Light Crop of Peaches Cuts Factory Output
A local Illinois basket factory, Howard DuBois & Sons, reduces output from 4800 to about 60 percent due to a light peach crop. With 35 workers, the plant still runs three veneering and forming machines to produce continuous-stave bushel baskets from cottonwood to poplar, using logs from nearby Mississippi river bottoms.
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Illinois
Howard DuBois & Sons
Obden
DuBois
Mississippi River
Dubois Basket Factory
du Bois
Cobden Basket Factory: From Sap to Shipped Baskets
The Cobden basket plant uses a pot shaped mold and plungers to form baskets, with a top hoop and side hoop stapled in place. Finished baskets dry for days to weeks before shipping to Illinois, Southeast Missouri, and sometimes Indiana. The DuBois complex has seven buildings and the business traces to 1885 with incorporation in 1906 under Howard A. DuBois.
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Nxt
DuBois
Harvey
Lawrence
Paul
War Boosts Blood Needs in Korea War Effort
The Red Cross urged all Americans to donate blood to support fighting men in Korea and the expanded armed forces. It noted Korean needs have been met by volunteers in Japan and that shipments will be flown to the Far East with excess used for stockpiling plasma and derivatives for military use.
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Washington
The
Red Cross
Korea
Japan
Far East
Educators oppose draft use of teaching staff in mobilization
Madison group of leading educators warns selective service against plundering teaching staffs and using youth indiscriminately as the nation moves to re arm. The National Education association commission on teacher education issued the statement before a national conference of about 400 college presidents and deans on teaching education problems.
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Madison
Wis
U.S
National Education Association
National Commission On Teacher Education and Professional Standards
America
Army volunteers enlist amid war memory and Native
Chicago reporters note Army volunteers recruited Monday include Edward J. Johnson a 33 year old Hinckley Illinois veteran who spent 40 months as a Japanese prisoner after Corregidor capture in the Philippines. The piece adds a remark that there are more Navajo Indians now than in the era of the Spanish Conquistadores.
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Chicago
Edward J. Johnson
Hinckley
Corregidor
Phillipines
Stanton Elected Illinois Young Democrats National Committeeman
Springfield Illinois August 22 William J Stanton of Springfield is elected national committeeman for the Illinois Young Democrats. He succeeds Michael J Howlett of Chicago the party's candidate for state treasurer Dorothy Christerson of Chicago was elected national committeewoman.
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Springfield
Ill
William J. Stanton
Illinois Young Democrats
Stanton
Michael J. Howlett
Chicago
Dorothy Christerson
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Walnut
Murphysboro
Wedneedas
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Dodge
Davis Motor & Investment Co
Ralph Gray Motor Co
North Park
Herrin
N. Illinois
Carbondale
Cardwell Motors
Walnut St
M’boro, Ili
Young Demos Elect
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Ulinois
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Oa Wen
Sycamore Street
Ero
Pete "Riccio
du Quoin
Simmons
Illinois Ave
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