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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1948
Page
7
Alicia Hart advises on costume accessories that can make a woman appear younger. Earrings should be small and compact, bracelets boost eye movement away from hands, and clutch handbags look youthful while reticule types age the wearer. High-heeled opera pumps enhance the feet legs and figure, while traditional low shoes with straps look older.
Sewing pattern notice offers Pattern 9254 with no shoulder or side seams described, sizes 12 through 20, yardage for size 16, and order form. Includes bid for Marian Martin book, extra pattern, and free beach bag directions. Also includes public hearing notices for Trenton Local School District Budget in Baker and Butler counties with dates in 1948.
A longtime friend pleads for guidance to aid Belle, a troubled woman whose husband died, who cares for a son ruined by liquor, and who has fallen into nightly drinking. The response urges warm, nonjudgmental support, involving a pastor and a circle of faithful friends to revive her will to live.
The passage contrasts two approaches to a lunch order. It presents a scenario where a person is offered a blue plate special and prefers a different vegetable. It warns against asking for substitutions to avoid embarrassing the host and recommends accepting the order as presented.
A vivid holiday pie recipe uses red cherries to brighten July Fourth festivities. Crust and lattice topping directions included with detailed measurements and bake guidance for a 10 inch pie.
Tomorrow's menu lists breakfast with orange juice rice griddle cakes enriched toast butter or fortified margarine coffee and milk. Luncheon features toasted cheese watercress sandwiches dill pickles plums iced tea and iced chocolate milk. Dinner offers tomato juice cocktail steak or chopped sirloin French fries green beans with butter minced parsley enriched rolls radishes carrots celery olives pie cheese coffee milk.
A recipe fragment describes baking individual cherry cakes at about 375 degrees F for 50 minutes. Ingredients listed include one egg two-thirds cup sugar fourteen percent cups sifted flour two teaspoons baking powder percent teaspoon salt percent cup milk percent cup melted shortening and four percent teaspoon almond extract.
A dated guide suggests warm greetings are crucial. It warns against returning from work to a house in disarray, a complaint filled mood, and demands for repairs or punishment, noting how these behaviors color a husband’s homecoming and dull the evening.
A petition with 34 signatures was filed with Butler County Commissioners at Hamilton requesting extending water service lines south of Middletown to Locust Grove from Buena Vista mains. Deputy sanitary engineer Harry Duane said cost estimates and assessments will be prepared for a public hearing for involved residents.
Children aged four to 12 may attend morning play periods from 9 30 to 11 at Middletown parks. Hopscotch tournaments are planned on playgrounds this week. Walter S Geckeler, director of playground activities, says parks with highest parent interest show the strongest youth engagement and urges parents to foster the playground habit. Supervisors are stationed at Sunset Gardner Lakeside Central School Barnitz Field Douglas Yankee Road Sycamore and Goldman playgrounds.
Laura Wheeler advertises pattern 909 for toddler son and daughter outfits with boat anchor chickie and floral motifs. Prompt payment of twenty cents requested to The Journal Needlecraft Dept. Brooklyn address. asks for name address and zone. Also promotes Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book at fifteen cents with instructions and 101 illustrations across embroidery crochet knitting and home decor.
Jessica sits in a cold house awaiting Tom’s return from the hospital as Lucy’s fate and a web of past choices stir. Doris visits with rumors of Lucy’s identity and a town’s tangled loyalties, while Tom bears the burden of two women and a failing family.
Military Order of the Cooties in the Veterans of Foreign Wars made their monthly hospital visit at Brown Hospital in Dayton Sunday afternoon. They gave patients in Ward 10 boxes of cookies cigarettes razor blades candy playing cards and magazines. Miss Jackie Adams Ab Ritter and Earl Shea presented a music and dance program for patient enjoyment.
Beat eggs with sugar then sift flour baking powder and salt. Alternate adding with milk to egg mixture, then fold in melted shortening almond extract lemon rind and cherries. Fill six 6-ounce cups and bake at 350 degrees F for about 35 minutes. Serve with whipped cream.
Memphis Commissioner Joe Boyle bans firemen from painting as a sideline after C. T. Jackson, a full time painter, complained that firemen were under bidding him. Boyle declares firemen must choose between being a fireman or a painter.
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