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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1953
Page
72
This guide promotes gifts that last year round, favoring services and experiences over items. Ideas include weekly home-cooked meals, elder companionship, reading aloud, lessons, subscriptions, and private services. Leather gifts for all ages featuring gloves, wallets, jackets, and luggage are highlighted, with sizing cautions for shoes.
A new sound tape by the Revere Camera Company synchronizes with home movies to provide voice and music as a finished background. The Synchro-Tape plays on any tape recorder and promises professional sound for home films.
In Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod a 15 cent treat called flipper dough is sold. Patrons are told it is dough to fry and fried in a pan, similar to New England cruller bits served piping hot with sugar. The name origin remains uncertain.
Middletown shoppers embrace futuristic toys and TV influenced items for 1953 with Rex Mars 25th Century Space Academy themes and space city targets. Priced mostly under 5 dollars, options include flying saucers atomic trains space Scout dolls and a Topper horse pogo stick, plus vintage car models and household kits signaling a blend of past and future play.
Gift buying for books should match recipient age and interests. For cousins, avoid assuming tastes, and consider biographies or historical fiction for youth. adults may value current affairs or reference works like atlases and dictionaries to boost family libraries.
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