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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1971
Page
6
Dear Abby answers readers on living with an unwed partner, wedding disputes, prom date dilemmas, and a school assignment hurting a child with absent or deceased fathers. Abby defends choice, urges clear boundaries, and supports sensitive handling of family and grief.
A reader advocates consulting a trusted mechanic to compare repair ease and long term costs before purchasing appliances and tools. The piece urges shopping by practical reliability over appearance, with a call to ask questions and verify values. Additionally Heloise shares a trick to extend a key chain using rubber bands for easier purse access.
Several readers share practical home hacks from DIY to pet care. Suggestions include saving towels using a low cabinet to avoid water on arms a method to freeze unbaked pie crust wrapped in plastic and foil and a shaving cream shampoo trick for pet odor removal. Readers praise the advice.
Dr Myers urges parents to involve children in seed selection planting and garden care to build responsibility. He cites 4H clubs and home projects teaching soil knowledge harvest timing weed control and safe lawn mower practices for youths 12 to 14.
Recipe details for Butter Chews from Mrs. Lowell Patterson include brown sugar coconut nuts and egg whites over a cake like batter baked in a 9 by 12 pan. Athens and Rome Grange meetings are announced with a talent show and open public attendance.
Quotes from Katherine Anne Porter and Mary Pickford on feminism and retirement. Also notes Mrs. J. N. Franks Jr who returned to schooling after dropping out, highlighting education as inspiration for her children.
Jerry L. Grim director of Ohio Valley Area Library will address the Waterloo PTA on home reading and child development at 7 30 pm. New principal James Hover will speak briefly and a display of grades one through eight children’s art will be shown. A University of Iowa psychiatrist warns current psychiatry leans toward social solutions and calls for research into organic causes of mental illness.
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