Saturday Notebook: Groceries, Ham Theft, and Light Headlines
A collage of short items notes rising grocery prices, weather woes, and a Maryland shopper awaiting sentencing after a store detective flagged her strawberry purchase. Parsons reports two ham thefts amid high prices, a farmer ham anecdote, and a profit tale. Other items poke fun at language slips, a child’s misheard baptism, and light local humor. UPS climbs to fourth in transportation revenues after Prop 13 era talk and postal-service disruption.
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Maryland
Parsons
Dear Doctor Thosteson on Gas Belching
A reader, Mrs V B S, reports persistent gas and belching despite antacid use and dietary watching. She asks for medical guidance after her doctor advised diet alone.
Digestive advice and reader letters on diet and health habits
A reader asks about gas causes from aerophagia and nervous eating, with tips to slow eating and sip liquids. Another letter critiques weight loss pills, stressing calorie counting and sensible dieting over fad remedies. Additional inquiries cover tonsil removal and painful intercourse, with professional guidance on when surgery is warranted and options for relief including lubricants and relaxation.
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Thosteson
Ottawa Herald Subscription Rates Announcement
Ottawa Herald presents subscription pricing for trade area and outside regions. Rates include monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual options with sales tax details and a note on out of state deductions.
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S. Cedar
Ottawa
Kansas
Robert B. Wellington
Housing Scene Out Of Sight By Kristin Goff AP
New home prices last month averaged nearly 63000 dollars, up 9800 from a year ago, while conventional mortgage rates reached 9.46 percent, the highest since 1963. Existing homes sold for about 53700 dollars with rates around 9.47 percent, dampening prospects for middle income buyers.
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Kristin Goff
NEW York (Ap
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Washington Briefs on stamps gas and housing costs
AP reports postal rules shifting mail with the special A stamp abroad but warns against using it for international mail. EPA notes leaded gas may rise if price ceilings end, with 10 percent of cars already using unleaded legally. Komondors may help guard western sheep as a new dog breed study. A Senate bill would cap White House top executives, paying 57 500 to 70 000 yearly. Housing costs vary by city size with median prices around 52 500 in large metros and 57 000 in mid-sized ones, while a third live outside urban centers.
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Thosteson
Washington
Postal Service
Ron Powell
Energy Department
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Benjamin R. Jackson
Jackson
Agriculture Department
Department
Hungary
Senate
White House
Industry Association
Dennis Jacobe
Association
Jacobe
Prayer Meditation on God’s Presence and Renewal
A devotional prayer urging waiting on the Lord to renew strength and to attentively sense the Holy Spirit’s presence during a listening hour. The invocation ends with an Amen, invoking Exodus 33:18 as a guiding verse.
Harvest shifts as wheat movement slows in Kansas City
Kansas City grain men note 1978 may be recalled as a year the harvest didn’t show a strong move to terminal markets. Farmers store grain on farm or in elevators, delaying marketing, while orderly marketing aims to pace supply with demand and farmers’ storage options.
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Roderick Turnbull
Kansas City Board of Trade
Kansas City
Grain Exchange
Combine
Kansas
United States
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Mears
Osage
California
United Parcel Service
Union Pacific
TWA
United Airlines
UPS
Dr. Thosteson
Associated Press
Washington Briefs
United States League of Savings Associations
Tim's Magle Castle
Everybody Loves A
Ves
Cathy Leecrose
Michael Biehn Keenan Wyhn Aman Fo
ADP CC Aan
Oman
Capricorn
Plaza A
Plains
Old Board of Trade
Soviet Union
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