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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1949
Page
7
New York report shows cereals use premiums to boost sales reaching 175 million dollars annually. Kids chase prizes from atom bomb rings to explorer rings and bike accessories while advertisers and artists gain work and endorsements from the trend begun decades ago.
In Block Island Sound fishermen report a surge in herring catches as part of a European Recovery plan. More than 30 million pounds have been caught and are trucked to canneries in Maryland and Maine for lend lease supply.
Detroit postoffice attempts to deliver a letter dated 1882 found behind a Cleveland mantel. It was addressed to Mrs. H. R. Leonard at 65 Stimpson Place, Detroit, and signed Hattie. Officials doubt the address exists or ever did, making delivery unlikely.
Johnson recalls the Alsmeyer jewel heist ten years earlier and finds the jewels hidden by a root of the same old oak. In Leo’s backroom the gems prove fake and the planned fortune collapses, as Leo admits the jewels are imitations and Johnson’s dream of wealth shatters.
New York reports on the peanut’s journey from slave food in the Americas to a staple crop. The piece traces origins in Peru and Africa, rise as a southern cash crop, Kellogg’s peanut butter discovery, and 1947 price data with Georgia and Louisiana as major producers.
Washington straphangers favor adding FM receivers on one bus line and one streetcar route but clash over music style. Ninety-two percent back the idea if fares stay at 10 cents, yet votes split between boogie woogie Bach waltz and hillbilly tunes with some calling for quiet or ear plugs.
New York readers learn how work marks on hands reveal jobs from stone cutters to dentists. The Technology Review notes detectives can use such signs, with examples including bricklayers smooth fingertips and violinists reddened neck skin.
ARLINGTON Ohio railroad telegrapher A A Hall gathers $117 45 from a day’s receipts then hides the cash in a baggage car. He later learns the car holds circus elephants. Hall cannot retrieve the money as the elephants leave with the money missing.
Monterey Calif reports a major sardine shortage affecting a $75 million industry with 12 000 fishermen and thousands of cannery workers. Catches plunged from 700 000 tons at peak to 124 000 tons last year, reducing oil for soap fats cosmetics paints and vitamins. Experts blame overfishing poor spawning and shifting ocean currents.
In Paso Texas a man retires his 29 year old Model T to life in the stable joining it with a new jeep station wagon he says will last 29 years too. He notes the old car gave him over half a million miles and kept spare parts scarce, while the jeep dealer refused a trade.
University of Chicago scientists will use a newly developed spectral recorder to scan Mars for life signs. Hooked to the 82 inch telescope at McDonald Observatory Fort Davis Texas the device will study Mars when the planet is 65 million miles away the closest approach until 1950. They seek vegetation analogues on Mars and frozen polar caps and note thriving plant life could imply animal life elsewhere with different evolution.
In Moscow region wolves outsmart traditional red flag ring hunts. Hunters set a flag circle to trap wolves but educated packs now run through gaps to avoid capture. Moscow papers stress need to kill wolves due to elk prey of about 3,000 in local forests.
Orlando Florida feature on Oliver Perry Medsger known as Nibokawa the Wise Woodsman. He promotes edible wild plants from May apple to milkweed and arrowroot as survival foods. He notes palmetto bud can kill trees and grasses are wholesome when extreme hunger strikes.
A brown thrush wandered into central city traffic on Forsyth street causing a minor jam. The bird fled through a hotel lobby before exhaustion forced capture and rescue by a bystander who planned to relocate it to the country.
Aliso Canyon California a man posing as a Russian army colonel was seized while watching US naval and marine maneuvers. John d Alfonso identified himself as a reporter for The San Diego Journal and was wearing a foreign military uniform. Brig Gen Omar Pfieffer said the man would be turned over to the FBI for lacking credentials.
In Cleveland Frank Zahler 31 sues after his wife hid his false teeth. He expressed no issue with being locked out or awakened by a hot foot, but demanded Police Prosecutor Vatro Grill summon Mrs Zahler to reveal the teeth location. The summons was issued.
The notice advises farmers to allocate one half to one acre per cow of supplementary pasture such as alfalfa lespedera sudan grass or rye along with two or more acres of blue grass to ensure adequate forage.
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