Gloomy Forecast For Chain Store System Report
The federal trade commission’s annual report for 1932 33 foresees a bleak trend for the chain store industry despite growth overall. It cites declining sales per store, lower income per store, shrinking turnover of investment, and diminishing returns across 26 chain types with some losses totaling about 48.9 million dollars over the period.
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Washington, D. C
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Congress
Fish Hear Whistle Wiggle Back Home
Pasadena readers watch as Mrs. J. H. Fertig proves gold fish Billy and 18 companions can swim back to their pool after a rain by following a gardener’s whistle. Billy leads the return in a backyard spectacle.
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Pasadena
Calif
J. H. Fertig
Billy
Fraser
Boston Theological Students Quit Waiter Jobs Over Liquor
About 20 Boston University theology students working as waiters left their part time jobs when Boston restaurants began serving liquor.
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Boston
Boston University Theological
Mining Boom Forecast for the Colorado Rockies in 1934
Mining officials in the Rocky Mountain region predict a major boom in 1934 as government policies raise gold and silver prices boosting profitable operations and reopening long idle mines. Colorado produced about seven million dollars in minerals last year with silver rising and gold up after the Roosevelt gold-buying order spurred new prospecting and rapid investment in mining.
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Denver
Colo
Rocky Mountain
Colorado
Roosevelt
Charlie Starr
George Gilmore
Starr
Mancos
Cripple Creek
United States Mint
Birthday Cake Baked for Roosevelt Day in Warm Springs
A huge birthday cake prepared in Coral Gables Florida was sent to Warm Springs Georgia for President Roosevelt's birthday on January 80. Col Henry L Dougherty, chair of the national committee, organized Roosevelt birthday parties in cities and towns to raise funds for the Warm Springs Foundation.
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Coral Gables
Fla
Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Col
Henry L. Dougherty
National Committee
Warm Springs Foundation
Misfits Find Dodge in Nervous Breakdown
Berkeley psychiatrist Dr. M C Reid rejects the term nervous breakdown as a true illness. He calls it a mental compromise and cites a college case as typical.
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Dodge
Berkeley
Calif
M. C. Reid
University of California
Reed
Nervous Breakdown Seen As Unconscious Evasion
A psychiatrist describes finals stress causing a conflict between the conscious drive to study and an unreceptive unconscious mind. The resulting nervous breakdown acts as an avoidance of responsibility, with relaxation proposed as help to overcome such conditions.
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Dent
Calf worth seven fifty spurs costly court fight
The calf valued at 7.50 led to a lengthy dispute between Ford Creek Sheep company and rancher Everett A. Wilson. A justice court verdict favored Wilson, an appeal to district court failed to resolve, and the case settled out of court with costs and fees expected to exceed 1500. In Omaha, 197 skin grafts were taken from Larry Hogan’s leg after severe burns.
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Lewiston
Mont
Ford Creek Sheep Company
Everett A. Wilson
Wilson
Omaha
Neb
Larry Hogan
Walthill
St. Joseph's Hospital
Hogan
No Smoking Ban Lifted at Simmons College
Simmons College students celebrate the repeal of a no smoking rule. For the first time since 1899 a smoking room has been opened, allowing 1200 women to light up on campus.
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Boston
Simmons College
Planned Farming Is Within Reach
Agricultural economist R H Wilcox explains that planned agriculture makes farming within reach for every farmer. By estimating feed needs and production, a central Illinois farm shows that three acres of corn can feed one sow and her pigs, guiding stocking and margins to help avoid cash outlay and reduce risk of loss.
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R. H. Wilcox
Agricultural Economics Department
University of
Central
Illinois
Demand for Wool Improves Year for Herdsmen
The annual outlook report for agriculture notes a 45 percent rise in demand for clothing and combing wools, while sheep numbers decline on farms. World wool production is down with Australia, South Africa and New Zealand reporting smaller clips by 14, 11, and 3 percent. Sheep population is falling but this trend is not expected to persist.
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Australia
South Africa
New Zealand
Achievement of Desires in the New Year
A motivational column urges readers to act on their wishes in the new year. It emphasizes forming concrete plans, paying the price of time and effort, and maintaining focus to achieve goals rather than merely wishing. It notes many give up when progress requires discipline and sacrifice. Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
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Middlesex
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Ohio Beet Crop Payout and Labor Foreseeable in 1923
About 5000 Ohio farmers will receive over 2 million dollars for their sugar beet crops this year. The Farmers and Manufacturers Beet Sugar association estimates the 1923 crop will require more than 8 million man hours of labor in growing harvesting processing and distribution and will exceed 1982 acreage by 12 000 acres.
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Ohio
Farmers and Manufacturers Beet Sugar Association
Feeding dairy cows with grain supplements for milk
The average cow eats enough grass to maintain body and produce about two gallons of milk daily. To meet extra production, feed a grain mix 13 to 18 percent digestible protein at one pound per five to seven pounds of milk produced each day.
Agricultural notes from era cover soy milk, mills and milks
The report outlines soy product experiments in China, soybean oil mills in ten states, and a record low feed grains supply since 1901. Vienna residents drank 270 million gallons of milk in 1982 as bounties on produce were extended, while farm replanning faced several challenges. Cattle were not native to the western hemisphere. early European shiploads reached Vera Cruz in 1525 and Jamestown 1611 and Plymouth 1624.
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Hemisphere
Europe
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Jamestown
Plymouth
Collected Stones 43 Years Honed by Wisconsin Hobbyist
Mrs. Carrie Downing, a farm woman near Ontario Wisconsin, has spent 48 years assembling a vast collection of over 1,000 stones and shells. She preserves shells and rocks, displaying a lifelong passion that grew from a small starter collection.
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Ontario
Wis
Carrie Downing
Faithful Collar Button Sold? Bathampton Man Refuses
H. S. Russell of Bathampton England says he will not sell his faithful collar button. A bone button costing 2 cents, owned for 1 year, has never disappeared in 1882 after purchase from a street peddler.
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H. S. Russell
Bathampton
England
Russell
Lip Test and Hemoglobin Health Tonic Endorsement
An old advertisement advises checking lip and cheek color for health and suggests S.S.S. as a blood tonic to raise hemoglobin and improve appetite, color, and energy. It claims S.S.S. stimulates gastric secretions and supplies minerals, selling in two sizes through drug stores.
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S.S
S.S.S
Beauty’s Battleground in Hearts and Faith
A Louisville Courier Journal note reflects on beauty as a mysterious force and a battleground where God and the devil contend within the human heart, echoing Dostoevsky about moral struggle and desire.
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God
Devil
Dostoevsky
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