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Newspaper
Free Press
Location
Trumansburg, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1969
Page
12
Roadside rest areas along the Finger Lakes attract travelers but are cluttered with trash. Citizens treat the sites as dumps, leaving little room for motorists. Health department scrutiny could curb this misuse of public facilities.
A collection of home cooking hints and a detailed recipe. Includes a French Herbed Chicken with Burgundy wine, Bouquet Garni, vegetable gelatin salad in sour cream, whipped onion butter, and practical ideas for canning, freezing, and using leftovers.
A humorous meditation on fashion designers rushing to create pants for women while neglecting fit. The piece imagines awkward zipper failures in public, potential wardrobe malfunctions, and the embarrassment of needing help from strangers.
A chronicle from Interlaken and Trumansburg papers recounts local milestones from 1900 to 1888 including water loss at Holtons pond, school steam heating projects, road routes increasing, property sales, hotel upgrades, a town hall theater project, fires, rationing changes, scouts on a cross country trip, and a chair making business opening with cabinet work and material trades. The entries note community evolution, infrastructure, and notable residents across decades.
In 1905, some youths described as college men act with little police restraint, while others not yet drunk with ‘hazing’ label are arrested when they become disorderly. The text contrasts lenient treatment of certain youths with punishment for others showing ruffian behavior.
A reader thanks the Free Press for coverage of Trumansburg American Legion Baseball and praises community support for the Drunkard theater production. Pamela Jean Brewer urges judges to reward 4 H exhibits fairly, stressing effort over prize money.
HILDA MURPHY presents a four part series to examine the proposed trailer park on Pennsylvania Ave. Opponents proponents and residents are invited to share views. Ten questions cover business effects aging housing costs taxes water sewer zoning and development timelines.
A sequence of birth announcements reports Ethan Alan Miller son of Alan and Mrs Miller RD3 born August 10 1969 at Tompkins Co Hospital Trumansburg Michael Abram Tunison son of Mr and Mrs Tunison Rochester born August 11 1969 Sheryl Lynn Scott daughter of Mr and Mrs James Scott born August 12 1969 at Tompkins Co Hospital Stamford Connecticut Karen Williams daughter of Mrs Williams formerly Frances Bower born August 13 1969 in Stamford Conn born to Thomas Williams and Frances Bower.
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