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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1946
Page
8
A 1940s style digest explains OPA ceilings on new and used cars, remedies for overcharges, and penalties. It details side payments, obligatory trade-ins, upgrading, financing, and non existent extras, plus as is and warranty ceilings with dealer obligations.
In Ithaca New York professors at Cornell University unveil a miniature milking device for guinea pigs built by Prof B L Herrington. The setup mirrors dairy milking and fits on an 18 by 6 inch board with a glass milk container and a two person milking process. Herrington Williams and an audience watch as milking time becomes a routine demonstration, with Herrington joking about charging admission.
Kansas families received 6.559 million dollars in life insurance death benefits in the first half of the year, up from 5.052 million in the same period last year and 4.666 million in prewar 1941. The six month claims total reached 4,419, with 5,052,000 in ordinary policies and 675,000 in group life coverage.
Two Ottawa residents died of infantile paralysis in a Topeka hospital yesterday. The victims were Mrs Gerle Cruces and 9 year old Marit Berlin, daughter of Dean Berlin. The report notes prior insurance and policy figures amidst unrelated text.
Enrollment of 400 is assured at Friends University as registration starts September 11 and classes begin September 12 in Wichita Kansas registrar Iva V Pickering said.
Students from New York Pennsylvania Virginia and Washington DC were among those listed. Burglars entered the Oakland golf clubhouse and stripped it of six pairs of curtains band tones Sabes baie jeckets the number of baile. Edward Smouse discovered the theft and said the final touch was taking the kitchen sink.
An elderly Black woman from Tennessee asserts she is 108 years old, noting her father lived to 129 and her mother to 119. The report records her claim of a long history of a "weak heart" and a strong liver.
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