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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1973
Page
4
A brief public guidance urging citizens to mail letters to lawmakers. It cites the mailbox as essential and offers tips from an industry group on effective correspondence, stressing clarity, bill numbers, timely input, and understanding staff roles. An eight-cent stamp is a small price for freedom.
A feature ties US beef price and scarcity to a global drought crisis. It notes 13 million Africans facing starvation, half of them children, and urges action through relief efforts while urging Americans to persevere and work hard. The piece ends with a biblical exhortation from Ecclesiastes.
Middletown's rail history highlights growth from the Mad River line to the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton Railroad and the Shortline. It notes the C H and D route to Cincinnati Toledo and Detroit, links to eastern trunk lines, and later lines such as the Big Four and Louisville Cincinnati and Dayton. The piece cites construction costs and track details and mentions plans for Middletown and Cincinnati Railroad linking to the mainline.
John Roche recalls postwar activism at Cornell against discriminatory fraternities and sororities funded by state aid. He notes Wisconsin cutting funds for Afro American and Third World groups and cites Thomas Sowell on Black education and equality.
The Journal published daily by News Journal Inc in Middletown Ohio lists prices for newsstand copies at 15 cents weekdays and 25 cents Sundays. Home delivery via newspaper boy costs 80 cents weekly with options by motor route or mail and notes a 15 cent service charge.
A taut humor piece recounts a 6 a.m. jog to Balboa Park with a teen daughter. The narrator endures groggy waking, driving, and a two mile run, then reflects on lingering fatigue and the promise of tomorrow as sleep returns to normal.
A Peterborough man recalls buying dried white beans at 69 cents to feed his eight children and cope with meat prices. He details soaking and baking beans with beer or maple syrup, yielding a hearty Boston baked beans meal for under $1.50, framed as a clever response to inflation.
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