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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1948
Page
9
A reader seeks guidance on a lavish wedding and reception amid tight finances. The adviser urges a simple ceremony with a modest church or vestibule reception, suggesting bride and groom greet guests afterward and suggesting cake and wine at home for close family and friends to save funds.
A student in Yinita sent extra commencement mats to Governor Roy J. Turner. Turner responded with a yellow tie and a congratulatory note. In another item, Ohio Superintendent W. Lee Shield certifies Manufacturers' Casualty Insurance Company compliant with state laws and provides financial figures for 1947 for that insurer.
A conference delegate calls cooking a form of creative satisfaction for women and the column questions why food writing and cookbooks attract readers. The piece argues women gain pride from crafting meals, sharing them, and receiving praise, including serving guests and sending cookies to service members.
W. W. Sebald, president of Armco Steel, announced Armco will drop the basing point selling method effective with today’s shipments. The company will set prices at producing mills rather than basing points, citing recent court decisions. Sebald said the move ends a system that expanded supply and fostered competition, benefiting customers and the public.
An old advertisement promotes a Pineapple design crochet doily pattern 989 for two pieces sized 16 by 24 inches. Laura Wheeler offers an improved pattern with charts and photos and invites readers to send twenty cents to The Journal for the pattern and fifteen cents for the Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. It touts a needlecraft catalog with 101 illustrations and free weaving instructions.
Alicia Hart discusses how part-time summer jobs help girls test careers while preventing boredom. She notes time limits sharpen summer fun, provide practical experience, build contacts, and may offer a foothold toward a future career.
Rotary members kept their annual date with boys at Camp Hook. A luncheon and a camp site visit offered an hour in cool woods followed by a recreation focused meeting with no after lunch speech. Minnesota 1948 spring pig crop fell eight percent from 1947 and twelve percent below the 1937 1946 ten year average.
A 16 year old Hamilton boy accused of attempted assault on a five year old girl at East View Park July 6 was ordered confined in the Orient Hospital for the Feeble Minded after a Juvenile Court hearing. An alienist and physician recommended placement in a mental institution.
Detectives are instructed to patrol the district and report by radio. The park houses the citys only swimming pool and draws large crowds of children. Plans are under way to build one or two additional pools to improve facilities and relieve congestion at East View.
The green silk damask cover at Trinity Lutheran Church in Worcester was embroidered by King Gustav of Sweden as a gift to the city’s large Swedish American community. The Minnesota highway department has ruled the so called wolf type whistle horn for jalopies illegal.
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