Dear Abby column sparks reader regrets and dental lore
A reader laments following Dear Abby advice on premarital sex, fearing loss of a fiancé. Another asks how to maintain a diabetic diet at social gatherings. A third recalls a Barnhart store in the 1930s selling used dentures for customers to try on, shared by Lou from St. Louis.
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Moment of Horror for Quiet Mother in a City Tenement
New York AP report details the case of Joanne Bashold a quiet New Yorker born in 1951 who gave birth to a daughter at Bellevue Hospital and later left the infant with her starving German shepherd in a dilapidated East 105th Street apartment. The dog killed and partially eaten the baby and Bashold faced criminal negligence charges awaiting grand jury action. authorities debated psychiatric evaluation while neighbors mourned and lawyers argued safety and care for other children.
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Jackie Stone
NEW York
Joanne Bashold
Margaret Bashold
Kirtland
Ohio
Cleveland
Joanne
Kirtland High School
Raymond Jorze
Elliot Cook
Legal Aid Society
Catskill Mountain
Manhattan
Seventh Avenue
Cook
Upper West Side
105Th Street
Spanish Harlem
Aleo
Bellevue “Hospital
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Catholic Charities
Bellevue
James Walsh
Walsh
Bureau of Child Welfare
Joannie
East 105Th Street
Robert Morgenthau
Béllevue
Connolly
al Dwyer
Christine Hahn
Lower East Side
Dist
Atty. Morgenthau
Cookie Kissarm
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