Virginia Farm Women Build Better Mattresses at Home
In Blacksburg Virginia the federal cotton mattress plan expands to 40 counties this year as farm women produce mattresses at home for low income families. The program includes furniture restoration and home improvements with leaders guiding 30 counties toward 3 000 mattresses, while 18 484 items of old furniture were restored at a savings of 34 976 dollars across counties like Chesterfield and Carroll.
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Blacksburg
Virginia
Farm Wo
Home Fur
Home Dem
Ruth Jamison
Foxtension Service
Carroll County
Hanover
William
Buckingham
Fairfax
Spotsylvania
Bedford
Cumberland
Brunswick
Caroline
Carroll
Charlotte
Chesterfield
Henry
Ise of
Kate Davidson
Oldest Known Human Disease Question
A historical query notes leprosy as among the most ancient diseases in humans. It discusses its long-standing presence in civilizations and hints at scholarly debate over earliest origins.
Soviet Shakeup Ousts Zhemchuzhina from Central Committee
The Soviet Union began another government shakeup with Paulina Zhemchuzhina, wife of Molotoff, ousted from her post as an alternate member of the Central Committee. She had been the first woman to join the Soviet Cabinet as food commissar in 1939.
Fertilizer Trials Boost Pasture Carrying Capacity
Virginia tests show phosphorus and complete fertilizer raise pasture carrying capacity from 7.2 to 0.7 acres per cow over five years. With 16 percent superphosphate and later nitrogen and potassium, acres per cow steadily fall, aided by a shift to Kentucky bluegrass and white clover requires adequate spring and fall moisture to sustain quality pasture.
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Virginia
Orchardists Urged To Use Early Spray
Virginia apple growers are urged to apply dormant sprays to control scale insects rosy aphis and red mites. Tech horticulturist A H Teske says one well timed spray with eight ounces of a dinitro chemical and oil emulsion can control aphids in the egg stage and moderate scale. Modern equipment and proper adjustment reduce cost and waste while improving coverage.
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Virginia
H. Teske
Tech Horticulturist
Teske
San Jose
Language Planned by Rev. Foster Aims To Global Use
The passage notes a constructed language created by Reverend Edward P. Foster of Marietta Ohio around 1906. It describes a system that rejects existing words and roots and is built on idea analysis and classification.
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Edward P. Foster
Marietta
Ohio
Woman unlocks car after faulty key stumps her
Beg pardon cities report Lorraine Powers could not open her car door with the key. She broke the front window ventilating section to reach the inside and unlock the car. While counting to ten she noticed her own car two stalls away.
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Kansas City
Lorraine Powers
Smithsonian studies skulls from pre Inca Peruvians
Dr. T D Stewart investigates skeletal remains acquired by the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. The collection includes skulls and other bones as part of a life mystery study on ancient Peruvians.
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T. D. Stewart
Smithsonian Institute
Washington
Grower Outlines Three Secrets of Low Cost Apple Production
Stanley Fulton, a Hancock Maryland fruit grower, spoke at a society convention about reducing costs in apples. He cites careful material choice, timely sprays, and thorough supervision as key factors alongside high U S No 1 yields and codling moth control. He notes his costs average 53 cents per bushel, never exceeding 65 cents, and describes his equipment a 500 gallon tank sprayer setup with three 50 gallon a minute sprayers and a 30 000 gallon a day capability.
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Stanley Fulton
Hancock
Fulton
U. S
Vaccine Used For Measles Report
Baltimore report says Dr. Joseph Stokes Jr of the University of Pennsylvania pediatrics department announced successful measles vaccine experiments. He credited Geoffrey Rake and Morris Shaffer with growing the measles virus in chick embryos and said the vaccine has been used successfully on humans.
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Baltimore
Baltimore City Medical Society
Joseph Stokes, Jr
Pediatrics
Unit of Pennsylvania
Mso
Stokes
Geoffrey Rake
Morris Shaffer
Pediatrics Department
Schedule Emory Keyser Announces Bus Time Change
Change Schedule Emory Keyser, local agent for Capitol Greyhound Lines, says westbound trip formerly leaving Winchester at 2:35 a m now departs at 3:20 am for Cincinnati and St. Louis.
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Emory Keyser
Capitol Greyhound Lines
Winchester
Cincinnati
4-H Club Contest Set for National Dairy Demo Honors
Virginia 4-H Club boys meeting age and project rules may enter the 1941 national dairy production demonstration contest. State winners win trips to Memphis next October. Top teams earn $250 scholarships. second place $100. Deadline Sept 16 for records. state reports from at least five percent of counties needed for national awards.
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Urg
Virginia
Memphis
Extension Service
Robert Apperson
Culpeper
James Marsh
Mitchells
John
Frank Fullerton
Orange
Lightheavy Field Is Narrowed Down
New York boxers narrowed the light heavyweight title field to three after Jimmy Webb’s blows after a Madison Square Garden bout. Webb stopped Tommy Tucker in nine rounds to remove a candidate, while Anton Cristoforidis and Gus Lesnevich fight for a shot at the crown.
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New York
Billy Conn
Jimmy Webb
Tommy Tucker
Madison Square Garden
Frank Fallam
Webb
B&O Plans Six Day Week For Cumberland Shops
About 1,800 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mechanics in Cumberland will adopt a six day week from March 3 increasing hours to 48 per week with straight time and overtime on Sundays or holidays. The move aims to equalize employment and overtime amid defense program demands. Approval came from the local Federation of Shop Crafts No. 7.
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Cumberland
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
B. and O
Federation of Shop Crafts, No. 7
Railway Emee Department
The
A. F. of
Omaha Honesty Test Finds 66 2 3 Percent Return
The Omaha World-Herald sent a reporter to lose six billfolds with a dollar and the reporter's name and number. Four were returned, establishing Omaha's honesty at 66 2 3 percent and suggesting the city should keep the dollar as a lighthearted tribute to George Washington.
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Omaha
Neb
George Washington
Omaha World-Herald
Frederick County Farm Public Sale Details
Under W. A. Hoover will, Mary A Braithwaite estate cancels no sale. On Saturday March 1, 1941 at 11 AM in front of Winchester Virginia County Court House public auction offers 102 acre farm eight miles NW of Winchester adjoining L H Ramey with dwelling, barn, outbuildings. Terms cash. Auctioneers Dunn and Duvall.
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W. A. Hoover
Winchester
Virginia
L. H. Ramey
Mary A. Braithwaite
Public Sale Promised in Winchester Virginia
By distress warrant in Herman H Hable versus The Style Shop I will offer at public auction at 150 N Loudoun St Winchester Va on February 27 1941 at 10 am the defendant s property including ladies coats dresses suits house coats skirts jackets an electric cash register a dress rack a 4 piece reed suite and other numerous articles City Sergeant Taylor L Barr leads the sale.
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Herman H. Hable
Style Shop
N. Loudoun Street
Winchester
Virginia
Taylor L. Barr
Food Purchases To Be Centralized
The War Department announced centralized purchases of canned and non-perishable foods to promote efficiency and economy for the rapidly growing army.
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Washington
War Department
Fragmentary note on 19th century theater figures
The text mentions York Chicago and San Francisco depots and references Allen Lynn Fontanne born 1882 and her husband’s birthdate 1893. It appears as a fragmented notice mixing places and biographical dates without a clear event or context.
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Postanne
Aleea Lynn Fontanne
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OUR National Defense Program
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Mutual Insurance
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Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau
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