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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1954
Page
7
Dear Mrs Landers answers readers on love and marriage woes. A hopeful man wonders if his dream love is real and he should act. A wife seeks aid after her husband abandons them. Ann Landers offers practical guidance and resources.
Most of Ethiopia's 350000 square miles lies on a plateau ranging from 5000 to 6000 feet in elevation, shaping the nation's geography and climate.
Florence Vogel III spoke to the Young Matrons Club at the Old Mill banquet Monday evening. She shared experiences from travels to Oslo Stockholm Copenhagen Rome the Riviera Paris and London. New YWCA officers installed last month included Mrs. Brewster president and others.
A series of short updates on local residents. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Grenier visit relatives in Los Angeles before returning home. August Husemoller weekend with Rex Hamm family in Charles City. Get Together Club meets at Mrs. Nordean Petersons. F I Wiese attend wedding in Harbur after weekend in Carroll and Manning. Sister Mary Prosper visiting before St Teresa’s College. Dale Johnson travels to San Antonio to visit sisters with return date August 1. Mrs. Avis Moline and son Robert attend Minnesota University commencement as son John earns DDS. Mrs. Nancy Reynolds and other relatives travel to St Paul for funeral of Mrs. Cotton. Reynolds plan Memphis return after weekend visit.
Advertisement offers maternity top patterns in sizes 12 through 20 with embroidery transfers and pattern pieces. Send 25 cents per pattern plus 5 cents extra for first class mail to the Needlecraft Dept in New York. Include name address and zone with pattern number. Also promotes Laura Wheeler 1954 Needlecraft Catalog at 20 cents.
Unity Chapter No 29 Order of Eastern Star held an Hour of Remembrance honoring two members who died days apart and had joined the chapter over 50 years ago. Miss Maxine Proctor and Mrs. William Warfield led a memorial service with a social hour and garden flower tables. Regular work resumes September 13 after a June 28 close for summer.
S/Sgt and Mrs Donald Root with their family arrived in Austin from Hawaii to visit Art Root at 1106 North East Street. S/Sgt Root has completed ten years of service in the Air Force.
Wynantskill auction for Kiwanis Club drew bids on items donated by Sen. McCarthy. A baseball autographed by New York Giants players sold for 7.25 dollars, a copy of McCarthy’s book brought 1.25, and a RPI hockey stick went for 1.50. Celebrities are asked to contribute annually.
In Richmond Virginia reports from two hospitals say the mother baby and father are doing fine. Mrs Thomas Foeger went to one hospital to have a baby while her husband was taken to another for an operation.
A flag hung in a Martinsville Virginia hotel for years baffling visitors. A reporter checked a dictionary and learned it was the first Confederate flag used before the Stars and Bars.
Readers learn of new summer bedding options including all cotton blankets, nap sheets, and lightweight throw blankets. Modern beds gain fitmitered blankets, color fast prints, and washable nylon tricot sheets that resist wrinkling and simplify making the bed.
Beirut may lose its claim as the garage of the Arab world if a Lebanese parliament bill to curb automobile imports passes. Last year Lebanon spent 14 million dollars on autos, spare parts, and gasoline, about 11 percent of total imports, while Beirut’s streets show a modern but crowded car landscape.
Dr. Leslie M. FitzGerald of Dubuque Iowa, president of the American Dental Association, says tooth disease is the most widespread ailment after the common cold. He estimates 280 million fillings would fix cavities in children 6 to 18 and that 97 percent of the population suffers from tooth decay or gum disease.
London reports a rebound in cinema attendance as Board of Trade figures show 305,773,000 moviegoers in the last quarter of 1953, up 954,000 from the previous period, reversing a sharp prior drop attributed to television.
The quarter of 1952 shows admissions rising for the first time since statistics began in 1950 apart from the last quarter of 1951 when admissions edged above 1950. This marks a notable uptrend beyond the 1951 comparison.
In Greece the 70 year old Walter Eugene Packard of Berkeley California was honored with a marble bust. He studied agriculture at Iowa State College and pioneered a soil washing method that converted 15000 arid acres into rice land along the Sperkhios River. From 1948 to 1953 Greece reduced rice imports and began exporting to 15 western countries.
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