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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1953
Page
3
Plans convert northeastern Pennsylvania slate quarries into underground oil storage for heating oil along the East Coast. Abandoned mines used elsewhere. first in the United States. Eleven quarries eyed with capacity for 13 million barrels. cost 25 cents to $1 per barrel. Pumps and roofing needed. oil would float above water, lines to refinery 60 miles away.
In Gloucester England Kenneth Wherrat, aged 18, reappears after vanishing at 15 to reveal he has spent the last three years in bed. Neighbors and police found no illness, just persistent laziness. His mother recalls early delays in walking and says doctors found nothing medically wrong. She hopes military life will wake him.
Insurance companies warn that about 5500 fatal accidents to children aged one to four in the United States and Canada could be prevented if guardians stayed vigilant. Motor vehicle incidents are the top cause, followed by fires, drownings, falls, and poison ingestions, with many in driveways and yards.
In Elm Grove West Virginia Mrs Jesse Baird age 89 shows how old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tickets still count for travel. She used two tickets more than fifty years old to take her two grandchildren on a 13 minute ride from Elm Grove to Wheeling after confirming with B and O that the tickets had no expiration date.
Rusty the dog guarded a shopping buggy while Mrs Stageman and 18 month old David shopped. The pair forgot the buggy, which remained outside the grocer overnight until called about next morning.
In St Ignace Michigan engineers and petroleum men from around the world crossed the Mackinac Straits by pulling a 26 inch pipeline weighing 166 pounds per foot. Coast Guard cut off traffic for hours to allow 2500 foot sections to be hauled toward Mackinaw City. The extension of Lakehead Pipe Line connects Superior Wisconsin to Sarnia Ontario with Edmonton Alberta as a starting point, and the operation took three days to finish.
Washington reports from Dr Raymond M Hainer of Cambridge Mass that the human nose can distinguish about 16 000 000 odors. Smelling is a complex nose and brain process with 1 900 glomeruli per nostril and 24 nerve fibers from each to the brain forming a 50 000 possible signaling combinations.
Chicago police officers faced embarrassment after two New York police officers, a captain and a lieutenant, were found with guns aboard a Midway bound flight. Detectives escorted them to headquarters where the weapons and IDs were shown, and the pair reportedly paid for their own hotel cab fare.
Martha Tilton broke her leg after her husband recounts sweeping her off her feet in a traditional gesture. He explains a misstep led to her fall while she jokes that walking is overrated and praises his charm and flying ability.
A heavy plastic silage cap provides an airtight top-fill for silage and can be installed by one person in under an hour. Tests show it resists acids juices ice snow grease moisture and chemicals, marking a major farm aid development. Tuberculosis is rare in dogs but occurs mostly in dogs aged one to five years with weight loss cough and swollen head and neck lymph glands.
West Union residents share visits and gatherings as Ruth Wright and Dorothy Ledermann travel with families to Springfield Missouri for Homecoming activities at the Christian church. Local updates include hospital news, baptist missionary circle, fall visits from relatives, and 周 events.
A gathering hosted by Mr and Mrs Richard Cline celebrated the birthdays of Mrs Elmer Medsker and Miss Nancy Medsker. An agronomy note states that rye pasture can save up to 560 pounds of protein supplement and 100 bushels of corn per acre for sows and small pigs.
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