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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1949
Page
9
In a classroom an instructor posed a riddle about a dish with four legs painted white that rolls on casters. The class is stunned until the lowest scoring student answers 44, then adds a line about a brother aged 22 being half crazy, prompting surprised acknowledgment from the instructor.
During the war a man named Bulb skatcher urged conservation. He had his wife save fats from cooking and he collected waste paper and flattened tin cans. He also saved dead electric light bulbs to reuse during blackouts, explaining it would make good bulbs last longer.
A man objecting to a cemetery fence contribution dismisses the plan as a waste of money. He jokes that no visitor would enter and that the fence would melt if sinners arose, reflecting weary humor about funeral grounds and budget concerns.
Milk yield increases 10 to 25 percent with three daily milkings. The largest U.S. crop is corn. Sheep have tails down while goats’ tails point up. Finger pinprick is felt after about a hundredth of a second. Weather generally moves west to east in temperate zones.
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