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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1973
Page
12
New York AP notes an evocative essay on memory tracing real moments from the past. It links everyday scenes like radios, bathrooms, porch twilight and penny ante plays to a broader sense of time, youth, fear, and longing. It mentions coinage since 1876 and pinon pine nests as curiosities.
A reader recounts losing a 31 year old friend who after separation from her husband killed herself and two children. The note laments not offering timely friendship and urges readers to seek help, recognizing the need for psychiatric support rather than mere sympathy.
On this date in 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed emperor of France. In 1860 a Republican convention in Chicago nominated Abraham Lincoln for president. The Civil War siege of Vicksburg began in 1863. Tennessee Valley Authority was created in 1933. World War II Italy surrendered in 1941. The UN moved to Manhattan in 1951. Today’s birthdays note Perry Como Margo Fonteyn and John Updike. Thoughts on neighbors paying half the rent and a letters page reflect advice column humor.
Public school menus list weekly meals for Biddeford St Joseph Saco Thornton Academy Old Orchard Beach and area, detailing daily options such as turkey salad sandwiches, tomato soup, sloppy joes, baked ravioli, fish sticks, spaghetti and meat sauce, chicken options, and desserts with milk or juice. Menu items include vegetables, fruits, bread and butter, and varying desserts.
Crossword puzzle page from a puzzle source with mixed clues. Entries include Boy Scouts Jewelry item 10 Splendor Turkish inn and many broken or garbled hints. Some clues reference Latin eggs and South American marmoset with gaps in the list.
Weekly menu lists meals for Kennebunk High and Junior High including Cranapple Juice Frankfurter roll mustard relish buttered green beans fruit Jello with topping milk on Monday. Tuesday offers lunch meat loaf on bun catsup relish corn ice cream milk. Thursday features Pink Grapefruit Juice Dagwood sandwich bologna cheese lettuce green pepper tapioca pudding milk. Friday presents Chinese Chop Suey with Chicken and Rice carrot sticks French bread butter peach halves mi k
Monday features apple juice and a sloppily prepared bun with buttered peas and chilled fruit cocktail plus milk. Tuesday shows no school. Wednesday serves American Chop Suey with buttered green beans muffins butter and ice cream. Thursday offers Hamburg Patty mashed potatoes buttered corn bread and butter with strawberry Jello and pears. Friday includes Oven fried fish sticks tartar sauce buttered spinach mashed potatoes bread and butter.
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