Canadian Agriculture In 1949 Reviewed At Annual Conference
The conference reviews 1949 farm prospects across Canada with emphasis on price trends, income, and crop outlooks. Wheat export potential, feed grain supplies, livestock market expectations, dairy demand, and vegetable and maple product trends are covered, noting drought effects and carry-overs shaping this year's agricultural outlook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Werth
Doeretie
Arma
United States
Prairie
Ontario
Quebec
Canada
Dear Miss James Kitchen and bedroom wallpaper advice column
A reader seeks decor guidance for a large kitchen and master bedroom closets. The columnist recommends bright wallpaper designs for the kitchen to avoid a drab look and suggests coordinating patterns and colors for a powder room vanity and skirt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. B. McC
Weould
Miss James
France Faces Warm Winter as Roses Bloom Across Alps
France records a unusually warm winter with roses blooming near Brenoble in the Alps. A newspaper notes only four of sixteen French winter resorts still have snow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Paris
Alps
Brenoble
Automotive sheet steel demands shape supply needs
The automotive industry remains the largest buyer of sheet and strip steel. It seeks auto body sheet hood and fender stock and sheet rolled under 3,000,000 pounds pressure for one piece all steel auto tops, reflecting stringent production requirements.
Mutual Forbearance and Redhead Observations in English Column
A mixed feature column blends a humorous verse excerpt on forbearance in marriage with anecdotes about redheaded allure. It cites Kate Jones the milliner, Lily Langtry gossip, and Victoria era trivia. The piece also muses on hat styles and personality clues from dress, ending with a note on rugby football's pig bladder origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cowper
Samuel Johnson
England
Edward VII
Lily Langtry
Lily
Kate Jones
Queen Victoria
Colorful freight cars could advertise everywhere
In Montgomery Alabama railroads asked the state public service commission to allow advertising on freight car sides. The proposal envisions lighted posters on cars to carry sponsors messages coast to coast and help revenue. It also notes easier communication for crews using ads as cues instead of recalling car numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Public Service Commission
Ancient Roman Lemures and Propitiation Beliefs
Among ancient Romans the Lemures were the souls of the departed especially ancestors who hovered at night and required propitiation by surviving descendants.
Chemical change blacks skin turning affected workers white
Chicago reports a chemical used in synthetic rubber plants changed the skin color of several hundred Black workers. Dr Louis Schwartz described monobenzy ether of hydroquinone at the American Academy of Dermatology meeting, noting permanent or long lasting whitening effects from a single application and cautioned against use. The incident followed wartime exposure with settlements paid by employers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Louis Schwarts
US Public Health Service
American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilogy
Academy
Schwartz
South
Better to Be Good Later Than Roaster
A 1948 hen lays three eggs for every two by ancestral stock from 1900. The gain in production comes from improved breeding and feeding, suggesting the bird learns it is better to be a good layer than a roaster in the oven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddy
Stamp Corner Digest of World Stamp Price Shifts 1949 Volume
The second volume of the 1949 Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue covers Europe Asia and Africa excluding British commonwealth and US issues. It notes price shifts due to supply and demand, highlights increases in classic and wartime issues, and lists recent issues such as Switzerland Alpine flowers Philatelic Institute Germany Sampaguita Philippines Israel and others with country by country movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Europe
Asia
Africa
British Commonwealth
United States
Czechoslovakia
Saxony
Sardinia
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Mecklenburg-Strerlitz
Switzerland
Germany
Philatelic Institute
Philippines
Israel
Ecuador
Pedro Maldonado
Yeman
United Nations
Prince Abdullah
Truman
Franklin Roosevelt
Fiji
George VI
Turkey
Brazil
Jose Xavier
Argentina
Cuba
Malta
Romania
Pratt Kuhn
St. W
Toronto
Ont
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Timothy
Deentigiene, NG
Francis James
Mirror Youth Forum
LaGuardia Field
Jose Salabar Laine
Guido Barrientos
Guatemala
Alex Saunders
S.N. 8
EF. V. Darling
Milwaukee
Frances Stephens
Miss Stephens
Somerville
The
Denver Post
James Montagnes
Aiden C. Johnson
Netherlands
Suriname
Wilhelmina
Curacao
Juliana
Paul Langevin
Jean Perrin
Luxembourg
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