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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1949
Page
8
This economical cabinet plan suits both DIYers and carpenters. Pattern 323 promises hours saved and a tidy chrome finished top. Details adapt to needs and price is 5 cents. send to Workshop Pattern Service Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York.
The Bodleian Library at Oxford has expanded from about two thousand volumes in 1611 to more than 1.25 million volumes today. It stands as a major historical and scholarly repository with vast collections and ongoing growth.
Adorable and practical potholder shaped like an ear of corn in yellow and orange wool. Easy to knit, with green leaf trim and hanging loop. Send 20 cents, your name, address, and pattern number for complete instructions and illustrations.
The piece notes Pitt and Fordham returning to tougher schedules after years of big time outreach. It highlights Pitt under Tom Hamilton rebuilding, Yale Army and Dartmouth noted, and mentions Mike Murphy’s legacy and sons in college football. Also critiques wartime style tax shifts from union demands and their impact on consumer prices.
A Chicago sewing circle at 530 South Wells Street requests 20 cents to enclose for a pattern. The note lists only a name and address as required.
Reader asks about recurring clogged drains despite tree-rooter work. Answer notes insufficient pitch in horizontal soil pipe may cause grease and sediment buildup and slow waste flow. Re-laying pipe is a solution if true. Installing a grease trap from the kitchen sink and periodic cleaning is another remedy. clogged vent unlikely.
Chicago report shows 35,000 home accident deaths in 1948 making the home the leading fatal danger. Falls caused 18,200 deaths, burns and explosions 6,000, mechanical suffocation 1,800. Over 25 percent occur in bedrooms with the yard and kitchen following.
Chicago reports the 1949 National Safety Council yearbook Accident Facts shows 1948 traffic volume at a record high, eight percent above 1947, yet the mileage death rate fell to the lowest in history at 8.0 per 100 million vehicle miles, 30 percent below the WWI era average. Had the higher rate persisted, 14,000 more lives would have been lost.
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