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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1949
Page
3
Readers are urged to bake in cooler days with recipes for Snow Cake with Chocolate Crunch Molasses Chiffon Pie and JYUICK DESSERTS. The page provides guidance on ingredient measures oven settings and technique as well as Lynne Chambers tips on cooking shrimp oysters and pantry shortcuts.
The article argues the post office runs a yearly deficit near a half billion with calls for Hoover commission reforms to cut costs and avoid tax subsidies. It cites patronage as resistance and urges decisive passage of Senate bill 2062 and House bill 5177 to save about three billion annually. It also notes inflation fears and rapid travel changes from New York to San Francisco.
Instructions offer a knit gay corn cob potholder pattern issued as pattern number 5907. Readers are asked to send 20 cents in coin along with their name address and the pattern number to receive the design.
Chicago report on the 1949 National Safety Council yearbook Accident Facts notes 1948 traffic volume set a record while the mileage death rate fell to a historic low at 8.0 per 100 million vehicle miles. If the rate had remained higher, 14,000 more lives would have been lost. 32,000 traffic deaths occurred in 1948, just 700 fewer than 1947.
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