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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1958
Page
18
A newspaper feature promotes a weight loss plan for teen girls led by Ida Jean Kain. It urges one day at a time changes, emphasizes breakfast, moderate meals, no seconds, and 100 calorie post-school snacks. Readers are invited to request a new calorie chart by mail.
In a Dear Mary Haworth letter, a reader defends AA as the sober path and urges Mr. U. P. to support his wife's attendance at meetings. E. D. criticizes the neighborly gossip and calls for understanding of alcoholism as a disease, urging spiritual power and sobriety through AA.
Patrolmen Walter Sheppard and Hallam Evans subdued a Brahma bull that vaulted a meat-packing pen fence in Baltimore. The animal charged the patrol car repeatedly as officers fired revolver and rifle rounds. bullets bounced off before the bull was finally brought down after about 40 shots.
The speaker admits considering a sharp rebuke to Mr. U. P. for his pompous behavior regarding his wife’s discovery of Alcoholics Anonymous and its potential benefits. The remark reflects personal friction over shared family issues and support group involvement.
On a hill near Moncure North Carolina a mock orange tree grew from a walking cane once owned by Waverly Lassiter. He stuck the cane in dirt and left it, and it sprouted into a tree now over fifty years old.
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