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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1950
Page
6
The column urges personal wardrobe renewal by remodeling fall purchases. It notes fashion shifts require thoughtful alterations to avoid unwearable clutter and suggests simple updates like new buttons trims and decorative touches to revive outfits.
A guide urges careful planning for fashion remodeling. Start with a clean garment and choose simple changes like bead trim to refresh hats, blouses, or skirts. Avoid long, elaborate projects to maintain interest and finish promptly.
The column recalls a courtroom where a cousin’s rough handling was not a crime absent intent to injure. It also reports a condemned killer surviving an execution attempt, and a neighbor liability dispute after a tree decayed and fell. A bystander’s emotion does not imply liability. A petty incident shows onlookers not responsible for others’ actions.
Kathleen Norris criticizes Doctor David Mace of Drew University for arguing chastity may be debatable and for presenting multiple viewpoints. She contends his conclusions still uphold traditional morality while exposing flaws in his discussion of sexuality, contraception, and marriage.
Describes a long lasting classic evening dress with a close fitting bodice and full skirt. Velvet in black with oversized pearl or rhinestone banding, matching satin lined stole in ivory or white to complement the embellishments.
In WEEPING WATER NEB the First National bank plans liquidation after five elderly directors cannot find younger successors. President H A Crozier, age 60, cites age and illness as main reasons for resignations and urges depositors to withdraw funds.
Seven year old Joyce says her little sister Patricia is hungry after stealing food from school lunchboxes. Patricia weighs 14 pounds at age two and cannot speak. officials compare her to wartime famine victims. The two girls and four brothers live with a jailed father and an expectant mother. Joyce is in foster care, Patricia in Champlain Valley hospital, where she has started to gain weight.
New York reports show Louisiana residents paid the highest per person state tax at 92.19 dollars for 1948-49, while Nebraska paid the lowest at 35.92. The era’s totals place New York and California first in state tax collections, with overall 1948-49 receipts at 8.33 billion dollars, well above 1938-39 levels.
Geologist Eiler Henrickson reports first Michigan pitchblende find near Lake Superior in August 1949 confirmed by Michigan state geologist Gerald Eddy. Area 200 miles from Sault Ste. Marie. 80 acre claim filed under new uranium prospecting law. Discovery seen as possible large ore source though extent unknown.
In Frankfurt a Weisbaden doctor Dr William Witzel reports ten years of experiments suggesting eye iris changes reveal fetal sex. He tested 35 American women in the last month of pregnancy at the 97th General Hospital with results pending at birth.
The Gutenberg museum in Mainz Germany houses the oldest printed page believed created by Johann Gutenberg in 1445. The Last Judgment pages are valued at about 6 000 dollars by museum director Professor Rupel. The collection also features Gutenberg Bible from 1452 to 1455 valued at around 240 000 dollars and once shown in Washington DC.
A southern lawyer appointed as judge recalls defending a Negro client charged with stealing a ham from a rotisserie. The man refuses a new lawyer and insists on telling the truth. An explorer marooned in Canada recounts a joke about hard sledding when asked how he got home due to no snow.
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