The Unknown Average Fan Reflects On Baseball and Sport
The piece contrasts the anonymous, unsung fan with the star players and teams, examining Boston Red Sox and Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950s context. It notes debates over team spirit versus raw talent, and the merging of sport with business in college and professional levels.
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St. Petersburg
Fla
Boston Red Sox
Brooklyn Dodgers
Red Sox
Williams
Doerr
Pesky
Stephens
Boudreau
Walloping Dropo
Goodman
Bill Wight
Ray Scarborough
Joe McCarthy
Tom Yawkey
General Mace
Marines
Yawkey
Florida
Joe Gordon
Philadelphia
Fenway Park
Eddie Sawyer
Phillies
Baseball
Eddie
Dodgers
Sawyer
Giants
Braves
Campanella
Hodges
Robinson
Reese
Snyder
Furillo
Newcombé
Roe
Branca
Hatten
Barney
Banta
Bankhead
Palica
Musial
Ingenuity Key to Efficient Poultry Work
Poultrymen rely on ingenuity to boost profits beyond hard work. A three story barn uses a two foot square vertical flue with hinged floor openings and a converted electric mower to scrape litter into a manure loader at the feed lot, streamlining housekeeping.
Treatment of Seed With Good Fungicides Stressed
The U S department of agriculture urges treating grain seed with effective fungicides to ensure better stands. Costing a few cents per acre, this precaution helps prevent smuts and other diseases in wheat oats and barley and seed rot in corn and sorghum.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
Department
Homemade Vegetable Washer and Hybrid Corn Ripening
A rough guide describes turning a sturdy wooden box into a vegetable washer using a wire mesh insert and hose spray. The note adds that many farmers seek hybrids to ripen next year due to soft corn this year, suggesting checking local demonstrations for results.
Repairing worn porcelain tubs and attic insulation guidance
Readers seek fixes for tub finish wear exposing coarse material and for adding a vapor barrier under insulation. Solutions include smoothing with abrasive stone, professional resurfacing, muriatic acid cleaning and cement mortar, or stainless steel sheet insert. A better option is modern porcelain tubs. For insulation, use vapor proof paper as a moisture barrier under batts, then cover with tar paper. flooring is another option.
Water Lily Runner and Embroidery Album Patterns
A fragment describes a book titled Water Lily Runner and an Anne Cabot album with numerous crochet knit and embroidery designs. It notes sections on a color chart and working border patterns with multiple pages of patterns included.
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Anne Cabot
DDT Replaced by New Insecticide Array Says Vet Journal
The American Veterinary Medical Association reports DDT loses ground to new chemicals that kill biting parasites on livestock and pets. Methoxychlor lindane and chlordan fill the need, with farmers urged to receive instruction on their use.
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American Veterinary Medical Association Journal
Child's World Is Wonderful Remedy Endorsement
Ten year old Carmelita Plonka in Chicago improves after using HADACOL for vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Her mother reports meals and appetite returning, praising HADACOL and urging others to ask their druggist or order direct from The LeBlanc Corporation in Lafayette Louisiana with refund policy.
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Carmelita Plonka
A. Plonka
Aberdeen
Chicago
Ill
Carmelita
Missouri
Hadacol
Rom
LeBlanc Corporation
Lafayette
Louisiana
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Lauris Norstad
Seoul
Estes Kefauver
Senate Crime Commission
Rudolph Halley
Committee
New York
George Dawson
Zwillman
Abner
Longie
Senate Crime Committee
Newark
3Rd Ward
Murder, Inc
Sportscode
Dire Eddleman
Tricity Hawks
University OF Illinois
Laks
Harold Arnett
Roger C. Whitman
Sewing Circle
West Adams
Adv
Grester Ges
U.S.A
Transport Tyre
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