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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1949
Page
12
A practical guide urges interior improvements without architects. Start with small tasks like turning doors into bookcases and shortening table legs to make a coffee table. Emphasizes planning, light and storage gains, and DIY face lifting of furniture to create a livelier, harmonious home.
A collection of courtroom anecdotes about a widow’s debt dispute and a barber’s tools, plus a humorous seance mishap. Then guidance on renovating ceilings and walls with plaster patches, wall boards, painting, wallpaper, and easy spray methods.
Kathleen Norris argues divorce destroys happiness as Stephen Jackson recalls his six year marriage. Adele leaves with their children and later falls ill, while Steve battles for custody and questions what makes a home permanent. The piece criticizes divorce and urges warning and restraint.
The Census Bureau begins early monthly interviewing for the 1950 census. Enu merators visit about 25 000 households to ask marital status and employment questions. The employment data drive estimates of job holders and job hunters and aid business conditions. Officials note confidentiality and deny fear of spying. Some refuse but most cooperate after identification is shown. Interviewers receive short training.
The article highlights fall fashion focusing on pleats in plaids stripes and tweeds. Pleated designs are large stitched at the hips and appear in wool jerseys and lighter fabrics. Modern pleats are treated to be permanent making separates essential for school or business ensembles.
Kraft foods company reports that adding pelletized milk product to the breeding turkey ration increased egg production by over 25 percent and raised per-hen profit during a 94 day laying period. Test flock produced 48.1 eggs per hen versus 38.3 in control, with hatching egg value rising to $14.11 per hen.
Summer breakfast guide emphasizes five essentials fruit cereal with milk bread butter and a beverage plus optional meats. Includes oatmeal muffin mix recipe makes 75 small muffins with steps and variations and offers serving ideas for eggs fish and salads with practical tips for quick, nutritious meals.
Prof C J Chapman of the University of Wisconsin says manure treated with superphosphate doubles its work in topdreshed fields. He advises 25 to 30 pounds per spreader load or scattering phosphate in barn gutters at about one pound per cow daily.
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