Firestone introduces heavy duty wire cord tires in Akron
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron begins production of heavy duty wire cord tires using high tensile steel wire. Dealer T Smith Allen notes the tires run cooler under heavy loads, resist blowouts, and can be recapped many times. Each cord strand is hairlike, 0.0058 inches, with 170 pounds tensile strength, and a 9.00-20 four ply tire contains 55 miles of strands weighing 22 pounds.
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Akron
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Allen
Firestone Research and Development
Firestone Tire and Rubber ‘Company
Idaho Potato Stocks Lower Than Year Ago
Idaho growers and dealers held 9 million bushels of merchantable potatoes on March 1, down from 9.7 million a year earlier. The March 1 figure represented about 49 percent of January stocks, with past years showing 47 percent in 1946 and 43 percent in 1945. The estimate includes potatoes slated for food seed area processing and loans released under price programs, excluding seed home consumption and livestock feed.
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Idaho
Card of Thanks for Abel Whitehead Family
We express appreciation and gratitude to friends and relatives for kindness during our recent bereavement signed Mrs Abel Whitehead and family.
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Abel Whitehead
Farm income set to rise in early months
The U S Department of Agriculture reports national farm income for January and February this year will be about one third higher than the same period in 1946, implying a strong early year for farmers.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Veterans Land Opening Planned for Minidoka Idaho
The fourth postwar land opening offers 43 irrigated units near Eden and Hazelton Idaho for World War II veterans who apply by April 25. Applications go to the Bureau of Reclamation Hunt unit Eden Idaho with entries drawn to determine order of entry for 52 to 100 acre parcels totaling 3226 acres.
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Bureau of Reclamation
E. O. Larson
Minidoka
Idaho
Hunt
Eden
Ida
Board of Entry
Hazelton
Boiser Office
Region I
R. J. Newell
Ogden Music and Piano store opens in Ogden
William K Dunkley announces the opening of the Ogden Music and Piano store in Ogden. Mr and Mrs Dunkley return from Mesa Arizona. James Ransbottom remains ill in Preston hospital. Variety club hosted by Mrs Lawrence Mitton with a luncheon and book review by Minnie Fisher. Frank Richards Logan and Charles Goff Preston spoke at Sacrament meeting. Barlow Call and son Barlow Dean visited from Afton Wyoming during the weekend.
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William K. Dunkley
Ogden
William Dunkley
Mesa
Arizona
James Ransbottom
Preston Hospital
Lawrence Mitton
Minnie‘Fisher
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Firestone
T. Smith Allen
Aésoure
Northland
Northrup, King & Co
King Dealee
Immed
Salt Lake City
All-Steel
U. S. Rock Wool CO
Paul C. Elledge
Preston
Great Lakes Steel Corporation
New Homestead
Melvin Larson
Ward Relief Society
Ward
Thomas Tanner
James Chadwick
Orval D. Benson
Brigham Young
Leon Winward
Boise Valley
Leon
June
Whitney
el Electric
Power & Light
FORD
Chevrolet
Hudson
Studebaker
Willys
Plymouth
Rlinbarsem
Eome
Webber Insurance Agency
Larson Bldg
Preston, Ida
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