The Reader's Mech Courtroom By Jane Toner Scott
A fragmentary social column explores youth drinking, a drugstore incident, and a courtroom dispute over damages. Ernie’s actions and others’ reactions illustrate differing views on responsibility and legality. The piece references vacations, family names, and local places as it meanders through memories.
Silver Spade Among The Gold at $3900 Shovel
The Silver Spade, a sterling silver shovel with ebony shaft, goes for 3900 apiece and was shown at the Retail Jewelers of America show in New York. Joseph C. Board of Wallingford designed it for ground breaking ceremonies after drawing inspiration from a Richmond, Virginia jeweler customer. Three shovels have been sold so far.
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Points for Parents on Teaching Home Mechanics
A father argues that girls should learn basic home repair skills as boys learn household tasks. He says he teaches Ann to fix dripping faucets and notes the importance of practical skills for daughters, hoping she becomes competent like a future son would be.
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Teen life burdens and travel room etiquette query
A reader asks how to gauge teenage readiness for life and marriage while discussing the limits of age as a factor. The column answers with guidance on emotional development, then switches to a geometry problem about a square plot and a circular garden, calculating circumference from a square area. A help note describes roomette usage and tipping on long train journeys.
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Callinston
Lrish
Hight is Righted and Goobers Debate on Terrace
A jumbled clipping recounts Judge Braude confronting a misspelled word hight in a front page story the editor declared correct after checking the original copy. It then notes a thirty year run of the spelling amid breakfast banter of Mrs Goober and Mr Goober at a West Indies resort. Abel Green previews a new Western TV show portraying outlaws versus a tax evasion case.
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Vermillion Church TAT Class Hosts Meeting at Home
Vermilion Christian Church T.A.T. Class held at the home of Pastor and Mrs. Donald Davison of Ehwood with hosts Mr and Mrs Maurice Matthew assisting. Mrs Maurice Matthew presided as the group sang Blessed Assurance, Rev Davison led with prayer, and Roselyn Fink read a paper Christ Is Coming.
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Cecil Tuttle
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