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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1968
Page
9
A compendium of Dear Abby questions reveals marital strain and parenting concerns. A worried wife cites neglectful fathering and fear for daughters’ futures. Readers discuss trust, privacy, and strategies to improve communication within a long marriage.
A reflective diary-like piece details morning scenes as children depart for school and the author muses on archeologists discovering a home as ruins. A sermon about future digs portrays the kitchen as a temple and modern appliances as relics, inviting speculation on what was worshiped.
The World Almanac notes a fully grown grizzly weighs 800 to 1,000 pounds and can reach eight feet from nose to tail. Cubs are tiny at birth, blind and toothless, roughly the size of a squirrel, with only about 60 percent surviving the first 18 months.
Icy roads Saturday night caused a head on collision on Saco Avenue in Old Orchard Beach. Frances L. Googin 18 of Pine Point and Franklin D. Perry Jr. 21 of Portland were the drivers. both escaped injury as the cars were extensively damaged. The article also notes Argentine pampa vast cultivation of wheat and corn for year round cattle pasturage.
St Francis College will establish a Saga Food Service of Maine operation on Feb 1 to procure prepare and serve meals for students faculty staff and guests under Saga oversight. Hugh Dakers, resigning college food manager since 1962, plans to enter restaurant management. Saga will cover payroll and workers compensation for all dining staff and provide unlimited seconds and special diets as prescribed by doctors. Nine surprise dinners yearly will serve the 450 resident students including a United Nations Dinner Ice Cream Excursion and Candlelight Dinners.
HAL BOYLE jokes about retirement and lists bold goals and wild adventures he plans to pursue. He notes eight years and change until retirement and urges keeping oneself active with a wide array of improbable, humorous ambitions across travel sport and odd jobs.
The document notes 173 signers of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. It mentions the Statue of Liberty’s eye spans 22 feet and references Charleston, South Carolina, in connection with these topics.
AP report on Dick Martin and Dan Rowan touting their Laugh In approach a prime time NBC series. They vow visual humor with quick bits outside a studio, no press agents, and no traditional flowery intros or standard variety show format.
Across clues list many entries including High cards Lat city, double reed instruments, treasures, enlistee abbreviations and more. Down clues cover assistants, summons, cash, jell, repeated terms and place names like Montreal and Venetia with various linguistic hints.
A list of individuals including Elsie M. Builer Camille Bidad Mrs. Kenneth Dutch Mrs. C. J. LeProhon Madeleine Perreault Helena G. Murphy Bomald Forest appears, suggesting a local notice or social register item. The fragmentary text indicates a series of personal names tied to Biddeford. No dates or actions are present.
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