Richards Capital Expenditures Reach 1947 Peak
Expenditures by Class I railroads on equipment and improvements to railway property in 1947 totaled 565.991 million dollars, over 50 percent above the highest annual total since 1930, including locomotives and freight and passenger cars. In the USSR, farm literature output jumped with over 10 million copies issued in 1947, 2.5 times prewar levels, plus expanded textbooks for collective farms and agricultural schools.
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Richards
Ussr
Soviet Union
Reviewing Our Yesterdays in August News
A compact digest of diary items from August 5 1928 and August 5 1938 showing local travel farms moves births injuries hospital talks and visits. Names include Carl Moehn Hi leen Julius Walker Chris Schieh William Lindemann Francis Roof Alphonse Schmid George Cook J S Davis Eva Koch Lee Tescher George Austin Emmett Keny Lange Hart Klein Dietiker Feldkamp Chris Schleh Theurer Josenhans Gottlob Kiebler Dr C W Mark and others with notes on farm activity visits and a fall injury plus a new baby born to John and Mrs Theurer.
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Carl Moehn
Hileen
Brighton
Julius Walker
Chris Schieh
Clinton
William Lindemann
Irish Hills
Wampler’s Lake
Sand Lake
Francis Roof
Mooreville
Duncan Robison
Bixby Hospital
Adrian
Lee Tescher
Upper Peninsula
George Austin
Baby
Emmett Keny
Detroit
Bert Gillen
A. C. Lange
Portage Lake
Elmer Lange
Saline
Lee Hart
Dexter
Flint
Schartz Creek
Edna
Jessie
Beth Klein
Washington
Owner remembers farm events and local tragedies
The note book records a fire at Blum farm barns and blacksmith shop, a telegram to James Tolliver about his son’s death, visits by relatives from Michigan and Toledo, a Wolf Lake reunion, a Park excursion offer, an inquest into Mrs Abraham Steelee’s death, and local business changes. It also notes Tale Crittenden’s runaway team and a barber shop moving into the Union block, plus weather damages to corn and potatoes from drought.
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Blum
James Tolliver
Kalamazoo
James
Florence
Willard Rouse
Milan
Ira
Ben Kuebler
Toledo
Sheeder Boys
Ann Arbor
Rose Beatty
Fish
Wolf Lake
Jackson County
Tashmoo Park
Riverside
North America
The
Library Association
Ball
Abraham Steelee
Niagra Falls
Alfred Acton
Rose Hatto
Henry Rarick
Mr. Rarick
Tip Crittenden
Beverly Bug
Union Block
Pork liver tones up the family’s nerves
Nutritionists declare that one serving quarter pound of pork liver prepared fried baked or boiled provides an excellent supply of B complex vitamins essential for nerves. Lean hog liver contains riboflavin niacin and thiamin and should figure in weekly menus.
Some Babies Will Be Cute Little Numbers
The article explains a planned system in the United States and Canada starting 1949 where every birth is assigned a serial number. U S births will begin with 1 followed by state digits, a dash, year digits, and a unique six digit sequence. An Alabama 1949 birth might read 101-49-042218.
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United States
Canada
National Office of Vital Statistics
U. S
Alabama
All Farms to Get Power by End of 1951
Edison Electric Institute president Charles E. Oakes says virtually all rural homes and farms in the United States will be connected to electric power lines by the end of 1951. Electricity is now available for about 90 percent of the nation’s 15,890,000 rural dwellings.
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United States
Charles E. Oakes
The
Edison Electric Institute
Wood Pulp Use and Paper Output Trends in the 1940s
The survey reports wood pulp consumption at 12 360 000 tons in 1946 and a similar 1947 total. It notes 15 years to grow fast pine and 25 to 40 years for spruce, with total paper output reaching 21 million tons last year.
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Michigan Press Service Inc
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Arnica
Puget Sound
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Catherine Conrad Edwards
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Jooks
Orangeburg
Huron Plumbing Co
W. Stadium Boulevard
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Saline Observer
Hermann Lindenschmidt
Chris Schleh
John Theurer
Ann Arboy
Cora Grant
Ambherstburg
Ontario
Herman Josenhans
Harriet Kimball
A. H. Howard
Gottlob Kiebler
C. W. Mark
Agnew
California
State Hospital For the Insane
W. F. Kiel
Wesley
Sarah Cullen
Syracuse
N. Y
Fred Henne
Co. B. Isbell
S. A. Fitzgerald
Saulte Ste. Marie
Panama
Old Nission Peninsula
Traverse City
America
Charles 8. Lindbereh
Helm Inthesporium
Victoria
Australia
Turkeys
Wolverine
G. L. Parsons
Ford
Wiedman Tractor Sales
Saline, Michiaga
American Express
VOX Pgp
ABC Network
NSU
Federal Reserve System
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