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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1947
Page
3
The article highlights rising demand for larger bathrooms with multiple fixtures and built in storage. It notes a four passenger bath with divided areas, separate lavatories, and tub and shower, plus economical options like powder rooms downstairs and prefabricated bathroom units to cut costs.
Editor notes a weekly Washington Bureau column on veteran and serviceman family issues. Readers may submit questions to the Bureau at 1616 Eye Street NW Washington DC for future answers in this newspaper.
A quiet veteran affairs Q and A section shares guidance on education leave and subsistence for veterans, plus a moving dress selection scene in a department store. Lacey counsels Ruthie and her mother on a blue dress while a clarifying VA note explains how to request summer leave and continue subsistence payments.
In the first five days after landing on Iwo Jima Marine Corps communication crews laid over 700 miles of telephone wire despite heavy artillery fire and sniper harassment.
The article notes that people from ancient Egypt to modern times used cosmetics, including kohl for the eyes, tattoos, elaborate hairdressing, and personal adornments to alter or enhance appearance, reflecting enduring efforts to influence how age and self are perceived.
Shan State Asylums eighty five percent of the nation s hospitalized mental patients are in state supported institutions. Yet few psychiatrists and there are only four thousand out of a total one hundred eighty nine thousand U. S. doctors prefer to work in state institutions. The National Committee for Mental Hygiene reports that of nine hundred psychiatrists interviewed last year on their return from the armed forces only sixty chose to take jobs in state hospitals.
Benjamin Franklin promoted newspaper advertising as a sound investment, helping expand ads in early American papers. His work and the Boston News-Letter’s 1704 ad debut showcased the power of ads, with Franklin himself noted as a skilled early advertiser.
Each year 100 million dollars of farm property is destroyed by fire per the department of agriculture. Fire losses to other food production facilities include 5.5 million dollars to flour mills and grain elevators and 10 million dollars to food processing plants refineries and distilleries.
The report notes a telephone switchboard cord comprises as many as 68 parts excluding the plug and requires 22 assembly operations to produce a single finished cord.
The record noted by Mtessa of Uganda and the Loango king exceeds Solomon's household, with claims of seven thousand wives attributed to the two African rulers.
In eleven years the national poultry improvement plan has raised the average annual egg production per hen in the United States by more than twenty four eggs, signaling stronger poultry efficiency nationwide.
The cabbage adds to the day’s supply of calcium and minerals and supplies thiamine riboflavin and niacin. The greener leaves provide some vitamin A as well.
The high-bush blueberry serves as an ornamental shrub with white May blossoms. Fruit ripens from white to red to blue, and fall foliage shifts to brown and red. In winter the bare stems contrast against snow and evergreens.
A simple weekly routine suggests washing the garbage pail with soapsuds, followed by a hot water rinse and thorough scrubbing to maintain cleanliness and curb odors.
The River Rouge plant of Ford Motor Co uses about 50 million cubic feet of gas daily, the Encyclopaedia Britannica notes, enough to serve a city of about 5 million people.
Volney B. Palmer founded the first advertising agency in America in Philadelphia in 1840. He initially bought newspaper space and resold it, then began assisting clients with ad preparation as demand grew, laying the groundwork for the modern agency model.
First American troops to land in Cuba during the Spanish American War were Marines who secured a beachhead at Guantanamo Bay in June 1898.
The world's first agricultural college began at Hohenheim Germany in 1818. In the United States Gardner's Academy in Maine is believed to be the first American agricultural college founded in 1823.
Britannica notes poison ivy exposure can occur from smoke of burning plants and from clothing worn long after contact with the ivy vine, potentially causing infection.
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