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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1954
Page
8
A garbled crossword style page lists horizontal and vertical clue numbers with mis-spelled entries. The text includes references to fashion cutting a house in Italy measures ten four North African seaport and scattered fragments of clues for animals fruits and titles, mixed with apparent OCR errors.
The article explains gastrectomy as a major surgery with death rates from 2 to 15 percent and discusses which duodenal ulcer cases require operation. It lists six criteria favoring surgery and notes over 90 percent of carefully selected patients can live normal healthy lives post gastrectomy with moderation in habits.
John Woodyard a 31 year old from Radford has been hired as a patrolman for Dublin police replacing a recent resignation. A Pearisburg native he previously worked as a Radford Arsenal guard and was a cement carpenter. He is married with two sons aged seven and three.
Readers send questions on preserving annual college alumni dinners and a young marriage crisis. The first letter asks how to compel a spouse to accept a spouse’s yearly gathering. the second advises confronting a troubled marriage and not chasing an unresponsive partner.
Advertisement for a 1954 embroidery catalog promoting a wedding sampler pattern with transfer panel 16x19 inches. Includes orders to send twenty five cents plus six cents per pattern, address in Chelsea, New York, and asks for name, address, and zone. Mentions crochet and various color transfer patterns.
A middle aged woman driving an auto with West Virginia plates plunged into the Monongahela River from the municipal parking wharf in Pittsburgh. The car was recovered and police found a 1954 Virginia license in the victim’s purse, listed to Helen Kasley of Mull Place Wheel ing Virginia. An attendant, Sam DeLeo, said the woman handed him 50 cents, then accelerated toward the river.
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