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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1950
Page
7
Dr James F Bender proposes emotional maturity tests for couples seeking marriage. He cites five traits including empathy, self restraint and willingness to apologize, arguing tests could lower divorce rates and reduce marital unhappiness. Tests would take about an hour, be costly but cheaper than broken homes.
Older folks often face backache and low energy from stress exertion smoking or cold. Doan’s Pills, a mild diuretic, are promoted as relief for frequent urination headaches and dizziness caused by minor bladder irritation. Millions have used Doan’s Pills for over 60 years.
The Army announces Camp Breckinridge in Kentucky will reopen as a training center for the Korean War era. It will begin receiving recruits by mid September and aim for a capacity of 22,000 by October 1. Breckinridge is the second camp readied for training alongside Camp Jackson in South Carolina, with two more augmenting programs at Fort Ord, Dix, and Riley.
An advertisement urges readers to send twenty cents for Laura Wheeler Pattern 910 with nine inch transfer clothes patterns and an improved pattern book featuring crochet knitting and embroidery charts. It notes a free pattern in the book and outlines ordering details from Middletown Ohio and New York addresses. Also mentions household tips and a stove oven pancake trick, plus a probate notice for Maria Lezzoni with four month claim period.
Arthur Drake 33 of Cleveland, jailed for blackmail and extortion, denied involvement in an Easter Sunday bombing at Earl Artis’s Xenia home. Drake was moved from Ohio Penitentiary to Xenia, then back, after Gov. Juscke signed a warrant. Indicted jointly with Melvin E. Clark for the Artis bombing. Clark also pleads innocent and is free on $15,000 bond. trial date pending.
An AP dispatch from Korea cites South Korean officers alleging North Korea uses child fighters, with Col. Lee Bey Keun saying youths as young as 13 are pressed into student corps and sent to battle. He warns UN troops must act as the war nears a peak.
An unclear note describes Sekine Neh attaching to large fish including turtles and other big species. It mentions feeding behavior and detaching attitudes, referencing an encyclopedic source in a stylized manner. The fragment preserves entities but lacks coherent structure and precise facts.
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