Good Taste Today etiquette column by Emily Post
A reader asks about left handed table manners and teaching children from infancy to adapt to normal place settings. Also questions on including a boss's wife in wedding invitations and form of address for women in business letters. Answers emphasize early teaching, including a wife in wedding invitations, formal invitation responses, and using Dear Madam when marital status is unknown.
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Mrs. Post
Jim
Father Murphy
Father Jim
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Woodchucks Targeted as Farmers Expand Bomb War
Exeter police report shows Rockland County farmers stepping up pest control by producing nearly 4000 gas bombs to lay in ground holes within weeks. They seek a new supply to intensify actions against woodchucks.
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Exeter
Rockland County
Percy Uris Showcases Bridge Style at Cavendish Club
New York builder Percy Uris displayed caution and enterprise in a Cavendish Club bridge session. His bold opening bid of one no-trump highlighted a confident, mixed approach.
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Percy Uris
New York
Uris
Cavendish Club
Card Play Brings Bold Contract To Home
In a bridge hand North used Stayman to elicit a major, South showed hearts, and North reached game. Aris, careful on defense, forced clubs to break well and West could not safely guard, allowing dummy to ruff and South to dispose of diamonds. Declarer preserved the lead with accurate play and made the contract.
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South
West
Uris
East
Dummy
Declarer
Aris
My Day JOINS PROTEST ON HUNGARIAN POLICE STATE
Eleanor Roosevelt writes in support of Hungarians facing police state abuses and deportations, urging global protest. She also describes a visit to Beatrice Auerbach’s Hartford farm, praising its operations, dairy, and plans to expand with breeding stock, then shares a family visit to Farmington, noting affection for her aunt.
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Miss Thompson
Beatrice Auerbach
Hartford
Conn
Guernseys
Mrs
Sheffield Cowles
Old Place
Farmington
Sheffield
Mrs. Cowles
Wrestling Easier Than Hay Pitching in CHATHAM Ohio
Donna Marie Dieckman, 18, from the 138-7gre farm, once helped pitch hay and milk cows. She now pursues wrestling, saying it is the only thing she ever wanted to do as she transitions from farm chores to the sport.
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Chatham
Ohio
Donna Marie Dieckman
Teen wrestler Donna Bares Statewide Hay Pitching Labor
A Columbus area wrestling talent known as Donna describes a tough one night schedule while managing events. Standing five feet tall and about 135 pounds the teen says she is thrilled and embraces hard work as she pitches hay across the state.
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eColumbus
Donna
More Drumsticks Gate City in Virginia tale
Mrs. Audry Winninger raised a chicken to four legs in Gate City Virginia. The unusual poultry growth draws local curiosity and headlines this small town oddity report.
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Gate City
First industrial enterprise on the American continent
The first industrial enterprise on the American continent was a crude glass furnace built to manufacture beads for trade with Indigenous peoples.
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