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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1949
Page
7
New York NEA fashion feature surveys bride gowns from quiet pique to frilly organdy. Pique styles show clean lines with long trains and bouquet veils while organdy offers dramatic lace, marquisette, and net effects. Designer notes include Filcol and Murray Hamburger silhouettes with decorative embroidery and petal scallop details.
Dear Mary Haworth offers humorously stern guidance on a wife's effort to curb her husband's several days beard growth. The adviser notes shaving is a common nuisance and suggests compromise, allowing the whiskers but urging neat grooming elsewhere while advising empathy and humor in handling the couple's dispute.
A dining tip advises buttering bread piece by piece rather than smearing the entire slice at once. Break off a small corner or bite sized piece and apply butter gradually for neater handling.
Louis Sultan was fined five cents after arguing he had already deposited a nickel in a meter. He paid 1.95 as penalty on a two dollar parking fine, then faced another nickel charge plus a three cent stamp to mail the payment.
National Baby Week runs April 30 to May 7 to assess children’s diet health and emotional balance with the theme Make children happy physically strong and emotionally stable. Michigan pediatrician Dr. Frank Van Schoick notes strained lean meat improves infant protein and minerals and hemoglobin levels but cautions against rushing new foods.
A dated menu lists breakfast items including baked apples with raisins ready to eat cereal enriched toast butter or fortified margarine strawberry jam coffee milk. Dinner features baked cod or halibut steaks scalled potatoes buttered new carrots enriched bread cole slaw or celery stewed fresh rhubarb and gingerbread.
Mrs Wilma Loss of 66 Park Ave New York demanded U S Steel move annual stockholders meetings from Hoboken to New York saying Hoboken’s location obstructs shareholders The proposal was voted down but a fellow shareholder quipped she might return next year in a bathing suit The note ends with a stray line about frog and toad species
Dear Nancy offers dating guidance in a 3 part column about balancing affection and freedom. It advises not to cling or treat a partner as property while suggesting patient, respectful signals to keep interest alive. The responses warn against creating triangles or overreacting to quarrels and encourage thoughtful apology when conflicts arise.
An old style crochet advertisement promotes a chair set pattern 976 by Laura Wheeler with charts photos and concise directions. Readers are urged to send twenty cents to Middletown Journal Needlecraft Dept for pattern 976 and their name address and zone to a Brooklyn P O Box. A Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book is offered for fifteen cents with 104 illustrations and starter patterns plus a free needlework pattern.
The tropical portion of the U.S. mainland sits in Florida’s Everglades where the land rises only a few feet above sea level and much of it remains partially flooded.
A wife named Alice handles a unsociable husband by keeping her own social life. She plans activities with friends when he won t join, proving this retains happiness and respect. The piece contrasts Alice with Bess who yields to her husband s disapproval and loses friends and respect.
The article describes serving ready to eat baby meats to aid health and growth, detailing methods like mixing into baked potatoes, heating with leftovers, and spreading on toast or swieback. It gives a recipe for potato boats with mashed potatoes and junior meat filling, then notes Arctic temperatures remain very low in winter despite gulf stream warming coast areas of northern Scandinavia.
ALICIA HART reports a clear cosmetic liquid acts as a lipstick protector for brides. The transparent coating seals rouge on lips, preventing transfer to hands, kerchiefs, towels, and napkins. Laundry experts say lipstick stains shorten linen life, while the liquid protects fabrics from rouge marks.
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