Morning Chorus of Family Woes and Peaceful Quiet
Jane Toner Scott recalls the morning chaos as Cindy dominates wake up calls and the family vents about grueling routines. The speaker longs for solitude while acknowledging the quiet hours later when the household rests and the children seem content.
Adolph Wins Damages Suit Over Weak Theater Seat
The Reader's Courtroom recounts Will Bernard Adolph suing a theater owner after a seat collapsed injuring him. The judge notes contributory negligence due to Adolph's near 300 pound weight, but ultimately considers the owner responsible for a seat unlikely to fail under normal use.
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Points for Parents on Youth New Year Celebrations
Mothers discuss whether a young girl should attend a New Year’s Eve nightclub. The mother argues against such outings citing age and maturity, offering alternatives like hosting friends at home or a family celebration while noting peer pressure is not a valid justification.
Daily Crossword Puzzle Clues Mixed From Across and Down
A compact listing of crossword clues with across and down entries. Includes firearm discloses witty collegial term city on Penobscot river Maine compass point Scot aim northern neighbor subsided Irish fairies sew with long stitches said against prefix person in charge of prisoners risk
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Penobscot River
Compass Point
Aim
Fairies
Daily Cryptoquote Puzzle and Example
A sample cryptogram explains substitution with A representing L and X representing O. The page shows a quotation by Longfellow and mentions Yesterday's cryptoquote DO ALL THE GOOD YOU CAN BY ALL THE MEANS YOU CAN attributed to Wesley.
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Longfellow
Wesley
Greener Thumbs Indoor Gardening On Wheels
A simple or elaborate setup favors indoor gardening with plants arranged on a cart. Enamel kitchen style pots work well and plants can be wheeled to a faucet for water and moved to catch light and air.
Relaxing exercises from Josephine Lowman
A brief instructional passage by Josephine Lowman details three relaxing exercises to ease tension and improve posture. The routine emphasizes slow, breathful movements, spinal articulation, and gentle stretching, with an offer to obtain leaflet No. 19 on beauty and health by sending a stamped self addressed envelope.
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Josephine Lowman
Wallpaper and wall view mislead final color and pattern
Practical tips for evaluating wallpaper by hanging large samples against walls and stepping back to judge color and pattern. Steps include using a cardboard cutout around switch plates to avoid wall staining and making sandpaper strips to protect closet shelves. A fatal sledding accident near Clinton, Indiana, left Raymond Musial dead after hitting a stump while sledding.
Picasso sketches burglar, but police seize odd clues
A gallery owner recalls Picasso catching a burglar in a French chateau. The thief escaped, and a rough Picasso sketch led police to arrest a finance minister, a New York columnist, a machine, and a Eiffel Tower replica. Nearby, Michigan guests report nude drivers in a new station wagon.
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Iphe
57Th Street
Pablo Picasso
France
Picasso
New York
Eiffel Tower
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December May marriage dilemma in Dear Helen column
A reader asks about a possible marriage between a 38 year old man and a high school senior of 18. The advice notes many December and May romances end happily but warns the man to go slow if he is not in love. The column includes two other letters about marital strife and domestic conflict with in laws, urging resilience and practical steps.
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Helen
IRS Eases Expense Rules and Wireless Business News
IRS Commissioner Mortimer Caplin said after January 1 taxpayers must keep receipts to prove deductions above 25 dollars a day for travel and entertaining expenses. Machine tool orders fell in November while year to date totals rose. Building contracts hit a near record high driven by apartments and roads. RCA reported its best sales and profits in 1982 with earnings up 40 percent and net profits above 50 million.
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United Press International
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Mortimer Caplin
National Machine Tool Builders Association
F. W. Dodge
New York
RCA
Radio Corp. of America
David Sarnoff
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