16 Nov 1950
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1950
Page
1
The National Tuberculosis Association again sells Christmas seals to fund education medical research and rehab in a long running campaign. TB remains the nation s most costly communicable disease claiming more than 40 000 lives annually in the United States as the history of Christmas seals chronicles the battle.
The piece traces early film connections with Alan Ladd discovers Calhounn, Peggy Dow’s dieting for Harvey, and Virginia Huston’s Jane role in Tarzan’s Peril, then shifts to Emily P. Bissell and Denmark’s Christmas seal origin. It explains American Christmas seals funding tuberculosis work through local and national associations and outlines four frontiers: education, case finding, rehabilitation, and medical research.
In Death Valley nearby West Chester a famed heiress Joan Roberts and cowboy Lanky Andrews ride to Howling Coyote Mesa. A face slap follows a momentary vanity clash, then a kiss that shifts their wary romance and draws national attention.
A folklore tall tale from Allen Street follows Know-It-All Louie a brash East Side figure who meddles in a robbery plan. He distracts criminals with bad advice then faces a botched escape and a faulty electric chair when his arrogance meets law and fate.
Psychologists Odbert and Karowski studied 148 college students and found 39 percent could see a color while listening to music. Among them 63 percent linked color with tones and 31 percent reported a color response. Newton tied color to the diatonic scale Do to violet. Attempts have been made to build color organs to express color and music.
A fragmented OCR passage notes a protest remark about filth and a husband likened to a baby. The text shifts to a casual exchange asking Honest and mentioning a terrific hol ler and dollars from 1s candy. It then suggests absent minded people hang a cardboard sign reading DEFROSTING on the refrigerator knob to remind the power on.
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