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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1948
Page
7
Q A home care guide covers painting and leak checks. It advises inspecting for water intrusion around windows and doors before refinishing and suggests scraping old paint, sealing leaks, and applying a suitable top coat. It also offers boiler flushing tips and coal ash gardening guidance.
Kathleen Norris urges Laura Davis to face her progressive deafness with courage, comparing her trials to those of war heroes. The piece emphasizes resilience, warns against running away, and invites patient endurance while considering medical advances and Fred’s feelings.
Dr. Lewis L. Sharp and S Bernard Wortis report no physiological cause for rising childless marriages, noting one in seven American women marries without children. They cite psychological factors and urge government subsidies for babies, public housing support, a family court for divorce, and expanded family education.
A car smash ends with one girl dead and Laura losing her hearing. Miss Norris identifies Laura’s trouble as self pity and notes her mood worsens as she faces life’s obstacles. The piece reflects on how mindset shapes success or failure during adolescence.
In Los Angeles a salvager unveils a costly hydraulic press that crushes a full automobile into a 2 by 4 by 2 foot mass and bales it. Two years in design the machine cost over $100,000 and aims to ease scrap iron shortages for Pacific Coast mills by handling large postwar scrap infusions.
The will, probated in Philadelphia, allocates a $75,000 trust to care for nine cats found with an elderly spinster. It provides for basic sustenance at a weekly minimal cost and directs the fund to run 20 years before being divided equally among three Odd Fellows lodges.
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