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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1944
Page
8
In Brooklyn Naval Clothing Depot portable cages in elevators handle banking on pay days. Tellers cash checks and receive deposits while moving between floors. Nearby navy yard tellers operate from movable crane carried offices serving workers at various banking locations.
An article promotes turning worn woolens into hooked rugs with designs matching home decor. It describes a square rug for a dressing table corner and a rose border motif inspired by a chints skirt and window valance. It notes a Book 10 with further rug patterns and asks for 15 cents to obtain a copy.
The text notes that Modern Italy's area is only slightly larger than Nevada's, highlighting a compact national size in comparison to its population and urban footprint.
A Philadelphia milk producer extols ALL-BRAN as a gentle regulating food for constipation. The testimonial claims long-standing issues eased after two weeks, urging customers to try Kellogg's ALL-BRAN made in Battle Creek.
The article urges civilian self help in gas attacks, stressing calm, retreat to a sealed house, upper-floor shelter, removal of outer garments, and thorough washing. It notes physicians need not treat exposed individuals unless injuries occur, and advises seeking medical help for persistent cough, breathing issues, or loss of taste for cigarettes.
Precautions for house plant growth include washing leaves to remove dust so light and air reach leaf pores. Some plants with downy leaves like Saint Paulia and primroses should be brushed, not watered. Avoid drafts and overwatering while keeping air moist with vapor pans, damp peat, or gravel troughs with water, ensuring pots don’t sit in water.
The article explains delaying harvests to ripen beans for dry storage, using ripe cucumbers for pickles, frying green tomatoes if late, and drying or salting vegetables for winter meals. It notes salted corn and beans, and dried corn and beans, as ways to diversify winter dishes and flavors from garden produce.
The Nicaraguan economy relies on rubber and mahogany with about 3000 workers harvesting wild rubber in the Coco river lowlands northeast. Hurricanes in 1941 and a banana blight devastated Coco river country once a major banana source, and war disrupted steamer shipping that sustained growers.
A wry exchange frames a man who drives a car as Dad when near, but a pedestrian by distance, illustrating a playful glimpse of neighborly behavior and pronoun SHIFT in a casual remark.
A century ago on July 4 1838 two men spaded the start of a canal railroad rivalry. Adams broke ground for the Chesapeake and Ohio canal while Carroll began the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, shaping traffic trends into the 1850s. World War I briefly revived canals, but postwar motor transport diminished their role as railroads and highways expanded. Currently wartime demands boost canal use again amid fuel shortages and stretched road networks.
The King George estate at Sandringham Norfolk converted nearly a thousand acres to farmland during a strong season. The golf course was turned to oats and front lawn to rye while beets and parsnips replaced flowers. Potatoes reached 12 tons per acre and wheat 60 to 70 bushels per acre.
An impartial Bureau of Labor Statistics analysis shows average weekly wages in manufacturing rose 82.4 percent from August 1939 to June 1943 while living costs climbed under 27 percent. Over two years, average weekly earnings rose about 54 percent from $28.08 in April 1941 to $43.35 in June 1943, with hours per week up 13.5 percent from 40.0 to 45.2.
The term Creole has long signified offspring of mixed origins in the West Indies and Spanish parents, with regional shifts in meaning. In Louisiane it refers to French speaking inhabitants of French and Spanish origin, in Mexico to whites of pure Spanish descent, and in Alaska to the child of a Russian father and an Eskimo mother. A persistent but incorrect belief links it to fear of miscegenation.
Practical household hints on scrapbooks clotheslines pins and shoe removal aids. Advice covers making a green hinged box for pins, a jar or can for fat recycling, ironing guidance for bedspreads and fabrics, and simple mop and bootjack tweaks. Includes numeric weights and a tip to wash onions odor from hands with cold water.
A Cockney and an American walk at night when an owl hoots. The Cockney mishears the call as a person and questions who the owl is. The American explains it is simply an owl, and the Cockney insists he knows what an owl is while wondering who owling.
An eye study notes that after an hour in the dark a person may exhibit pupils expanding to 120 times their size under full sunlight, as the eye adjusts to low light conditions.
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