09 Jun 1948
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1948
Page
1
A local column chronicles the seventeen year cicada emergence in chosen oak groves. The full orchestra of red eyed insects roars in sunlit treetops, with drones and a distant Pharaoh song, as observers note variation by grove and the rare, cyclical event won’t return for seventeen years.
A writer describes a June countryside scene with blooming beard tongue and beard moss flowers along roadsides, birds, insects, and a dense forest landscape. A nearby fire incident shows Rock Island Fire Department stopping an old auto fire before officials intervened.
Mexico City government railways announce fare cuts to boost travel. First class discounts drop 40 percent from Sept 14 to 25 and Nov 29 to Jan 21 1949. Second class fares fall 25 percent in the same periods.
Convention headquarters at Adelphia Hotel opened by the National MacArthur for President Clubs led by Warren E. Wright of Grayslake. He announced 1,161 letters urging General MacArthur's nomination as the Republican candidate for president ahead of party conventions.
Gabino Stuyck, sixth generation, directs Spain's Royal Tapestry Factory in Barcelona. Jacob Van der Galen was the first director when Phillip the Fifth founded the Madrid factory in 1720. Livino Stuyck, a grand nephew, followed, and since then the Sluyck family has led the Madrid tapestry operation keeping the ancient art alive.
Harrisburg reports that late varieties of apples on Pennsylvania farms show a much smaller fruit set than expected due to cool wet weather during blossoming which reduced bee pollination. Peaches are fair to good and sizing up. cherries show light set but sturdy growth. strawberries ripen quickly with early varieties being picked in southern counties.
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