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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1959
Page
7
Ida Bailey Allen presents a winter to spring dessert feature with dark sweet cherry cream tarts. Crust made from graham crackers and almonds, filling from canned cherries and cherry gelatin, sour cream, and garnished with whole cherries. Menu also lists Spanish Apple Salad Fish Escalloped and Braised Celery and Tomato as tomorrow’s dinner options.
Fitness column advises two simple abdominal exercises to slim the frontline, tone the rectus abdominus and external obliques, and improve posture. Step by step instructions describe hip lifts and shoulder touches, with progressive reps. Readers are urged to mail requests for the guide to Ida Jean Kain.
A reader describes a life crippled by rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatism, claiming restored activity after medical diagnosis. The message offers free information from Mrs. Lela S. Wier of Jackson Mississippi, providing a postal address for inquiries.
List of property transfers including Middletown parcels from various buyers to individuals and entities. Notable entries include City of Middletown to George Blount with multiple lots and no tax, and many lot transfers with prices ranging from 1.10 to 111.65 dollars. Several deceased estates list no tax and transfers to heirs or beneficiaries across multiple neighborhoods such as Union Lemon Buena Vista and Evelyn Farms.
A reader laments conflicts with her daughter-in-law Ann and fears losing her son and grandchildren. The adviser urges accepting distance, replanting emotional attachments, and pursuing a mature, non confrontational relationship with Tom and his family.
Caura Wheeler describes Four Gay Patches quilt blocks with pattern 784 including yardages for single and double beds and pillow covers, plus a parallel notice about a parole hearing for Richard Johnson, inmate No. 8623, at the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield scheduled after April 1, 1959. The page also promotes a 1959 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book with embroid ery crochet knitting weaving and a cut out doll project.
Dr George Crane presents Flora G a 28 year old secretary with a fear of elevators traced to a childhood captivity in a dark abandoned cistern during a farm visit The patient recalls the incident under reminiscence and hypnosis and Crane guides exposure using mental tasks on the trip to the top floor With repeated practice she gains mastery over the fear and Crane offers a booklet on preventing nervous breakdowns via mail order prior to requests for his pamphlets through the newspaper.
Alfred Sheinwold analyzes a bridge hand from the U S Masters Team Championship noting discards in two suits and finesses in three. South misplayed several lines and was down one, while North’s hand shape hindered the contract. Also includes a legal notice about Reed A Shaw guardian proceedings in Ohio with a real estate sale aim.
Mansfield Ohio February 20 1959 Lloyd Walker prisoner No 58624 confined in the Ohio Reformatory admitted from Butler County Case 16468 convicted 5 16 58 of auto theft serving a sentence of 1 30 is eligible for a hearing before the Ohio Pardom and Parole Commission on or after April 1 A C Forsyth Parole and Record Clerk February 24 March 2
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