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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1946
Page
6
A Minnesota guide outlines building a small greenhouse with southern exposure, drainage, and wind protection. It covers heat sources from wood stoves to electric hotbeds, notes cold frames rely on glass and sun, and discusses floors, sidewalls, materials, costs, and frame sourcing from local wreckage lots.
The advisory stresses considering purchase cost and immedi ate needs before ordering materials or starting construction. It recommends a small greenhouse as the most satisfactory structure and highlights careful seed and soil treatment, disease prevention, soil selection for seedlings, and meticulous care in seeding, watering, ventilating, transplanting, and hardening.
Congress faces intensified pressure for restrictive labor laws as the soft coal strike lingers. John L. Lewis stands firm on a health and welfare fund before wage and safety talks, while UMW policy committee backs the demand. Senator Knowland urges quick action amid dwindling fuel supplies. Senator Barkley cautions restraint to avoid sweeping measures.
A prison flaw at Alcatraz supposedly allowed a wiry inmate to exploit a tiny loophole. The design aimed to confine the nation’s most incorrigible convicts, but a clever prisoner emerged as a notable example of the facility’s vulnerabilities.
The Chicago Internal Revenue reports four million dollars in unpaid taxes from black market operators, while justice plans an all out attack with FBI help. President Truman urges U S South American training and equipment to bolster hemispheric security, stating no arms race would result. Also recaps prison break, Palestine refugee tensions, French constitutional crisis, and Trieste negotiations among major powers.
Columnist Baukage muses at the White House grounds with a gray squirrel as a foil to unanswered world questions. Readers reply with letters from Akron and Alabama debating crabgrass versus quack grass, plus a poem urging crabgrass mulch as garden help.
In Covington Tennessee W C Harris demonstrates a butane fueled flame cultivator mounted on a tractor to weed 50 acres of cotton with four burners skimmed along each row. Tests in the Mississippi delta show four cents per acre cost and a 20 acre daily capacity. Demonstration marks Tennessee's first use of the device.
A wartime pattern 269 guides readers through making a simple lawn or porch chair. The plan covers three stock widths, hand saw cuts, and straightforward nail or screw assembly. It notes a water-prop hasta glue from wartime and invites readers to request the pattern by mail with name and address to the direct.
Emmet County Weed Commissioner Chas Gustafson swore the Sampson Method kills Canada thistle without crop loss or chemicals after a demonstration. Advertisements urge readers to send $5 to Lloyd Sampson, Box 13, Estherville, Iowa, for complete method and guarantee.
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