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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1949
Page
10
A planned menu lists breakfast with canned grapefruit juice cornflakes toasted English muffins butter or fortified margarine marmalade coffee and milk. Luncheon includes cottage cheese and pineapple sandwiches radishes celery scallions cup cakes iced tea and milk. Dinner features tomato soup baked egg and vegetable casserole bacon water cress salad enriched rolls butter fortified margarine orange milk sherbet coffee and milk.
A teen asks about financing another year of college and Nancy advises planning, budgeting, night courses, and staying focused on the goal. The second letter asks about a girl who repeatedly dates other men. Nancy says end the pattern, avoid being played, and seek a more reliable partner. A third note explores conflicts with friends over dating a particular boy and suggests honest talk, temporary crowd changes, or alternate couples to keep peace.
A columnist argues wives should consider the husband's role in office romances. If a husband is aloof and respectful, he avoids advances, but a flirtatious, self assured husband invites attention from coworkers. The piece warns wives not to blame office girls for their husbands' susceptibility.
Advertisement notes pattern 612 transfers for names in multiple sizes and washable fabrics, with Laura Wheeler charts and directions. Readers can mail twenty cents for the pattern to The Journal Needlecraft Dept in Brooklyn, plus fifteen cents for Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book featuring 104 illustrations and beginner to expert designs.
George Bascombe muses on a possible suicide in a cave and the role of alibis while Bea counts seventeen sheep. Fred Sillwell waits at the doorway of the small building serving as quarters for the two men.
A compact puzzle describes counting letters in a first name then adjusting by rules to obtain a key number. Starting at the rectangle’s upper left, check numbers left to right and read the letters under the checked figures to reveal a daily message.
A recipe for Creamy French Dressing uses garlic salt, oil, vinegar, and cream, suggesting ripening several hours before serving on iceberg lettuce. It also lists budget dinner ideas featuring braised stuffed heart, veal chops, liver and noodle casserole, and eggs in green pepper nests with various sides.
The text lists available fare including rot and raisin slaw bread butter or fortified margarine lemon pie coffee milk for dinner Haddock creole browned potatoes snap beans radish slaw bread butter or fortified margarine fruited gelatin The items suggest a mid century institutional dining plan with multiple courses and beverages.
An old owl in the Suffolk village, known for pecking at passersby, nipped its own friend and local game warden Percy Pert on a dark lane. The incident adds to a string of harmless mischief by the creature.
The description notes colorful plastic sandwich and cake plates layered with sterling silver in leafy patterns, suggesting decorative dining ware with metallic overlays.
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