New bonded ethyl alcohol from crude oil shocks Shell
Houston based Shell Oil chemists have distilled ethyl alcohol from crude petroleum and will bond the plant, pipelines, storage, and tanker holds at $17.18 per gallon. The 48 million gallons yearly will be denatured and sent to Sewaren New Jersey for industrial use in paints, cement, antifreeze and related products. Government revenue agents will monitor every drop to protect tax money.
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Houston, Tex
NEA
Shell Oil Co
Sewaren
N. J
Living In The Past Brings Nostalgic Radio Nights
Mintz hosts But Not Forgotten on Station WENR offering nostalgia filled with old tunes and bygone shows. He recalls Tea For Two from No No Nanette and mentions Sophie Tucker, the Duncan Sisters, and Isham Jones. He began in radio at Northwestern and rose after a studio mishap sparked a memories market.
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Louise Groody
Charles Winninger
Isham Jones
Ted Lewis
Sophie Tucker
Duncan Sisters
Topsy
Eva
Mintz
Mints
KYW
Coon- Sanders
Kansas City
Nighthawks
Graham McNamee
Billy Jones
Ernie Hare
Rose Marie
the Woods Theater
the Colonial
WENR
Poultry buyers duped by roosters sold as pullets in Houston
Suburban poultry growers report receiving roosters instead of pullets from a city salesman. Four buyers learned the error about a month after purchase, noting the price gap between cheap cockerels and proper pullets. Mrs. L. P. Kirby describes her experience and warns others.
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Houston
Tex
Fragmentary note on profit and eggs
A partial line mentions starting profit and moving from eggs in a terse, unclear context. No further details or names are readable to establish a fuller event or person.
Pied Piper's Fay-4 Providence R I appoints pest chief
John R. West is appointed to a 1908 annual rate as the rodent exterminator for Providence. The city announces the appointment as part of a structured effort to tackle pest control.
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Providence
John R. West
Industrial alcohol supply from cracked TM crude petroleum
The text discusses extracting ethylene gas from TM crude petroleum to produce gasoline and the challenge of combining gas and water cheaply for sale. It notes the process as an industrial secret and disputes Monkhouse on alcohol from grain or sugar, predicting rising industrial alcohol consumption and ongoing demand for a new supply.
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Monkhouse
Relief rolls grow as savings dwindle nationwide
Chicago report in Public Welfare notes relief rolls lengthening due to inflation raising living costs from 127 in 1945 to over 150. Marginal income families exhaust savings for daily expenses, the Mutazine adds.
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Chicago
Public Welfare
The
American Public Welfare Association
Club 72 formed by 6 foot tall Cleveland woman
Miss Ann Pota says the Skyscraper Club has folded and she launched Club 72 for six footers or taller, unmarried, no divorced veterans. Members must be 72 inches or taller, with dancers or gatherings every two weeks to stay connected. Pota is 74 inches in heels. Legion Auxiliary hits 806,640 members, a new national record set March 13, surpassing 1946 high.
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Cleveland Pi
Ann Pota
Skyscraper Club
Club 72
Pota
Legion Auxiliary
Indianapolis
American Legion Auxiliary
TOU
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