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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1949
Page
8
A humorous World War II era column suggests Sen. Margaret Chase proposes a women’s peace organization to replace the UN. The piece jokes that women in charge would bring glamour, quicker peace, and a lighter world order while poking fun at male diplomats and public life.
A tribute recounts Chase Osborn Michigan governor as a devoted public servant who prioritized the people over personal ties. It cites a wartime funding example and a constitutional point about NATO treaty language and presidential war powers. The writer recalls Osborn guiding officials to serve the public good.
Poetic meditation on sleepless scars and the solace of sleep and stars. The speaker reflects that those who endure wakefulness know sleep's sweetness, while eyes that have looked long at stars grasp night’s secret. God preserves night to guide the earth as people rest.
IM and Marian Jordan started with a $10 bet and a Chicago radio audition at WIBO. Five months later they became Fibber McGee and Molly on a top radio series before returning to vaudeville. The article also notes Dr. Henry Darlington's TV appearance and Burt Lancaster's circus bid with Nick Cravat, plus Howard Duff recalling wartime and flight fears during film work.
Chief Fred Mather assigns Glen Lloyd a recon mission against a moose poaching ring in Birchill County. The rookie warden tracks a base camp, spies a truck, leaps aboard, and with Warden Loomis arrests two poachers. Mather praises Supervisor Herrick for the choice of men.
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Craft a Williamsburg style window valance to add charm to living or dining rooms. No carpentry experience or tools required. Send 25 cents for Pattern No 27 to East Bird Pattern Company in Pleasantville New York for a full size printed pattern with parts, instructions, and a materials list.
The article notes bread made from scarce supplies, including oats millet horse beans chick peas white beans sawdust lentils peas and vetch. It mentions Scotland and India drying fish into flour and even using ground young tree sawdust as bread ingredients during shortages.
Roy Sebold of Zoarville Ohio nearly lost a grain crop as weeds approached. He used Weed-No-More and saved the field by following the directions, the product claims to kill even hard to remove weeds without harming crops.
Weed No More promises safer, cheaper weed control for small grains flax pastures and grass seed crops. It claims higher grain bushels per acre and up to a 20 percent yield increase in flax with widespread 1948 spraying while not harming livestock or grasses.
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