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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1946
Page
8
A short article describes making a 26 inch high end table from plain shelf boards with corner holes, empty spools, curtain rods, and glue. It promises a quick, attractive result and promotes Book 5 offering more than thirty clever ideas available for 15 cents plus name and address for mailing.
The article notes about 1700 Indian words have entered English including barbecue chipmunk hickory hominy and toboggan reflecting linguistic borrowing beyond geographic names.
Thousands of ex G I s join eight million hunters this fall and safety is stressed by Dot and Ernie Lind. They tour the country teaching common sense rules to prevent accidents on the hunt. Clip out the Ten Commandments of Safety and keep them in the hunting case.
A list of ten essential hunting safety rules covers treating every gun as loaded, transporting unloaded or disassembled, keeping the muzzle controlled, confirming targets, never aiming at what you don’t intend to shoot, never leaving a loaded gun unattended, avoiding climbing with loaded guns, not shooting at hard surfaces or water, and avoiding gunpowder with alcohol.
In Carrier Mills Illinois Mary Brown a Negro widow and social worker patrols east side streets from 4 pm to midnight as the town’s gun totin policewoman. Dressed in a life suit with visored cap she wears a new badge club and pistol. Former guard at a state training school for girls she chose the flatfoot role after state employment ended.
Walter Gleason, 72, Shrewsbury's undertaker and longtime drum major, wears a clown suit to lead parades. He began clowning about 20 years ago and has led parades in costume about 15 times this year, delighting children who recognize him as the town’s familiar, nimble clown.
In downtown St Louis two honor system parking lots report 95 percent honesty after three years. Customers drop coins in mailboxes and even leave promissory notes for the next day when exact change isn’t available. Owners switched to the system in April 1943 to cut attendant costs.
Elliott Anderson, 70, lone surviving Ozette member, retains tribal rights to the Ozette reservation in Clallam County Washington. He lives off the land on Makah territory at Neah Bay and formerly claimed $71.53 in tribal funds in 1939. The Ozette reserve, established 1893 and now sparsely inhabited, was once famed for cedar canoe material and fish trading with Makahs Quileutes and Quinaielts.
Homer Greer an Omaha bus driver has patented a process to use baled straw as bricks for housing. He says straw is a near perfect insulator and that a six room house with a two car garage could be built for about 155 dollars, offering a solution to the lumber shortage.
The report lists 47 civil aircraft models from 29 U.S. manufacturers, with speeds from 90 to 400 mph. It notes the Cleveland Air Show November 15 to 24 as the first postwar industry-wide exhibition, plus plans to air-mark towns in Iowa Nebraska and Michigan. It mentions the Thunderjet P 84 photo and fare cuts by the North Atlantic air consortium effective until February 1947 with airlines American Overseas, Pan American, and Transcontinental Western involved.
Instructions for the Seventeen-Inchineapple Daily pattern No 5271 are offered. Readers are asked to send 20 cents plus name address and pattern number to the stated address to obtain the complete crochet guide.
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