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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1976
Page
4
The piece contrasts President Ford’s Bicentennial joke about laughter and liberty with a critique of bureaucratic overreach. It cites Dunkirk Ohio where EPA demands a costly sewer system far beyond the town’s means, threatening court action amid limited local resources.
A paint firm reports a study showing yellow lifts mood red excites green relaxes blue calms violet depresses. Kansas State researchers find small rooms feel colder unless remodeled with wood paneling red carpet indirect lighting and art, which can create a felt warmth equal to 2.5 degree temperature rise. This psychological warmth could cut energy use.
In Germany, some students demonstrated against U S aggression while in Uruguay Latin students denounced the U S Government as a dictatorship. The piece notes the irony that such criticisms come from well informed commentators and mocks the dismissal of their views.
The column presents three reader questions. One asks how to enforce a dog walking clause after a building change, another seeks guidance on ending an uncertain engagement, and the third asks about common law marriage after two years of living together and potential property rights.
On this date in history Louis Henry Sullivan was born in 1850. In 1783 the Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolution. In 1939 Britain declared war on Germany, followed by France and others. Winston Churchill spoke of blood toil sweat and tears.
From Out of the Past column recounts a 1871 Tennessee elopement where a daughter knocked down her father with a shovel to stop him , the father shot at the groom, and the bride fired a revolver in defense before returning home with her husband and the narrator notes the tale as memorable news writing.
A collage of L M Boyd questions and answers covers college boys tastes with cars and sports ranking, traffic light color perception, long distance call patterns by women, language trivia, cat purring purposes, star identification, brassiere origins with patent payout, and animal murder claims. Copyright 1976 L M Boyd.
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