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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1948
Page
7
An old pattern advertising piece shows how to build inexpensive outdoor furniture for porches and lawns. It promotes patterns that include full size cutting layouts and step by step assembly without special tools, offering lawn chair settee and table patterns with modest prices and mail order.
Bernard M. Baruch, famed financier, loses a 2200 cash roll at a race track. A track attendant returns the money, Baruch rewards $800, and public calls for a full statement. The incident sparks questions about prudence in finance and prompts demand for Baruch to address the nation and economic bodies.
Disjointed quotes critique pari mutuel racing ethics and track incentives. It cites the Maryland racing commission on track financial interest, a Soviet peace stance attributed to HH, and remarks by William Foster and Chiang Kai Shek. The piece also questions youth knowledge through a radio program offering rewards for naming Washington.
Women face burns and other injuries from hot or sharp objects around the home. Use tongs to pick up hot articles at the stove, outdoor fire, or sink. Lift hot jars, vegetables, potatoes, or utensils with tongs to avoid burns.
In December 1949 Allied bombing hit Monte Cassino Abbey, once a cultural guardian since 529 founded by St Benedict above the Liri valley. Eisenhower ordered the destruction stating the building must go as Nazis had fortified it, ending a pivotal ethical dilemma of the Italian campaign.
A scattered set of classified notices offers 140 acres in Mower County Minnesota for stock, dairy, and grain use near Austin, plus 1100 acres in Lyman County South Dakota with White River access. Listings boast ranch prospects, farm properties in the northwest, and investment opportunities. Also featured are service businesses, a 62 seat cafe in Lake Preston SD, a standard-service auto/fuel concern, farm machinery including tractors and threshers, autos and trucks, an auctioneering course, pest and farm spraying, and moving rates from Wilson Van Lines in Sioux City Iowa.
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