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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1947
Page
7
Rural America plays a major role in the 1947 Red Cross drive with a goal of 60 million dollars. Officials say rural chapters, 2,908 strong, backbone the ARC during war and peace. The program expands veterans support, disaster relief, and community safety services nationwide.
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P Anderson asks rural Americans to back the 1947 Red Cross fund drive calling the organization a good neighbor. National Grange head A S Goss and American Farm Bureau Federation president Edward A O NeaI also praise Red Cross service and its mission to alleviate human misery.
Fifteen Philadelphia churches rent one to four buses each Sunday to shuttle congregants from designated corners to services and back. Holmesburg Methodist reports a 30 to 40 percent attendance lift, and Old Swedes Church also uses bus service with riders paying a dime or more.
In a Wyoming mountain valley Big Piney with 241 residents is often cited as the coldest spot in the nation with 20 degrees below zero due to cold air drainage from surrounding mountains. The town sits at 6 280 feet and experiences frigid blasts year round with a 61 day growing season last year versus 148 in Cheyenne 300 miles away.
Santa Fe officials report Camino de las Vacas Street, known as Street of the Cows, has shifted 40 feet south from its original 60 year old alignment. The street committee is ordered to corral the stray street and correct the course.
Mrs Myrtle Ann Dibble of Jackson Michigan, a dressmaker by trade, plans a seven room house built largely by her own hands. She dug the basement last year, mixed cement, laid over 1000 blocks with help from her two daughters, then cut and fit green oak boards, wired the basement, and intends to complete plumbing and wiring herself. Facing high costs, she resumed dressmaking to fund finishing touches.
Chicago report quotes J P Fanning of the National Association of Bedding Manufacturers claiming sleeplessness produces drunken like symptoms and danger on the road. He cites scientists who kept 35 men awake four days becoming as irresponsible as alcoholics and cites Hitler and Napoleon as examples of sleep neglect.
The ad touts wider shoulder openings and extra height triple bracing traction bars that bite into the soil to lengthen tire life. Curved bars stay in continuous contact with the road for a smooth ride and claim Firestone Champion Ground Grips cost no more than ordinary tractor tires.
A booklet titled How to Write Letters for All Occasions provides dozens of pointers on vocabulary grammar and form. It includes sample letters for social business and friendly exchanges and even love letters. The offer is advertised by Verily Newswar Service at 243 West 17th Street New York NY.
Collier’s notes a summer 1929 stunt on Broadway where an electric sign atop the Astor Theater promoted Hollywood Revue. An accompanying orchestra and 24 chorus girls performed atop the letters to lure crowds, drawing such a crowd the police halted the act after the fourth night.
A 26 year old Bayonne New Jersey resident Charles Gonder collapsed and died after dancing 1 147 hours or 48 days and nights in a marathon dance contest in 1932. The incident helped trigger widespread city bans on dance marathons over the following decade.
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