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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1965
Page
7
Advertisement from The Decatur Daily Needlecraft Dept offering pattern 7436 for sun pinafores in child sizes 2 4 6 8 10. Price 35 cents each plus 15 cents extra for mailing and handling. Send to Alice Brooks at Box 163 Old Chelsea Station New York NY 10011.
A collage of Ann Landers style letters includes a mother seeking guidance on handling insensitive comments about a child’s glasses and a fiancé choice issue. Also features a quirky news brief about a Phoenix rescue where a couple in a sleeping car billed police for a broken window after carbon monoxide scare.
Want ads promise results with coin and a long self addressed stamped envelope. Ann Landers will answer readers by handling problems sent to her in care of the newspaper with a stamped self addressed envelope.
Sunday calendar items require 353 4612 by Thursday. general women’s notices use 353 4612 or 353 4655 8 30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The department closes Saturdays. Wedding stories and pictures must be submitted five days before the wedding. Late submissions are shortened or not accepted after three weeks. Pictures must be glossy. snapshots are not used. Engagement notices not run if less than four weeks before the wedding. The paper does not publish engagement pictures of women who have remarried or been widowed, nor large weddings on principle.
A teen reader asks for dating do's and don'ts and requests Ann Landers’ booklet by mail. The note promises to enclose a self addressed stamped envelope for response.
Marsha Michelle Chenault celebrated her first birthday in April. She is the daughter of Mrs. W. M. Chenault and the late Mr. Chenault of Danville. Her grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jackson of Danville.
Mrs. Barrett Shelton and Mrs. James McGaughey spent Tuesday in Birmingham. Mrs. H. D. Greer and others were in Birmingham on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Wallace and Mrs. John Davis visited Birmingham on Thursday. Mrs. Bragg plans a Rochester Minnesota trip. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Payne host Mrs. C. R. Aytes from Scottsboro. Liprycne family returns from Indiana. Also included are cheese or fish pastry turnovers with storage and reheating tips.
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