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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1943
Page
6
The notice lists rationing dates from April 24 to September 30 covering Blue G H J stamps for processed foods May validity, Red E meat stamps May validity, coffee stamp 2% through May 30, and expirations for several meat and fuel stamps. It includes distributor reporting starts, registration windows May 3 to May 14, and price ceilings for beef and other changes.
The text lists four weed killers including sodium chlorate and sulphuric acid. It describes mixing sodium chlorate at one pound per gallon and applying to plants, warns to keep away from fire and sulfur, and recommends a 1 to 2 percent sulphuric acid solution sprayed on plants with caution when mixing with water and in dry weather.
Mica is trimmed sized and sorted for quality then lifted or sheeted to various thicknesses. Some mica ships as black mica while much is sheeted in India to thicknesses around one thousandth to 12 ten-thousandths of an inch for condenser film. A larger portion is made into splittings under 12 ten-thousandths of an inch used in built up products such as mica board and radio tubes.
In Bar Harbor and beyond, Ann Richards travels to New York and then toward Broadfields Connecticut, aiding the Freunds with their Great Danes while weighing a new life. She fires Tompkins, tends animals, and ponders a future on the ancestral estate as Christopher Wain arrives with mixed interest.
Ann Rivers and Christopher Wain share a domestic meal while he discerns the pattern of her life through a stray checkbook. He notes a cloud of financial strain and a larger question of her ambitions, in a scene that hints at looming trouble.
In Grove Town elder Andy Small recalls Tamar a sharp hound owned by Dave Cram. Tamar vanishes after a kennel escape and a long homeward trek ends when Dave finds her in a barn with three newborn pups proving Tamar’s intelligence and loyalty.
The United States will remain the world’s largest producer of cottonseed oil with an estimated production of about 1.4 billion pounds in 1943.
The article surveys the social urge behind greeting cards from ancient greetings to the Christmas card era. It notes England’s first known Christmas card housed at the British Museum and Louis Prang’s role in popularizing artful cards in the United States.
In the rainy season the pampas require two towering wheels six to eight feet high to traverse mud filled routes. Main roads become muddy river beds where oxen alone can pull wagons. Large wheels keep axles off mud but render automobiles useless on these roads.
A study notes certain porous woods like red oak can let air pass enough to blow out a candle placed against them. Researchers explain the grain gives channels for airflow reducing candle flame stability.
Western Newspaper Union reports that public education on cancer is inadequate and delays in diagnosis hinder treatment. A JAMA study notes only a quarter of 155 patients read about cancer and most learned from newspapers, while delays by patients and physicians worsen outcomes.
A report notes that most Meniere's cases are tied to ear swelling from waterlogging and that reducing liquids and salt can relieve vertigo and tinnitus. It cites histamine and dietary changes as primary treatments, lists high salt foods to avoid, and low salt options. When these fail, surgery is considered, especially for those unable to follow medical or dietary regimens.
In response to two facial spots the adviser declines home treatment and recommends a single skin specialist visit to diagnose the ailment and advise treatment. The dialogue notes a reducing diet query about butter portions, defining one pat as 1 inch by 1 inch by 1/4 inch totaling about 100 calories.
Production of either tomatoes or onions requires about 456 man hours of labor per acre, indicating similar labor intensity for these crops and guiding farm planning and efficiency considerations.
Farmers urged to immunize spring pig crops and isolate new swine as hog cholera returns as a major threat to 1943 pork goals. Advice includes use of local veterinarians, preventing vehicle spread, staying out of neighbors' hog lots, raising pigs on clean pasture, and immediate diagnosis of feverish illness.
Broomcorn fiber products like vacuum cleaners and carpet sweepers cut into broom sales. Prices fluctuate with bumper crops, while production remains limited to small regions in Oklahoma Colorado New Mexico Kansas Texas and Illinois. Researchers crossbreed sorghums seeking palatable seeds and non reddening, center-stem free brush and hairless chaff for safer handling and new uses in hats and mats.
Large cows have advantage in milk production but size alone does not ensure efficiency. Within-breed size matters for economics, influenced by inheritance and environment. Calf feeding after birth is as important as proper calf size.
Researchers estimate underground water reserves account for about one third of Earth's total water, indicating vast subterranean stores may influence long term resource planning and aquifer management.
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