Dear Abby Advice From a 21YearOld Draft Dodger
Dear Abby answers readers on love and duty in a 1940s column. A 21 year old draft hopeful seeks marriage to avoid service and laments privacy. Abby urges maturity, says enlistment strengthens character and country. Other letters discuss social titles for widowed women and come and see us invitations.
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Buddy
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Handel's secret music in attic amid barber father’s wishes
The father of musician George Frederick Handel, a barber-surgeon, disapproved of music and pressed for law. The boy pursued music secretly, practicing on a clavichord smuggled into the attic by a sympathetic friend. Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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George Frederick Handel
Handel
Food Factory Cow Produces High Quality Milk
The cow is described as the world's most efficient food factory with milk supplying quality protein calcium and vitamins A B and G.
New England Vignettes From a Hartford to New London Flight
James Calogero profiles Cheryl Brinkman a 16 year old Waterbury Connecticut blind student at Oakhill School. She excels in academics and hobbies including Morse code French ham radio and piano while navigating life with family support and a love of Yankees games. The piece surveys spring nature sites in Massachusetts and a hospital birth club scarce to the dozen set, plus local business, golf, and mission-focused youth in nearby towns.
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Oakhill School
Connecticut Institute For Blind
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Chery
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Lynn Mass
Fred Winchell
Lynn
William Fahey
Saugus
Lynn Hospital
Milk vitamins in cream warn diet changes and cold note
Health Capsules offers guidance about fats and vitamins, noting most vitamin A and D are in cream and suggesting diet adjustments. The snippet ends with a caveat that the information is not a diagnostic tool and mentions tomorrow’s cold emphasis.
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