Daylight Time and Dairy Prices Stir a Small Town
Gwendoline P Clarke recalls the milk subsidy end and rising silk prices as a backdrop to daily life. She notes the complexity of farmer and consumer costs, suggests backyard cows, and laments distribution profits. The piece shifts to Daylight Saving Time, seasonal weather, and a local fair with livestock, antiques, and Women's Institute displays including six pressure cookers as wedding gifts.
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Bessie
Fair Grounds
Fragmented Naval Unit Puzzle Across Miscellany
A clipped page presents a jumble of naval insignia and cryptic clues. The U S Navy unit Horizont appears with scattered terms and partial word fragments ranging from badges to duties, and a vertical market list interlaces with assorted vocabulary.
Puzzle answer mapping list from historical source
Word ladder style clues and abbreviations list including Sloth God of love Clatters Polish mistake Compound Lion ether Steamship Stop Marine fish Mulch Road Chaplet On account Kind of sheep Endures Manuscript Planis ab. abbr clues and numeric positions from a puzzle page
Kruschen Salts Sold as Morning Headache Remedy
A reader testimonial claims Kruschen Salts cured morning headaches and sluggishness. The letter says the user woke with dull headaches, started the regimen, and now feels refreshed and able to work without effort. It cites constipation and waste in the system as causes and advertises 25¢ and 75¢ prices.
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Kruschen
Population Growth And Food Problem According To 1946 USDA
The 1946 World Food Situation report notes that food shortage accounts for five percent of the crisis while population growth drives a large share of the problem. World population rose by 200 million in the decade before World War II and by 563 million between 1506 and 1940. Even doubling India China and Russia farming would not keep up if death rates fall.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United Nations
India
China
Russia
Costly Project Could Cost Other Nation $500 Million
The atomic project cost America about 2.6 billion dollars. A future industrial nation could reproduce the result for 0.5 billion dollars or less by avoiding costly experimentation.
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America
Grape-Nuts Flakes Praised In Home Scene
A lively ad style scene extols Post's Grape-Nuts Flakes as a hearty breakfast. The narrator jokes about the wife keeping the cereal and praises its two grain blend wheat and malted barley and the crisp toasted texture. The copy notes nutrition and recipe ideas on the package.
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Oscar
Also Mentioned on This Page
Washington Navy Yard
Bikini Atoll
Naval Medical Research Center
Bethesda
Burleson
By Gwendoline P. Clarke
Mitchie
Partner
Grandma
Women’s Institute
U. S. Naval Air Unit
U.S. Naval Aviation
Society For Physical Research
Hough & Collins
Leyton Ave
Toronto
Flo
J. Millar Watt
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