Epigrams and a missing line charm Dear Abby readers
Readers respond to a request for the last line of an old verse about ifs and ands and pots and pans. Letters recall family aphorisms from Ohio Pennsylvania Dutch heritage and schoolroom memory. Abby explains the origin of the saying from Saint Joan and notes Jeanne Phillips writes Dear Abby.
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Ohio
Abby
Lee Baker Devore
Hamilton
Lee
Chris Gornik
Levelgreen
Chris
Leona Hickey
Allegany
N.Y
Joyce Hiller
Redondo Beach
Calif
Joyce
George Bernard Shaw
Joan of Arc
Joan” Caldwell
Cess
the Earl of Warwick
Zoe
Allan Lander
Savannah
Allan
Abigail van Buren
Jeanne Phillips
Pauline Phillips
Fragmented OCR Fragments Include Names and Numbers
The readable items show a mix of names and numbers such as Quaker Phi Bete LaD and Broadway alumna Dunn with scattered terms like nitrate Tackle box item and Liquor store buy. The text resembles an OCR clipping listing entities without coherent context or complete sentences.
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Dunn
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy now termed complex regional pain syndrome
Dear reader describes chronic pain since 1992 after back surgery. Complex regional pain syndrome CRPS follows trauma or minor injury with lasting, intense pain and swelling. Early physical therapy helps. amitriptyline, phenytoin, carbamazepine, and lidocaine patches may ease symptoms.
Letters to Abby and Dr Donahue addresses
Readers may address letters to Abby via Universal Press Syndicate at 4520 Main St Suite 700 Kansas City Missouri 64111 and to Dr Donahue via North American Syndicate at 888 Seventh Ave New York New York 10019.
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Abby
Universal Press Syndicate
Main St
Kansas City
Dr. Donahue
North American Syndicate
Seventh Ave
New York
N.Y
Bridge play commentary on King of Diamonds and spade risk
A bridge note discusses North and South on a trial to game with a jump raise. It notes a potential hazard from a four spade contract and defender diamonds. The text analyzes trumps, discards, and the need for precautions to avoid losing ten tricks.
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North
South
Glimacmds
West Lea
Declarer
East
West
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Scorpio
VIRGO
Tekctcick
Taurus
Gemini
Leo
Jacqueline Bigar
Quaker
Phi Bete
Bathday Digg
Lad
NTWC
Pany Pene Wen Pernelng
Petary
ST Mueils
Henri Arnold
Mike Argirion
Rapak
Davrie
Tribune Media Services
P.O
Chicago
Paul Donohue
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