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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1948
Page
6
Dear Mary Haworth recounts a wife’s promise to quit smoking before marriage, then continues smoking to spite her husband who disapproves as a non-smoker. The columnist notes the failure of honesty, urges confronting values, and warns the promise was a flawed tactic that eroded trust in their marriage.
The piece describes amateur sewing tricks with yokes and cummerbunds to lengthen or camouflage skirts. It advocates fabric blends, belts, and suede cummerbunds to wrap and drape the midriff, suggesting fashion aids to achieve a modern look.
An advertisement for pattern 9485 a shirt frock with a gored skirt and scalloped neck highlighting easy use and perfect fit. It offers sizes 34 through 50, yardage for size 36, and lists two pattern books with a free belt inside. Mail twenty five cents and address to The Middletown Journal pattern department. Tomorrow notice: Misses dress.
Investigation into the Wright plant water deal is set to begin around February 1. City Council ordered the probe. Howard Wilson to head a committee with Herbert Randall of Champion Paper-Fiber Co expected to join upon his return to town.
Vincennes Indiana reports Clerk Allie A Arnold mailed large birthday greetings to hundreds in Knox County using courthouse records. Efforts of his friends to return the favor stalled as his birth date remains private.
The Jr Past Councilors Association of the 11th Ohio District OUAM will install its 1948 officers at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Bloomfield Council 286 at Trenton. All past district councilors are invited to attend. A pneumatic gun was used for the first time in 1883.
Local cancer clinic opens 7 p m at Middletown Hospital. U S National Guard drills 7 p m at the Barracks. Eagles meet 8 p m at the Hall. Hunter-Clark Post VFW meets 8 p m at Silver Leaf Social Club. Middletown Co Operative Club dinner features Robert R Bangham of Columbus. North Middletown Fire Association meets 7 p m at Manchester Rd fire building. Legion band meets 7 p m at Legion Home Miami Valley Post. VFW weekly meeting 7 30 p m at Post Headquarters with Ansco speaker on color. Camera Club meets 7 30 p m in Girl Scout Room Civic Association. Variety Night rehearsal 8 p m at Holy Trinity School basement. Middle Band first concert 8 p m at High School auditorium. Armco safety rally 6 30 p m at Manchester Hotel. Local 112 Paper Workers Union meets at Steelworkers Hall.
Chi Ro Class of Holy Trinity Parish meets at 7 pm in the school assembly room for an illustrated talk by H L Goodell of Maxon Construction Dayton for the Miami Chapter of the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers at their noon Manchester Hotel gathering. Board of Control Middletown Safety Council convenes at 8 pm Wednesday at the Gas and Electric Building. Jr Past Councilors Association 41th Ohio District OUAM meets at 8 pm at Bloomfield Council 286 Trenton.
Every living organism produces enzymes that accelerate chemical reactions within cells. These biological catalysts enable digestion, metabolism, and repair, supporting growth and overall function across species.
Varied winter fruit salads provide economical nutrition for family menus. An Apple Pinwheel combines cottage cheese with apples, pears, chives, oranges, and lime French dressing. A hearty main salad mixes green beans, carrots, celery, onion, eggs, lettuce, ham, and French dressing after marinating vegetables.
Breakfast includes stewed dried fruit oatmeal coffee cake coffee milk. Luncheon offers chicken and rice bouillon vegetable luncheon salad enriched rolls butter fortified margarine apple sauce oatmeal cookies tea milk. Dinner features braised oxtail with carrots onions and celery steamed rice apple cabbage slaw steamed ginger pudding lemon sauce coffee milk.
Ruth Millett argues that an eighth grade girl wearing slacks to school triggers a clash with the Camden principal who forbids slacks. The mother defends warm weather wear, cites teen trends, and says parents should decide what daughters wear since they pay for clothing.
An Air France plane at La Guardia stood with engines idle as staff paged Charles Trenet the singer comedian scheduled to depart. He appeared bearing a vacuum bottle of ice cream for his mother and fiancée, explaining the treat was for home. The Laurentian Shield is a vast rock region over two million square miles in eastern Canada and Labrador.
An informal guide notes the proper closing of a letter to a friend. It contrasts a wrong ending with a curt complete stop after saying all needed words, avoiding explicit statements about closing the letter.
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