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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1949
Page
2
An editorial argues that one farm family must feed four urban dwellers, with prices driven by supply and demand. It proposes world food pools or broader industrial uses for crops like soybeans to sustain farm profits without subsidies, criticizing temporary fixes and Farm Federation and National Grange opposition.
A Northwestern National Life Insurance study shows farm buying power remains well above the 1946 level despite price drops. It notes farm net income tripled from 1939 to 1948, industrial wages rose about 130 percent, and living costs are about 28 percent higher than ten years earlier, with unemployment around three million.
A superior poultry house cleaning method uses a high pressure sprayer to pulverize dirt and drippings and blast them away. Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation developed the sprayer, claimed to clean faster, cheaper, and more easily than earlier methods.
American apple growers face heavy losses from late spring frosts. Researchers propose using tracers and hormones in a spray to keep buds closed until warmer weather returns, potentially saving millions by preventing fruit damage.
Tool chest offers safe convenient storage for woodworking tools. Open size 36 inches high by 60 inches wide, closed 36 inches high by 30 inches wide. Can be wall hung or folded and carried. Tools fitted inside doors and on special shelves. Send 25c for Pattern No 7h to East Bird Pattern Co Pleasantville NY.
A joke exchanges a claim that Mrs. Smith had triplets and two weeks later twins. The retort notes one triplet was lost, revealing the punch line.
Mrs Smythe Smythe gives her husband a kiss on the bald head startling him from his newspaper. He complains softly that it is the second kiss in four months. She replies that she wants to show some interest in their marriage.
A cloistered brother uses a foot rule compass and T square to tell four oclock while an elderly woman asks how to tell time in rain. The inmate replies he would check his watch if shadows cannot be measured.
A jumble of old ads lists sale of a auto parts shop and appliances store in East St. Louis, a service station and tavern site near Huntsville Missouri, farms and retirement schemes in Elsa Texas, livestock offerings in Belleville Illinois, film stock for sale from Hemlock New York, fireworks wholesaler in Ringgold Georgia, paint products from Chicago Illinois, and other miscellaneous items.
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