New Autos Plentiful in Mexico for Price
The Mexican auto market thrives with new cars available for delivery at higher prices than in the United States. Packard Clipper, Ford sedans, and Chevy, Dodge, Plymouth, and Reo trucks fetch prices in pesos, while the used car trade booms with many listings from 1927 to 1946 models. Dealers note nearing saturation as prices rise, with Georgia and Texas cited as common sources for imports.
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Mexico City
United States
Mexico
U. S
CPA
Oldsmobile
Nash
Pontiac
Cadillac
Plymouth
Ford
Jeep
Georgia
Texas
Hints For The Housewife Tips From Old Time Columns
Practical household tips cover stain prevention with waxed paper under centerpieces. Shoe strings are reinforced by repeated stitching, and dresses gain trim by ruckrack braid along old hem lines. Surface rings may need polishing or alcohol and varnish. Lemon rind is to be grated before squeezing. Wax preserves painted woodwork, and car dressing rooms absent allows swimming attire in car with window cleaning powder paste.
Very True Low Brow Joke Dialogue Then and Now
A father explains to his child that a low-brow enjoys funny papers and snappy stories while a high-brow is a low brow who won’t admit it. The quip frames class and culture with playful wit.
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Papa
Cull Non-Layers to Save on Feed
COLLEGE STATION Texas A and M College Extension Service urges removing non laying hens to cut feed costs amid a feed shortage. A hen uses about five pounds of feed monthly without laying, and the nation targets reducing one of every seven hens to boost profits. Texas flocks could drop a seventh without harming output, with production per bird rising as overall numbers ease.
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College Station
Texas A. and M. College Extension Service
Sam Moore
Texas
Moore
Static Free FM Radios Said to Be A Long Way Off
ESTES PARK Colo It will be a long long time before you can listen to static free FM broadcasts James D Shouse of Cincinnati vice president of the Crosley Corporation told Saturday Addressing the convention of the National Editorial Association Shouse reported that CBS already has on paper a frequency modulation network of 200 stations and they propose that amplitude modulation our present form of broadcasting will rapidly disappear from the picture They may be right but I doubt it About 98 percent of the 55 000 000 receiving sets in the country will receive only AM broadcasts and the public will be slow in changing to FM receivers Who is going to provide FM broadcasts when there are no receivers to pick them up And who is going to buy FM sets when there is nothing to listen to He explained that AM sets will not receive FM broadcasts and vice versa Contractor Do you think you are physically fit for hard labor Applicant Well sir some of our leading judges have thought so.
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Estes Park
Colo
James D. Shouse
Cincinnati
Crosley Corporation
National Editorial Association
Shouse
Columbia Broadcasting System
Washington
Riley
Earl Williams
Rep
Indiana
Hoosier
Wilson
Divorce by Abandonment Citation in Grayson County Texas
Citation commands Carrenza Mayes to appear by 10 A M on Monday July 29 1946 in the Grayson County District Court Sherman Texas. Plaintiff Jerry Mayes filed June 11 1946 alleging divorce on grounds of abandonment over three years. Issued June 11 1946 by Clerk S V Earnest. Case No 54676.
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State of Texas
Carrenza Mayes
A. D
District Court of
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Texas
S. V. Earnest
U S Employees Work Only Half Time A Lawmaker Asserts
Representative Earl Williams of Indiana attacked federal workers as idle and unproductive, claiming government employees work about 50 percent of the year. He cited 164 days off including Sundays 52 Saturdays 52 annual leave 26 sick leave 15 holidays plus 17 coffee hours and six moving time, arguing for mass dismissal and reform.
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Washington
Time Off and Travel for Employees Discussed by Wilson
Wilson explains travel time and leave allotments totaling 177 days off and 188 days of work annually. West of the Mississippi workers gain four extra days plus 26 days annual leave, reservists receive two weeks military leave with pay, and extra informal durations like coffee hours are unofficially longer than stated.
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Mississippi
Wilson
New Farm Hand Struggles With Mule in Cold Morning
A city slicker new to farm life tries harnessing a mule at 5 am in winter. In the dark he binds a cow by mistake. The farmer calls out in frustration while the man laments he cannot fit the collar over the mule’s frozen head due to its ears.
Language of music and its seven note alphabet
The Sun quotes Sigmund Spaeth arguing music parallels language with seven notes forming words chords, phrases, and sentences. Measured music equals poetry while plain song equals prose.
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Sigmund Spaeth
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