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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1967
Page
7
Readers share quick home hacks from baking pine cones to speed drying, coating with shoe polish, spraying with hairspray and glitter, and using glue for a festive finish. Also notes on making applesauce, removing thread ends with a soft eraser, and a homemade baby bath pad idea.
Mrs Mildred Howard of County Line Farm Glouster Route 1 shares a Gourmet Ginger Pears recipe as a relish or spread. Ingredients include pears ginger lemon juice sugar lemon peel and vinegar with steps to soak, simmer and jar. The note mentions another reader Iva Johnson and a Quince Honey recipe also being shared.
A reader named Sue James suggests an improvised lighting method for a fireplace. If Jong matches run out, insert a book match into a drinking straw end, strike another match, and light the straw to ignite the fire, saving singed fingers.
A reader panel of letters covers a son’s fiancee’s manners, a babysitter’s critique, a superstitious mother-in-law, and a kiss dispute. Abby counsels the mother to accept her son’s choice, urges preparation for a baby, and condemns the 14 year old kissing incident with a firm note of shame.
A short notice directs readers to Abby at Box 69700 Los Angeles California 90069 for correspondence and asks to include a stamped self addressed envelope for a personal reply.
Judith Campbell, a nurse stationed in Vietnam at 91st Evacuation Hospital on the South China Sea, will receive a collapsible Christmas tree from her mother to brighten the pediatrics ward. The Wilton Connecticut native, tall and kind, earned her BA and BN from the University of Connecticut before joining the WAC and an Army program that made her a second lieutenant prior to graduation, with plans to become a captain before returning home.
Judy, adjusting to Vietnam, writes to her parents about injured children in the pediatrics ward asking for clothes for the poor things who lost everything. Connecticut youngsters miss their favorite babysitter, but Judy continues helping children.
A promotional note asks readers to mail one dollar to Abby at Box 69700 Los Angeles California 90069 to receive a new teen guidance book. The item reads like a clearance request rather than a news story and lacks verifiable context.
Mrs. Fred Luchs will review Henry P. Van Dusen's ham marskjold Statesman and His Faith when the Lydia Lash Evans Club meets with Mrs. Carios Cameron at 13 Ohio Ave. at 2 p.m. on Thursday. Orville Stover of Athens Route has been released from University Hospital in Columbus after lung surgery.
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