Memories Of The Past Forty Years Ago
Special telegrams in the daily papers recall snow blockades across Dakota and Montana with drifts up to seventy feet in Montana Idaho. Great Northern Northern Pacific and Soo lines were out. Local visits, post master changes, hardware business moves, and a Nebraska market report paint a portrait of hard winter and stalled traffic.
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Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Soo
Hinshaw
Ss. C. Hutchinson
Diller
J. W Fouts
Thomas Nelson and Son
Springfield Nebr
Nelson
Sugar stamp valid on April first across the nation
The OPA announces a ten pound sugar stamp valid starting April first with an expected average of 35 pounds per person for 1947, up from 25 pounds in 1946. Officials note stamp duration depends on agriculture department estimates of world supply and future beet sugar business.
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Plymouth News
OPA
Agriculture. Department
United
Making hooked rugs the easy craft for busy readers
A nostalgic piece extols hooked rug making as a patient craft. Granny's steady progress shows rugs can grow in spare moments, with simple equipment and accessible materials. The text encourages readers to start now and complete rugs at leisure.
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Granny
Crafting with rags into versatile fabric art
The article describes transforming faded curtains, dresses, woolen skirts, and stockings into rags dyed with all purpose dye to imitate varied origins. It guides planners to base designs on scenery, flowers, and printed fabrics, starting with simple projects on burlap then stretching on a frame before hooking.
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AG Wright
Wymore
Burlington
Mre
R’ L Oaks
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Dillet
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Nebraska Hardware Dealers Association
Omaha
Duiler
Neaa
Harris. & Co
Colmand Nelson
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Colman
A Bi Sheldon
M. Ne
Missouri
U.S - Huidrede
Pearl Harbor
America
Washington
Jefferson County
Offic
Iames
Davis
Russell A. ‘Davis
Fairbury
E.B. Ackerman
Optometrist
Nebraska
Odell
General Hospital
Washington ‘News
Paul
Mallon
Bary Times
Counts
Frederick Welton
Betti
Geo
Rory
CPI
LEO WW
IGSA
Kamptul
Elijah
Anton
Kamptul Icon
NAS
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