Hour of Labor Buys Less Furnishings Now Than in 1939
SAM DAWSON reports that hourly earnings let a worker buy 15 percent less home furnishings today than in 1939 due to faster price rises. The piece compares costs of furniture across 1914 1929 1939 and 1948 using factory wages and mail order prices to show shifting labor hours required for items like parlor suites and refrigerators.
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New York
Bureau of Labor Statistics
National Industrial Conference Board
Britain warns on longer dress fashions by Cripps
Sir Stafford Cripps criticizes longer dresses as idiotic saying fashion will shrink dress supplies if women persist with the trend. He urges a return to shorter styles to conserve materials.
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Britain
Stafford Cripps
Lavoptik Eye Care Ad Promises Relief and Refund
If eye trouble persists consult your eye doctor. For tired irritated burning itching eyes bathe with Lavoptik. Thirty years of success praised by thousands. Money back if not delighted. Eye-cup included. Available at all druggists.
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Lavoptik
Methodist Pastorate Shifts Announced by Wisconsin Bishop
Bishop H. Clifford Northcott unveiled changes in Wisconsin Methodist pastorates during the annual conference closing. Reassignments cover Appleton, Watertown, Clinton, Berlin, Stoughton, Milwaukee districts with sabbatical replacements and student pastors. Names include George Buchanan Minnie Cliff John Francis Noah Bess Lyle Stephenson and others across parishes like Algoma Keewanee Oconto Peshtigo Hebron Plover Watertown and Milwaukee locales.
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Plover
Buena Vista
Margaret Wilkinson
Miss Cliff
John T. Kendel
Watertown
Berlin
Poy Sippi
John Francis
Peshtigo
Henry Spear
Hartford
Clinton
John Thompson
Garrett Institute
Ivan
Wolf Cub Bernard Trett Remains Brave After Accident
Eight year old Bernard Trett, rescued after a truck severed one foot, recalls the Wolf Cub motto and vows to be brave in the ambulance. The Wolf Club Pack of Ealing England shows support as the boy endures the injury.
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Wolf Club
Ealing
England
Bernard Trett
Dairy tasters guard milk flavor in crowded industry
In San Francisco dairy tasters from Golden State monitor milk quality to prevent off flavors. Dr. J Lloyd Henderson leads tasters including A W Hayes Marietta Day and Pat Tobin who accurately identify taste defects in samples. Off flavors arise from alfalfa feed timing, sanitation, and even sunlight or domestic troubles.
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Associated Press Science Reporter
San Francisco
H.e
Golden State Company
California
J. Lloyd Henderson
Marietta Day
Pat Tobin
Henderson
Atomic Shampoo Debuts From Paris Coiffeur
A Paris hairstylist unveils an "atomicpoo" shampoo claiming it blends American and Russian ingredients for unmatched lather. The product is marketed as peerless in foam production.
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America
Russia
Paris
Bank President fatally wounded in Jasper bankyard shooting
J W Moore 62 president of Newton County Bank died after being shot on the courthouse lawn in Jasper Arkansas. The assailant Albert H Mayer 34 of Rolanda Arkansas was killed by deputies after exchanging shots in the courthouse building. Mayer reportedly sent a crazy letter demanding $10 000 to the Jasper courthouse.
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Jasper
Ark
Ozarks
J. W. Moore
Newton County
Harrison, Ark
Albert Herman Mayer
Chicago
Rolanda
Moore
Mayer
Russell Burdine
Burdine
Fresh Mexican Vegetables Transported in 560 Freight Cars
Shipments of fresh vegetables from the west coast of Mexico to the United States since early November filled 560 freight cars, compared with 383 carloads in the lake period of last season.
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Mexico
United States
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