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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1967
Page
14
Dear Polly offers practical home hints from readers including portable work clothes for trips, dry wood kindling in a bag, and lighter fluid for roadside meals. Suggestions cover washing polyester pillows, saving plastic bread ties for a candy wreath, cleaning clam shells with bleach, and notes on color caution for colored shells.
A reader describes repurposing cardboard from laundered shirts to organize greeting card lists addresses budgets and daily expenditures. She notes color coded ink dots for names and easy visibility under a desk blotter proposes red dots next year and suggests mailing ideas to Polly. The note also mentions Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as baseball's early ruler from 1920 to 1944.
The New York Public Service Commission said Fishers Island Utility requests higher water rates for 320 customers on the island off the Connecticut shore. It seeks to raise minimum charges from 40.32 to 47.36 dollars as the company has reportedly lost money over the past two years and serves many summer homes of New York area families and business leaders.
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