30 Apr 1973
Page 1
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 6 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1973
Page
1
The page displays a filled Saturday crossword with Across and Down clues, including names, numbers, and abbreviations. It lists entries like Hockins and Andes, Cantrell P, Dvorak, and NaCl prefix, plus various slang terms and phrases.
Heloise shares readers tips from repurposing an old ironing board into a portable table to organizing small appliance cords with divided hosiery boxes and foam rubber to picking up tiny nails on a rubber mat. Other ideas include labeling milk boxes with a ribbon, reusing empty bath powder containers, taping handles to prevent wall marks, and nail polish hints for sheet hems.
The AP finds millions turning to backyard planting as food costs rise, spurred by the war era vibe of victory gardens. Weather delays hinder growth, yet government pamphlets and seed sales rise with growers choosing tomatoes beans and peppers. Experts note costs and gear affect effort while optimism grows.
Dear Ann Landers responds to a reader on mail pornography and privacy, offering a method to complain via Postal Inspector labeled on envelopes and noting federal prosecutions of major purveyors. In a second letter, guidance addresses a son’s wife and a mother’s intrusive housekeeping, explaining the mother’s anxiety and advising the couple to accept her presence and let her be.
Weyerhaeuser Co launches a record planting of 100 million trees across Arkansas Alabama Oklahoma North Carolina Mississippi Washington and Oregon to secure future lumber supplies as national wood demand nears 200 million tons annually.
Dr. Martin Gruberg surveys women’s political progress worldwide. Poland elected 62 of 460 seats to women in 1969, 13.5 percent, while Sweden saw gradual increases in female MPs from 1938 to 1971, yet party lists pushed women down. In Sweden 1971 yielded 45 women in a 350-seat Riksdag, mostly Social Democrats, with women still 12 percent in county and municipal bodies. The first Swedish female cabinet minister appeared in 1947, Ulla Lindström, later Camilla Odhnoff, and by 1968 two of eighteen ministers were women. Switzerland elected its first female member of the Federal Tribunal in 1972, Mrs. Margaret Bigler-Enggenberger.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.