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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1948
Page
9
A historic recipe piece highlights potatos as a budget friendly base. It describes combining potatoes with meat milk or cheese for high quality protein and outlines a baked cheese chipped beef dish and a molasses flavored potato cookies.
A health note promotes P W tablets as a fast, safe treatment for pinworms. It claims extensive victims and rapid spread, urging early use at first sign and framing P W as an officially approved remedy. The ad-style language emphasizes ease of taking and memory aid for pinworm infection.
A long letter from Mary Haworth describes a 15 year pattern of abusive control by her husband Dick. The response argues his unforgiving, sadistic tyranny worsens the marriage while Mary is blamed for past infidelity. advice urges truth, independence, and standing against his recriminations with faith.
A fashion feature notes a novel air mist device timed for addressing moth ball odor from summer storage. The gadget uses a candy pink spray gun to disperse scented mist and is offered with four fragrance choices for closets drawers or rooms.
A brief notice describes a small daily numeric puzzle titled Wishing Well. It guides players to count letters in their first name, adjust by a simple rule to obtain a key number, then scan a rectangle from the upper left and read the letters under checked figures to yield a message.
Ruth Millett offers six store clerk habits to avoid to keep customers content. Avoid long internal conversations, idle boredom, insulting judgments of taste, abandoning customers for others, acting superior on pricing, and scowling when no sale is made, to prevent antagonizing shoppers.
The Army will test a new all steel factory-built Lustron house under Arctic winter conditions. Two seven ton porcelain enamel units were bought by the Army Engineering Corps and flown to Alaska for erection in Fairbanks and Anchorage with all parts shipped in one plane load.
The guidance shows using the right approach: keep the dog out of the house when guests arrive. A dog that jumps up distracts hosts and guests, making conversation difficult and hindering training progress.
A shop clerk warns against imposing tastes on customers by labeling outfits as slenderizing or youth enhancing and shaming choices. The passage urges respectful, helpful service and avoiding belittling comments that drive customers away.
May Day stood as a major public celebration in medieval and Tudor England, marking seasonal festivity with communal rites, processions, and local customs that reflected social order and regional traditions.
Miss Jane Holbrook, 29, photographs stages of major operations at Massachusetts Memorial Hospital. The pictorial record aids students at Boston University School of Medicine.
A historical note claims about one cent’s worth of gold could be extracted from 1,000 gallons of sea water, illustrating the low yield of oceanic gold recovery efforts.
Wealthy Louis Durand courts a mail order bride, Julia Russell, who travels from St. Louis to New Orleans to wed him. She steals $50,000 then vanishes, later proven to be an impostor. A year later Durand Meets Col Worth and Miss Castle in Biloxi hotel bar.
Durand, late to his engagement, goes to The Grotto to join Colonel Worth and friends. In a private alcove he glimpses a stunning alabaster figure, Julia the killer, shattering him. He aborts the meeting, pays the steward, and staggers out, escaping what he fears as ruin.
In Owosso Michigan James Ockerman fired at a yard animal he believed to be a weasel. He killed a rare male mink valued at 250 dollars that had wandered from neighbor Charles Isham's mink farm. The two men are discussing a settlement.
Washington AP reports Russell Hopley will resign as director of Civilian Defense Planning. Aubrey Mellinger of Chicago will replace him, Mellinger is Chicago Plan Commission chairman and ex president of the Chicago area Bell Telephone division. Hopley is president of Northwestern Bell Telephone in Omaha.
A curious relative of the pearl oyster known as the hammerhead oyster lives in the Indian Ocean and derives its name from its distinctive hammerlike shape.
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