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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1945
Page
7
A 32 page booklet Make Your Own Curtains explains how slanting walls and carefully hung bed and window curtains create a high ceiling illusion. The bedroom shows coordinated fabric decorations and a homeowner built dressing shelf and blanket chest with illustrated patterns and material lists. The note offers Pattern 259 and the booklet for 15 cents each.
Adam Yulch of Nassau County, a detective and self described national consultant, built a laundry mark filing system to trace criminals. Since 1936 he has identified murder victims and amnesia victims within 24 hours by cleaning marks, expanding to 300000 samples and inspiring FBI contact.
The piece extols Henry Ford and his co workers in the Ford industries as exemplars of America’s free enterprise system. It argues workers and leadership built national wealth, created millions of jobs, and raised living standards while contrasting with drones who refuse to contribute. It notes wage growth from 1849 to 1939, business investment behind factory jobs, and warns against labor management conflicts.
Lt. Herman A. Albertini of Stanton Illinois leapt to warn kids as his Thunderbolt failed over Signal Hill California. The burning aircraft cut a pole and damaged a warehouse before crash landing. Albertini walked away with bruises after the plane burst into flames. He serves with the 6th Ferrying Group in Long Beach California.
In Linton Indiana a reporter saw a hen in a parked car on a busy street cackling over a newly laid egg. Investigation showed Vert McBride brings his pet hen to town often and says he must take her for an auto ride every morning or she will not lay an egg.
William Beam, 34, a disabled Army veteran with 4th armored division roots, admitted he pushed his wheelchair bound wife 65 miles from Terre Haute to Danville over six days to seek work as a chauffeur. Mrs. Beam, 40, a Georgia native, said she could manage housework but could not walk. the couple slept outdoors the final night near Possum Trot bridge. Beam noted he preferred in-person travel to see the country and to look for employment en route.
Tulsa born Lt J D Hill Jr of the 27th Infantry says a careless Japanese mortar round saved his life when a pin failed to explode. He was wounded in the Ryukyus and is in Letterman hospital San Francisco. His parents and Tulsa wife and child survive.
Edward Rzeszutko 28 shot his wife 27 in the neck during a homecoming party in Chicago then killed himself. Police said the incident occurred as guests danced and the couple, who had a three year old son, appeared happily married.
Robert Miller, 26, of Green Bay, stayed at the wheel for five blocks with a 5000 gallon gasoline tank fire burning behind him in the west side district. Firefighters quenched the blaze with minor losses. Officials credited safety plugs melting to vent vapor pressure as preventing an explosion. Miller suspected spilled gasoline on top of the tank ran down a safety chain and sparked the fire.
Mrs Beulah Hankins of Indianapolis writes that Faultless Starch saves hours of ironing, making white dresses and many clothes smooth and fragrant. The letter promotes time and labor savings, encourages readers to ask grocers for Faultless Starch, and touts non cooking hot starch.
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