Editorial warns on highway damage from heavy trucks
The Commissioner of Public Roads highlights vast highway wear by heavy commercial vehicles. Citing Roy M. Fisher, the piece notes Illinois truck weight laws lax enforcement, a $2 billion crisis, and one third of trailers in 1947 carrying illegal weights, urging strict, reasonable limits and enforcement.
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Fié
Public Roads
Chicago Daily News
Roy M. Fisher
Illinois
Fie
Illinois Division of Highways
A GOOD BUY Food is a bargain in postwar costs
A discussion of food pricing shows that the American public pays less for food relative to other costs. The example of a meat market illustrates a 26 percent gross margin covering all store expenses and profit. From packer to retailer, beef pricing and by products balance out to a modest overall profit.
Oil for the People Lights Up Oil Industry Role
A discussion extols the oil industry as a key wartime and peacetime force. It argues oil powered ships and planes, aided military success, and that private competition made oil accessible to the public, not a government monopoly, with potential future use of atomic power left uncertain.
The Lowe Down by Jack H Lowe
A collection of wry quips on gardening, family, newspapers space dates and human nature. It jokes about radishes, genealogy, Loch Ness, political operators and weekends with a practical farmer’s view and a line about weeds in gardens.
Random Reflections From a Nonlinear Public Sphere
Fragments present a mosaic of remarks about training, faith, transit, profit, and culture. An anecdote links a bus driver to sermon motion while other lines touch on sailors tails, consumer habits, criticism, and fashion shifts in transit. The piece reads as a collage of wry, aphoristic musings rather than a single narrative event.
Letter Box A Way of Life Is Fading in Sidney
Former SOD officer James F. Conti recalls seventeen months at the Depot and praises Sidney and nearby towns for peace and neighborly spirit. He vows to re subscribe to The Telegraph as a symbol of simple community life amid global unrest. He notes European memories, VE Day, and strong local ties, urging locals to greet the boys at the next club party.
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Mr. Lowe
Telegraph
Sidney
Europe
Air Force
James F. Conti
P. S
Two Local Teens Sentenced for Porter Theft
Duane Donatsch and Joseph Morong both 17 of Dubuque Iowa were sent to the Boys Training School at Kearney after pleading guilty to thefts at Seyfang Grocery in Porter and Porter Oil Station in Laney. Sheriff W W Schulz escorted them to the facility.
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Duane Donatsch
Joseph Morong
Dubuque
Boys Training School
Kearney
Seyfang
Porter
Porter Oil
Laney
W. W. Schulz
Metal bond boxes for insurance papers
Metal bond boxes designed to organize insurance policies and other documents. Compact metal construction promises secure storage and easy filing for critical papers.
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Surance
the Telegraph
Carpenters Granted Divorce in District Court
District Judge John Kuns grants divorce in Leona Carpenter versus Walter Carpenter. Plaintiff represented by Atty. R. P. Kepler. Furniture and automobile awarded to plaintiff. Carpenters married February 24, 1940 in Crown Point Indiana.
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John Kuns
Leona Carpenter
Walter Carpenter
Atty
R. P. Kepler
Carpenters
Crown Point
Ind
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