Nemaha County Faces War Driven Rural Shakeup in Kansas
Nemaha County Kansas ships light on population as farms shrink and mechanization grows. Corn output rises with more cornpickers and tractors. farm numbers fall from 2,187 in 1940 to 1,830 by 1945. Land values soar from 50 to 80 to 140 per acre and savings surge while rural schools close and labor shifts to city towns.
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Bob Smith
Seneca
Kansas
Nemaha
Namaha
P. A. Wempe
Kansas Board of Agriculture
Wem
Cecil Gruetz
County Agricultural Adjustment Agency
Edgar Campbell
Wetmore
Wembe
Wempe
Nemaha County
Milk Mixture For Stomach Ulcers Promoted
A claimed medical discovery recommends Laurin as a stomach ulcer remedy. The ad says the mixture eases pains almost immediately and helps gas, indigestion, and heartburn from hyperacidity. Sold by Mann's and drug stores with money back guarantee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae
Annechee
Lurin
Costa
Mann's
Too Young To Know Opens At Center Theater
This bright new comedy romance stars Joan Leslie and Robert Hutton. It follows a youthful couple’s whirlwind courtship and elopement, adapting Harlan Ware’s Saturday Evening Post serial to chart their education in love and the unexpected challenges after marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cente Theatre
Hollywood Canteen
Joan Leslie
Robert Hutton
Harlan Ware
Saturda Evening Post
Joan Lesiie
The
Center Theatre
Dolores Moran
Rosemary DeCamp
Harry Davenport
Thomasville Company Is Given Charter
Eleven certificates filed in Raleigh authorize varied ventures from Monleigh Garment Company of Thomasville a clothing store with 100000 authorized stock and 300 subscribed by local residents to other firms including Music and Sports Inc of Goldsboro, Dowdy Furniture of New Bern, and Craven Realty Co. of Greensboro with multiple owner names and capital details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Monleigh Garment Company
Thomasville
Stoc
Co. A. Blackwelder
Ruby Blackwelder
Andrew Peklo
Music and Sports Inc
Goldsboro
R.M.D. Freeman
J.T. Johnson
W. E. Bryan
Greenville
J. B. Webb, Jr
C. W. Harrye, Jr
E. H. Taft
Dowdy Furniture Company of
New Bern
F. Dowdy, Sr
W. F. Dowdy
Georgia K. Dowdy
New Eee Development Company
Benson
Karl Idoeseph
J. Roscoe Barefoot
Phae
Benson, Larose, Inc
Greensboro
Saal
Pinehurst
A. B. Sally
Ira N. Sally
Herbert W. Ehrhardt, Jr
Lamers S. Ehrhardt
Pineurst
Craven Realty Co
E. F. Craven
F. Duval Craven
E. Asbury
Legs Of Grable Hidden In New Film
Betty Grable says her legs will be hidden in the period piece The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and denies drama plans. She jokes about aging, praises staying in light fare, and notes future plans with husband Harry James and their daughter. Bing Crosby and Kraft feud details surface as sponsor sues over radio services. Clarence Haley returns to Point as sales manager for H G Tider ton Inc.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
Betty Grable
Betty
Miss Pilgrim
Harry James
Santa Anita
Bing
Music Hall
Mutual
Clarence W. Haley
Point
H. G. Tiderton, Inc
Dodge
Plymouth
High Point
Mr. Haley
Armed Forces
Marine Corps
Sumter
S. C
Haley
H. G. Ilderton, Inc
Adv
NAM President Views Role At Peoples Champion
Robert Ross Wason, newly elected president of the National Association of Manufacturers NAM, speaks in his first interview about becoming a public spokesman for industry. He argues for a balanced economy reducing government distortions and urges transparent corporate figures to show where dollars go. Wason, born 1888 in Ashtabula Ohio, rose from grocery clerk to industry leader and NAM chairman of a postwar conference forum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Robert Ross Wason
Wason
National Association of Manufacturers
Nam
Ees
France
Ashtabula
Ohio
Northern Ireland
Lake Erie
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Manning, Maxwell & Moore
Bridgeport
Tulsa
Oklo
America
Phone Industry Plans Billion Dollar Postwar Equipment Push
Robbins Tilden states the nation’s telephone industry will spend over a billion dollars for equipment and supplies in the near future to improve service. An additional billion is expected for construction and maintenance within a few years as wartime restrictions ease. Demand remains high with over two million applications unfilled after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robbins Tilden
Local Telephone Company
Philippine Island Count Reaches About Seven Thousand Eighty-three
The Philippines is estimated to have around 7,083 islands, reflecting the archipelago's vast and diverse geography. The figure underscores the widespread distribution of landmasses across the Philippine Sea and adjacent waters.
Pagan roots of hot cross buns traced by Britannica
Britannica notes that hot cross buns originated in pagan rituals adopted by the early Christian church. It cites ancient Greece and Rome along with Saxon traditions and mentions Mexican and Peruvian parallels in similar festive customs.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Salem Street
Pat O'Brien
Carole Landis
James Craig
Signey
Otto Kruger
Vicky Lane
the Monster and
Mary Beth Hughes
Hugh Beaumont
Red River Valley
Gene Autry
Smiley Burnette
Carolina
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Oliver
DIAL
Thomasville Company
ICE Delivery Company
West Broad Street
Grable
Kraft
Peoples
Philippines
Chrysler
Studebaker
Lewis Motor CO
Wrenn St
Sanitone
Sartin Day Cleaning CO
Inglish Street
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