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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1950
Page
12
The article outlines budget friendly decorating strategies to make rooms feel cooler in hot weather. It advises uncluttered, cool colors, minimal patterns, and keeping only essential items. Porches can gain comfort with light paints, simple cushions, and light weight draperies. Bedrooms are kept airy by removing heavy coverings and using venetian blinds or white shades.
Wealthy widow's children contest her will claiming mental incompetence due to forgetting punch lines and reintroducing the same greet. Court upholds will. Geese on track case finds no railroad liability for not stopping. Fire exit dispute rules hotel liable for jumping out window. Schoolgirl false imprisonment claim rejected. teacher's disciplinary power upheld.
Laura Post of Pontiac writes about a 10 year marriage shattered by her husband Bill's affair with Olive, a wealthy divorced woman. The letter questions divorce, fairness to the wife and children, and whether law can intervene, while urging duty and restraint. Local editor counsels that the husband owes his family and society a stable home and that the wife should seek freedom if necessary, noting that power shifts with time.
Harvard psychology professor B F Skinner reports pigeons can be trained to perform tasks such as playing piano tunes table tennis and recognizing traffic light changes. Experiments use food rewards to reinforce correct responses with pigeons showing rapid reaction times similar to humans.
A teacher asks about berry gathering rates, John at six quarts and May at four, but Jimmy replies five quarts due to time wasted. A judge panel quip sequences discuss speed as a driver deflects claims, yielding a ten dollar fine.
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