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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 21, 1967

Page

8

Yoints From Holose Borrow Back Reminder

Fragmentary notice phrases borrowing and return reminders. Reads like a domestic exchange urging action if not returned within three days and mentions sending a younger sister to reclaim the item.

DEAR HELOISE: Clever kitchen and home hints from readers

Readers share practical tips such as grinding pecans with a cup crusher, wiping mirrors with facial tissues and detergent, wrapping Christmas gifts with numbers, cleaning louvered doors with a wooden tongue depressor, repurposing a plastic shower curtain as a mattress protector, taping glass chimes above a heat vent for a tinkle, and serving buttered green beans with crumbled bacon.

Heloise T. Cusick

Letter of Laughter Dear Heloise Style Note

A humorous query offers a tip for neighbors who borrow items. The writer suggests recording every borrowed object and posting the list on a wall for clarity and easier repayment. The piece reads as light advice and playful guidance.

Heloise

Ann Landers letters express patient recovery and family flare

A reader from Seattle thanks Ann Landers for sympathy toward the mentally ill noting it kept hope alive during recovery. The column replies with acknowledgment and moves to a humorous exchange about a mother in law obsessed with a spotless home and domestic tensions.

Ann Landers John Seattle

Bride's divorce after costly wedding gift sparks resentment

Dear Ann Landers, I gave an expensive wedding gift after a friend's daughter announced her marriage. Four weeks later the bride filed for divorce and now plans to keep or exchange gifts for clothes. Should I feel resentful. Hadsville.

Ann Landers Hadsville

Dear Had advice on gifts and alcoholism in a 1967 notice

The letter discusses whether a wife must return wedding gifts if the marriage fails and asks if alcoholism is a disease with treatment and cure options. Ann Landers offers help, requesting 35c and a stamped self-addressed envelope to respond. A want ad notes using bacon fat for cooking eggs and to fry bacon over low heat to keep fat white.

Heloise Ann Landers

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