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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1953
Page
14
Ish Williams and his wife Em witness Earth’s bleak aftermath after a deadly virus decimates nearly all humans. The survivors confront a reconfigured world with scarce resources and lingering dangers as humanity’s memory fades.
In a postcatastrophe setting Ish and Em plan a new calendar era while observing sun positions near San Francisco. He marks a rock with a numeral to signify Year One as the baby rests, and Em calls the new year the Year of the Baby, noting names outshine numbers.
The Marian Martin pattern offers a comfy four piece set for girls sizes 2 4 6 8 10 including shirt shorts bra top and skirt with easy sewing and ironing. Complete illustrated Sew Chart details steps and fit. Send thirty five cents plus five cents mail to pattern dept. at News Journal Middle Town Ohio and New York addresses with name address zone size and style number.
Misses' crochet patterns feature sleeveless dresses sun backs skirts and blouses with options in cotton or 3 ply yarn. Includes Pattern 815 in sizes 32 34 36 38 and costs 25 cents per pattern plus 5 cents extra for first class mailing. Also promotes Laura Wheeler 1953 Needlecraft Book with ten new designs and 20 cents for copies.
Alicia Hart argues meals should nurture beauty and peace. A pleasant dining flow, calm thoughts, and constructive planning improve digestion and self-satisfaction. She suggests eating salads first for beauty vitamins and using kitchen shears to trim cold turkey or chicken for salads.
Teen beauty editor urges neat bathroom habits to prevent breakouts. Wash cloths dried in sun stay fresh, toothbrushes dry after use, and toothpaste residue washed away. Neatly hung towels reduce bacteria, mirrors stay clean, and cosmetics kept covered.
Household hints cover cleaning coated fabrics glass fibers and parchment with dry soapsuds, wood furniture with dry suds, and a dustless dusting method using turpentine. Also eggs separation, lettuce freshness, dress cutting, laundering large items, gas oven lighting, and a fire safety reminder. Includes a legal notice from Fannie L. Fletcher Brooks in Butler County Ohio regarding a bank foreclosure case filed March 1953.
A 23 city AP survey finds price decontrol lifted some costs like cigarettes coffee and bread while meat prices fell. Gasoline varied by city with gains from 0.5 to 10 cents per gallon. big declines in meat helped offset higher food costs for many shoppers.
Albert Lichtenstein 43 and four Corpus Christi businessmen won the mayor and City Commission races by about two to one. Lichtenstein and his wife learned of victory in a New York hotel after a 59 day Mediterranean cruise. The longtime department store executive ran as Better Government party nominee. Williamson conceded after 30 of 37 precincts reported about 11 000 votes.
Ohio high school students interested in medicine nursing and allied health are invited to attend Careers Day on the Ohio State University campus. The event begins at 9 a.m. in Room M-100 Starling Loving Hall with tours of the Health Center and exhibits. A 1:30 p.m. program in Hagerty Hall outlines nursing medicine physical medicine occupational therapy dietetics medical technology and dental hygiene. Frances Ory of the School of Nursing chairs the planning committee.
Berlin reports nearly 9,000 refugees escaped East Germany into West Berlin during the first week of April. Yesterday alone brought 2,145 arrivals, double the typical daily influx, signaling a sustained exodus from Soviet-occupied territory.
Cincinnati group has purchased control of Washington Breweries Inc held by Hobwell Industries. Estimated price ranges from 750000 to 1 million dollars. Fred Weiland Joseph Houdin and Albert J. Butches of Hobwell lead the purchase with Weiland named president and Sam Lipman as general manager. The sale follows the death of former president John R. Downley. The company operates in New Lexington Upper Sandusky and Columbus.
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