Desert Turkery Tycoon Builds Million Dollar Enterprise
Vic Ryckebosch, 48, built a million dollar turkey business from a five-turkey start on a Mojave Desert ranch near Lancaster. He quit a bread-delivery job to expand with his wife Eleanor, growing flocks from 50 hens in 1931 to a thriving plant with year round cold storage.
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Victor Ryckebosch
Vic
Lancaster
Los Angeles
Ryckebosch
Minnesota
Great Saskatchewan
Canada
Los Aname
Mojave Desert
Vic Ryckebosch
America
Turkey
Eleanor
Magazine California Notes previews diverse California life
Editor Stan Wilson recounts experiences aboard the USS Princeton and highlights the Magazine California family of 44 weekly papers. Other features include Avocados in early California history, a ski piece by Hal Masson, a bird industry piece by Nichols Field Wilson, Mike Jackson’s Nuggets on meat demand, and a note on hard work enabling opportunity in America.
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Stan Wilson
The
Mill Valley Record
Princeton
Stan
California Family
Austin Roberts
California
America
Land of the
Free
TV's troubled future noted by church groups in 1890s discussion
A garbled column surveys early TV fears and social impacts from liquor use to divorces while noting church cautions. It mentions C Francis Jenkins experimenting with TV in 1890, labels video as preferred by executives, and mocks era jargon before drifting into local notes about Fresno raisin advertising, Cal grape crops, and assorted public anecdotes.
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C. Francis Jenkins
Fresno
Thomas A. Champagne
Kingsburg
Fire Dept
Oakdale
Areata
Bert
Road to Health pamphlet promises cleansing cures
Advertisement for The Road to Health by Louis L. Sherman M D offering a health cure by cleansing poisons from the body. The booklet costs 50 cents and requests mailing to Oakland California for home use guidance and a lecture schedule in Oakland with monthly classes and free information on request.
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Louis L. Sherman
M.D
Oakland
L. Sherman
Peretes
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Nichols Field Wilson
Desert Ranch
California Notes
Hal Masson
Alon
Nichols Field
Wilson
Mike Jackson
Supplement To
Western Photo Box
San Francisco
Calif
Hedheatead
Dagreeating
West Coast University
Western Ave
Dept, MD
Republic
Cal
Dean Acheson
Sabella
Sausalito
P.m
Neva Hunsberger
Reedley
Neva
Beatrice Avilez
Hanford
Earl Hagen
Lloyd H. Ragle
Fairfield
Ragle
Richard
Eagle
John Decknall Vecaville
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