Texas Gophers Cause Damage of Five Million Dollars
Dallas reports that pocket gophers caused at least five million dollars in Texas crop damage over the past year. Biologist Donald A. Spencer notes gophers undermine levees and roads and even trigger train wrecks by tunneling beneath rights of way. He describes gophers as hermit-like and fiercely temperamental and details their underground lairs and feeding habits.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Spencer
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College
Heiress Spurned Riches Found Buried in Pauper Grave
Los Angeles report details the 15 year search by millionaire Harry Tennant for his daughter Janet Tennant McEvers heiress to five million dollars. She died aged 36 after deserting wealth for a Skid Row companion known as One-Eyed Willie. Missing Persons Bureau Sgt. Holmes traced the case to a pauper grave. The woman left a daughter who is now a college student and sole heiress to the fortune.
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Los Angeles
Harry Tennant
Tennant
Janet Tennant McEvers
One-Eyed Willie
Sgt. E. F. Holmes
Missing Persons’ Bureau
McEvers
Signalling systems regulate large scale cooking in food processing
Philadelphia reports that cooking cycles for canned foods and dairy products are being controlled by highway like signalling systems. Food industry engineer Lloyd E Slater says these cycles use sound signals and stop and go lights to announce cycle completions and improve quality and uniformity while reducing losses. Field tests indicate better flavor retention and longer cooking times from minutes to three hours.
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Philadelphia
Lloyd E. Slater
Brown Instrument Company
Specialist Predicts Toes Will Disappear
Washington foot expert Dr. William J. Stickel predicts toes will vanish by 11 948 A D as feet evolve into hoof like shapes. He cites National Foot Health week and says no rational method can stop evolution, noting the little toe may disappear and nails and bunions will fade.
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Washington
Hemce
William J. Stickel
National Association of Chiropodists
Stickel
National Foot Health Week
91 year old driver proves health by headstand
Salt Lake City resident Mads M Christensen aged 91 performs a headstand to show his fitness. He drives a 1923 Model car, bought 23 years ago, and credits his health to two meals daily, growing a beard, and abstaining from smoking or drinking. He jokes that men would be healthier if they did not shave.
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Salt Lake City
Mads M. Christensen
Christensen
Thirteen Year Old Mystery Still Puzzles Sheriffs
East of Vaughn New Mexico in eroded butte country the bones of four people two men and two women lie hidden after vanishing thirteen years ago while a West Coast trip. George Lorius and George Hebere and their spouses disappeared after May 21 1935 with a suspected murder unsolved due to lack of bodies and trace evidence.
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EL Paso
Tex
Butte
New Mexico
West Coast
George Lorius
East St. Louis
Ill
George Hebere
DeQuoin
Itl
Vaughn
N. M
Albuquerque
Dallas
Texas
Illinois
Radio Device Helps Baby Sitter Care for Children
Maj. J. L. Wood of Seattle has put a radio baby sitter into operation in Shanks Valley New York to monitor several children in their homes during events like dances. The system uses a microphone near each crib linked to an amplifier in Wood's home with a labeled alarm to signal if the device stops working and even transmits the child's breathing.
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Shanks Valley
N. Y
Maj
J. L. Wood
Seattle
Maj. Wood
Teachers’ College
Thief Apologizes and Returns Loot in Tacoma Robbery
In Tacoma Washington a bandit robbed an ice cream store of 90 dollars then called victim Mrs Edyth Eaton to apologize. He returned the money hours later and she vowed not to reveal his identity to police.
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Tacoma
Wash
Edyth Eaton
The Comet Office Romance and the Money Plot
In a newsroom farce a crime expert mocks women in journalism as Dale Harmsworth pursues a fifty thousand reward to marry Alicia Delano. They wed secretly. later Alicia Mariana di Bartholdi, the princess in disguise, surprises Dale with the morning reveal and plans for their honeymoon.
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Haan
Harriman
Brickley
Alicia Delano
Dale Harmsworth
Dale
Alicia
Bartholdi
Mariana
Mariana Alicia Delano
di Bartholdi
WNN Features
64 Die While Climbing Swiss Alps In 1947 Season
An unofficial tally lists 64 deaths among climbers in the Swiss Alps during 1947, including 52 Swiss, 8 English, 2 French, 1 Scots woman, and 1 American. Victims ranged from 7 to 80 years old with about 30 seriously injured, as brittle rocks and glacial crevices increased fatalities.
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Rosenlani
Switzerland
Swiss Alps
Mont Blanc
France
Aga
Matterhorn
Edward Whymper
Jakob Hefti
Alfons Voit
Robert Cecchet
Homensturm
Braunwald
Lionel
Terray
Louise Lachenal
Eiger
U S Survey Forecasts Continued Prosperity For Farm Families
The agriculture department predicts ongoing improvements in rural living due to higher incomes. Midwest savings rise with slow auto purchases, South sees expanded farm table foods, West stability aided by population growth and home improvements. Ruth C Freeman notes increased homemaker options and security from accrued savings and debt payments. 1947 shows higher spending on household equipment like vacuums, washers, stoves, refrigerators, and freezers.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Midwest
South
Ruth’ C. Freeman
University of Illinois
Purchasesi
Crippled Fisherman Uses Cane to Land Big Catfish
In Neburg Indiana justice of the peace John Stacer, crippled and walking with a cane, says he landed a 70 pound catfish in the Ohio River after the trotline hook snapped. He used the crook of his cane to hook the fish in the gills and drew it into his boat.
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Neburg
Ind
John Stacer
Justice of the Peace
Stacer
Ohio River
Earliest Mineral Salt Use Recorded at Gresham College
The first known use of mineral salts to boost crop yields occurred in 1660 at Gresham College in England, marking an early agricultural experiment in soil nutrition.
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Gresham College
England
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