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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1971
Page
10
Readers share practical home hacks from securing window pots with a curtain rod guard to marking a baking soda box as FIRE. Tips cover organizing closets, polite conduct at home, and peeling peaches by halving before hot water dip for easier skin removal.
An Aunt asks how much her niece Heloise weighs after describing a St Bernard kept tidy with bags on paws during rainy season. The note mocks etiquette and family humor while praising the dog’s daintiness and obedience.
Kristin Opferkuch of Kettering Ohio and Decatur wed William Shelton Dennen of Nahant and Lexington at St. Augustine's Chapel University of Kentucky. The bride wore ivory crepe with ivory lace and a Spanish Goyesca veil. Attendants included Tammy Opferbach and Susan Dennen.
Mr and Mrs Charles Patterson of Edgewood St name Kristie DeAnne Patterson born at Decatur General Hospital. Laura Ellen Watkins born to Mr and Mrs Burl Watkins Jr and grandparents listed. Miss Sandra Williams in Birmingham University Hospital room 940. New Decatur residents include Jack L Crawford Timothy Buckley and others. Charles Duckworth and Corey Todd Crouch among newborns in Athens and Decatur.
A Walnut Bars recipe outlines butterscotch flavored cookies style bars. It lists ingredients including walnuts butter brown sugar eggs flour and vanilla. Instructions cover buttering pans beating eggs heating over boiling water combining mixtures and baking at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.
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