Hints From Heloise Admits Practical Household Tips
A 1962 King Features column collects practical household tips for readers. Subjects include tub safety by pulling the plug to stop small children’s splashing, wax finishes on chairs to protect floors, and grease removal with a lettuce leaf in soup. Also shared are shaving techniques for men and women, oven cleaning with ammonia, and fashion hacks for colored shoes using pastel tissue to match outfits.
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Heloise
Abbe Leaflinder
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Playing. The Game According To Boyle
New York AP recalls past habits of a city, noting how Saturday chores like hauling furnace ashes marked daily life. It contrasts old attitudes, where tennis was seen as a sissy game and reserved for the wealthy, with changing times.
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New York
Those Were The Days A Tall Tale Of Old Time Life
A narrator recalls a bygone era with vignette details: heavy chests greased for colds, dime weekly insurance, double dip ice cream, crystal radios, cars with running boards, yellow slickers, big washtubs, $2 office visits, home calls at $38, rumble seats condemned, horses as street sweepers bane, two piece swimsuits, beach etiquette, ukuleles, cats catching mice, backyard chickens, burlesque tickets only for long pants, meals with gravy, Prohibition in effect, family safety with cellar bans, and a nostalgic closing prompt to remember.
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Pittsburgh
No Trial For Military Spy Suspect
Ex-soldier George John Gessner, 25, was ruled mentally ill and unable to stand trial on charges of passing nuclear weapon firing system details to the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. Judge Arthur J. Stanley Jr. ordered treatment at the U S Medical Center in Springfield Missouri. Gessner deserted Fort Bliss Texas in December 1960 and later served a term at Fort Leavenworth Kansas for desertion.
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Kansas City, Kan
George John Gessner
Arthur J. Stanley Jr
Gessner
U. S. Medical Center
Springfield
Homestead
Mexico City
Ft. Bliss
Tex
Ft. Leavenworth
Kan
Buffalo YWCA Building to be torn for store expansion
Buffalo's old YWCA Building is being dismantled to allow a store expansion. The cornerstone, laid in 1882, was set by Mayor Grover Cleveland.
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Buffalo, N. Y
Buffalo
YWCA
Grover Cleveland
Membership milestone for the Methodist Church passes ten million
The Methodist Church the largest Protestant body in America surpasses ten million members. The note also reflects on Britain's parliamentary procedure rules tracing back to that era.
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Methodist Church
America
Britain
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Georgetown University
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