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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1952
Page
2
A guidance piece argues busy families can turn porch or garage into a year round recreation room or playroom. It suggests decorating plans, storage ideas, and flexible uses to also create a guest bedroom with privacy curtains and seasonal furniture options.
The guide outlines turning a porch into an extra room with varied window sizes and built in storage cabinets. It covers choosing sturdy, practical furniture in rattan or birch, coordinating cushion colors, and creating a cohesive look with the home's palette. It also discusses converting garages into playrooms with high storage, seating, and durable flooring for activities like ping pong.
A trench silo may solve silage storage problems for many farmers especially where drainage is good and soil moisture from outside is not an issue. Walls should be smooth for quality silage and a hillside site aids filling and drainage.
The passage discusses how individuals shape nations through actions, citing Napoleon Hitler Alfred the Great and Lincoln as extremes of success or failure. It also includes practical notes on silo capacity for livestock feeding and warns against judging leaders by military record alone, using Saul, Israel’s first king, as a cautionary tale about misjudging leadership qualities.
Backyard farming is expanding into big business with scientific methods guiding home plots. Spring seed houses and garden supply stores reported about 15 percent higher sales than last year as homeowners grow portions of their food, using soil testing, intercropping, and efficient fertilizer and insecticide practices to stretch family budgets.
A Illinois farmer converts an old water heater pressure tank into a air tight vacuum tank to power a hydraulic hoist for milking. The piece then shifts to a moral discussion of King Saul, highlighting jealousy superstition and disloyalty as traits of a poor leader, drawing lessons on leadership and character.
Dr. I M Levitt of Fels Planetarium proposes a 250 foot by 75 foot cigar shaped rocket to reach the moon. Fuel remains the main challenge with alcohol and liquid oxygen proposed to achieve two miles per second, still short of seven miles per second escape velocity. Once reached, the ship could orbit Earth and serve as a jumping off point for other craft, easing the path to space.
Charles Allman notes intensive cultivation on the island with a thin soil layer that remains undepleted. Rain from June to November largely percolates into bedrock, feeding bubbling springs along the coast.
Yellow warning signs for diseases are no longer common in many U S communities yet health departments stay firm on preventing spread. Parents must keep children home for illnesses while schools still check arrivals daily. quarantines for measles and other diseases may be relaxed but responsibility rests with families and school officials to monitor health.
The article notes about 78,000 U S babies die in the first month each year and calls this preventable. Premature birth accounts for about half of these deaths with survival tied to birth weight. Babies under 2 pounds 3 ounces see about 95 percent mortality, while those over 5 pounds have under one percent.
A four engine jet research plane flies high over Britain testing the Decca Flight Log auto navigator. The system shows the plane’s position on a map and traces its track automatically. Designed to pick up signals from an airbear receiver, it creates the flight path while flying at speeds near 1500 miles per hour, for use on future jet air lines.
A 130 foot long dinosaur, 50 to 60 feet tall, is being excavated at Wad Draa in Eastern Moreeso. Paleontologist Father L'Avocat of the Museum of Natural Sciences of Paria leads the dig amid primeval swamp and forest remains.
The lesson centers on the soul’s salvation and delight in divine law from Psalms 119. It contrasts biblical commandments with Science and Health concepts, asserting no other gods or material claims before the spiritual truth. The correlative passage emphasizes that true existence remains spiritual only.
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