Farm Buying Power Still Shows Gains Increase Well Above Cost of Living Rate
A Northwestern National Life Insurance study traces ten years of farm and wage trends from 1939 to 1949. It shows net annual income per farm rising from 762 to 2,915 dollars and weekly industrial wages up 120 percent, while living costs are 71 percent higher, with wage gains outpacing the cost of living despite unemployment hovering around three million.
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Costa
Opa
Family Economics Bureau
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
America
Practical home tips from a historical guide
A collection of household how tos detailing cookie dough handling and stamping, preventing boilovers when cooking pasta, sewing tips to avoid pinhole damage, shellac care with alcohol, pinning and basting for better fits, waxed paper for hot centerpiece protection, orange peeling ease, peroxide stain removal, and refreshing pile upholstery with hot towels and a whisk broom.
Sarazen's quick golf method speeds match play
The article extols Gene Sarazen for fast play and quick decisions in golf. He urges brisk walking after drives, rapid club selection, and deliberate precision around greens to finish two ball matches in about two hours and twenty minutes.
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Gene Sarazen
Sarazen
Gene
Unscrupulous Advice Sparks Gossip in Row
A published quip from Ascient Advice suggests a mother counsels a young woman on keeping youth by avoiding other men, prompting readers to debate propriety. The gag highlights social norms and generate discussion about romance expectations in the era.
You Build It Tool Box Solves Storage Problem
A wall hanging tool chest offers safe convenient storage for woodworking gear. The open size is 36 inches high by 60 inches wide. closed it measures 6 inches high by 30 inches wide. Doors hold tools and shelves inside. Patented pattern by East Bend for Toe Tool Chest Pattern.
Time Told By Inmate Inmate Sermonals
An old lady asks a cloistered brother at an asylum for the time. He measures with a 3 foot rule a compass and a Tesquare, then says it is four o clock. She asks what to do in rain when shadow cannot be measured, he replies he would look at his watch.
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Billy Southworth
Leo Durocher
Reds
Blackwell
Eddioe Dyer
Eddie
Ewell Blackwell
Phillies
Superior Poultry House Cleaner Developed
A high pressure sprayer pulverizes dirt and drippings in poultry houses. Food Machinery and Chemical Corpora tion developed the sprayer, claimed to clean faster cheaper and easier.
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Food Manzechinery and
Chemical Corporaion
Hormones May Limit Frost Damage in Time
American apple growers face costly spring frosts as buds open early. A spray using tracers and hormones could keep buds closed until after cold weather passes, potentially saving millions by preventing damaged fruit.
Brief Lexicology Of Bossy The First Cow Name Origin
The piece traces how the term bossy may originate from Latin bos meaning ox and Teutonic forms bos or busse. It suggests an evolution from a boss calf kept in a barn to a cow called bossy, possibly reflecting humor or linguistic smarts.
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