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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1948
Page
5
A longtime home improvement Q and A offers methods to strip old paint from white limed oak furniture. Use paint remover, scrape edges with care, and use steel wool. clean residues with benzine or turpentine before refinishing with varnish or other finishes.
The 30 000 bakeries in 1948 will convert about 879 million dollars of farm products into bread pies cakes and other goods for the American table. Bakers are the top sugar user and leading buyers of wheat shortening and eggs. Wholesale expenditures in 1947 included 67 796 000 for eggs 35 16 000 for milk 43 942 000 for fruit 117 896 500 for sugars 431 238 003 for flour and 154 547 000 for fat. Daily output includes 40 million loaves of fresh bread.
Doris Walters labs away at a fresh Susy Cow Horatious yarn in East Branch while her daughter Jean craves real gossip and sustenance. The breakthrough arrives as publishers approve the synopsis and advance arrives, promising easier street ahead for mother and daughter.
Doris and Jean argue over turning Jean story life into a book about their town. Jean pushes for New York dreams while Doris worries publishers want the memoir of a seven year old gang. Doris urges cautious labeling for 1968 as Jean contemplates fame and danger.
A fashion feature notes 60 inch gold metal chains as this season's fad for high schoolers. It suggests wearing chained belts, festooned center brooches, and wrist styles, recommending antique medal like pins for decoration.
The piece notes U S price index up 8.9 percent last year while Peru faces a 46.1 percent rise in living costs. From August 1939 to December 1947 costs climbed 69 percent in the United States and 207 percent in Peru. Among 11 nations compared, Canada shows the smallest postwar rise with 14.9 percent in 1947 and 45 percent above 1939 levels.
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