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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1974
Page
5
Chauncey and Athens RSVP volunteers visit the County Home for game night and holiday cheer. Residents dress up, decorate with cranberries and popcorn, enjoy caroling, a live Christmas tree, stockings, and a Christmas Eve service. Some residents will visit relatives while others stay for a big holiday dinner and gifts.
Dear Abby advises a wife dealing with a dirty husband, suggesting he may be childish or lazy and that a wife need not, and should not, feel obligated to make love to a partner who smells bad. The column also touches a bride’s dilemma about her father giving her away in May amid divorced parents.
A dated home recipe by Marian Reeder for Cranberry Nut Bread, using flour sugar baking powder soda butter orange juice orange rind beaten egg cranberries and English walnuts. The batter is folded with dry ingredients then baked in a leaf pan at 350 degrees for about one hour.
A home birth revival spreads in California with lay midwives and do it yourself style. The article follows a northern California birth where a midwife belly dances as a drummer assists and the baby is named Bambi. Doctors say home birth is risky, and midwifery remains illegal since 1949, driving services underground. Officials and families discuss lifestyle fit and timing of baby after birth.
The letter writer seeks permission to be given away by her boss and explains alimony and support issues. A separate question covers hiring a housekeeper after a neighbor’s complaint, with Abby ruling the hiring was not wrong and friendship would have suffered anyway. Also a book recommendation about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
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