Dear Anne Hirst Advice on a Miserable Marriage and Divorce
A reader vents about a money stressed marriage and anxious nerves. Advice urges weekly budgets, joint doctor visits, family communication, and maintaining presence with children to reduce conflict. Then a second letter asks about love and divorce with guidance to wait, keep discreet, and seek friendship with Anne Hirst.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Hirst
Bae Hae
Highteenth St
New Toronto
Ont
Husbands Allergic to Wives Win Divorces in U S Courts
A rash and hiccup triggered by the husband were used to justify divorce in several American cases. Louise Law and Grace Groat testified allergy linked to cohabitation, with doctors supporting health breakdown if stays with spouse. Joyce Holdridge and Phyllis Pew also won relief amid allergy proofs. Other factors included a Bristol man whose wife punctured his bicycle tires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
United States
Louise Law
Grace Groat
Des Moines
Iowa
Phyllis Pew
Joyce Holdridge
Joyce
Nolan
Los Angeles
London
Peckham
Bristol
Rains of Frogs and Radioactive Rain Reported in Calcutta
Weather observers noted unusual radioactive rain in Calcutta confirmed by the Institute of Nuclear Physics at Calcutta University. The piece recalls strange showers from frogs to sprats and fish in history with an anecdote about a naturalist’s frog-storm in India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calcutta
Institute of Nuclear Physics
Calcutta University
Thomas Cooper
India
Scotland
Pattern 4773 Dress Pattern Advertisement and Local Weather Notes
An old notice advertises pattern 4773 for a short slenderizing sheath dress with a box jacket in cotton linen or faille, with sizes 14 through 24 and yardage details. The text shifts to a first-person travelogue through Halton County describing roads, highways, and a sudden hail and windstorm that caused damage on a farm before the author returns home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highteenth St
New Toronto
Ont
Orangeville
Erin
Terra Cotta
Glen Williams
Georgetown
Malton County
Halton
Ontario
Joy
Bob
Toronto
Partner
Malton
No. 401
Avenue Road
Highway 401
Wilson Avenue
401
Department of Highways
Hydro
Parmer Returns From Spontaneous Summer Trip
Parmer recounts a spontaneous trip to Shelburne and a half day visit to his brother in north Toronto. He describes a picturesque lakefront summer home with a stone retaining wall, simple tasteful furnishings, and ample time for fishing boating and bathing despite blackflies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parmer
Shelburne
Toronto
Partner
Orangeville-Shelburne
Polar bear startled by tin trumpet on Greenland cliff
Captain Mikkelsen and companion faced a polar bear on a rocky Greenland ledge. He blew a tin trumpet to deter the animal, delaying its approach until a gunshot nearby killed the bear. The tale appears in Peter and Vi Digby’s yearlong Scoresby base plankton study "Beyond the Pack-Ice."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capt
Mikkelsen
Scoresbysand
Greenland
Mikkelen
Peter
Vi Digby
Scoresby Base
Baby makes friends with farm and circus pets pattern
Text promotes a quilt embroidery pattern featuring a zoo parade motif, Pattern 654, 32 by 44 inches. Readers in New Toronto Ontario are invited to send 25 cents to Box 1 for transfers and appliqué pieces, plus a Laura Wheeler 1954 Needlecraft Catalog offer with more patterns and ideas for gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zoo Parade
Eighteenth St
New Toronto
Laura Wheeler
Needlecraft
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Eleanor
Queen Elizabeth
Christopher Smith
Queen’s Chapel
St. James Palace
Abel Smith
Mary Jacqueline
Lewis Aeronautical College
Louis St. Laurent
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Leslie M. Frost
Province of
St. Lawrence River
Cornwall
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