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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1960
Page
7
A short puzzle notice explains a daily fortune game using the reader’s first name length to compute a key number. It instructs counting letters, adjusting by four or three, then tracing a rectangle grid to read a hidden message. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
The first deep water season of the St Lawrence Seaway saw record cargo in Great Lakes ports yet persistent bottlenecks and labor shortages. Port reports show Milwaukee and Cleveland export cargo above 200,000 tons, Chicago surpassing 784,000 tons, and Toronto a 700,882 ton milestone while total seaway tonnage lagged estimates at 20,103,767 tons. Delays centered on the Welland Canal as ships queued for passage and planners push port upgrades for the 1960 season beginning April 1.
Cincinnati AP reports 30 families affected by the Christmas Day explosion in a Warsaw Kentucky warehouse have requested disaster aid. Improvements underway cost 7.5 million dollars, aiming to expand the canal capacity from 28 to about 30 vessels per day.
An advertisement extols LANACANE as a fast acting medicated creme that soothes irritated skin and stops scratching. It cites Mrs D Ward of Los Angeles and promises relief from vaginal itch rectal itch chafing rashes and eczema with a new scientific formula. It urges readers to buy at drug stores today.
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