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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1947
Page
4
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute reports 1947 graduates receive starting salaries from 2400 to 3000 dollars yearly with many offers exceeding prior years. About 80 percent are veterans. Major firms and foreign postings offer high wages and overseas assignments.
The ad claims stomach gas sour taste disrupts sleep and appetite, urging readers to use SSS Tonic to increase gastric juice flow. It asserts non organic stomach disturbances respond to the tonic, improving digestion, blood quality, and overall vigor with millions of bottles sold.
Joel Doorman Lawrence Cowell and Lawrence Glick three Wayne University students begin a bicycle trip to Mexico City from Detroit. They expect six weeks to reach the capital and plan a later return to Detroit to resume studies. They budget one dollar a day per person and will sell the bikes in Texas on the way back.
Doorman carries a drawing pad for cartoons made during a Mexico impression trip while Cowell and Glick handle a small camera. They refuse to turn back after a two day stretch of rain and rough travel. On Tuesday they logged 50 miles from Saline to Jonesville wearing rubber ponchos like Macbeth witches.
The War Assets Administration launches a campaign to convert surplus gear into farm use. Regional agricultural specialist W. F. Rayburn promotes olive drab paint for barns, landing mats as corn cribs, and gun barrels as fence posts, with shell tubing cut to needed lengths.
Rayburn described army blankets to be allocated through farming communities via cooperatives and farm experimental stations of agricultural colleges and local farm committees under the department of agriculture. He stressed farmers cannot buy directly from the WAA and must deal with distributors and farm associations.
Spokane news reports a local army recruiting push aided by expectant fathers. Master Sgt. Brerton says many men ask about prenatal and maternity care for army wives and most sign up once they learn the army finances babies.
An inexpensive home remedy promotes Ru-Ex D with water and lemon juice claiming relief within 48 hours for rheumatic arthritic or neuritis pain. The ad offers a two week supply and an absolute money back guarantee if no improvement.
A ten year old boy who lost his memory during a wartime bombardment four years earlier suddenly recalls his name and family after meeting a dog on the street. Adopted by a widow who named him for her late husband, the boy reaffirms his identity and memories of life before the bombing.
A brief instruction notes that soiled wallpaper spots may be lifted using clean blotting paper and a hot iron. The method suggests applying gentle pressure with blotting paper while heat is applied to lift stains from the wallpaper surface.
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