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Patoka Register

Location

Patoka, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Apr 23, 1948

Page

6

Easily Built Garage with Extra Storage Space

Step by step pattern guide shows a 13 ft by 20 ft garage with external access to a storage room for garden tools. Includes full material lists, no special tools, patterns for rafters and gable studs, a breezeway to house, and optional deep freeze or dry storage ideas. Send $1 for Pattern No 113.

Sailor Drifted 135 Days Across Pacific to Fiji

Ronald E. Johnson survived four and a half months adrift aboard a 20 foot beam, engineless submarine chaser. After a failed towing from Honolulu, he rigged a 17 by 12 foot sail, drifted up to 53 miles a day, and steered toward Fiji where the Fort Cadotte picked him up near Suva.

Suva Fiji Islands Pacific Ronald E. Johnson Johnson Fort Cadotte Honolulu Papeete Wallis Island Fiji

Gift Nightgown Pattern No 5034 Order Notice

Sale notice for Gift Nightgown pattern No 5034 includes sizes 14 16 18 and finishing instructions. Orders require 20 cents and furnish name address and pattern number. High demand may delay fulfillment though orders are being processed.

14 Escape Death In Train Slide

In a dramatic Alpine railroad accident three cars were hurled down a mountainside by a snowslide on the Denver and Rio Grande Western line between Alamosa and Durango. All 14 passengers survived with one 19-year-old nurse frostbitten, and a 15-month-old boy uninjured.

Alamosa Colo Denver and Rio Grande Western Durango Cumbres Pass Mary Martinez Park View N. M Miss Martinez Denver Children’s Hospital

Auto snowplow by Hiram Maxim patent for cars

Hiram Maxim, son of the Maxim silencer inventor, patents a snowplow attachable to a car bumper. The device is simple and requires no extra equipment to enable an automobile to operate it.

Hiram Maxim

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