimony disputes, and a clash of new partners as a child’s life is affected. The piece concludes with advice to avoid renewed friendship and to seek personal growth and new love.
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Donna Wilson
Minneapolis
Len
Deborah
Deb
Helena
Mother
Be Smart Fashion Riddle on Strapped Slippers
The piece explains a clever method for securing three ankle straps on high cut slippers, letting them look like a simple fashion whim while functioning as a practical pair. It notes removing anklets as easily as bracelets and likens the style to dainty dress pumps and anklet slippers in one pair.
Vows Remain Strong So Couple Remarries
MEMPHIS. Pearl Stovall and J A Kelly renewed their vows after 55 years of marriage. The Kelleys first wed 55 years ago on Christmas Eve in Pleasant Grove Mississippi. The old ring wore thin by 1948, so they remarried with a new band.
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Memphis
Pearl Stovall
J. A. Kelly
Kelleys
Pleasant Grove
Miss
Sewing Circle Patterns Spring and Summer Fashion Ad
Practical house dress pattern No 8194 offered in multiple sizes with trimming and pockets optional. Includes details on yardage for Size 38 and requests for a Spring and Summer Fashion copy. Also promotes Pattern No 1760 for junior sizes with simple construction and waist inset for a nipped look.
Tricky Trivia Challenge From Historic Puzzler
Questions explore U.S. presidents piano and bicycle riddle drownings in America grampus location MLB attendance 1948 Jewish state history and cabinet loyalty across a full term. The item poses seven pointed inquiries drawing on politics culture and history.
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United States
Israel
Holy Land
Quiz on Homes Taj Mahal and Awl Answer Key
This item poses quick factual questions about housing output, the Taj Mahal's era, and the occupation of a person using an awl. It asks how many homes are built hourly, the century of construction for the Taj Mahal, and the profession indicated by using an awl.
Not Too Salty but Plenty of Salt
The article explains the ocean holds about 3 to 4 parts salt per hundred, with roughly 2.7 percent ordinary salt. Using 145 million square miles of world water, total salt is about 45.5 trillion tons. If seas dried up, salt beds would lay about 200 yards thick, enough to cover Europe with a 4 to 5 mile salt layer.
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Europe
Notable Figures And Facts From History Quiz Pack
A list presenting items including Ulysses S. Grant, pedal topics, a figure of about 7 000, a killer whale in the sea, a total over 20 872 000, a note on Rome’s destruction in 70 A D, Franklin Pierce, an estimated 550, a reference to the 17th century 1629 50, and a shoemaker as an occupation.
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Ulysses S. Grant
Jerusalem
Franklin Pierce
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