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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1973
Page
3
The essay traces the rise of oleomargarine and the need to name a class of butter like products without stigma. It notes butter’s historic uniqueness and describes how advertisers sought a neutral term to distinguish margarine without labeling it imitation or synthetic.
A playful discussion on evolving terms like friend-in-law and outlaw variants, tracing a social trend toward flexible family titles. It riffs on butter and margarine becoming simply spreads, framing language shifts as cultural curiosities and noting editor Meghan Burges.
In a humorous essay by H Allen Smith and Robert L Wolke the narrator notes a friend Wilson insisting his dog thinks it is human. The piece blends a Cairo camel tale with pop psychology and playful wit about dogs and human self image.
On March 18 in history Hawaii joined the union in 1959 and Grover Cleveland born in 1837. Other notes include Washington in Boston 1776 and a 1937 Tex school gas explosion death toll. Birthdays include Cardinal Shehan and composer Hovhaness.
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