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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1948
Page
9
Detroit report states Imogene Corretta, a 38 year old waitress, faced a would be bandit in a restaurant. He demanded the till but she ignored him and used a butcher knife to strike his hand forcing him to flee.
Conservative sources say about 600 hereditary peers would lose their seats in the House of Lords under reform plans. A Conservative committee weighs slashing membership to about 300 lords with notable public service records to counter the Labor government's curbs on the upper chamber.
A Harrisburg reader credits Kellogg's All Bran with solving chronic constipation after 30 years of using laxatives. The広告 urges daily intake of an ounce in milk with ample water and offers a double money back guarantee after 10 days if unsatisfied.
A New York Supreme Court justice ruled that a child born through artificial insemination is legitimate. Justice Henry Clay Greenberg determined that Antoine Strnad, the estranged husband, has a right to visit his daughter Antoinette, four, despite claims of non-paternity.
The Atomic Energy Commission posted a danger notice over 39 000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean around Eniwetok atoll. Hazards will exist in a rectangle about 173 miles by 226 miles. The danger lasts through 1948.
A Australian flying boat carrying 29 passengers and 6 crew completed a 380 mile Tasman Sea crossing to Sydney with one engine dead. Among the passengers was Episcopal Bishop G Ashton Oldham of Albany New York and his wife.
A band of thieves gassed passengers in a Bucharest to Iasi night train and robbed them. Passengers woke at Iasi station to find all luggage missing according to Natiunea.
An advertisement touts a liniment for muscle strain and fatigue claiming fast gentle relief and a money back guarantee. It promotes a “so c. my size” bottle and a separate product Sordone for Athlete's Foot that kills common fungi on contact.
Joseph A. Hoban of B. F. Goodrich told the Midwest Implement Dealers association that Americans are harvesting 20 million more acres than in 1940 with three million fewer workers on 200,000 fewer farms due to rapid mechanization. He noted tractors more than doubling since 1940 and cited 1947 export estimates of 392 million bushels wheat and 88 million bushels corn along with 328 million pounds of meat.
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