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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1985
Page
16
A letter signed Steamed in Richmond urges stores to target employee theft to curb shoplifting. The writer cites twelve incidents at a large retailer totaling 6785.58 in value, with employees stealing radios and big-ticket items while customers steal small items. The piece contrasts employee theft with customer theft and notes hidden cameras aid detection.
A Longview Washington widower asks his children to bless his upcoming marriage to a new partner. He explains his loneliness, reaffirms his wife’s irreplaceable memory, and urges acceptance while citing life for the living. He shares a supportive response from Ann Landers and advertises her dope booklet.
A nostalgic reflection on childhood habits like drinking from wide mouth fruit jars and cracking Texas watermelons, shaped by a mother’s fears of neighbors and a distant kinship with a spying world. The piece muses on household privacy, courting rules, and distant relocation with family anecdotes.
The 1985 Wisconsin State Fair runs August 1 through 11 offering daily promotions from Dairy Day opening discounts to Senior Day price cuts, contests, parades, and special events. Highlights include milking demos, fiddling contests, a stampede, a pom pom contest, and a governor's auction with various sponsor activities each day.
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