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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1968
Page
11
Burnsville High School Principal Robert D. Pomije lost 209 pages of a doctoral dissertation and notes when thieves cracked his car. He rewrote from memory while continuing to work at the school, then earned his PhD on December 14 after passing oral exams. A few days later the original manuscript was found in a culvert five miles away.
New Delhi reports a winter epidemic labeled Mao flu differing from Hong Kong flu in other places. Authorities say human cases appear and a chimpanzee at the Delhi zoo has also contracted Mao flu.
Fragmentary ad copy lists price ranges and items like dresser and days. Contains partial prices and garbled names suggesting a want ad from a local paper.
Several resident deaths are reported with ages and addresses, detailing visitation times, funeral services, and interment sites. Entries include Ida Cunningham at Riggs Funeral Home, Minta Gentry at McCoy Leffler, LeRoy Erving at McCoy Leffler, Dorothy Keyser at Riggs, Lillien McLean, Albert Muenzenmaier, John Neu, John Rose, Cari South, and other listed individuals with respective dates, hospitals, and cemetery interments. Each item notes service details and contacting funeral homes.
Classified listings offer moving and hauling services for furniture and salvage with phone numbers. Additional ads promote babysitting housekeeping and a secretary position, plus Avon cosmetics selling and a business college enrollment. Details include various contact numbers and locations in Middletown and Franklin Ohio.
Babysitter wanted part time in Franklin at 10el N Main contact 4237217. Makeup tutor needed for Vivien Woodard Cosmetics type role age 18 plus training provided. Experienced help for dry cleaner and housekeeper positions listed with contact numbers.
A stream of job ads seeks trainees for business, summer camp staff, organist for First Presbyterian Church, sales help, real estate agents, and care facility staff. Also listed are several auctioneers and an auction house advertising upcoming and holiday sales in Ohio and Indiana with contact numbers for appointments.
An assorted ad listing motorcycles and bicycles with prices and contact numbers. Items include AMF Huffy and Hercules bikes, a Winter Tune ups cycle storage offer, a Honda of Middletown listing with Scrambler and payment details, and a 50cc Triumph motorcycle with a contact phone.
An assortment of items including records stereo and 45s priced at 17 and a two piece living room suite with slipcovers plus end tables and lamps at 155 in four months old condition. Also offerings include Singer zigzag sewing machines monograms and designs for 49 cash or 5 monthly payments, and various used appliances. Call 422-8078 for details. Located at 806 Richardson Dr Wildwood near Montgomery Ward Sam & pm.
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