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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1946
Page
8
The page lists numerous Logan area residents visiting relatives in Logan and other towns, announces births, Navy and Marine corps discharges, and weekend guests. It mentions marriages, study group meetings, and church-related events with names, places, and dates such as March 12 birth, March 15 event, and trips to Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Paris.
A busy Garden City column reports travel by Mr. and Mrs. Russell Satterthwaite to Logan for two weeks with Mrs. Isaac Wamsley. The Gold and Green Ball on March 8 crowned Dorothy Twitchell as queen, with a floor show featuring many local couples. Funeral services were held for C. C. Stock of Fish Haven. Other items note visitors, farm visits, and local outings across Logan, Evanston, Montpelier, and Paris, Idaho.
Milwaukee Wisconsin has been named the safest large city for pedestrians in 1944 national contest. The city reported an 89 percent drop in pedestrian deaths versus 1942 and 1943, despite a nationwide 2 percent rise in fatalities in 1944 compared with 1943.
The article recalls Red Cross relief efforts for service members and families after V J Day. It highlights field operations, transportation, and inmate care while praising the organization for aiding wounded and ill personnel with social work, recreation, and personal support programs. It notes sequestration of funds and a $100,000,000 funding goal for the next fiscal year and appeals to farm communities for support in the 1946 Fund Campaign.
The Disabled American Veterans explain a gold plated lapel button with a dexter eagle shows a wearer is an honorably discharged World War II veteran and may indicate disability. Vivian D. Corbly notes the button signals service and eligibility for free claims information.
Medical officers in the armed services, 47 percent say they will return to practice in their former communities. They cite desire to rejoin civilian life and continue medical work after military service.
The text notes Poland pioneering a eight hour day before World War I and introducing a 46 hour work week in 1918. It then records a 1934 change to a 48 hour work week to match more competitive neighboring nations.
A list of historically prominent men and women who achieved significance before dying young, including Alexander the Great, Gustavus Adolphus, Raphael, Schubert, Joan of Arc, Mozart, Keats, Shelley, Anne Boleyn, Pocahontas, Villon, Robespierre, Nero, and others.
The account recalls Hernan Cortes and his men traversing the Peten jungles on a march from Mexico City to the Gulf of Honduras. Their survival depended on tzicopzapoatl, a fruit later famed as the source of chewing gum.
Classified items list small ads including a home for sale in Paris by J U Stucki and inquiries to Wm B Stucki, wild hay and baby chicks for sale in Montpelier, an old violin for inquiry in Paris Post, live beef and pork for killing in Montpelier by Frank Jones & Sons, Fish Haven Resort for sale with J P Stock, Bronze markers and memorials offered by Oril E Hansen for Memorial Day delivery.
A hair’s breadth defines precision in antifriction ball and roller bearings. The standard given is one eightieth of a human hair, about 25 millionths of an inch, guiding high accuracy tolerances in bearing manufacture.
Sugar helps preserve color shape and flavor of fruits though not required for canning. Canned unsweetened fruit may be sweetened when used.
The dish aspic, used in salads and with entrees, likely got its name from French cooks who used it with game or fish embedded in calve's-foot jelly. It is described as cold to the touch like a snake and shares its name with the asp, a poisonous African snake.
Ammunition gases guns tanks and other combat vehicles and secret equipment no longer needed will be disarmed or demilitarized before disposal as surplus property National defense and public safety require rendering material innocuous or stripping secret parts with the armed services best suited to perform this work.
The prehistoric Lake Bonneville, named after explorer Capt Benjamin L. Bonneville, flooded much of the Inland Basin. Originating over 50,000 years ago, it stretched from near Kanderville in Utah northward beyond 340 miles, covering large parts of Utah Idaho and Nevada with widths up to 145 miles and depths over 1,000 feet.
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