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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1966
Page
7
Reader letters share simple household tricks. A grandmother’s terry mitten with nylon net cleans blinds without cutting hands. A heating pad belt keeps a hot pad in place on a sore knee. Sticks and a curtain rod end help reach, lift, and retrieve items around the home.
Bride elect Miss Dorothy Olson, to wed Robert Stanley Young on August 27, is feted with multiple nuptial events. Delta Theta Chi sorority hosted a patio party July 21, a kitchen shower followed July 25, and Aug 15 linen shower, all featuring pink and white wedding motifs, silver gifts, and corsages.
A cabinet sewing machine with a fold out top serves as an over the bed table for invalids. When closed, it becomes a bedside table. Readers share clever kitchen hacks with moisture control and stealth flavoring, including keeping crackers crisp and hiding vegetables in stew.
A reader recounts a grieving aunt who wants a funeral for a horse and faces rebuff from clergy and mortician. The columnist condemns the idea as bizarre and advises seeking practical help. The second letter discusses a family rule about spilled foods and a teen’s frustration with parental enforcement.
A reader from Yuma asks if parents may set all family rules with no exceptions and notes feeling betrayed when they perceive bias. The column advises that when a parent creates a universal rule there should be no exceptions, as children feel unfairly treated.
Mrs Edwin Little mother of the bride elect the honored Mrs Ray Appleton mother of the prospective bridegroom Miss Georgia McGee hostess and Miss Janis Bowden hostess listed in a Daily Photo by Jim Garner caption with social event notes on planned nuptials.
A reader notes common allergy symptoms and urges medical diagnosis for hay fever asthma and skin and digestive disturbances. The piece discusses triggers pollen avoidance air conditioning ant i histamines and mentions alcoholism questions and sending requests to Ann Landers for help through the newspaper.
When asthma causes cannot be eliminated and climate change is impractical, physicians may prescribe medicines to relieve gasping and wheezing during an acute attack.
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