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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1950
Page
6
Advice column on overcoming shyness in approaching girls and handling dating challenges. Guidance includes starting conversations about summer plans, sharing information about oneself, and building confidence. Also covers ending a problematic romance with clear signals and steady dating to maintain trust, with Miss Mottram offering help for school or home issues.
A kid friendly toast recipe blends two tablespoons peanut butter with an equal amount butter or margarine and a tablespoon honey on five slices of toast broiled then cut into strips. Also notes Indian relish basics with sweet pickles peppers onions spices. mentions sponge cake with fewer eggs and baking powder. A French dressing for summer greens uses olive oil wine vinegar salt pepper oregano and garlic rubbed in the bowl.
Ruth Millett argues that teens’ dating criteria skew toward looks and party appeal, while the best husbands often come from less flashy, more thoughtful types. She notes both sexes err in equating dating charm with lasting marriage potential and highlights the shift from appearance to disposition, brains, and companionship after marriage.
Jack Lanning and Ellie Lane once the bright duo of vaudeville, now separated after a 22 year marriage. Ellie, who believed she was the plain wife to his handsome partner, battled feelings of ugliness sparked by his calling her “Funny Face.” The couple drifted apart, with Ellie asking for a Reno divorce citing ugliness as grounds, leaving Jack desolate and unable to grasp her deep insecurity about her looks.
Doris Day explains summer perfume use for day and evening wear. She outlines lightweight cologne and perfume applications for fresh skin under studio lights, including touches to hairline neck cuffs pockets and hat bands to extend scent without skin contact. She stresses carefully applied fragrance enhances look and appeal.
An advertisement promotes Pattern 9202 for a shirtdress with a dress shirt yoke and slit-shouldered sleevelets in sizes 34 through 50. It advertises fabric yardage, pattern book, and an illustrated Sew Chart, urging readers to send twenty five cents per pattern to Marian Martin in Middletown Ohio and New York with name address size and style number.
Vitamin B-12 is essential for chick embryo development and hatchability in poultry. Adequate B-12 status supports metabolic processes, red blood cell formation, and proper growth during incubation, influencing successful hatch outcomes.
A vintage column blends a recipe for sausage stuffed peppers with a legal notice in Butler County Ohio. It lists ingredients such as green peppers sausage onion celery rice and tomato sauce, then shifts to a juvenile court petition for permanent custody of a child born in 1946 with a hearing set for August 3 1950 in Middletown. The notice orders the parents to appear and show cause.
Recipe fragment describes peeling and boiling peppers till tender, browning sausage, cooking onion and celery, adding rice and Tabasco, stuffing peppers, placing in a baking dish, adding tomato sauce and water, then baking at 375 degrees for 25 minutes. Also hints at menu planning to ease cooking and cut costs.
A guidance line urges pleasant hospitality despite boredom while a separate line notes that some chicken families have low egg hatchability. The mix presents two distinct items on manners and poultry biology from the source.
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