City farming story from Indiana during World War II
A memoir about a city couple turning seventeen acres in Wabash Township near Shining Waters into a wartime farm. Walter Liffick Morton, a physician and medical society president, stays busy with war duties while Blanch becomes the city farmer. The piece blends family history, home memories, and Kipling quotes to justify tending the land amid national crisis.
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Walter
Shining Waters
Wabash Township
Clark County
Ilinois
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Medical Society
John Calvin Lewis
Atlanta
Georgia
Mary Ann Thompson
Lincoln
Sherman
Marshall High School
Union Hospital
Terre Haute
England
France
Columbia University
New York City
Paris
Illinois
Mary Jane Lewis
Lewis Farm
Frederick Lewis
William Liffick
Liberty Square
Riley Thompson
Rudyard Kipling
Crowe Hybrid Sponsors Vacation Trip to Florida
The Crowe Hybrid Corn Company of Milford sponsored a Florida vacation for top sales staff and families. Anna Marie from Marshall reports travels from Milford Airport to Miami with stops in Chattanooga and Jacksonville, hotel and beach visits, Parrot Jungle, University farm, and a Key West excursion. The trip included tours of hotels, a dog track, riding a turtle dinner, shopping in Miami, and a final homecoming, ending after a six hour flight plus road travel.
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Crowe Hybrid Corn Company
Milford
Florida
Marshall
Harold Imle
Anna Marie
Miami
Fla
J. W. Dewey
Rossville
Albert Mon
Gloria
Harold 'Imle
Terre Haute
Tank Farm
Martinsville
Chattanooga
Mr Crowe
A. T. Crowe
Crandon Fark
Atlantic Ocean
Hialeah Race
Venetian Swimming Pool
Neptunes
Miami University
James’ Deering
Parrot Jungle
Harry Truman
Crowe
University Experimental Farm
Miami Beach
Biscayne
Key West
Fort Jefferson
President Truman
White House
Municipal Aquarium
Gulf of Mexico
Burdines
Marshall Field
Chicago
Huliman Field
Elty Farme Adventure Tale Reaches Clark County
A fragment hints at a weekly adventure feature titled elty farme ing in Clark County. The text shows playful curiosity about trials and errors and the readers’ interest in following the journey as a serialized story.
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Good Clark
Count Follay
Atomic Calendar Developed to Probe Nature's Secrets
Yale and Chicago scientists collaborate on a radiocarbon dating method created by Willard Libby to measure Earth’s past events up to 15,000 years. The Rockefeller Foundation funded $42 500 for the geochronometric laboratory at Yale aiding archaeology biology geology and history research.
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Yale University
University of Chicago
Willard F. Libby
Institute For Nuclear Studies
Yale
Prof
Libby
Rockefeller Foundation
The
Geochronometric ‘Laboratory
North America
New World
Record of 14 Billion Spent on New Plant 1941 to 1950
Aggregate plant and equipment expenditures for the decade reached 114.4 billion dollars with 84 billion spent in 1946 to date. Manufacturing led at 50.9 billion, followed by commercial and miscellaneous at 30.1 billion. Life insurance pooled savings funded much of the expansion.
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America
U.S. Department of Commerce
Securities and Exchange Commission
Rapid bacterial generations open research avenues
Professor H Orin Halvorson of the University of Illinois explains bacteria can multiply so quickly that in 24 hours descendants from a single specimen could reach about two hundred billion. He notes potential for mutations arising in this rapid lineage, though such "different" individuals may occur only about one in a billion.
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H. Orin Halvorson
Bacteriology
University of Illinois
Durable cash registers for tough work environments
Finishes must resist blood and grease in butcher shops, fumes in bakeries, and moisture from soap in beauty shops. Variations in climate from open markets in the Tropics to cold regions like Alaska or Greenland demand rugged durability for cash registers used by diverse businesses.
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Tropics
Alaska
Greenland
Finishes Aid Defense For Service Men
The paint and finishes industry supplies durable coatings for over 50 items of military equipment. Each item requires tailor made finishes from eyelets on shoes to complete ranks. Practically everything that fights, goes, or flies relies on these products.
Spectacles Sparked Revolutionary Style in Paris
In the post Reign of Terror era Paris, spectacles became a status sign as enemies of the people were pursued. Noble eyewear emojis marked class, turning glasses from necessity to political statement. The piece contrasts liberty equality and fraternity with fashion among mobs.
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Paris
France
Volunteers Sought for 1952 March of Dimes Drive
County campaign director Leon Fitzsarrah urged volunteers to report to Stanfield Implement Co headquarters or call 140 to help in the month long polio drive. He noted past deficits from infantile paralysis costs and said the 1952 drive will double its period to reach more people and erase debts with broader community support.
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Leon Fitzsarrah County
Stanfield Implement Co
Polid
Fitzgarrald
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Blanch Liffick Morton
Crowe Hybrid
University of Tlinois
Wiinels
Brandon
National Dixie Hotel
V. L. Brandon
North Quincy Street
Clinton, Minois
Rosenfrozen
Dorothy Coleman Candies
Anim Mat Tate
H.p. Studebaker
Stanfield Implement Company
Locust
Marshall, Ill
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