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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1948
Page
7
A new skin care program offers a blushing oil to flood the face with color without massage, followed by an overnight emollient. It features a creamy cleanser free of wax or paraffin, using a oil-and-soil suspension method. The regimen ends with two complexion products forming a single combined look for morning wear.
Laura Wheeler offers an improved needlework pattern with 22 motifs for home linens. Includes transfer charts photos and concise directions. Send twenty cents to Middle Town Journal Needlecraft Dept P O Box 116 Flatbush Station Brooklyn NY 26 for pattern 898 with name address and zone.
A hard working mother stresses that quality, not quantity, of time with children creates happiness. She warns that rushing, scolding, or nagging can spoil outings. The piece urges slow, attentive moments to build lasting memories, ending with an ad for Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Catalog offering designs and patterns.
Pattern 9190 offers two versions a casual dress and a pinafore with flare skirt and low dipped waist in sizes 12 through 20. Size 16 uses 3 percent yards. includes complete Sew Chart. Send 25 cents to Pattern Dept New York.
An old English practice described involved women deemed shrews being paraded through streets wearing iron muzzles with mouthpieces to silence their tongues for a period in past centuries.
Dear Mary Haworth advises a 23-year-old college student on choosing a wife who respects her parents. A letter from A C. cites scripture and psychiatry on parental influence, suggesting Jennie’s behavior reflects a problematic family dynamic and recommending he avoid her as a potential spouse. The expert emphasizes the mother’s role and advises seeking a wholesome partner.
A woman recounts a shipboard ruse involving a crook and a gambler who forced a walk with a missing friend. The impostor confesses she joined a plot to replace a lost woman with her own husband and fled after learning of a danger to reveal the truth. She now tells Lou she married Colonel Worth and seeks an end to the past.
Ton kawa's three weeks old missing letters case is solved. Delivered letters twice found on the town streets, unopened. Post master Harry J. Barclay suspects they didn’t simply fly away, while Postman Paul Walker reports they were flying with assistance. A third letter was being stolen when the case was solved by the crew that pulled that letter from the mail box and started flying away.
A tense scene unfolds as Lou and a woman press for a confession from him. With loneliness and unspoken longing burning between them, he finds himself swept into an intimate, engulfing kiss that reignites his craving for her. The moment ends with a tease of continuation.
The guidance emphasizes addressing others by their first name in casual social settings. It warns that using titles like Mrs Jones can create distance and imply you are not ready for friendly interaction, whereas using first names signals openness and approachability.
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