Water Famine Sparks Black Market Rumors and A New Style
Hal Boyle reports on a New York water shortage shrinking reservoirs to 34.7 percent of normal and driving residents to extreme measures. Amid jokes about smuggling water from New Jersey, Johnny Bo-Bo stands firm denying any water use since 1921 while patrons trade water lines for liquor and theater tickets.
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Two Down Britain Socialists To Go In Election Upset
Dewitt Mackenzie analyzes British reaction to New Zealand and Australian election results as Conservative triumphs. He contrasts dominion free enterprise with Britain's crowded, resource-short economy and questions whether leaders Churchill or Attlee can read Britain's prospects.
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Robert Gordon Menzies
French accept less of Marshall Plan in polling results
Paris reports a Marshall Plan poll showing only four of every hundred French crediting the aid as a recovery factor and 37 percent seeking more information. Hodges notes a drop from 52 percent support a year earlier while citing Czechoslovakia events and Communist anti plan campaigns as influences.
Hard Of Hearing Now Hear Clock Tick
Vacoline announces a new assistive device for the deafened using compression amplification with automatic volume control. No ear receiver button or battery cords required. It promises comfort during sermons, music, and conversations and invites readers to request free information from Vacolite, 648 Sprague St., Madison, Wisconsin.
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FASTEETH Denture Powder Advertisement
An old style ad promotes FASTEETH denture powder for upper or lower plates. It claims the product prevents teeth from sliding slipping or rocking, leaves no gummy taste, is alkaline and non acid, controls denture odor, and is available at drug stores.
Wife's Phone Call Aids In Saving Her Husband
Mrs. Clason phoned a neighbor after Arthur failed to meet her at the railroad station. The neighbor found him overcome by carbon monoxide from a furnace. Firemen revived him with oxygen and artificial respiration after three hours.
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Arthur J. Clason
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Public opinion on the Marshall plan across Europe
A poll shows 13 percent of Frenchmen never heard of the Marshall plan. Among those aware, 38 percent favored it, 23 percent saw both good and bad sides, 16 percent judged it outright bad, and 23 percent were undecided. Dutch results include 86 percent heard of it and 69 percent know Romania is not in, with 35 percent knowing about EU funds and 7 percent calling the plan good.
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Romania
Bacteria Its Role in Cheeses and Safety Measures
The article explains how dairy bacteria affect cheese quality and safety. It notes that gas-forming bacteria ruin cheese unless prevented by using proper bacteria and cooling promptly. Pasteurization kills bacteria but much Wisconsin cheese is still made from raw milk.
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Wisconsin
Bequest to Drexel Institute for Expansion Program
Horace P Liverside announced a $70 000 bequest to the Drexel institute expansion from the late Sylvester Way, an 1895 graduate and former Wisconsin Electric and Power Co president, as ground breaking for the alumni scientific laboratories was held. The drive to fund the expansion has gathered $228 205 in the past year.
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Drexel Institute
Horace P Liverside
Sylvester Way
Wisconsin Electric and Power Co
Liverside
Reader Q and A on world facts and a dictionary offer
The La Crosse Tribune Information Bureau answers questions on bread flour weight, deaf populations, world population estimates, artesian wells, and more. It promotes Webster's Illustrated Tower Dictionary and atlas, priced 40 cents postpaid, with a coupon and address for requests.
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Premature birth noted as leading infant death cause
U S children's bureau specialists urge a national attack on premature birth with a threefold plan. Emphasizing prenatal care for mothers, expert neonatal care for premature babies, and strong follow-up, they warn that one third of a century of progress still leaves about three in every hundred infants under one year dying.
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United States
U. S. Children’s Bureau
Leona Baumgartner
Children’s Bureau
Bureau
Dutch grocer arrested for selling Eiffel Tower scrap
A Dutch grocer in Amsterdam is jailed on fraud charges after attempting to auction the Eiffel Tower in Paris as scrap iron to businessmen. Prosecutors allege he received large sums of money for the fictitious sale.
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