Polly's Pointers and Homemaking Tips
A collection of reader tips from Polly and readers including making a bobbin rack from knitting needles and a shoe box, planning meals for camping, sewing belt construction to reduce bulk, drying clothes on wire hangers, using a spray top for dish soap, and reusing nearly empty detergent bottles. Readers are invited to submit ideas for a silver dollar if used.
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Austin Daily Herald
Mature Parent columnist on moral collapse and indifference
Mrs Muriel Lawrence argues that daylight indifference to horrors degrades society. She cites Long Island crimes and a rape as evidence of a shrinking empathy, warning that the world grows crazier when feeling fades. The piece reflects on collective responsibility and moral omission. The second item reports a bridge hand analysis by Oswald Jacoby, detailing misplay and strategic decisions in a dummy versus opponents scenario.
Hollywood gossip and Hollywood World tour plans
ERSKINE JOHNSON reports CBS controversy over Dr. Kildare candy bars on NBC and a plan at Universal to open Movie World with tram rides and sets. Gina Lollobrigida battles sun exposure, while Phyllis Diller recalls old dress counts as a rainbow in the closet.
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Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues
Across clues include seat five light eight coffee twelve Jacobs son bib thirteen employ fourteen notion fifteen shakes on character sixteen maize genus seventeen wild plum eighteen antique crib twenty be indignant twenty two iodine form twenty three mariners direction twenty four rubber twenty seven soft lighting thirty one circlet thirty two foundation thirty three mouth comb thirty four commotion thirty five move quickly thirty six canine seven oe a ngworm forty two chair forty five bed a forty nine musical instrumen fifty number fifty two toiletry case fifty three iron dog fifty four marine eagle fifty five frolic fifty six leg joint fifty seven grain fifty eight bodies of water Down clues list secular glacial mounds star in Lyra eating away melted
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Jacoby's Bridge: South West North East opening lead
Bridge notes from Austin Herald summarize a contract where all four players are shown with vulnerability indicated as both sides. The snippet references an opening lead of a club ten or a two? and implies discussion of bidding and play strategy in the Jacoby style typical of the era.
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Oswald Jacoby
Enterprise Assn
South
East
West
Bridge question on rebidding after heart shift
In a four suit auction with North East South West open passes, you hold K57 in spades 53 and KQJ104 in HAC. With partner bypassing spades and rebidding one heart, decide whether to bid three no trump or take another action. Tomorrow’s answer will explain.
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Pony Express Freight Rates in 1861 Report
In 1861 a privately owned Pony Express charged five dollars per half ounce for mail between St. Joseph Missouri and Sacramento California. The route required seven to ten days for delivery. Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Apartment Owners Tax Treatment
CHICAGO residents learn that buying a condominium grants special income tax treatment. Taxpayers who itemize can deduct mortgage interest and real estate taxes. If selling a residence and buying a condo in the same year, gain on the old home is taxed only to the extent the old price exceeds the new purchase price. New laws allow condominium owners in 32 states and DC to be assessed for property taxes.
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Pronunciation mixup blamed for misleading box to Miami
9 Newsman Mike Thompson notes a Japanese address on a box sent to Miami Florida may reflect a pronunciation error with the letter L. The incident highlights potential confusion in cross linguistic mail handling and adds a note on misaddressed parcels.
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